happywolf (u/happywolf)

happywolf commented on Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

zpeti · 2 years ago

> Why I find interesting is how some topics are basically self-censored whilst we like to pretend we’re having a free discussion

Propaganda doesn't work because people actually believe it. It works because everyone thinks that everyone else has that information, and that's what the authority wants to believe, so you keep quiet and pretend you believe it. So does everyone else. So in the end everyone complies.

But Solzhenitsyn said it better: “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

It's like these politically correct discussions, everyone knows what the elephant in the room is, but everyone pretends to not see it.

happywolf · 2 years ago

Exactly, and this kind of selective ignorance actually costs everybody dearly in the long run. Because we just cannot please everybody.

happywolf commented on Let us serve you, but don't bring us down blog.archive.org/2023/05/... · Posted by u/_delirium

maksimur · 2 years ago

Torrents have the habit of disappearing when no users keep them alive. It happened to me enough times to be wary of such solution. If there's a way to keep them alive regardless of interest I'm all for it.

happywolf · 2 years ago

Seeding peers or machines are meant to mitigate this issue.

happywolf commented on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform silverbullet.md/... · Posted by u/tsujp

happywolf · 3 years ago

Another similar (well, to some extend) open-source VS-Code based note-taking tool: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-template

happywolf commented on Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear plants bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/EwanToo

happywolf · 5 years ago

Saw an article on using iron powder as energy source. Seems interesting but unfortunately I can't find the link anymore.

happywolf commented on Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? telegraph.co.uk/global-he... · Posted by u/AngeloAnolin

happywolf · 5 years ago

It depends how a country classifies casualties outside those confirmed cases. Autopsy usually would not be viable given the scarcity of health care staff.

happywolf commented on Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) korecki.me/blog/2019/10/8... · Posted by u/UkiahSmith

happywolf · 6 years ago

A lot of technologies are getting way more complex and confusing than necessary. Just look at the market of time management. Tonnes of tools, software, coaches, websites, books, etc. You name it.

I recently found out that a simple .txt file serves me exceptionally well (a good IDE plugin definitely helps, too!). No more messy software, apps, journals, etc. which I feel are making my time management tasks even more challenging.

happywolf commented on Time Machine in macOS 10.15.3 is very slow on first full backup eclecticlight.co/2020/02/... · Posted by u/miles

Cthulhu_ · 6 years ago

I've been using Time Machine backups for years (company policy) via an external USB drive, and now that it's full and I only tend to remember it once every couple of months, a backup takes a full workday or more to run.

At the same time I've got Arq Backup running to back up my code folder (not everything in there is on accessible git remotes for me), but it's very heavy as well given the number of small files (code + git files). But at least it doesn't end up months out of date I guess.

Does anyone have a good backup solution for one's code folder? Large amount of small files (probably tens or hundreds of thousands. It's got a load of node_module folders as well I'm sure)

happywolf · 6 years ago

My code folder is a sym link to a folder in my iCloud drive. The beauty is all my code will be sync'ed to cloud automatically, and the bonus is I can see this folder in every machine that syncs with the same Apple account. I believe this approach works with any cloud drive like DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive, etc.

happywolf commented on Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned? · Posted by u/KennyFromIT

henrik_w · 6 years ago

I agree with keeping notes for yourself. I think the key benefit is from writing the notes more than the resulting document. The act of writing it down helps you learn/remember the lessons I think. I have been keeping records of the trickiest bugs I have come across for over 15 years [1]. I believe this has helped me internalize the lessons I wanted to learn from them, so I (mostly) won't repeat them.

Also, when you leave the company you keep your own notes.

[1] https://henrikwarne.com/2016/06/16/18-lessons-from-13-years-...

happywolf · 6 years ago

Nice sharing. Like the tip on 'Own Tools' that has been applied in numerous situations. Sometimes a quick-and-dirty script(usually bash or python) will accelerate things considerably.

happywolf commented on Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned? · Posted by u/KennyFromIT

happywolf · 6 years ago

<sarcasm> My company is awesome in the sense to make sure it doesn't forget, it repeats the same mistakes every couple of years </sarcasm>

happywolf commented on Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro krebsonsecurity.com/2019/... · Posted by u/longwave

1024core · 6 years ago

I have some friends who were in an Indian outsourcing company which shall remain nameless. One of them described how they had an "A Team" which was made up of smart, sharp individuals. When they wanted a contract, they'd send this A-team to really impress the clients. Once they had the contract in hand, this A-team would be tasked to get the next contract, and replaced with run-of-the-mill average (or even below average) talent to save on the cost. Rinse, lather repeat.

happywolf · 6 years ago

I worked with some other outsourcing companies from other part of the world, and seen exactly this pattern: The initial team was sharp and smart, to gain stakeholder confidence, they stayed for a few months, setting up demo and prototype. Later they would slowly bring in other team members and started to withdraw themselves from the project. Eventually, those A-team was gone.

Those late-joiners had absolutely no clue on what was going on, and also didn't have the competency at all to hold the helm. Result? A much mediocre rewrite of the whole platform which never fulfilled the requirements.