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thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
For last minute option, perhaps best to attempt to make a sprinkler out of the gardenhose by poking holes in it and if long enough roll it out around the house.
thinkMOAR··on Google Data Studio
Dashboards Grafana and Kibana enable a lot of clients to self host and create the exact dashboards they need, per customer, per employee etc. Storing stats and data in elasticsearch, influxdb etc etc.
thinkMOAR··on Cowboy 2.0 released
"Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP"

It could really use this line on the linked page for people (me) that never heard of Cowboy in the first place. HTTP/2.0 gave me a clue, but plenty of client software that has HTTP/2.0 support too.

thinkMOAR··on Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet
ah man! :) you just made HN an extremist propaganda website

(but yes exactly what you write, plus, its quite an extremist measure to say you can't read something of other extremists)

thinkMOAR··on My iPad Pro experiment
"But PCs are still around. I’m not happy about this."

Would be nice to read why you are unhappy PCs are still around.

Though personally i don't see why one should replace the other. Their own dimensions, weight, power inside etc, limits or enables one device to do something the other can't. And touch is nice, but think you really need to be able to pair a mouse to your iPad to get a desktop feeling anyway. Then again, those are just my personal opinions about using iPad as a desktop.

thinkMOAR··on How supermarkets choose where to open and close
Do they have the same Safeway gun policy in those areas?
thinkMOAR··on Understanding caching in Postgres – An in-depth guide (2016)
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting nonetheless, thanks for the link
thinkMOAR··on U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
oh man i'm so sorry i said conferences are primarily there to listen to somebody speak about something interesting, I should have known only networking is going on there as you write.
thinkMOAR··on Understanding caching in Postgres – An in-depth guide (2016)
It would also be interesting to see the tests (re-)done or compared vs new postgresql 10.
thinkMOAR··on U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
I don't know but in my world, a preference is not a requirement. I prefer to watch a movie in the cinema with uber sound systems etc. But i can watch the movie perfectly fine at home.

All points besides a, which is not really an argument but the point of discussion, can be done remotely, if you have to travel to a conference. It might not have your preference, but it certainly is possible and i think comparing travelling half the world, to hear somebody speak vs starting a livestream or recorded version of a conference at your convenience at home, i know what i prefer. Sure its not as interesting on birthday parties or similar, to say you watched a conference livestream vs i was in Tokyo over the weekend for a conference.

thinkMOAR··on U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
That might be, and some might run back to the hotel room right after the seminar/conference is finished. Though primary reason of traveling for a conference is to hear that person speak at the conference, anything extra before/after talks that happens is bonus, not primary reason of travel.
thinkMOAR··on U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
don't forget the classic:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...

thinkMOAR··on U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
At this point in time i still wonder why people physically move from one part of the world to another to hear somebody speak. What is wrong with live streaming? (and record, download and re-play)
thinkMOAR··on The Everything Bubble [infographic]
practically free indeed, vs the practically have to pay for keeping my savings on a savings account... shrugs in discontent (tax is higher on my savings then the interest i get, for those that didn't understand)
thinkMOAR··on Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
what mugsie wrote plus.. My post was regarding the management of the zonefile/domain, not so much performance or things related to TTL.

What exactly if your function at CloudFlare Jake? Pondering if this is more marketing then technical/service function. Any chance you are in charge of social media and forum posts about CF?

thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: Would you consider running SQL Server on Linux?
Just for my curiosity, do you work for microsoft?
thinkMOAR··on Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
I use a ton of registrars, almost all have equal simple dns management as CF. Which requires a party less to use or leak traffic information to.
thinkMOAR··on Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
Oh sorry, i meant kids indeed, they are about head height of where i carry my camera, waist height. (im 2m tall)
thinkMOAR··on Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
I'm not the most careful person with my camera gear. All my bodies and lenses have taken some blows here and there from, as i said, doorways, people, brick wall corners etc, flew through the car once, i just never let it slid from my hands on the ground or something.

