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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.
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.

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.
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.
Good lord, just call the CPS IT helpdesk. Problem solved.
Like when Camelcamelcamel was down for a week in 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038198

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.
Yes, I've been in biotechs that had 100s of these freezers in a room.
I consider this logical behavior by Firefox.
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.
We forget how common starving to death was before very modern times.
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.