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Re:Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:34AM (#49710965)
I've had good experiences with Versity GW too and it's a shame it's not more well known.
Part of the story that says:

In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington found evidence that Anisakis worms in raw seafood have increased 280 times since the 1970s.

So that seems new or new-ish.

Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:31AM (#49449926)
Nearly every post about AI turns into a discussion of politics and every post about politics becomes a discussion of AI.
Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:22AM (#49332543)
Here's an article from Oct 2025:

"Microsoft’s data-center shortages to persist longer than expected - Bloomberg"

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-data-center-shor...

Perhaps relevant tho. I would imagine if they could simply throw more hardware at it they would. And I wouldn't imagine inability to throw hardware at it would be due to software scaling issues. So perhaps it is simply lack of available hardware?

Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:11AM (#49332350)
Agree. But also, it's affecting everyone equally, whether they have a free personal account or are part of an enterprise account with SLA. Understanding the practical value of an SLA is an interesting problem.
Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:24PM (#47812387)
Re:We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:08AM (#47542240)
I'm going to be the contrarian here. I have looked at the code. I suspect quite a few nil deref panics in their future.
In a row?
Same and also I consider it more accurate to sweep, but that's just me I guess, you hardly see it these days.
Re:Shut Up: Comment Blocker on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:03PM (#46995912)
I've used it for years. It's nice, works well. When I do want to read comments, I just click the button in the tool bar to turn them back on, which is simple and convenient.
Re:RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:32AM (#46313113)
"work-around" tends to imply you get to keep using things. By your logic, turning the computer off would be a work-around too.
Re:Go is portable, until it isn't on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:18PM (#46251037)
Yes, indeed, I do.
Re:Go is portable, until it isn't on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:11PM (#46250990)
I happily and reliably cross build Go code that uses CGO and generate static binaries on amd64 for arm64.
Re:Go is portable, until it isn't on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:08PM (#46250972)
You can definitely use CGO and still build statically, but you do need to set ldflags to include -static.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:53PM (#45607739)
Am I the only one who remembers the old tab groups that were removed before these new tab groups were added?

Edit: Ah, it seems Mozilla remembers: https://web.archive.org/web/20151112023150/https://support.m... (linking archive.org in case they take it down, this is the first copy I can find)

Re:ADS-B Exposed on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:14PM (#45585007)
Highlighting an area, I see in the sidebar: Time: 2022-02-01 00:09:20.136 — 2023-12-07 22:46:41.480. Would be nice if it had newer data.
I really do not know what to think of someone facing up to 75 years in prison getting 3 years of probation.
Re:Where were you when goo.gl shutdown? on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:39PM (#44878731)
Might I suggest that instead of linking to the article at theatlantic.com you instead link to the archive.org archive of it? I couldn't visit it due to Cloudflare thinking IPv6 is the devil and then still couldn't read it due to the paywall. Here's the archive.org link that sorta works for me, until their JavaScript removes the majority of the page content shortly after loading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250527052607/https://www.theat...

Re:FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:53PM (#44871821)
Hmm, I think Granite Rapids is all P-Cores and goes up to 86 cores (172 threads):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Rapids

Re:The IoT device "I'm in a meeting." on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:03PM (#44007674)
Thanks, you inspired me to make something similar:

https://github.com/swills/onair

Re:Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:58PM (#42403253)
Looks very nice! Thanks!
The BBS Radio 4 documentary is here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00236xg

Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame talks a bit about it around 17 minutes in.

Once years ago a coworker set this up with good intentions of evaluating it and it ended up setting up a default automation which sent SNMP queries to a networked photocopier which triggered it to print some diagnostic page repeatedly until it ran out of paper overnight while no one was around. Anecdotal, but amusing to me and it's still the first thing that comes to mind when I see this product.

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