jeffal
Re:Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:01PM (#45707909)
No equivalent of VMFS though.
Re:What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
on Monday July 21, 2025 @06:48PM (#44641256)
I got a recall notice from Amazon also but I couldn’t find a part number match on my Anker powerbanks.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to optimize career for money in IT?
on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:39PM (#41324895)
I think a lot of it is luck.
Re:National Motorcycle Museum Closing Its Doors
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:24PM (#37551499)
I highly recommend the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. The motorcycle collection is stunning.
https://www.barbermuseum.org/collection/
Re:WW2 Meteorology
on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:12PM (#36718631)
I agree.
Re:WW2 Meteorology
on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:42PM (#36718040)
> It was clear who was right and who was wrong. Those distinctions are less clear these days
In the 1940s the US was still an apartheid country lynching black citizens.
Re:Ask HN: Parents, How do you record special moments and stay present?
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @07:30PM (#36099475)
I stopped recording events because it took me out of the moment.
Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:43AM (#33969475)
There are articles on how/why the DEA knew about and allowed the prescription opioid epidemic to happen.
Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:02AM (#33954678)
With Musk falling off his rocker lately, maintaining an alternate launch system may have been a wise decision.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:00AM (#33704416)
All those commercial systems existed before his (going by his use of SQL 2005).
Re:The Kodak Disc Camera
on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:20PM (#32719805)
I just picked up a Nikon N80 off ebay for $40. Early 2000s camera so will shoot in full auto but also manual mode. Ironically can be had cheaper than the earlier semi-auto Nikons.
Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:47PM (#30911761)
Good lord, just call the CPS IT helpdesk. Problem solved.
Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:43PM (#29059752)
Like when Camelcamelcamel was down for a week in 2019
Re:A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86
on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:05AM (#25217315)
I remember Tarantella being a Citrix-like Remote Desktop type software.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:47AM (#25034165)
Yes, I've been in biotechs that had 100s of these freezers in a room.
Re:Hosts file ignored on Windows with DNS over HTTP enabled in latest ...
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:10PM (#22647507)
I consider this logical behavior by Firefox.
Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans
on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:26PM (#19820338)
My employers have been complaining about skyrocketing health insurance costs since my first job in 1998. This all predates the ACA by at least 20 years.
Re:Ask HN: What cities have gigabit fiber internet access?
on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:51PM (#18744106)
Huntsville, Alabama has google fiber for $70/month.
Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further
on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:23PM (#18561870)
Re:14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:39AM (#17549631)
We forget how common starving to death was before very modern times.
Re:Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detai...
on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:57PM (#17533427)
I used to work for company acquired by Vista. What you said is true, but in the end they were just another private equity buyout.