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I run an ESP in The Netherlands: https://laposta.nl

I love my work but my attitude towards it is European ;) I have 4 kids and a beautiful wife and I spend a lot of time with them.

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svdr··on Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]
I'm feeling the opposite, I've read many interesting articles about very diverse subjects through HN, and am often impressed by the quality of the accompanying comments.
svdr··on Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework
I was looking for a demo and then I saw that the big header is a presentation. Well done.
svdr··on Protect domains that don’t send email
This is good advise. As an aside, I run an ESP and we've seen a marked increase in the number of domains using a DMARC policy. Our users have to set up soms DNS records to add our service as an approved sender.
svdr··on Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod
I have mild tinnitus. When I move my jaw forward the sound intensives strongly, and then fades when my jaw relaxes. So there is definitely a connection for me.
svdr··on City of Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register
The sites look the same. Both are developed by https://www.saidot.ai/.
svdr··on Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups
Maybe not a good enough reason, but the author of tarsnap is very active on HN (cperciva). He's also very smart... ("Dr. Colin Percival studied mathematics at Simon Fraser University, entering at age 13, before going on to a doctorate in Computing at Oxford University, where his thesis covered problems in string matching, data compression, and file synchronization.")
svdr··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
Positive for me would be that a domain is free, so a false positive is a domain that seems to be free (no NS record) but is in fact taken (because it is registered but nothing has been added to the DNS). But you're right, my wording wasn't precise.
svdr··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
A very quick and safe way to check if a domain is in use is to query for NS records (e.g. $dig ycombinator.com NS). This will give some false positives though.
svdr··on Level 3 Global Outage
I go here :-)
svdr··on You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
I never really used an adblocker as well, but now I'm using nextdns which does really good filtering at the dns level (not affiliated).
svdr··on Room 641A
What kind of data do they have access to, now that most internet traffic is encrypted?
svdr··on Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps
And what if you can easily get tested if you get notified?
svdr··on New MacBook Air
I’ve had it locked up a couple of times, and couldn’t mute a loud sound.
svdr··on Recreation.gov
So what does help against bots?
svdr··on How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
A great cosmology faq, answering this and a lot of other questions: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
svdr··on Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
They may adapt but not motivated from within. We need another Facebook with different company values wrt privacy.
svdr··on Report on the technical vulnerabilities found in Huawei 5G [pdf]
And: "In virtually all categories we examined, Huawei devices were found to be less secure than those from other vendors making similar devices."
svdr··on Welcome to the Old Internet Again
Remember to set your browser window size to 640x480!
svdr··on ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser
It doesn't: "Data is stored reliably but can also be voluntarily purged if the user designedly clears cookies and application storage".
svdr··on HN on second day from launch
True, but a lot of the linked pages 404. Not so at the archive.org page.
svdr··on Screen time: how much is too much?
I've got four kids and don't mind them enjoying their ipads, but it does worry me a little that the ipad is always the number one for them. Playing outside, creating things, sports, other kids are all nice, but if they can choose, they will choose the ipad.
svdr··on Is Twitter causally-consistent?
Causal, not casual :)
svdr··on Paper Airplane Designs
World record plane: https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record...

Throw planes around the world: https://paperplanes.world

svdr··on The Architecture of Mailinator (2007)
If you use DMARC, your domain is less interesting for spammers, because lots of providers will now bounce the emails they send using your domain.
svdr··on Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out
Learn a little about AppSec: https://www.owasp.org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_10-2017_%28en%29...
svdr··on Gruber on the Macbook Pro Keyboard
I have both a MBP and a Macbook, and the Macbook (2016) is even worse. Keys get stuck all the time, I get them lose using compressed air. Apple even has a page on it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205662

PS: I like the feeling of the MBP keyboard.

svdr··on List of price of medieval items (2006)
In this article the price of a medieval shirt is estimated at $3500 (2013):

http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-l...

svdr··on Evolution of GitHub's data centers
Here are 256 photos from Stackoverflow hardware:

https://m.imgur.com/r/cableporn/X1HoY

svdr··on What happened when I opened a restaurant in Portland
A succesful SaaS is great, but:

- Developing can take a lot of time, especially in a market where a lot of players are already active and have had years to come where they are (time unpaid, without guarantees), and

- When growing past what one person can do, your margins will decrease, because you'll need office space and employees.

svdr··on “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
Looks like the top of a spray-can to me, spraying yellow paint.
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