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stunt··on Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?
RPi-400 isn't attractive for me. I always thought they are nice gifts for my nephews, but I wouldn't use them myself.

What I want is a few RPi4 8GBs to make a cluster at home and play around with them. Sadly they are very hard when you don't want to buy anything from hoarders.

stunt··on Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
It seems that the web UI was generated by AI too, because it's really hard to make sense of it.
stunt··on AWS free tier data transfer expansion
What Cloudflare misses is a simple cost calculator. I don't want to contact sales for it.
stunt··on Djinn Split Keyboard
I tried building custom keyboards! It was a lot of fun waiting for parts, assembling and customizing them. And if nothing it was the best soldering training ever cos I got really good at soldering in the end.
stunt··on Ask HN: What is your favourite gaming hardware/device?
If yo don't have enough time, then go with PS5. It's powerful, has good quality exclusive games, and is just plug and play.

PC gaming can give you more, but it also requires more care and time to maintain, upgrade, run, install, and optimize.

stunt··on If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
Agree! A lot of smart people aren't trying to get rich. I bet many nobel prize winners aren't rich, while many of them are smart.
stunt··on How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria
I think other NATO members do similar investigations too. But remember, most of the civilian casualties are never recorded to be even investigated. What you hear is just the tip of iceberg.

Not to mention that the US military force is also the only military force that is in the business of invasion and dropping bomb ALL THE TIME, which translates to more and more casualties.

stunt··on How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria
Most of the civilian casualties aren't even documented in a war. If you think the military you support invades a country and only kills the bad guys, you are watching too many hollywood movies.
stunt··on Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use
Oracle has been doing amazing work for OpenJDK and Java, it’s just that Oracle’s JDK isn’t a great business model. Glad that they realized that too and I hope it doesn’t stop them from putting resources behind it.
stunt··on MIT deploys autonomous Roboat on canals of Amsterdam
Who said we need rails! All we need are roads that are closed to human drivers.
stunt··on MacBook Pro 14 menu bar UX
That's probably why they made it so big! This way when they introduce Face ID in upcoming devices it isn't going to introduce a new set of bugs. Less stress to the ecosystem but still silly.
stunt··on Iran says cyberattack closes gas stations across country
The goal could be to make the population frustrated by showing how their government is dysfunctional and hope that they eventually raise against it or at least don't support it when there is a coup or something.

That's pure speculation, but I can't think of any other useful outcome of doing such attack at this point.

stunt··on The Married Will Soon Be the Minority
I understand why this is happening, but some of it is going to be unfair for women today. Raising a child still has more toll on mothers. They lose job and growth opportunity which has a long lasting impact on their future. They are still under paid comparing to men.

We want to get rid of these traditional contracts, but we are not prepared to make all the necessary changes in the society.

stunt··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Yeah, they also claim to have "studio quality microphones". I think specs are great, but comparisons are not always honest.
stunt··on Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
https://www.twitchearnings.com/
stunt··on Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
Many of those companies still have a few (not always skilled) IT people with access to everything! And they sometimes make it easy for themselves by putting themselves in 2FA exception groups etc.
stunt··on Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?
Just don't use the features that you don't like (e.g. the feed) and don't accept random connections. I only accept my colleagues and no one else, even the recruiters.

Keep your profile, and update your status when you want to look for a job. That's the only feature you need from LinkedIn.

stunt··on Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
It's hard to tell if it's it integrated with Git directly or only via Github & Gitlab!

Both Github and Gitlab have built-in project management features! Why should I use a different tool if I'm using Github/Gitlab?

stunt··on 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)
Everything about early astronomical drawings is astonishing. Even when you go way back in time when they had no telescope, they were still able to map out visible stars pretty accurate.
stunt··on Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal
We put hackers in jail for building spyware! even those that don't use it themselves to hack a target. Why is it legal for NSO to sell Pegasus?
stunt··on What the Heck is a Data Mesh?
It solves many problems, but I think the GDPR side of things and protecting PII will be challenging since everyone will get a piece of raw data.

Another challenge that I see is maintaining security or migrations. Unless the central team has strong influence on technology selection for teams.

stunt··on I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it
It's going to take a few years for companies to learn how to implement hybrid model. Especially for traditional companies with lots of works force that are grow up with the office work mentality. And I'm not only talking about how to run remote meetings, but everything including on-boarding and training new engineers and cross team collaboration.

Luckily full-remote companies have lots of good documentation about remote work. So I think other companies should start reading their playbooks or try to hire some of their talents to learn how proper remote work is done.

stunt··on Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
I avoid working at companies that 1) use SAFe, or 2) assign dedicated Scrum Master for dev teams, or 3) use crappy project management tools.

To me that's an indicator that decision makers in those companies have no understanding about software development.

stunt··on Apple employees say the company is cracking down on remote work
Perhaps they experienced WFH for the first time and they don’t want to lose it.
stunt··on Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source
Greed & Stupidity
stunt··on MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. We're on Schedule
I don't buy these predictions, but WWII isn't a good argument. War also unites societies sometimes. So maybe WW3 will save us from the next collapse.
stunt··on Canada’s Mobile Data Prices vs. the World in One Chart
I worked in telecom and I can confirm that in telcos people sit in the meetings brainstorming about how to milk customers without giving any priority to serve them. Be grateful to have internet messaging services.
stunt··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
Honest trailer: “Dropbox HR team created an Engineering Career Framework, while they barely done any engineering work themselves”
stunt··on Robbing the Xbox Vault
Better title "Microsoft engineer exploited a bug to generate Xbox gift card codes worth $10M"
stunt··on Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
They designed the system very safe for themselves. Worse it gets for them is losing a job. They gotta earn as much as they can, for as long as they can.
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