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nwrkon I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca

Guess, you just saved them >$10M of wrong orders ?

8. Today I figured out the problem. The granola company and the coaster company buy THEIR boxes from the same people I'm trying to by mine from. And the barcode scanners at @amazonca are picking up the old sticker - from the box company!

nwrkon [dead]

Round robin for best performance and to prevent failure of single person

Mon - Person A

Tue - Person B

Wed - Person C

Thu - Person A

Fri - Person B ...

nwrkon Ask HN: Is Linux the best way to get my elderly parents new cheapo Dell to work?

Check ChromeOs spin off CloudReady. Used for similar case (with old laptop) and never heard back any issues. Also, zero maintenance time is big plus.

https://www.neverware.com/ https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

*Whether you’re a business, a school, or a home user, CloudReady OS is the fast, easy way to convert your hardware to the security and manageability of Google's Chrome ecosystem.

nwrkon F-35’s gun that can’t shoot straight adds to its roster of flaws

Saw/read somewhere same.

nwrkon [dead]

I truly welcome this. Are there any real benefits of Lightning type charger over USB-C ? I didn't find any.

nwrkon Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming

Looked wikipedia. "An unusual natural phenomenon, ice disks occur in slowly moving water in cold climates and can vary in size, with circles more than 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter..."

There has been few more of them around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle

nwrkon Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

Enjoyed the article. Thanks for write up.

4GB RAM sounds terrible even for browsing and basic tasks.

I'm looking to switching to one of those devices in future, so far on trusted Thinkpad x230 (no FHD, $150 USD) for travel purposes.

Can anyone comment on "no NPM yet that I know of though" ?

Does node development work normally ?

nwrkon How Russia’s Icebreakers Came to Dominate the Frozen Seas

Amazing photos inside

nwrkon Hacker defaces some Iranian gov sites and puts victims names there as memorial

Clicked for curiosity.

Does it count as hacking ?

+ very old Dot Net Nuke running probably (assumption, not been digging more) unpatched IIS

nwrkon Boeing Employees Mocked FAA in Internal Messages

That persons must have very strong stomach. How can justify in front of mirror ? How much $$$ they received for covering it ?

Naive questions: Are they obligated by law to disclose ? Are they being somehow personaly punished / liable ?

nwrkon Startup principles applied to create a legitimately dangerous, real life cult

Interesting, thank you

nwrkon Ask HN: Are there any visual workflow or low-code tools that output JavaScript?

There you go:

https://noflojs.org/

https://nodered.org/

nwrkon Milky Way Stabilized Shows the Earth Is Spinning Through Space

Nice and creative! Milky way and earth spinning should be more presented in this way

nwrkon Ask HN: Third-Party Security Audits

>What are the most famous companies that perform this sort of work?

https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/

https://cure53.de/

>Is it useful?

Yes

nwrkon Why Ctrl-shift-R in browser is so under-documented?

There is about 19,600,000 articles available according to google search "chrome hard refresh".

nwrkon Show HN: Bepis – a crazy way to write HTML in JavaScript

This reminds the early days of PHP/Perl where everything was $o or print $output

Makes me laugh, definitely will not use.

nwrkon Ask HN: What pieces of software do you wish were open source?

Recently used https://www.photopea.com/ Photoshop in browser (reliably) and also support Sketch

Also on UI side, liked it more than Gimp.

You might want to give it shot.

nwrkon Ask HN: Help me learn astrology in 2020

Contact someone experienced who will be willing to give you guidance.

If you are in positive spirit to adventure / travel you can find many traditional communities (off-path) and you can truly learn a lot.

The books approach can be difficult to swallow as the learning outcome is limited by your own interpretation.

Seeing is believing!

Have fun

nwrkon Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top

100% Workflowy copy / clone

(https://workflowy.com/)

Let see how this pan out.

* “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”, Steve Jobs

nwrkon Ask HN: Any tips for staying focused while working from home?

Lucky you. Remote is great!

Some points to share:

- headphones are must (in case you are not alone / rooms)

- good music, good coffee, good internet

- discipline

- time management / time boxing

- enjoy the benefits of free time / your own schedule

nwrkon Ask HN: Should I shut down my startup?

Focus on positive things.

Whats the current income ?

Why do you think you need to be funded ?

300+ active sellers sounds like great achievement!

Kudos

nwrkon Ask HN: Tools to run, manage, track SaaS service deployments?

Try https://kubernetes.io/

nwrkon Show HN: ThinkCool – Make Better Decisions

Hey there, there is fundamental mistake on rating of nightlife on Phi Phi island [0] - only two stars. Should be five stars or so.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55o3q1btq-U

All the best with launch

nwrkon Ask HN: The most pleasant code documentation you've ever worked with

You can easily achieve same with:

https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/#how-it-works

https://docsify.js.org/#/

(or thousands of similar generators..)

The docs are based on markdown

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/tree/master/website/docs

nwrkon Ask HN: What did you do a decade ago that you would never do now?

Smoking

nwrkon AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking At

Awesome progress! What's next - dream recording ?

nwrkon Researchers Hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by Shining Lasers at Them

And the paper link https://lightcommands.com/

nwrkon Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium

Good eye and yes

nwrkon Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4M

Congrats to Strapi team! So far joy to use, hope it will stay that way.

nwrkon Intel i9 9900k 40% Faster in Chrome Octane Bench with mitigations=off

Interesting take away.

"It was a 12% improvement for the Core i9 9900K in affected workloads by booting with "mitigations=off" on Linux 5.3 under Ubuntu 19.10. In the case of the Ryzen 9 3900X was a 4.5% difference. Notable with this overview though is that without mitigations, the Core i9 9900K comes out just ever so slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 3900X. rather than losing by about 6%."