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ranieuwe

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Chief Architect at Microsoft, contact me at 'echo $username@microsoft.com | sed s/a/o/g' or /message Trancer on EFnet, IRCnet or Libera.
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ranieuwe··on First Human Case of Rabies in Illinois Since 1954
Had a bat in the house two weeks ago and our cats killed it. Contacted WA Department of Health and had to go through all the procedures.

The amount of misinformation and conflicting procedures we got from all the health professionals was staggering. Some said PEP right away, others told us no risk. Cats needed no boosters said the vet, but by law they did. Also had to quarantine the cats (120 days). Confusion all around and incredibly frustrating.

We had the bat tested, it was a $100 + $75 to ship a frozen bat to another state. If you can’t afford that, you are hosed. Thankfully it was negative.

ranieuwe··on Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
"Top 5% of <category> accounts for ~75% of global <category> emissions" is a template that can likely be used for far too many categories.
ranieuwe··on Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP
This solution switches the listening address (IPv6 address), not the port.
ranieuwe··on One person's war on junk mail (1996)
Just wondered the same and found this: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...
ranieuwe··on One person's war on junk mail (1996)
Being overrun with junk mail addressed to the previous 2 tenants, can one opt out for others no longer on the address? It seems none of the credit agencies figured these folks no longer live here.

USPS said they couldn’t do anything for Standard mail.

ranieuwe··on YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
And for those pointing out YouTube Kids: it is only slightly less bad. It’s still full of questionable material.
ranieuwe··on Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company
I worked in Munich, Germany in a building that had this. It was built some time around 2010. Same experience as you had. It didn’t really work all that well. Spring early summer was good. Peak summer was a disaster.
ranieuwe··on WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux
It is Windows Terminal. See https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
ranieuwe··on Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
And Ercot [1] "has declared an EEA 1. Energy conservation is needed. There are no rotating outages at this time. 00:17:45 150221"

[1] https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361197991659503618

ranieuwe··on Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says
Using a pejorative (retarded) to describe another is not very helpful.
ranieuwe··on Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
Drivers can’t drive 24/7. This cuts down on time to destination significantly if the truck can keep going. Perhaps this can augment the driver, where driver provides handling, gas, etc. while the truck self drives.
ranieuwe··on Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
The code is in the repo. Stack is “wget” mostly it seems.
ranieuwe··on XB-1 Supersonic Rollout
Not very. This is from their FAQ for the airplane that XB-1 is input for:

> Our focus with Overture is to develop and build a commercial supersonic airliner for anyone who can afford a business-class ticket, not a private jet.

ranieuwe··on PS5 Teardown [video]
How to cool it in a media center though? This thing should not sit in any enclosed space given the fans shown.
ranieuwe··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
Just bought a lot of yard tools and picked Ego as my battery platform. Same reasons you outlined: I hate dealing with gas engines, cords are annoying and get you stuck. I can now start a job, pause half way do something else and continue again without dealing with starting engines etc.

The blower is fantastic and quiet at that too. Much more relaxing than a gas one making noise all the time. The edger is phenomenal but probably too much for my needs.

ranieuwe··on Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
MySQL being a Swedish company, the default collation for MySQL was (is?) latin1_swedish_ci.
ranieuwe··on A Surprise AWS Bill
This is pretty much what the Azure Visual Studio subscription does for you. It sets up a playground with $150 monthly credit and automatic spending limit of $0. Hard lock here is a credit card being supplied, which is optional. I wish more cloud providers would offer such plans.
ranieuwe··on Ask HN: Is word-wrap by design in HN comments?
Same on Safari on iOS. Rather annoying change that makes the comments hard to read. Same applies to the comment field itself by the way.
ranieuwe··on Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
Not all people are living in an environment where they have an income that allows one to afford this. For some $4 is a lot, for some it is peanuts. Context matters.
ranieuwe··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
We love what US calls “military time”
ranieuwe··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
I so much just prefer Apr-05 2020. Clear to all.
ranieuwe··on A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price
"Of course, you probably shouldn’t believe these estimates since I didn’t generate them with neural net."

The current status of "AI" summed up.

ranieuwe··on U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
Official proclamation here https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
ranieuwe··on Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
Set up a Datascience Virtual Machine next time. Everything prepackaged (Visual Studio, SQL, Python, Julia, lots of other packages for Datascience) and low cost and no licensing problems to deal with.
ranieuwe··on What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
My resolution has been to use a trackball. Literally resolved all my issues.

Switched to a mouse for a while, 2 months in RSI came back. Trackball it is.

ranieuwe··on IBM acquires Red Hat
SPSS comes to mind.
ranieuwe··on Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?
Same here with an iPhone 7. I am permanently in low power mode and even then I barely make it through the day - and I am hardly using the phone. It is ridiculous.
ranieuwe··on Nutella 'Hired' an Algorithm to Design New Jars. And It Was a Sell-Out Success
More about how the algorithm works here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hp-mosaic-20-steven-chow
ranieuwe··on Efnet klines all Hetzner netblocks
and nick collides are history too with TS being implemented
ranieuwe··on Efnet klines all Hetzner netblocks
What do you think happens when an IRC op gets his name passed to that kiddie? Many IRCd gets hit with 50Gbit/s all the time because of kiddie targeting operators that make such decisions.
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