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jpwgarrison commented on EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator   daid.github.io/EmptyEpsil... · Posted by u/mmooss
Aeolun · 5 months ago
This is one of those things that would have been fantastic in university, but now the idea of getting 6 adults (parents) together in a room to play seems like a nearly insurmountable task.
jpwgarrison · 5 months ago
You can get by with 3 or four people. A few can be kids! It is intended to be played in person, but we started playing it remotely for "team building" in mid 2020. It works great over the internet, if everyone is technical enough to run two clients: one for your station and one for the "main" screen. If you have multiple monitors it works well. We've found all remote or all in person work well, and mixed makes comms frustrating.
jpwgarrison commented on Show HN: TaskTXT, plain text task-timing notepad   tasktxt.com/... · Posted by u/trafnar
jpwgarrison · 3 years ago
Looks cool! I did a quick skim of the website and privacy policy. It was quick, so maybe I missed it, but where are the notes stored? How are they protected? Are the contents of the notes considered Personal Data as relates to the privacy policy?
jpwgarrison commented on HN was down   twitter.com/HNStatus/stat... · Posted by u/jontro
centimeter · 4 years ago
Having two servers is a lot more than 2x as complicated and expensive as having 1 server.
jpwgarrison · 4 years ago
A wise colleague recently explained to me that if you build HA things HA from the start, it's only a little more than 2x. If you try to make an _existing_ system HA, it's 3x at best. HN is not a paid service, they can be down for a few hours per year, no problem. We're not all going to walk away in disgust.
jpwgarrison commented on Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail   mimestream.com... · Posted by u/njhaveri
jdhawk · 5 years ago
what do you use on linux?
jpwgarrison · 5 years ago
A mix of mutt for triage and reluctantly, the gmail web interface. I think I have tried every real client available and been disappointed in many different ways?
jpwgarrison commented on Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail   mimestream.com... · Posted by u/njhaveri
leokennis · 5 years ago
When I was still on Gmail in 2012 or so (?) I really really loved that app!

Actually, I’d easily pay $25 or even more for a similar app, for Fastmail.

jpwgarrison · 5 years ago
Mailmate at https://freron.com/ is fantastic. My only gripe is that it is Mac-only, so I can't use it on my work desktop. (linux)
jpwgarrison commented on Omni Group Layoffs   mjtsai.com/blog/2020/03/3... · Posted by u/keehun
snickmy · 5 years ago
I would love to hear more how the COVID19 has exacerbated the business down period. I naively thought that enterprise software would not see a strong impact from COVID19 in the first 2-3 months.
jpwgarrison · 5 years ago
99% of all businesses are planning on at least two really bad quarters coming up. Very few have cash reserves to cover shortfalls. If you’re planning out the rest of the year, and you were already in a little trouble, you have to cut expenses immediately.

I’m not sure Omni is as tied to quarterly planning/reporting; but for those who are, and are on the regular calendar schedule, this all happened just in time for a lot of the potential Q1 end of quarter sales to dry up as everyone tightened up.

jpwgarrison commented on I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH   feed.tyler.io/so-uh-i-thi... · Posted by u/chmaynard
0x0 · 5 years ago
I can't reproduce this. macOS 10.15.4, ssh'ing to a very high (5digit) port with a hostname no problems.
jpwgarrison · 5 years ago
Same here, 5 digits and a hostname = no problem. There must be some other factor(s) in play.
jpwgarrison commented on BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)   twitter.com/lelff/status/... · Posted by u/lelf
rollcat · 6 years ago
You almost certainly do want swap (in the 99.9% case).

I had a better / more elaborate explanation bookmarked somewhere but can't find it now, the tldr is a "modern" OS (past ~2-3 decades) wants the freedom to manage anonymous (malloc) and named (mmio) memory between physical RAM and disk devices. Disabling swap means the OS must always keep the anonymous pages in physical RAM, which negatively impacts any IO-bound workload (can't cache) and, ironically, puts more pressure on the disk.

So unless you have an extremely specific and finely tuned use-case with lots of benchmark data, the OS will almost always make a better call.

jpwgarrison · 6 years ago
You do probably want swap, but the comment you are replying to is talking about a swap _partition_ and that is not the only way to do swap. Using a file instead makes it easier to change the size of your swap, some people prefer that.
jpwgarrison commented on Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed   thenextweb.com/apps/2019/... · Posted by u/jb1991
caleb-allen · 6 years ago
My thinkpad has a toggle over the webcam. I don't think it cuts the connection but it does physically cover it
jpwgarrison · 6 years ago
https://puri.sm/ makes great laptops with hardware switches. I have one, love it, and reluctantly accept that this market will always just be the same ~1400 nerds.
jpwgarrison commented on Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project   theverge.com/2019/10/11/2... · Posted by u/gkolli
snotrockets · 6 years ago
And here I thought the whole idea of Libra is to take marketshare from WeChat & M-Pesa.
jpwgarrison · 6 years ago
Put more simply, it is about increasing total addressable market.

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