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I think there's a big difference between "activating" a muscle and "getting utility" out of it. Sure, maybe it activates sometimes, but what does it do ? Well... nothing. It's a ve…

This video from Husqvarna 2 years ago doesn't sound like it's a motor noise. Sounds more like an onboard beeper that can emit single tones. This, in my opinion, is rather disappoin…

Are you allergic to cellulose or amylose? Because those are the two molecules the plastic is made of. They're not making plastic out of gluten.

All I'm seeing here is a commenter who has made a claim and won't support that claim with evidence. I wish they'd answer your question.

Ah, yep. You're right. I overlooked that part. It looks like it's truly non-reversible—even if you don't care what the resulting input is.

Maybe I'm being incredibly naive, but it seems like this would be trivial. Can you just start with the output hash and then essentially run the algorithms backwards? Obviously the …

It's not security through obscurity. In fact, it's the very opposite. You can see the process exactly. The reason this is secure is because the process itself doesn't work backward…

What was the title previously? I'm not sure I understand the significance of the current title.

In my experience, there's typically more than one "smoking gun". The problem isn't finding one, it's eliminating all of the "smoking guns" that aren't actually related to the outag…

I had the same thought! Earplugs for the sound might not be a bad idea either.

I asked my thinkingrock if it could think and it said yes. Really though, "thinking" is very hard to define. Do animals think? Do insects think? Do bacteria think? I'm sure somewhe…

Ah! That's what happened! I read the article and then came back to HN and couldn't find it. I thought I was crazy...

Well said. If you look into some of the research and theories on leadership, you find a very different picture. You could someone a leader any time they have influence over people …

It is! Most people pronounce the first part of Hashicorp the way you say "hash" (as in MD5). Technically it should be "haw-shee" because of the last name Hashimoto. Side note, inte…

Yeah, titles like "staff engineer", "principal engineer", etc. are good because they imply expertise rather than responsibility for direct reports.

Ooh, I think "maker" would be a good word for it, though it's pretty inextricably tied to hobbyists.

I honestly don't know why more people don't hear about it and use it. Probably just hasn't hit that "critical mass" yet. I haven't used all of the tools out there, but I've used EC…

I'm an employee, and I doubt he's hiding anything. Even while working as CTO, he has kept an ear to the ground in engineering and periodically participated in design discussions an…

Frankly, I love it. The attitudes that have made the open source community welcoming are the same ones that permeate the company. Generally speaking, people are very friendly and h…

It's strange, it feels this way at Hashicorp, too. I was a little shocked when I was new to see Mitchell occasionally commenting on RFCs, messaging people to ask questions, and upd…

Maybe technical contributors? You're right. In the most efficient organizations, leadership lets the technical decisions bubble up from the experts, rather than dictating them from…

As an employee of Hashicorp, I'm very excited for this change. Not that Mitchell was anything less than a great leader—on the contrary, I thought he was excellent. It's just that h…

All of the Hashicorp products are primarily open source products. While there are enterprise features and cloud-hosted versions of some of them, FOSS is the foundation of the compa…

Exactly. Once I realized I didn't like Amazon's tactics, I started switching to other sellers. For example, I now buy books on bookshop.org. For every type of product I want, I've …