HN user

sammy2255

420 karma
Posts2
Comments199
View on HN
Siri AI 1 month ago

To this day, Siri does not understand "Subtract 5 minutes off my timer" when having an active timer

Love systemd timers 2 months ago

I've converted all my crons to systemd timers+services over the past year but cant help but think it's sort of.. less tangible than cron

Like imagine trying to explain systemd timers and services and unit files to a beginner.

An airline pilot told me his only ever engine-failure event was on a flight from Dubai to Beijing, they were over half-way when one of the four engines failed. Company told them to return back to Dubai, logistically they were never going to get a new engine to Beijing

Cloudflare Is Down 2 months ago

It seemed to be about 20-30 minutes of timeouts and 502 errors, specifically for the `PER` PoP in Australia. They have now re-routed it, but took quite a long time for this to kick in.

This encyclopedia is racist:

Mentally the negro is inferior to the white, The remark of F. Manetta, made after a long study of the negro in America, may be taken as generally true of the whole race: “the negro children were sharp, intelligent and full of vivacity, but on approaching the adult period a gradual change set in. The intellect seemed to become clouded, animation giving place to a sort of lethargy, briskness yielding to indolence.