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petemc_on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

There was a guy at my school named Hilary who got awful abuse for it. Always wondered why parents would do such a thing to a child.

petemc_on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

Your choice to say Superintelligence is notable.

petemc_on Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?

Hey VirusNewbie, thank you for your response! A few more questions if you don't mind.

Did you read the SRE handbook before applying?

How do you decide who gets alerts (or are devs never on call)?

petemc_on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

Persona do not seem to be competent guardians of such a trove of private information.

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

petemc_on Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal

I initially thought this was by David Beazley, the python/rust guy.

petemc_on Show HN: I made a script that gives me fake calls to escape boring moments

Linking to a screenshot posted on twitter is a terrible way to share code.

petemc_on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Unrelated to the article, and I can't seem to reply to the comment, but clicking on the archive.today link while I'm on holiday in Italy gives me a warning that it contains child pornography.

https://imgur.com/a/PXNY7vp

petemc_on When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

When managing large numbers of Dell rack mounted servers, a flea power drain is something you become very familiar with.

petemc_on After 155 years, the Campbell Soup company is changing its name

Growing up, people with the surname Campbell often got the nickname soup or soupy.

petemc_on The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban

Perhaps Augury.

petemc_on MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

In case you haven't read it - https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

petemc_on Revenue is easy, profit is harder

Unless you have some information you're not sharing, this is a pretty horrible thing to say.

petemc_on Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents

Coffeezilla is great but Bitfinex’ed [0] has been calling out tether for longer.

[0] https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

petemc_on Why Northern Ireland has no flag

That, or they are avoiding debt collectors by not being on the electoral register.

petemc_on Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco

Worked for a company that Citrix acquired a few years ago. They seemed to have went all in on something called Kepner-Tregoe. I left shortly after my week long training course, which I didn't get much out of other than a stay in a nice hotel. As I was leaving they were downsizing and one of their techniques was to match 2 people together and say "We will be comparing your performance against each other for the next 6 weeks, after that, the worst performer will be fired". Pretty awful.

petemc_on Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID

I had a Ship of Theseus moment after getting my laptop repaired by Apple. They pretty much had to replace everything except for the bottom case, so when I went to sign in with my apple id I got a message saying "we have sent a message to your other device". But there was no other device. Took over a month to resolve and I also kept getting the annoying pop up message asking me to check the ID.

petemc_on The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (2007)

Sounds the same as what Dell call a flea power drain.

petemc_on The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans

Been a while since I read both books, but other than a vaguely similar shape, what makes the Affront clearly a juvenile version of the dwellers? I read the wiki you mentioned and there is a story suggesting an early version of contact rescued them from dweller hunts, but no mention of where this idea came from. I'm a huge fan and believe I have read everything Banks has written and do not recall the story.

petemc_on On Repl-Driven Programming

Not a keystroke and I'm probably being captain obvious, but I use pythons execfile for this.

petemc_on Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C

Whoops! Should have had my coffee before commenting. Cheers.

petemc_on Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C

Nice, it even has the missing weeks in September 1752..

  $ wapm install zamfofex/greg@2020.10.10
  Package zamfofex/greg@2020.10.10 installed successfully!
  → Installed commands: greg
  $ cal 9 1752
     September 1752   
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
         1  2 14 15 16
  17 18 19 20 21 22 23
  24 25 26 27 28 29 30

petemc_on A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)

Second this, eons is also amazing.

petemc_on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

But then you play someone using similar strategy and you meet the nash equilibrium.

petemc_on Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a Hacker News virtual poker night?

A popular sentiment, r/poker has been inundated with people asking about where to play poker with friends.

https://old.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/fp2zll/where_to_play...

petemc_on Our list of free software for remote work

If you can forward the ssh port, yes.

petemc_on Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

Can I ask how you implemented such a queue?

petemc_on Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?

The Spectrum version of R-Type was legendary. This book is well worth a read. Especially for the insights as to how badly young game devs were treated by some of the companies back in the day.

petemc_on Stu Ungar

He seems to mostly play cash games in Asia. You will see him if you watch the triton streams sometimes. Not sure if he's in contention as an absolute top flight player any more with the use of solvers and GTO strategies.

petemc_on Stu Ungar

Linus Loeliger (llinusllove) and Jonas Mols (OtB_RedBaron) are probably some of the best online players currently.

petemc_on Transformers from Scratch

In that case you might enjoy this:

https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html

Was posted here a while back. Fascinating guy.