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New comment by ch in "The inventor of the screw-in coffin"

ch — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:48:25 +0000

Considering how difficult it can be to install a fence post in glacial till, this sounds like a less than exciting proposition.

New comment by ch in "Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads"

ch — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:41:15 +0000

For those eager to get a look at the code it can be found here: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda

New comment by ch in "Vectorized mentoring students in Distributed Systems"

ch — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:31:10 +0000

I helped early on to review this plan for Alex and the Vectorized team, so I’m very excited to finally see it be released to the world.

Vectorized consists of quite the lineup of engineers (https://vectorized.io/team) and anyone who gets to be mentored by them will be gaining a huge advantage when it comes to Distributed System design and implementation!

New comment by ch in "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone"

ch — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:42:48 +0000

    Chief Carmen Best may be totally wrong or making that up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-police-retract-claim...

As it turns out she was, in fact, wrong or making it up.

New comment by ch in "Robinhood Is Down Again?"

ch — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:22:06 +0000

Probably a JVM GC pause.

New comment by ch in "Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output"

ch — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:36:51 +0000

One's output is another's input.

New comment by ch in "Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance"

ch — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:07:39 +0000

And yet work start times won't adjust.

New comment by ch in "Allocator Designs"

ch — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:24:59 +0000

Would the author mind commenting on how the diagrams were generated? They were very clear and useful.

New comment by ch in "Anatomy of a Scam"

ch — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:39:48 +0000

Don't investors ever ask to meet the team first? Seems like a fair ask if one is to invest.

New comment by ch in "Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes"

ch — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:10:03 +0000

Since there is relatively little information on the linked page, I'll put some questions I have here.

1. How does it work? It would appear the list is user curated. New submissions are from users (via submit) and ranking is based on hearts? Is there any future plan to be able to associate # of plays with a given episode (not sure if podcast app apis allow this).

2. In relation to #1 (an asked already by others), how can I subscribe to this in my podcast app?

New comment by ch in "iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions"

ch — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:56:49 +0000

I feel like they missed a golden opportunity to let users select between various space filling curves for the cut pattern.

I, for one, would love to have my lawn cut in a Hilbert Curve pattern.

New comment by ch in "Help me ask why you didn't just"

ch — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:29:21 +0000

Honestly, if they aren't asking for help formulating a solution, they also aren't asking for your suggestion to an alternative (even if you try to couch it in terms of a question). So just don't ask and you won't have the issue.

New comment by ch in "Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach"

ch — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:18:51 +0000

Cool. I want to try and work through this text, just to assess how useful it is.

The approach is an interesting one.

Looks like this will have to become a weekly goal. Maybe one chapter a week? Seems possible.

New comment by ch in "Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key"

ch — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:13:07 +0000

Something like this would suffice, if it was simple to keep along side the key: https://tripplite.com/usb-c-female-to-usb-a-male-adapter~U32...

New comment by ch in "I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets"

ch — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:27:39 +0000

But do you also segregate the devices and networks you connect to for this identity, or can a sufficiently advanced adversary connect the dots where you link up with the rest of the internet?

New comment by ch in "Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019"

ch — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:39:15 +0000

They still retain the global rollout for the other use cases detailed in the write up, so its generally tested, though not for this one use case as you point out. I suspect the tradeoff is reasonable, however having a short pre-stage deploy before global in all cases would be a more conservative option that would prevent an emergent push from becoming an even bigger emergency!

New comment by ch in "A Gas Heist Gone Wrong"

ch — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:24:48 +0000

And we certainly have never interfered in any economic sense in Venezuela ... hold on, my producer is telling me that this is incorrect.

New comment by ch in "Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python"

ch — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:30:33 +0000

Cool. Can we add infrared detection to determine if the car is just standing rather than parked, so you can eliminate the cases where a car is not in a parking spot, but would appear parked to this detector?

New comment by ch in "Benefits of talking to strangers"

ch — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:21:46 +0000

You ever sit there wanting to strike up a conversation with a random stranger, and have no idea where to begin?

I think that has more to do with the observed self-imposed isolation than is given credit in the article.

New comment by ch in "Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation"

ch — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:57:20 +0000

Great looking site. I just grabbed the app because I've been using the "What Knot to Do" app forever now, but find these animated single page descriptions more concise!