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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:58PM (#42506941)
I was a missionary in Montevideo Uruguay never having been away from home for Christmas. There were fireworks all night long and we were just outside with all the kids going to different peoples houses and just having a blast. Was one night I felt like everyone was nice to us and just accepted us.
Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:17PM (#39558482)
Using Google docs it usually autofills the date for me but today it couldn’t as I typed the date the calendar widget came up. No Feb 29! I typed 2024-02- waited and it didn’t show up. 2024- then autofilled 2024-03-01
Re:Show HN: Buy a local dinner on your next vacation on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:00PM (#38917264)
Ha. Fair. And yes, that should be improved. Thanks for the feedback.
Re:Show HN: Buy a local dinner on your next vacation on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:43PM (#38916217)
Hey thanks for your comment. I certainly don't want a "how to get mugged app". I look at it as the local is the tourguide and you're paying for a tour. They pick the restaurant and if you agree that's where you go. Since its just meeting in a public place I would hope the chances of getting mugged are low. My hope is that by looking at their social media profiles you'd get an idea of what type of person you are meeting with.
Re:Show HN: Buy a local dinner on your next vacation on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:34PM (#38915339)
The world health organization has declared that social isolation and loneliness is a major global health problem [1]. I also note there are a lot of solo travelers. Here's my attempt to help with the problem. My favorite memories when I'm abroad is meeting with the local people. This is trying very hard to not be a dating/hookup app but a place where my family might be able to take a local out to dinner and learn about their lives and practice speaking a foreign language.

[1]: https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/demo...

Re:How Duolingo reignited user growth on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:08PM (#34978661)
Agreed! I have recently started using it again and found if I only do one lesson a day I can close it just as the ad has started. It used to be great and now it’s horrible.
Re:Insomniac, the Browser That Never Sleeps on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:49AM (#33650891)
This doesn’t seem like a coincidence this story shows up the same week of the the Taylor Swift/Ticketmaster controversy.
Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes on Thursday February 17, 2022 @07:06PM (#30380555)
Our 15 y/o son was diagnosed T1D Jan 2020. Finally got him on loop Sept 2021 and feel the same way. These developers are saints for doing this work. They've given us countless hours of sleep. We had another T1D family come visit us and I set them up on loop. I was in tears when I got text message from them telling us how they their kid is 85% in range and they are actually sleeping through the night. These are truly life changing projects.
Re:Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:00PM (#29513990)
I’ve been hearing people call this a soft default.
Is this how Ready Player One started?
Re:What can mRNA treat next? on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:53AM (#27015797)
I really really hope so.
Re:Build a simple serverless photo app on AWS on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:52PM (#24654744)
I actually first developed this class for Kubernetes on Bare metal if AWS isn't your thing, but it didn't have any authentication: https://github.com/vallard/K8sServerless
Re:Build a simple serverless photo app on AWS on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:35PM (#24654539)
Hi! These are materials from a class I teach on building Microservices on AWS. It shows how to use the serverless framework and React to create a photo app where users login and can upload photos. In an effort to learn more, I invite your constructive criticism and suggestions. Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020) on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:23PM (#24652786)
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes, Please.

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes, Serverless, Javascript(React, Node), Python, AWS, Swift

Résumé: 10 years experience: Infrastructure as Code, Full stack developer. I've also been writing and delivering presentations on technical marketing content and howtos. Interested in early stage companies.

Email: hello at castlerock.ai

Open to Freelance and full time! Thank you!

I appreciate your zealousness for MIT but your response doesn't mean that it hasn't happened at MIT nor other revered places of higher learning in the past, just that it hasn't been made widely known. The people I associated with at Cal I thought were above this kind of behavior as well, but apparently not. I would be sad to hear about this for MIT or any other college. However there's a lot of deals that happen behind closed doors, and sadly, it could be more than we think given all the press we've heard about college admissions these last few years.
Re:Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:11PM (#19844454)
Big fan of rook myself. We took several nodes loaded with 16 disk drives and used Rook to make a Ceph and Minio cluster out of it. Great storage solution.
Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:56AM (#10469510)
Which may be another reason to bring them back: They probably taste really good.
Re:Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab on Monday March 16, 2015 @12:09PM (#9212261)
seems like with docker to install gitlab now the argument for ease of deployment doesn't matter as much anymore.