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ufoolme

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ufoolme··on Ask HN: Wrist temperature on Apple Watch: how useful for men?
Illness? Health metric?
ufoolme··on Ask HN: What do we know about nutrition?
My guess: nutrition is probably like physics, we know a hell of a lot but just not everything.

My dream is one day we will reverse engineer the human body completely, no more mysteries with the ability to recreate any part of it seamlessly if it ages or is injured.

ufoolme··on I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
My 5yo loves reading the kubernetes book (paperback copy of https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber...), I found him reading it by himself the other day I guess it has sort of a plot.

I think he likes it mostly because I tell him that’s what I do at work.

ufoolme··on Someone has to foot the bill for empty offices
> I’ll never willingly go back to the office.

I think there are alternatives to coming together in person than forcing everyone into an office, which if done with enough enthusiasm would be more productive and enjoyable for everyone.

Teams might be better having mandatory lunches once in awhile at a nice restaurant instead having mandatory onsite office time. Better the team’s performance, the better the restaurant.

Think about the money that having an office costs, and then think about how it could be better spent on team based experiences and growth activities.

ufoolme··on AWS EC2 Having Issues
Not sure if it is related but it is usually one of the first to get or be trialing new features. I believe a few global services are run out of us-east-1 as well.
ufoolme··on ISS throws away 2.9 tons of trash into orbit
Anyone know why they didn’t just keep it around, surely having a few old batteries and a bit more shielding around the ISS might have come in handy? Was it risky to keep them around or did the extra weight (even in a basically weightless environment) come at a cost to maintaining orbit?
ufoolme··on Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma
I would have thought that the main reason people ‘shoot to kill’ is in self protection, if more autonomy is introduced then surely lethal force would be required in less situations.
ufoolme··on MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube
Is it Perl? I bet it is ...
ufoolme··on Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
“Fully slept....” That’s the dream. My daughter will try to open up my eye lids whilst I’m asleep and then start yelling “it’s morning time” at the top of her lungs. She has done this before at 4am and now I jolt awake at the sound of her entering our bedroom. Sadly it has been very effective at waking me up, and it’s hard to train her out of it when it works so well. To be honest I think I’m also sort of hard impressed by the brutality of it all.
ufoolme··on AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores
money is they’ll move in next 5 years to at least partial move to their own ARM chips, they already have to a degree.
ufoolme··on BlackBerry Awarded $800M in Arbitration Against Qualcomm
(fairly sure) Blackberry still owns QNX, which is still very popular in high-security environments such as automotives.
ufoolme··on Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone
Blackberry hub was great for combining all the messaging systems, easily the best thing that came out of BB10 (and proper app permissions). I would try the android port, but all my family have ios devices and we use mainly use facetime.
ufoolme··on Faraday Future unveils super fast electric car
it's all about the plaid now.
ufoolme··on We can do better – Please fix plaintext credential storage in Chrome
Once the attacker has the username, password and access to the computer, the game is already over. I can't see how adding anything on top is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
ufoolme··on Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan
As a lazy person and Devil's advocate, why does anyone not think that the various intelligence agencies copied the malware? Surely they would have access to some of the best in all their various honeypots be it that they are attacked by everyone and everything. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."-PP
ufoolme··on Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform
QNX is still run as an entirely separate company, its one of the only remaining jewels in Blackberry/RIM's treasure chest. While they are developed with somewhat common and aligned goals, development is still fairly separate. Additionally QNX has been slow (partly due to funding) to take up the QT BB10 side of things as it is not generally part of their core business.
ufoolme··on Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform
This is unfortunate, as it does signal less competition which is never good.

QNX is excellent and has been the clear dominant player in the auto world for decades. However I think is unlikely Ford will go with QNX for the major in-vehicle display in a wider capacity, Intel/Apple/Microsoft will throw cash at the pie to make it worth using their suite of technologies. Also don't forget Ford would have already used QNX already, its in embedded system everywhere! QNX just needs a better good IoT pitch yet for it to become better known or popular in the mainstream software world.