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New comment by jmedefind in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

jmedefind — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:10:51 +0000

North Virginia has a very large Indian community.

All the schools in the area have days off for Indian Holidays since so many would be out of school otherwise.

New comment by jmedefind in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

jmedefind — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:15:39 +0000

Pretty sure this is satire and not even remotely true.

New comment by jmedefind in "Kids Love Landline Phones"

jmedefind — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:50:43 +0000

I just did the same thing for my kids, they love rotary dialing.

Plus Grandpa can call them anytime.

New comment by jmedefind in "What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)"

jmedefind — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:17:02 +0000

Ireland sponsors a bunch of local leagues all over the World to promote Hurling/Camogie and Gaelic football. Lots of fun if you want to give it a try or just watch some games.

Link to the US organization - https://usgaa.org

The Federal Reserve Is Popping the 'Everything Bubble'

jmedefind — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-reserve-inflaton-everything-bubble-economy-stock-market-debt-2022-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30106443

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by jmedefind in "What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)"

jmedefind — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:38:33 +0000

Back then the Second Amendment was read as a right to an Armed Militia. SCOTUS probably would of allowed these laws at the time.

It's only the in past few decades that the Second Amendment has been perverted into the right to carry any gun you want where ever you want.

Ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/09/why-accura...

New comment by jmedefind in "Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core"

jmedefind — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:39:00 +0000

We use it for our bare metal management and like it for the most part.

It does require a lot of planning though.

But the company has been great to work with and super helpful in slack.

New comment by jmedefind in "Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline"

jmedefind — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:49:05 +0000

Since they are owned by Amazon. I would think their cost is close to nothing.

New comment by jmedefind in "Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content"

jmedefind — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:14:23 +0000

Traditional media political ads can't micro-target people that are more likely get sucked into their made up "facts" and conspiracy theories.

They also are broadly broadcast so that they can be dis-proven and discussed. Instead they are hidden away only shown to people that won't question it.

If facebook wants to do political ads then it needs to disconnect them from targeting, publish them for public display, publish who paid for the ad, and moderate them to some basic level of being truthful.

New comment by jmedefind in "Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad"

jmedefind — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:32:24 +0000

Also check what your insurance covers in regard to the child birth. Try to get the plan with the best coverage and least amount of deductibles.

We walked away paying nothing where friends in the same hospital had to pay a few thousand.

You can always change your plan after the kid is born or at the next open enrollment.

New comment by jmedefind in "Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad"

jmedefind — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:29:58 +0000

It's fine, we just wash it on high.

Ask your OB about it though if you want a more professional opinion.

New comment by jmedefind in "Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad"

jmedefind — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:27:49 +0000

This x 100. We get used clothing from friends and goodwill all the time. They blow through clothing so fast it's not worth buying new.

If you buy a used crib just make sure it's in good shape and hasn't been recalled.

More practical advice: Costco brand diapers and formula are the cheapest we found, but still good quality. Well worth the membership. There are also ways around going to Costco without paying for a membership. You can just google it.

Walmart brand wipes were the cheapest (and not useless) ones we found. We buy them in lots of 1200 at a time for about $20.

New comment by jmedefind in "Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'"

jmedefind — Wed, 31 May 2017 14:31:38 +0000

It's not even half. Only ~25% of registered voters, voted for Trump[1].

It's a problem of how to drive turn out and get people to the polls. Trump is the result of apathy toward politics in this country.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/american-non...

New comment by jmedefind in "Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace"

jmedefind — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:25:26 +0000

Their docs site has always been decent enough for us.

https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud

Anything missing or questionable could usually be resolved by looking in the docs folder of the corresponding service's github repo.

New comment by jmedefind in "Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace"

jmedefind — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:43:20 +0000

We're using Joyent's Triton platform and like it a lot.

It's been super stable and great for us. Plus #smartos has been incredibly responsive and helpful with any problems we run into.

There is also Proxmox and Cloudstack.

New comment by jmedefind in "New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year"

jmedefind — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:31:52 +0000

They just finished animal trials in the US and are hoping to start human trials soon.

https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/

New comment by jmedefind in "California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted"

jmedefind — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:20:51 +0000

It's been talked about a lot for a long time. But nothing ever gets pass congress.

Obama tried to pass a lot of infrastructure spending as part of the 2008 Stimulation package, but a lot didn't make it into the final budget.

Everyone wants it fixed, but no one wants to pay for it.

Many states fund their roads and bridges via a gas tax. But no one wants to raise the price of gas. So nothing gets fixed through that channel either.

It's a real problem in the US and our divisive and nut job "party first" politics.

New comment by jmedefind in "Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine"

jmedefind — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:05:58 +0000

For Lost Vikings it was most likely for easy porting.

Wikipedia mentions is was available on the following platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, Game Boy Advance, MS-DOS, Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, PlayStation

New comment by jmedefind in "Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released"

jmedefind — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 01:23:50 +0000

Oh I agree. That's why we ditched ec2 for our own bare metal cloud based on joyent and saved over $200k/year

New comment by jmedefind in "Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released"

jmedefind — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:19:29 +0000

I don't see how anyone can afford SaaS metrics/alert services at any sort of real scale.

$15/month/host gets expensive fast. Datadog doesn't start providing discounts till you are at 1000+ hosts.