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To further elaborate, there's always going to be flows that require large units. Like a link between EU and the US.
I think you are mixing up throughput with latency. Can you confirm that you're not?
Re:Ask HN: How fast did you pay off mortgage? on Friday November 11, 2022 @09:46AM (#33561427)
There's still better options. You can get a low interest loan against your portfolio. That way, your portfolio is accumulating interest faster than the loan rate. At Merrill Lynch, this is called a LMA, loan management account[1].

I'm not rich, so I'm not sure what other options the wealthy have.

[1]: https://www.ml.com/solutions/lma-account.html

Re:SpaceX Swarm at 5 USD/month on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:08PM (#33456769)
There's also a sparkfun dev board linked from that page which is around $150. It mentions that if ordering less than 25
I have a pretty unique last name, and it was sent to [email protected] and the greenhouse email only had my first name in it so I don't know what other information was submitted.
Re:Ask HN: How to Become a “Senior” Developer on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:48AM (#33233441)
I think the best way is to work at a growing company and show leadership and growth potential. Start completing projects on time and you'll probably get promoted or tasked with additional sr level responsibilities.

If you don't get promoted, you at least have some talking points when leaving at your next interview which can place you in that seniority bracket.

Re:Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based workers on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:04AM (#33203649)
what if they lay off another person, does the article need to be update then? There's some advantage in using approximate numbers.
If it's not something you can scope out when the task is brought up, you can specify how much time it would take you to research it in more detail to get an estimate.
Re:Ask HN: What was your last “ah-ha!” moment? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:57PM (#33196987)
unable to copy ATC instructions, unable to cross stuff off my in flight check list. I guess not screwed, but when task saturated, it wouldn't be good.
Re:Ask HN: What was your last “ah-ha!” moment? on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:17AM (#33152450)
I was taking flight lessons and dropped my pen under the rudder pedals. I had a pencil in my pocket and my flight instructor said he was impressed that I had a backup.

This kind of drove home that you need to be prepared for a lot of different outcomes because I would have been screwed if I was flying by myself and was unable to take notes.

Re:Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore? on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:58AM (#33121394)
If anyone wants to read more about this, there's a book called "the bomber mafia" that covers it in detail.
Re:Ask HN: What to Do with Lanyards from Conferences? on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:12PM (#32901088)
replace the lanyard of your work badge if you wear one and then throw the others away.
Good callout. Yeah, I should be referring to the electrical circuit as a 15A circuit and not that it's just a limitation of the breaker.

We have the original fabric sheathed wire as well in the walls still which needs to be replaced to modernize the electrical system.

Re:Ask HN: Why can't I find a remote job? on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:50AM (#32851930)
You haven't shared your resume, but your tone seems to suggest you might think it isn't the greatest. Have you tried different formats of resumes that maybe highlight some of the skills you have that are relevant to the positions or show off some of the projects you have done?

I'm not sure about how much experience you have since you only give your age, but if you are applying for senior remote positions, do they spotlight the skills that a senior engineer has?

Independentness, mentoring junior members, etc?

This is possible with linux. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=342686

It gets kinda tricky with the windowing environments which don't really support this use case this well.

keep in mind that is not idle power consumption. If you are setting a limit like that it's because of heating or power constraints (battery? PSU?)
I think the issue is with older houses that might have 15 amp circuit breakers compared to the modern standard of 20A. One high end desktop computer by itself isn't likely to be a problem, but the way these houses are wired, there are a lot of outlets on the same breaker since they were mostly designed for lighting loads. Our 1950 house in MI will flip the breaker if we use the microwave, toser and bathroom vent at the same time, and my desktop is also on that circuit (with a UPS)
Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest laptop I can buy for development on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:37AM (#32765323)
This is the same advice I'd give, but I'd also assume that the laptop is going to break within 2 years or so in a way that's worth just buying a new one (or another used one). Just an antidote, but that's about how long they last me.
Re:Ask HN: Why can't smart phone screens also be solar panels? on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:51PM (#32755787)
You don't really want your phone sitting in sunlight. The battery shouldn't be charged as it starts to heat up.
Re:Conference Presentation Judo on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:42PM (#32745439)
Ah, I guess that's probably the Damian he's referring to in his slides then.
Re:Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io) on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:50PM (#32742337)
What does your phishing email filtering pipeline look like?
Re:Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference Manual on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:14PM (#32740895)
You are kinda getting of the beaten path here and you seem to know it.
Re:Ask HN: Pitfalls in jumping ship to a client company? on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:47AM (#32737787)
I did this and it was the best thing I ever did for my career. The contracting company was kinda neglecting the contract and the company I moved over was fed up. The company ended up agreeing to end the contract in exchange for my non-compete to be nullified.
Read the contract, mine didn't have it though (2020).
Re:Launch HN: Boostly (YC S22) – SMS marketing for restaurants on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:45PM (#32680167)
What about a flow that works like, "Please enter your phone number to leave feedback about your service today and we'll send you a free gift for your next visit."
Re:How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:06PM (#32389600)
I used to have a job doing this at a different REC in the mid 2000s and we had terminals that I think were connected to some mainframe system.

The keyboard layout was custom for the application like they show in the video. The software would expect numbers at certain times, so you'd just type numbers using the home row and it'd switch back over the alpha chars after you input the correct number of number chars.

I found https://badssl.com/ which at least helps me with the SSL cert issues, but I would still love to hear any other good solutions for testing other types of networking errors.

Ask HN: How do I force network failures during development against remote APIs?

I am working on a gateway product and would like to start focusing on reliability and handling intermediate networking errors. What are some techniques and tools I can use to force them so that I can write code that gracefully handles them? I am thinking stuff like certificate errors, DNS lookup failures, socket disconnected errors, timeouts, invalid data returned over the socket when...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the largest static sites you know of? on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:25AM (#31766420)
there's standardized tooling you can use to do this from git, or you can just use `hugo deploy` from your workstation.

At the "largest" level, you should accept 1-2 hours of minor setup/fiddling at least.

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