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trollied··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
Large thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40775301
trollied··on Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award
It was one of my degree course books. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
trollied··on 8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business
I am well aware of that. It doesn't change the fact that this isn't a support forum, and others being successful should not encourage the behaviour.
trollied··on 8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business
I'm not blaming the victim. I am telling the OP this is hacker news, and not a support forum.
trollied··on 8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business
You appear to be lost, anyway. This isn't a random support site for cloud providers.

People will no doubt downvote me for saying this, but if everyone posted their woes on here this site would be next to useless.

It's also quite normal for such pleas to leave out lots of vital information, and just present a good looking view, rather than the actual history.

trollied··on 8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business
800gb is nothing. You should be backing it up.
trollied··on Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
Indeed. The blog is certainly not worth paying for. Grifter.
trollied··on AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
Yup, did it for my BSc. There was plenty of modules to pick, I just went for the ones that I thought would give me the best experience.

Also wrote a toy kernel, with scheduler etc.

All great fun.

trollied··on Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5
I love learning new languages, and working on something this incredible would be absolutely amazing.

Certainly more worthwhile than modern web dev.

trollied··on AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
I designed a cut down ARM core that ran on a FPGA. Then wrote a compiler to run mmy own code on it.

That's "full stack" development :)

Also wrote a BBC Micro emulator, which was great fun.

trollied··on Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 Scenes in 25 Days
Large POV discussion from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643207
trollied··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
Any user being able to alter the data model is just a fundamental design flaw.

Other than that, I'd expect segment-based permissions (sales team/territory etc) as a minimum.

trollied··on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
Liquid Oxygen & Methane, and not much of it.
trollied··on SpaceX's fourth Starship launch approved for Thursday
The reentry videos during the 3rd launch were unreal. Live images of plasma dancing.

Just looking at the 2 vehicles stacked also looks sci-fi.

It's great being part of another space age, having missed the first one when it was at its peak. Exciting times.

trollied··on Apple M4 iPad Pro OS Has New Security Exclave for Camera and Microphone Activity
Wow. Do you have a reference for that?
trollied··on Speedup of deletes on PostgreSQL
Tom's great. Ask Tom taught me LOADS about Oracle back in the day, and I still have the book you reference.
trollied··on My computer has an underscore in its name, and I have trouble with the network
One of my favourite support calls was a sev 1, database wasn't happy & it was involved in call setup so nobody could make calls on the mobile network. It hadn't failed over because of a HA quirk.

Somebody had been working on the box logged in as root and accidentally changed the hostname to "-", which royally messed things up.

trollied··on Shiba Inu which inspired the 'doge' meme and became face of Dogecoin has died
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464495
trollied··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
LG did the same ad 15 years ago & nobody got worked up about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUAQ2i5Tfo
trollied··on It's always TCP_NODELAY
Brings back memories. This was a big Sybase performance win back in the day.
trollied··on Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation
If you're interested, the microkernel is open source: https://github.com/seL4/seL4
trollied··on Show HN: I Built a Java IDE for iPad
Emulators don't have to generate code. At the simplest level, a CPU emulator is a switch statement.
trollied··on Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog
It's a coprocessor. They have existed for a very long time.
trollied··on MKBHDs for Everything
He's made a video that addresses this entire situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA&ab_channel=Marqu...
trollied··on Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
There's a help page that gives you all the code you need to do this. https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/js
trollied··on 2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson
Why would you ask a model primarily, and add a disclaimer, instead of actually going to a proper source? Madness.
trollied··on Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
Be very very careful with products in the same space. NetSuite, for example, has disclosure clauses in its contracts. Oracle is a law firm that happens to make software.
trollied··on Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
Apple are closer to that than X in the USA.
trollied··on SSSL – Hackless SSL bypass for the Wii U
Note that this is relevant because Nintendo shut the servers down yesterday. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...
trollied··on OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning
Look up iPhone “personal voice”. People don’t seem to know about it.
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