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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by davidkellis »

HPsquared wrote: post #129
jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

You could totally do that with the mirror on the moon. (Retroreflector + optical data transmission). The moon is approximately (it varies) 1.3 light seconds away, i.e. a 2.6 second round trip, and optical links can have very high data rates. You could fit quite a lot of data on there! (Edit: although maybe the data rate won't be so high at these distances)

Some amateur radio folks do something along similar lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by metadat »

laser9 wrote: post #149
linux2647 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you click into the comments, it takes you to the real HN comments page with the real title

Yeah but I'd need to click each of them, thus the request for that feature.

I like how the current form is close to the real HN experience without onHover cruft.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by kemayo »

ajcp wrote: post #112

-> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster. I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.

It's inaccurate on two fronts: he didn't spend the money because he loaned the hardware... and the reviewed thing was actually $40k. :D

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by abhaynayar »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #157
BeaverGoose wrote: post #33

"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

maybe not the recruiter but the hiring manager or prospective colleagues who'll interview you later?

not the number of stars, but I like looking what people have done online ie GitHub/blog. I feel like it is a nice thing to talk about.

I know it's an unpopular opinion these days cause everyone wants work life balance and not work beyond the office but it's always nice to see projects you've worked on it does show some interest. also while one can fake GitHub activity it's hard to fake well thought out and cared for projects.

it's easier to fake metrics from your previous jobs like I saved X amount of money for the company or had Y efficiency gains.

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