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I have a documentation vault in my repo, organised using Obsidian (bases, wikilinks, frontmatter, etc), and accessible using obsidian-cli (and related Claude skills, thanks kepano)…

I used to work as a Network Admin at a big university in Cape Town years back, and one of the urban legends at the time (late '90s) was that one of the long distance wireless (micr…

Technically something with just different sized slots for the coins will work, and let gravity take care of the rest...

Flavour-based sorting? That's Version 2.0!

This happened to me one night late a few years back, with Oracle on a CentOS server. rm -rf /data/oradata/ on the wrong machine. I managed to get the data back though, as Oracle wa…

https://put.io/ ?

Agreed. I recently switched jobs after an 8 year stint at my previous employer, and it took me many months and many recruiters and possible employers, and every single time I start…

This smells like a marketing gimmick... (See what I did there?) Why not just make that button's functionality be the default, instead of an optional setting? I think some engineer …

Wow, you think you're going to read some comments about a community update, and you end up reading a mass of comments delving into the human psyche. Damnit I love HN.

Agree. Reminds me about an article I read about company loyalty: http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/ Was quite an eye-opener actually.

I have the same question. Surely older employees have more experience, more knowledge, more to offer than the younger ones? I'm 1 year (and 1 day) away from forty, and yes, this ki…

Well this is great news! I can finally stop trying to use Depenguinator http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ ;-)

Surely passion for games outweighs the other things? Perhaps the Indie Game Dev movement is a better way to go... AAA games companies should stop over-promising features and over-w…

I've always wondered how "Life at " compared between the big ones. I've heard a lot about the Google life, but what about MS? Yahoo? Twitter? Facebook? The rest?

Makes sense to me.