What is this tracker link? 'thebrowser.com'?
Readit NewsRunways commented on The Reconstruction of Ulysses S Grant (2017) damninteresting.com/the-r... · Posted by u/blending
Runways commented on Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN github.com/lorabridge... · Posted by u/ha_ru
Disgusting. Thought about creating an account several times to see more salary information, but now I guess I never will.
HN has a blindness for the vast land area of America that isn't The Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, Boston, and a handful of other insanely expensive locations. Home ownership has probably plummeted in those markets (I don't have the data) but it leads to certain types of comments being passed around as fact.
The narrative on Twitter/TikTok that every Millenial and GenZ is starving to death and on the brink of being homeless is really exhausting.
Texan here. Your ad hominem attack is BS.
Our house prices, North of Dallas and deep in the suburbs - far from the bay areas and Seattles, have doubled. That includes my home. People in our profession usually have to live by big cities, like Dallas. But the homes are ridiculously priced and it's insane. My juniors have no hope of owning a home that is big enough to raise a family without years of saving. And they're college educated engineers, some of them married with dual incomes.
Runways commented on Vim users are encouraged to make a donation to ICCF vimhelp.org/uganda.txt.ht... · Posted by u/benjaminoakes
What a role model of a human being. Bookmarked for the weekend, I'll be making a donation in his honor for sure. Sometimes a cause connects with you and gives you greater purpose, I hope I find myself honestly in such a way. It's always on my mind.
Runways commented on Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms varun.ch/server... · Posted by u/varun_ch
NAT doesn't get the hate it deserves for stopping people from running their own servers.
I remember being being 18, making my first websites using the LAMP stack and not understanding why my friends were unable to access them from their homes. I knew the basic workings of the IP protocol, but hadn't read about NAT, and the responses online talked about "public and private IP addresses", which made no sense to me -- "Aren't all IP addresses supposed to be public? Isn't that how the protocol works?"
Even after learning about how NAT works, I had no way to work around it, as my ISP blocked the router's web interface and I was unable to do port forwarding.
I would bet that there are at least dozens of millions of people that didn't pursue a career in IT because of NAT. We should ask ourselves if collectively allowing NAT to be what it is was a good decision in the first place.
Some might find your take bizarre, but the early architects of the internet were against NAT as well. Although, in their idealistic scenario IPv4 would not have held up as long as it did, and probably would have hastened the introduction of IPv6 - not to mention the security concerns like all devices needing competent firewalls. Some people just didn't like that computers could be locked behind a network veil/wall.
Runways commented on Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
> Everyone knows phenylephrine is useless.
Easy to say now once it’s proved.
Actually, it's funny. My parents aren't Libertarian, but they kinda lean that way in terms of not trusting the government - etc. When they restricted pseudoephedrine, they immediately were suspicious about phenylephrine and eventually came to the conclusion that it doesn't do anything. They'd demand pseudoephedrine and claim that phenylephrine was just a way to restrict pseudoephedrine while allowing pharma to rip us off, yada yada. That's where my strong disdain for phenylephrine came from. Once I was in college buying my own medicine, I came to the same conclusion that one worked and one didn't. Pseudoephedrine was just a miracle drug to me, I remember stopping taking it too early and feeling blegh within hours.
Please keep dog-whistles off HN
You can completely turn off dGPUs from software nowadays. In theory the driver should do it for you when it's not in use (And I find this works well for me), but you can also forcefully turn them off, both on Windows and Linux, such that they draw exactly 0W.
Hmmm. My experience with XPS 15s is you can turn it off with software in Linux, but it was pretty technical (not something average users would be keen on). I wasn't sure if that was the case for most laptops. It definitely wasn't drawing 0W when I was just coding/browsing/etc though, it doubled the battery life in Linux when I turned it off.
Related to Ruby perf, I still hear folks worried about rails “not being able to scale”. Let me say something controversial (and clearly wrong): Rails is the only framework that has proven it _can_ scale. GitHub, Shopify, AirBnb, Stripe all use rails and have scaled successfully. Very few other frameworks have that track record.
There’s plenty of reasons to not use rails, but scaling issues doesn’t feel like a strong one to me.
Citation? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim.