tsar_nikolai

> The way I see it, if "let's talk when you get a minute" comes across as spooky that means you already have a communication breakdown and mistrust has already blossomed.

I think this might not necessarily be the case. Judging from the frequency the topic is brought up here on HN, a lot of highly skilled, well-performing people suffer from impostor syndrome or other forms of anxiety in the workplace. A ‘spooky’ message then easily leads to reinforcement of their (skewed) negative self-image, without it having anything to do with distrust in either direction.

P.S. I do completely agree with both the scenario and conclusion you illustrate in the rest of your comment and think my supplement of the premise in your first sentence in no way changes the validity of said scenario and conclusion.

Searching for "kicad", "kicad pcb" or "kicad-pcb" on DDG, Google, Bing and Brave, only Brave still shows a link to kicad-pcb.org on the first page, so the campaign seems to be going in the right direction

"We can cost-effectively store the whole internet, which is estimated to be between 1 and 10 Terabytes"

I like the text editor but I love the serendipitous social experiment going on in chat room 2.

This is an explanation of the april 1st XKCD comic checkbox [0], in which you can send an receive messages in morse code via a checkbox. There are many responses and gems hidden inside. For a cheat sheet of what you can do see here: [1]

[0] https://xkcd.com/2445/ [1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2445:_Checkbox

You need to install outrun on the remote machine but you don't need to install the target command on the remote machine.

This reads word for word like the plot of an episode of the Simpsons.

Homer the blissfully ignorant brewery worker takes the trip of his life but ends up at the wrong side of the continent from his intended destination where he becomes a local celebrity and gets coersed into all kinds of harmless adventures, like kissing the local seal. As his boss wants capitalize on his fame without giving him a raise, he retaliates by advertising their competitor on national television. He ends up back home, without a job, and with a recurring tax bill for a piece of land he has no intention of ever using. Nonetheless happier than ever.

I love how life is often stranger than fiction.

> I wonder what are the benefits of keeping the grid synchronous?

> Wide area synchronous networks improve reliability and permit the pooling of resources. Also, they can level out the load, which reduces the required generating capacity, allow more environmentally-friendly power to be employed; and allow more diverse power generation schemes and permit economies of scale. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid

Oops, fixed

> Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership

quite an understatement there

Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air.

KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.

As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.

source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-...

[0] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming

[1] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891

[2] https://timpelay.se https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbBVdzAPR8/

that gives a whole new meaning to adding chips to your meal

Todoist reports that is down as well [0] I wonder if it would be connected in any way shape or form

https://status.todoist.net

This shows the circles without the inner circles: https://twitter.com/i/status/1331542934056001536

And this with stabilized rotation: https://twitter.com/spacecatmeowart/status/13316956817451499...

Super cool effect! This is the type of magic trick that becomes cooler as you learn more about it.

> On a side note, what's the point of a brewery (single business) using it? Do they have some unique energy requirements?

It's a collaboration with a local university to test the technique on industrial scale. According to the researchers there the goal is to grow to grid-scale and convert coal-fired power plans in the coming decade.

Source seems to be on GitHub in a private repo from this [0] account, according to this [1] image on the submission page

[0] https://github.com/mudita [1] https://images.ctfassets.net/isxmxtc67n72/3tX0E1fLT8J9Twtao4...

It's probably not surprising that it happens. But still, Facebook has promised not combining any Whatsapp userdata and respecting users' privacy when they were taken over[0], and Facebook getting a €110.000.000 fine from the EU for breaking that promise three years ago [1].

[0] https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight [1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...

To me this seems like a cool ethical decision, but why would they do this? It would seem that people who don't use resources but still monthly donate money are ideal customers (from a financial standpoint)?

I absolutely love the company and am a happy customer, but for the love of time, why give up such a good pun for a name?

(For people not familiar with the german language, zeit means time. And 'time now' is simply an amazing name for a product that enables you to ship, well, now)