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jay-saint | 2 years ago | on: Home Lab Beginners guide

After massively overthinking things for my homelab / firewall, I am ordering one this weekend, just deciding which cpu.

jay-saint | 7 years ago | on: The Decline of the MacBook Pro

Definitely this, I have a Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04, built in 4k display with 2 external 2k displays. I spent way too much time trying to get it to work. I just resorted to change magnification each time I dock/undock

jay-saint | 8 years ago | on: Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Deal

Patents mostly. Even if Apple made the chips themselves they would still be stuck paying royalties to Broadcom and Qualcomm.

jay-saint | 8 years ago | on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

There are few things worse than nazis. Just make sure your content is better than fascist propaganda and you should be good.

jay-saint | 8 years ago | on: A restored masterpiece unmasks Tokyo's underground gay subculture of the 1960s

I think it is pretty clear that they are Talking about the Y chromosome, i.e. being born a different gender.

jay-saint | 8 years ago | on: Dismantled Tesla Model S found in truck

Sell parts to Chinese for reverse engineering.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Root – Programmable bank account for software developers

Regarding # 4. This product is by one the current largest banks in South Africa. Standard Bank of South Africa is big in S.A and operates in many other African countries.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples

Open the actual image in a new tab it is much larger and actually readable. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/files/2017/02/MapMigration_c.j...

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights

Agreed absolutely every element of this game is fun. They struck the perfect balance between ease of entry and play and a massive and complex world. They avoided pitfalls of many other RPG games that add complexity at the cost of fun. They also learned to not completely hold your hand as many other Nintendo titles have in the past.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

You can also buy commercial grade all stainless models that have single timer nob and one or two power option buttons. Amana makes the RCS10DSE.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

Assuming that your are not in the middle of nowhere, it is typically best to stick with a somewhat local or regional co-lo facility. Discovering who else has space there is typically a good indicator or quality. Find out where your local hospital or university has their boxes. Keep in mind this is your hardware and it will occasionally need a new HD or fan. You do not want to fly across the country for that. Also their are a wide range of security options for co-los, so weigh those options.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remaining

18w version is here https://store.google.com/product/usb_type_c_18w_power_adapte...

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Over 80% of online ad effect is on offline sales

If all you wanted to do is embed " This post was made possible by xyz co." Most blockers would miss this. However most advertisers want to have a link provided to track results . It's trivial to block the links to xyz.co/partner=123 . With the above knowledge and some trust a retailer could gain customers and bypass adblockers by bypassing links in their ads and focusing on views.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change

The acquisition of NetSuite is helping them move into the midmarket. Snapping up growing companies as they outgrow Quickbooks and hopping they keep growing.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

If you strictly looked at published papers on the subject matter and looked at the location of the authors you could do this relatively simple.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)

I did the same and saw an 11% improvement in battery life by removing those two apps. I had relatively similar amounts of usage initially, but eventually reduced usage to more scheduled times 1-2x per day due to lack of notifications.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Samsung Touchable Ink

This is great for the blind, but is their a broader use for simulated letter press in letterhead or business cards?

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?

+1 for PIA UK exit nodes work for watching BBC. Plus as a bonus they have recently implemented an option that block ads and malware on a DNS level. There are apps for iOS, macOS and Windows. It can also work without the app and be setup on a router level to protect the entire network.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Go 1.7 is released

""Nintendo Wii U has been released."

has been is Passive voice and should be avoided.

jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: I tried to fly to London on a fake passport [video]

> And then there's the fact that this guy had contacts to criminals that can create fake passports.

The fact the you are reading this on HN probably means that any one of us could have contacts capable of creating fake passports. I am certain that most tech savvy people with the right motivation could easily learn to use dark net tools and purchase fake documents within a few hours. This is 2016, contact with criminals no longer means hanging out in seedy drug dens or back alleys.