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stevenhubertron··on In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater
It's tough for Turkey I bet. Water is one of the worlds most important assets, and Turkey should ensure their water supply for the future droughts that are coming, but destroying such history rich area is tough.
stevenhubertron··on Firefox Reality
If its like the analytics for the 45MM users I get on the sites I manage the SE traffic is less than 0.5%.

And to be clear, its not broken, the alignment is slightly off: https://imgur.com/a/GBLe5Jt I would totally let this pass QA for such a minority view.

stevenhubertron··on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.
stevenhubertron··on Hey advertisers, track this
Same here
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
I do something similar but using the Twilio API I send texts to the Pi that do various things including making a ringing sound.
stevenhubertron··on Apollo 11 in Real Time
I was the primary producer on this at the agency that designed/developed it Domani Studios (Now defunct) if you have any questions.
stevenhubertron··on Stop and Shop now has big, goofy-looking robots patrolling its aisles
OpEx vs CapEx
stevenhubertron··on Fisher-Price Recalls Rock ’N Play Sleeper Linked to Infant Deaths
Exactly. The CEOs should be charged with murder and the company sued into extinction. There is clear intent to mislead new parents into thinking this is safe.
stevenhubertron··on Apple announces Apple Card credit card
how is this remotely true?

Apple has nearly nothing on you. Amex knows what I buy, when, and where.

stevenhubertron··on Show HN: Privacy-focused iOS hiking app
It's hard for me to make that commitment to download if the website provides literally zero information on UI, Features, or how my privacy may be protected.
stevenhubertron··on $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
What about profit for the delivery company, a receptionist, insurance, marketing, web developer, logistics software, accountants ... the delivery company need to operate profitably as well.
stevenhubertron··on Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months
I have been trying to pay Netlify for about a year now. Their TIN still doesn't match their invoices and we a have been unable to pay. It's totally crazy to me.
stevenhubertron··on Microsoft Cloud Outpaces Amazon
Heck I am in middle of a migration to Azure from AWS right now. It’s not huge ~50k/mo but it adds to the story.
stevenhubertron··on Gmail: the slowest website I'm using
I too switched to Protonmail. Privacy reasons aside Gmail is always the slowest to load and on sketchy connections often doesn't load at all. I see this most on airline Wifi.
stevenhubertron··on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad
In my typical texting fashion my first note was a typo. It would be really cool to be able to edit/delete notes. Very quick and easy though!
stevenhubertron··on Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
This just seems so unlikely. How was it sent? Was a MP3 file generated and attached to an email? Was it a voice call? I don't really understand a circumstance that this could have happened.
stevenhubertron··on A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
Found the original gist for those interested: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jvzr/9015c395b2b49e101669...
stevenhubertron··on The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
I really appreciate the time they are taking to describe the changes in an easy to understand way. The sketches and graphics really help explain a pretty complex subject.
stevenhubertron··on Firefox Multi-Account Containers
I would swap to Firefox in a second if I could live with their font renderings. It's just so different than what I am used to in Chrome/Safari/Opera and for some reason its really hard for me to read.
stevenhubertron··on Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
I'm a big user of Netlify, and host a number of sites with well over a million views a year and they have been rock solid, quick builds, quick support. I can't wait for them to take off!
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Which static site generator you use?
Jekyll and Middleman both on larger scale production sites.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Self-host a blog securely – how? (WP? Staticgen?)
Jekyll + Netlify (CMS) and hosting.
stevenhubertron··on Android devices can be fatally hacked by malicious Wi-Fi networks
> They can and they did - they pushed the update to Nexus and Pixel devices.

fwiw: my Nexus does not see the update yet.

stevenhubertron··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
Well now I have a great response to the sales guy that bugs me everyday.
stevenhubertron··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
Such a heavy saddle but once you wear it in its the most comfortable ride out there.
stevenhubertron··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
Seconded. Novel is great movie is Meh. Bryson is such a great author.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?
$2,500 and would not do it again.
stevenhubertron··on Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO
I'm sorry is Obama still president? No? Then let's talk about our current presidents actions and not live in the past. People are reacting to Trumps actions as he is president for now.
stevenhubertron··on United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by Computer Outage
Waiting in SLC terminal. Crew has to be off the clock in an hour. Not likely getting home tonight.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
Contentful + Jekyll + Netlify for me.
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