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New comment by arcticgeek in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

arcticgeek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000

I find taking the rabbit around the tree twice also works well.

New comment by arcticgeek in "IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal"

arcticgeek — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:54:19 +0000

I guess this shows us how overvalued HCP IPO was.

New comment by arcticgeek in "The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)"

arcticgeek — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 05:49:59 +0000

we have multiple former Nike missle sites here in Anchorage. in a modern day city park, you can check out a missle stabilizer on interpretive display at the former launch command center turned cross country ski chalet. there are doors in that building that are like time portals to tha past. you go through an unassuming modern commercial steel door from a room where kids gather before weekly lessons into a world of concrete hallways with enormous blast doors welded open and narrow staircases leading down to lower levels with remnants of launch and other equipment.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans"

arcticgeek — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:58:48 +0000

yep, agreed. I know and have talked to some brokers about this in the past, and also closed a few deals as both a buyer and a seller. The commission was split evenly in my experiences but I should have said ‚typical‘ even if only as a starting point in negotiations.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans"

arcticgeek — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:08:06 +0000

It is customary, at least in some locales (US-AK), that the commission is split evenly between the agents.

New comment by arcticgeek in "BMW drops controversial heated seats subscription"

arcticgeek — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:39:06 +0000

ridiculous. it should be enough that a person chose your brand with their wallet in the first place. no one wants to rent your features.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies"

arcticgeek — Mon, 15 May 2023 02:28:47 +0000

One example of a framework that takes this approach is Apache Royale. It’s a reboot of the AS3 language and component library that works like Adobe/Apache Flex but compiles to JS targeting the browser runtime. This refactored Flex was rebuilt from the ground up with a Pay As You Go (PAYG) philosophy where components are composed of „beads“ on a strand that enable composition of the functionality you need rather than the kitchen sink.

New comment by arcticgeek in "PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders"

arcticgeek — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:23:25 +0000

I loved „Glide“ floss for years because it worked so well. Was totally dismayed when I finally put together why it did. I‘ve switched to Dr. Tung‘s now which is made of natural plant-based materials and works even better than traditional flosses.

New comment by arcticgeek in "GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support"

arcticgeek — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:46:22 +0000

We used to call it Visual Source Shredder because of how easy it was to corrupt the database.

New comment by arcticgeek in "GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support"

arcticgeek — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:42:00 +0000

Yes, that’s actually the thing about branching in SVN. Everyone remembers how awful it was 10+ years ago under SVN 1.4 and earlier but has improved immensely since then. Combined with modern client tooling, i.e. TortoiseSVN, problems with merging are almost non-existent for a long time.

I certainly wouldn’t call SVN modern but it’s very well maintained and has never lost code on me. Many git-like features also exist now such as being able to stash some changes in order to pivot to something else for a bit. Except for the central server being a problem for some use-cases, SVN just works.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often"

arcticgeek — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 09:27:49 +0000

I‘ve really only had experience with Supermicro BMCs but I totally believe you that there are lots of crufty OOB environments in the wild which are hard to work with. While it’s true that applets don’t work anymore (probably a good thing), and therefore the experience isn‘t as integrated or seemless as it once was, it’s a practical matter to just log into the BMC and click on the console preview, using the JNLP file to launch the console via OpenWebStart as an independent application outside of the browser. One other thing is that the self signed certs from these older implementations are often expired and therefore throw an extra warning or two when you launch these interfaces, but you just click through them and carry on.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often"

arcticgeek — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:34:04 +0000

We have various Supermicro boards in production at work with BMCs from 2018 or so. The ATEN iKVM on them works just fine with a recent OpenJDK 11 and OpenWebStart. I’ve found that all the features work including mounting ISOs and doing remote upgrades. No need to whine about installing anything ancient or spreading ridiculous Java FUD.

Anchorage engineer plans to recycle ocean garbage into plastic lumber

arcticgeek — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://alaskapublic.org/2021/05/19/anchorage-engineer-plans-to-recycle-ocean-garbage-into-plastic-lumber/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339461

Points: 2

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New comment by arcticgeek in "PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax"

arcticgeek — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:03:58 +0000

So is the regular Swix CH7 hydrocarbon wax a C6 or a C8? Should I still be handling these with gloves?

New comment by arcticgeek in "The Evolution of the Male Falsetto"

arcticgeek — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:41:14 +0000

It's disappointing there was no mention of King Diamond!

New comment by arcticgeek in "Zero Rupee Note"

arcticgeek — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:04:12 +0000

Zero bucks given.

New comment by arcticgeek in "What UX designers can learn from 1990s Japanese video games"

arcticgeek — Sun, 29 May 2016 21:23:28 +0000

All your base are belong to us

New comment by arcticgeek in "Young Saudis See Cushy Jobs Vanish Along with Nation’s Oil Wealth"

arcticgeek — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 01:29:02 +0000

Sounds like Alaska in the near future.

New comment by arcticgeek in "Single-file public-domain/open source C libraries with minimal dependencies"

arcticgeek — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:36:30 +0000

Another good source of small utility libraries is CCAN.

List of available modules: https://ccodearchive.net/list.html

New comment by arcticgeek in "Flipboard releases React Canvas"

arcticgeek — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:57:28 +0000

It's funny to watch the world very slowly reinvent Adobe Flex.