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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac great deep dive into the Amen break. this video is from the yt days of yore, nice to see the yt algo still propping it up.

I am a fan of John McWhorter. I've recently gotten into his podcast Lexicon Valley and I recommend it highly if you are interested in language and how we use it. https://lexiconval…

warning, completely pedantic pet peeve. > Note all dates and time in this blog post are in Pacific Standard Time (PST). But the incident was during PDT. Just use UTC or colloquial …

Apple is well regarded for their strategy. I don't find it very credible that Apple is reacting here, it seems apparent that they would anticipate substantial negative reception. S…

I have had good results with the decrapifier script by CSAND on spiceworks [0]. It's been getting maintained for a while now and it's on spiceworks so while I'm not a windows nerd …

RIP grafana ^^ this is not a good contribution to HN, not much substance. (edit) Many people who use Grafana will see this news and will stop planning on using Grafana and start pl…

I just started reading Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"[0] - I'm only a few pages in so please no spoilers. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood

CGNAT block is popular in private k8s as overlay network address space because often the enterprise network already claims rfc1918 blocks. I'm not sure how close to the line that k…

Many projects don't even need cluster state, they could have just used a Makefile and some sed templating [0] (get off my lawn). Thankfully in these cases you can use helm offline …

No refunds for canceling KubeCon registration after November 4th.

This has happened to me with Firefox. Thankfully there is Waterfox. Recently this came up in discussion with a software developer who was overly concerned with openssl certificate …

This is what I'm talking about wrt bitching and moaning, in summary you tried to use ES but you didn't rtfm or didn't know about jvm tuning or didn't scale test and found out the w…

If someone would say that on HackerNews then they would expect to hear "citation needed". Anecdotally what I hear is a bunch of bitching and moaning about ES yet it clearly does wo…

"Install a decent terminal emulator" - this is the big problem for any command line experience on windows. What do you suggest?

AboveNet built out a datacenter in a mostly derelict mall in the middle of downtown San Jose. At the time the irony of ecommerce servers in an abandoned mall was fresh and surreal.…

There was a street seller who was so distressed by the economic conditions and especially the petty corruption that he publicly set himself on fire. Almost a decade later, possibly…

ha I was gonna comment this sounds like a book I read recently (since I didn't read TFA because who even does that). I'm unsatisfied with the cassava and acorn stuff. I get that me…

What are the obvious reasons? I'll presume you are referring to disclosure of the card number. I had this discussion recently about 'security' with regard to X-Header versus ?query…

Commonly on windows, build pipeline tools don't work when they don't have a desktop environment even though there's no requirement for human interface (indeed, requirement for no h…

ObPedant: notice in google's status page "...as of Tuesday, 2019-07-02 09:11 US/Pacific." This notation is useful because it's stable year round. I don't recommend 'PDT', instead c…

came here for this in the comments of TFA: >In retrospect, it should have been obvious that hypertext transport over line printers just wasn’t a good idea.

Several commenters are attaching to this sock bit. Story time, my mother gave my minor daughter a DNA test kit as a present. I was horrified and my mother was bewildered by my very…

I have been a long time customer of a local, long running and well respected internet service provider. I recently found that they allow email sender spoofing. I am in discussion w…

I had just started actually reading TFA because this topic interests me, I was skimming past some infographic of "phone addicts spend x% not looking at the road" when - pop! - a li…

How many of those consumers expect to keep watching soap operas for free?