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"Dear HN -- I was recently assaulted by flight attendants when I tried to open the plane door at 30000 feet to get the required line of sight for my Starlink connection. I was then…

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Ah, yeah, I already wondered why these guys were suddenly back... The tell-tale sign here is admission scam emails from name-alike-domains for (mostly) Indian and (some) US college…

So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create those ? Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my lap…

> iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that delivers helpful and relevant intelligence OK, so the predominant opinion of HN seems to be that A…

Mentoring really only works if the junior person actively seeks out a trusted colleague, ideally in the context of a formal program (with clear guidance on expectations and such). …

> The Trump administration is instead discussing tearing down NOAA Nah, they're just straight out going to do that. States are then free to sign up for the SpaceX-in-proud-cooperat…

The premise of the article seems a bit flawed: Nigerians are not replicating hyperscalers, but more like building local Hetzners. And that is a fine idea! A big problem for people …

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That's interesting, because for me, being able to read a language comes first, then being able to understand it being spoken, then speaking it in some (but definitely not all) cont…

From personal anecdata, I can assure you it's entirely possible to 'lose' a language ability. Native tongue? Not so sure, but a closely-related one, definitely! I'm a native Dutch …

Very cool! Yet: I found out that CDs are edible PSA: CDs are not, in fact, edible, nor are DVDs or Blu-ray media. Sure, if you click through, you'll see that the CD was not actuall…

Nice as a thought experiment, but you actually do get this in real life as well, when maintaining a public API with a large user base (where even the details of the internal workin…

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Using the SQLite backup API, which pretty much corresponds to the .backup CLI command. It doesn't block any reads or writes, so the performance impact is minimal, even if you do it…

A Windows Server VM on a self-hosted Hyper-V box, which has a whole bunch of 8TB NVMe drives; this VM has a 4TB virtual volume on one of those (plus a much smaller OS volume on ano…

Yup, they win. My biggest SQLite database is 1.7TB with, as of just now 2314851188 records (all JSON documents with a few keyword indexes via json_extract). Works like a charm, as …

Yeah, can confirm, there are a lot of targeted emails going out inviting people to dodgy auth flow endpoints. Disabling device authentication (which is rarely needed anyway) and fo…

Yeah, possibly, but it just goes to show that vague side-swipes are never good in presumably technical posts, and that I should know better as well :)

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It's a wash. Modern mechanical HDDs are so reliable that the vendor basically doesn't matter. Especially if you stick with 'Enterprise'-tier drives (preferably with a SAS interface…

They, ironically, got acquired by Western Digital. But the 'Ultrastar' line name is still alive, if that's what you're looking for. 'Deskstar' seems to be gone, though.

Previous discussion of another write-up on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945013