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postit··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
There’s a business in Germany entirely dedicated to this and to send letters to people’s residence.
postit··on Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
Take a look in the cost explorer

A low hanging fruit are spot instances if you can manage stateless sessions.

If you have multiple snapshots that could cost money as well

postit··on Ask HN: How do you RSS?
There's a bookmarklet that renders Tex/LaTeX, MathML and AsciiMathML notation on pages dynamically using the MathJax.

I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time

https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/

postit··on My First Homemade Pedalboard
I've started building my own pedals from scratch. I gotta say the sanding, painting and decal is one of the relaxing things I've done in ages.
postit··on Show HN: Improve web search with custom search engines
I have a similar private thing. The thing is ended up with duck duck duck go.
postit··on Teensy 4.1 Development Board
If you want to see a cool project done with Teensy check this custom midi controller/sequencer interface with motorized sliders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-grgRmClY

https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/54995-Zeus-Commander-SPS-16-M...

postit··on The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
Meetup folks can learn a lesion or two from this.
postit··on CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer
Back in my time we didn’t have computers.
postit··on Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
Ban pull requests if they aren't a big change resulting from a RFC.

Therefore most feature code should be shipped to master with feature flags.

postit··on W3C recommends WebAssembly
It amuses me we're circle backing to have applets all over again.
postit··on WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
I’m glad I was included in the lay-offs. The situation was unbearable.
postit··on We do not use foreign keys (2016)
I'm working with a company that also refuses to use FK and indexes.

We have a huge DB cluster instead.

postit··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
nice :D
postit··on Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
0.75x please
postit··on WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
I work in one of the companies WeWork acquired. The first time I heard Adan in a townhall I kept wondering, what kind of hell is happening to the world so that guy was sitting in a massive pile of money thanks to VCs. His nonsense and lack of business mindset were evident in every interaction and announcement. So IMHO he deserves that.

The issue is that now we have +10k people wondering about their future because they have bills to pay and a hard path ahead. Meanwhile, Galloway brags about how he was right during all this time and suggest massive layouts to save "investors."

I'm getting tired of this.

postit··on Troubles with the AWS web console
> universal thinking within AWS is that people will ultimately use the API/CLI/SDK

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - But still 99% of tutorials and documentation refer to the UI.

postit··on A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything
You only break into the culture if you get into FKK and our nonsense passion for David Hasselhoff.
postit··on exFAT in the Linux kernel
MS wants a native kernel fs compatible with Windows so they can improve WSL. Today's virtualized kernel pays an unecessary price to access ext4 FS
postit··on Ask HN: How to get developers to care less about edge cases?
My company was having the same issue when I joined a couple of years ago. Endless design documents, RFCs, meetings, polishing corner cases.

I pushed the teams implement user story mappings for each project and cut the fat to delivery it on time. The argument with the developers was basically around: "I know you want to plan ahead and put shine things on your resume, you can do that if you get the following 3 releases on first."

postit··on Goodbye, Green Recorder
Sad to see, but OBS is a very capable and easy to use application if you need.
postit··on Arrived – a new model of home ownership
That's common in Germany as well. See Mietkauf or rent to own- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-to-own
postit··on Who Owns Huawei?
With all this Huawei witch-hunting unfolding, the only thing comes to my mind is: What if Americans would apply the same scrutiny to its own companies, but then I realize most big-corps lobby their way around.
postit··on Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
Grab programming pearls, read it cover-to-cover (and try the exercises please), collect all the references, read it all.
postit··on John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
Can't wait to watch John interview on Joe Rogan https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1155906881954729985
postit··on Living without the modern browser
I used to have access to the Amadeus API, and the experience to book flights `curling` it was very interesting :P
postit··on Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
FYI: I was able to reproduce the issue with the Linux client as well.
postit··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
main pi: pihole and google cloud print spare pi: retropie loaded with all the good goodies.
postit··on Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support
In the current state of technology, wine doesn’t make sense anymore.

20-ish years ago was impossible to have an interchangeable application between two OS, without a huge effort on porting and adaptations trade off. Now we have the web applications running in a handful of different systems. We’re also watching the people theorizing supporting webassembly binaries directly in the kernel. If you don’t want to run a webapp you have virtualization to rescue you.

My last straw with Wine was when I bought navicat for Linux and they shipped a wine wrapped windows app. Really, some tech should just retire.

postit··on Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support
This makes no sense. Microsoft is on the way to bring Linux inside Windows. They have zero competitive advance, fomenting another system at this moment.
postit··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the fastest processor on Geekbench
I might consider upgrade my workstation. My quadcore i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz isn't up to the task.

https://i.imgur.com/Iz0SMvR.png

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