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And if you were teenage college students way more risque clips than Star Wars :-) One of my fondest memory is when a sophomore buddy of mine does a telnet and sets the display to local ip and starts clicking on random audio files. The operator on the other side is a freshman. Comes running to the other room sees my bud and being one year senior asks - dude that SGI is making weird noises. Realizing what has happened my buddy quips - ah it makes those noises when it is heavily loaded :-D

Do you work in GIS field and it is useful? I am trying to see how a GIS tool will help a typical audience here that may be a little interested in maps + data.

Framework for authoring Agentic Flows

I remember the absence of the 237-880 interchange. Getting onto 880 from 237 during the evening commute hours used to be a pain.

reading this for my late 2013 MBP. It is so old that I can't install the latest of Darktable on it.

Not directly related to antitrust but rather national industrial policy - there is a really good article on "Industrial policy without National Champions"[1] where the author also touches upon antitrust - worth a read.

"During that event, Cardiff Garcia did a fascinating interview with Paul Krugman, at the end of which Joe Wiesenthal asked a critical question. The United States, under Joe Biden, is embarking on an aggressive program of industrial policy even as it pursues increasingly vigorous antitrust enforcement. Aren't there tensions between these goals? Responding to an antitrust investigation of NVIDIA, Dylan Matthews similarly asked, "Here you have a tremendously successful national champion in a strategically critical industry. Is that exactly what you want[?]"

[1] https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/27/industrial-polic...

I must be old because first thing I thought reading AlphaChip was why is deepmind talking about chips in DEC Alpha :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha.

SAP used it for their CRM when they moved from desktop client to browser based clients.

It will be interesting to see how users will use the new dedicated camera touch control. Other phonemakers have tried it in the past (Sony Xperia comes to mind) but capacitative is probably the first. Also how developers will adopt for their apps. It is a small change but definitely differentiating for Apple at least for now.

I have pretty much landed on a similar simple solution for my homelab. A minipc with dietpi + docker + dockge + bunch of homelab apps using docker compose. Important config backups on a S3 compatible bucket in cloud + photos backup on connected USB HDD.

Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)

I used to have my own local root CA as well but now trying the Let's Encrypt with DNS-01. What is the easiest combination of software to try it? I have failed miserably trying Opnsense + ACME client plugin + Cloudflare DNS + HAProxy / NGinx. I would get 100% ssllabs certs but somehow the reverse proxy won't forward to internal services. Next I am gonna go caddyserver for reverse proxy as it has SSL with LE inbuilt. Let's see.

It's almost as if everything on this earth is a reflection of Sun. We finally figured out how to harvest it at scale without depending on nature in the middle.

It will be cool to send a buddy drone with these landers. A minute or so before the touch down, detach from lander and shoot the landing. Then go back and attach with lander for charging and do periodic flights.

A comprehensive list comparing features

https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Personally I use Photoprism installed inside TrueNAS Scale. They don't have a good mobile app that syncs with the NAS. So might try Immich in future.

"La Zona Blanca" ad [1] mentioned in the article is funny. But I do agree with the note "When did we decide on Hare Krishna cult members?" There must be better ways to spend the ad money OR may be Sega marketing was using Hare Krishna members as purple cows [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-XXTobhao4 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/d...

I used to do Algo with a VM on GCP. But fly.io and tailscale has made this really simple. Try this if you are looking for an easier alternative https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit

Razing money or not as a self proclaimed PaaS geek I have always enjoyed reading fly.io blogs. Two of my favorites are How they run containers as VMs [1] and How they outgrew Hashicorp Nomad and wrote their own scheduler [2]

[1] https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/ [2] - https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest...

At the risk of sounding old - this is called mediation part of the usage based billing in the Telecom/Utility billing, which happen to be the OG of usage based billing with millions of record. I have worked with Digital Route for this in the past. Definitely good to see newer architectures and thinking applied to this problem for newer use cases. Godspeed to OpenMeter.

Homeassistant is such a useful project. I use it for self hosting bitwarden, ubiquiti addon and bunch of smart home devices. For SSL I have been using local root authority but is a pain to maintain. I am able to access HA client from browser and Android phones but iPhones don't want to play. How did you do LetsEncrypt with HA?

I believed the same as well but then last year when I went back to my family doctor after more than 1.5 years, I got to hear another version. My doctor belongs to a group of doctors who have 4-5 offices around San Francisco bayarea. They have been in business for 25+ years and I have been with them for 15+ years. I asked him how did they do during the covid. His response shocked me - he said they came very close to closing their practice and PPP was what saved them. Of course no one was visiting them during pandemic but even when things started opening up they had staff shortages.

I am sure similar scenario would have happened for a lot of people and at the same time some businesses would have taken undue advantage of this as well.

Who remembers tourneys for Age of Empires at Sunnyvale Fry's.

This in the article is so important in almost all domains of learning

"The point is that we should experiment with everything and pick what best fits our situation, reverence be damned"

It is the same conclusion that Hermann Hesse makes thru Siddhartha talking to his friend Govinda in one of my favorite books https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)

Where is the AI that can parse thru 1000+ comments and make a summary post of all the products people love on this thread.

And where you have monopoly - true or due to cartel nature. Why does medicines cost so much in US. They are not differentiated for sure.

Saw the Slashdot effect reference after such a long time. Not sure what % of HNers were there in the heydays of /.

Came to say the same and searched for freshdesk before posting. This has to be one of the biggest ones.

Small grocery warehouses used by Instant delivery companies. From this post[1] by Tanay J

A. Dark Stores / Fulfillment Centers Instant-Delivery Apps operate their own dark stores / fulfillment centers, typically one per neighborhood they operate in. Since these are not meant for consumers, space can be used more efficiently and typically the cost to operate these (at scale) as a percent of revenue is lower than rent space for grocery stores.

https://tanay.substack.com/p/understanding-the-instant-deliv...

SAP and Oracle are always easy targets. Not sure about Oracle but SAP has a relatively newer (10 yr old) subscription and usage billing product - https://www.sap.com/products/subscription-billing.html

Came here to say the same. System Design Interview book has digestible level of info on what the OP is asking (I think :-) )