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Re:The inventor of the screw-in coffin on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:48PM (#30547486)
Considering how difficult it can be to install a fence post in glacial till, this sounds like a less than exciting proposition.
For those eager to get a look at the code it can be found here: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
Re:Vectorized mentoring students in Distributed Systems on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:31PM (#24161510)
I helped early on to review this plan for Alex and the Vectorized team, so I’m very excited to finally see it be released to the world.

Vectorized consists of quite the lineup of engineers (https://vectorized.io/team) and anyone who gets to be mentored by them will be gaining a huge advantage when it comes to Distributed System design and implementation!

Re:Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:42AM (#23499129)

    Chief Carmen Best may be totally wrong or making that up.
https://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-police-retract-claim...

As it turns out she was, in fact, wrong or making it up.

Re:Robinhood Is Down Again? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:22PM (#22479289)
Probably a JVM GC pause.
Re:Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:36PM (#22435557)
One's output is another's input.
And yet work start times won't adjust.
Re:Allocator Designs on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:24AM (#22234747)
Would the author mind commenting on how the diagrams were generated? They were very clear and useful.
Re:Anatomy of a Scam on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:39PM (#22172611)
Don't investors ever ask to meet the team first? Seems like a fair ask if one is to invest.
Re:Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:10AM (#22034099)
Since there is relatively little information on the linked page, I'll put some questions I have here.

1. How does it work? It would appear the list is user curated. New submissions are from users (via submit) and ranking is based on hearts? Is there any future plan to be able to associate # of plays with a given episode (not sure if podcast app apis allow this).

2. In relation to #1 (an asked already by others), how can I subscribe to this in my podcast app?

Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:56PM (#22003615)
I feel like they missed a golden opportunity to let users select between various space filling curves for the cut pattern.

I, for one, would love to have my lawn cut in a Hilbert Curve pattern.

Re:Help me ask why you didn't just on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:29AM (#21692481)
Honestly, if they aren't asking for help formulating a solution, they also aren't asking for your suggestion to an alternative (even if you try to couch it in terms of a question). So just don't ask and you won't have the issue.
Re:Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:18AM (#21233798)
Cool. I want to try and work through this text, just to assess how useful it is.

The approach is an interesting one.

Looks like this will have to become a weekly goal. Maybe one chapter a week? Seems possible.

Something like this would suffice, if it was simple to keep along side the key: https://tripplite.com/usb-c-female-to-usb-a-male-adapter~U32...
But do you also segregate the devices and networks you connect to for this identity, or can a sufficiently advanced adversary connect the dots where you link up with the rest of the internet?
Re:Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019 on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:39PM (#20422597)
They still retain the global rollout for the other use cases detailed in the write up, so its generally tested, though not for this one use case as you point out. I suspect the tradeoff is reasonable, however having a short pre-stage deploy before global in all cases would be a more conservative option that would prevent an emergent push from becoming an even bigger emergency!
Re:A Gas Heist Gone Wrong on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:24PM (#20287082)
And we certainly have never interfered in any economic sense in Venezuela ... hold on, my producer is telling me that this is incorrect.
Re:Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:30AM (#20283905)
Cool. Can we add infrared detection to determine if the car is just standing rather than parked, so you can eliminate the cases where a car is not in a parking spot, but would appear parked to this detector?
Re:Benefits of talking to strangers on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:21AM (#20164250)
You ever sit there wanting to strike up a conversation with a random stranger, and have no idea where to begin?

I think that has more to do with the observed self-imposed isolation than is given credit in the article.

Great looking site. I just grabbed the app because I've been using the "What Knot to Do" app forever now, but find these animated single page descriptions more concise!
Re:ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:00PM (#19841346)
Cool use of Hom encryption, but does nothing about disenfranchisement.
Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:40AM (#19840389)
Nice insight into the amount of thought going into this design proposal. It's always tricky to introduce new syntax to a language and re-using the field access notation here isn't as icky an approach as it first looks.

I don't know enough about rust to understand how this would operate during compile time w.r.t if a user tries to define a field named 'async'. Is that no longer allowed or would the compiler be able to disambiguate?

Really like how they minimize wear to the pavement by just shifting the location of where the robot operates each time through a cycle.
Re:Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:27AM (#19492693)
Sadly these office windows that surround me don't open up, and so I'm left to listen to your awesome work paired with the hum of AC blowers and fluorescent light ballast.
It would be interesting if not only EMT training was required, but also some number of years as an active EMT. Having to respond to various scenes involving law enforcement, but not being blessed as law enforcement would provide an interesting perspective on police response.
Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:23PM (#13860014)
Would have been interesting to know who the domain was homed to. Might have just been an ad network with a CDN and cadillac.com CNAME'd to their servers. Looks like an origin served ad, but still flows through the tracker.

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