Typical i have a shoulder or wrist strap, ads (no im not affiliated) peakdesigns' or blackrapids' straps and wrist bands

If any reading this still use the neckband with their cams, checkout black rapids systems or peak designs. It's so much more comfortable then 2+ kg dangling from your neck.

thinkMOAR··on Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
That's true an over years read many people that dropped their canon rebel and they were surprised it didn't shatter into a million pieces and often still worked as good as before. Some brought it to service centers just to be sure.

I never dropped my camera though, but i do run into things a lot, doors, doorposts, fences and most of all tiny people.

Though with a bit typical lens 70-200 or some people often bring, i doubt the difference in weight of the body plastic vs metal is really noticeable. (plastic rebel XTi 556 grams vs 668 grams metal nikon d80)

thinkMOAR··on Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
At the time that was my deciding factor picking between canon rebel something vs nikon d80 (2006, when it was brand new). Photo quality-wise they were so well matched, until i read a review where the author said, the canon is plastic and the nikon metal and the metal makes you feel you have a real tool in your hands instead of toy. (also i'm not the most careful person metal stronger then plastic, typically)
thinkMOAR··on Mike Novogratz Is Set for Comeback With Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund
If a tree falls.. i mean the other well known saying,

"if a bubble doesn't burst while you are in it (invested and cashed out), was it really a bubble?"

thinkMOAR··on DDoS Attacks Will Now Be ‘Something You Only Read About in the History Books’
'Reading about something in history books' implies it doesn't happen or occur anymore.
thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS
<3 css grid

It works quite nice, only some old browsers that don't support it properly. Still advised to check for grid support via css, but don't think this will be required for long.

https://caniuse.com/#search=grid

thinkMOAR··on Solve large jigsaw puzzles using genetic algorithms and OpenCV
Genius.... If somebody asks you to explain something, well better just say they are part of the problem and not explain it at all... that will really improve things. Great contribution there.

It is NOT a nude image. It might be a cropped version of a what originally was a nude image, but that doesn't make it a nude image. If i crop you out of a picture, its no longer a picture of you? Now it is just a woman with a hat and a shoulder that is not covered with some fabric. If mentally you instantly see the original picture, perhaps you have 'stared' too long at that playboy issue.

Though the point others make in this thread, i think is very valid, it is not a jigsaw puzzle. I was expecting software for when i visit my mom (who likes making jigsaw puzzles), quickly snap a picture on my phone of the table with all the pieces and it would assist me in solving it while she leaves the table for a bit to make tea/coffee. (leaving mom flabbergasted with: how did you...)

thinkMOAR··on Snowflake macro photography (2013)
affirmative, i see it pass by about every year since 2013, i still look at them with as much amazement as i did in 2013.

A reverser ring for a e.g. 50mm to do macro is quite common in photography. Extender rings work quite nice too, though depth of field becomes mega-shallow, so for any significant object, you will need to resort to image stacking to get a properly focused subject.

thinkMOAR··on DuckDuckGo vs Google
"If I do the same with Google, you get over 11 billion results!"

Yes i have this often, and then when i click for example from page 5 to page 6 it suddenly says NO RESULTS and im always left flabbergasted with the thought "But google.. you just told me i got 11 million results to search through myself..."

thinkMOAR··on 50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to get student loans erased
read the article :)
thinkMOAR··on Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far
I learned different things in economics than. I learned about, scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability and transferability to be the main properties of a currency, not a desired factor of any case, afaik thats just a quality of humans, called greed.

Just because some people want something, doesn't make it a good currency. To stay in the same metaphor, I'd like to own the Nightwatch of rembrandt, just as many others do, still doesn't make it a currency or even gives it properties of 'currency'.

thinkMOAR··on When devops makes a clock
Ah okay, i'm not a GH user. Though does spark my curiosity, do you notice timing/time diff issues on GH on other parts of their system?
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