uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
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uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
VC backing and recent IPO have them swimming in cash, but they currently aren't profitable.
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
Iron might be the future for some energy storage applications (e.g. home batteries) but can't compete for other applications (e.g. Automotive).
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: YAML: Probably not so great after all
I like the _idea_ of yaml, but: - it's overly complicated in the wrong ways - common/simple use cases aren't supported and require post processing (i.e. Merging block maps/arrays, string interpolation, etc)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?
> But just as quickly as he blows my mind, he puts a damper on the excitement. So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors
> An even broader doubt is whether the epigenetic changes that Izpisúa Belmonte is reversing in his lab are really the cause of aging or just a sign of it
> Wholesale rejuvenation, then, is still far off, if it will ever come at all. But more limited versions of it, targeted to certain diseases of aging, might be available within a few years.
Like battery tech, there's some progress and exciting results here, but no where near crossing that last mile to market.
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uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: A deep dive into the Vue.js source code
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: FunctorFlow – An attempt to re-imagine Python libraries
While making a good package manager/community around it is hard, there's plenty of hard earned knowledge that's been completely ignored here.
This seems to make dependency management harder (imports spilled all over the code base, versioning seems non-existent, documentation for this/plugins? Twitter is not documentation).
How does plugin authoring work? How does distribution and trust work?
What problem is this supposed to solve that isn't addressed by other package managers (or what does this do better than said package managers)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
That aside, what are you doing to oppose this? People may not be commenting because they dont know how to go about stopping it or simply don't think it can be stopped; leading by example is more powerful than an appeal to pathos.
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Uber Lays Off 400
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
Hmm indeed. A hack is possible but the timeline of events is dubious.
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
Aside from anecdotes, there's little value in further discussion beyond the PSA that is the original post; save for prevention/recovery of such events.
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy
That shouldn't work if the GP uses a VPN, as theg'd have a perceivably different IP address.
More likely they are logged into youtube, and their account has been associated with their girlfriend's account (location data from gmail/android phones/maps/etc, probably not using the VPN 24/7, etc)
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you all using to automate desktop setup and config?
If this post doesn't get traction, try https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin There's some discussion on this topic there: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7j1o1g/recommenda...
I think fretting over a bag past that point is a little much. Frankly, the crowded snaking lines leading up to the TSA are where one should be concerned.