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New comment by throwawaycuriou in "OpenAI API pricing update FAQ"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:42:44 +0000

Contrarily I wish people used 'Nx times' more often, especially for 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. It's more welcoming and less pretentious.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:39:59 +0000

Unrelated to this current focus on the weakness of using a phone number as a contact reference, I have experienced a different problem. If a user has ever used Signal previously and for whatever reason revert back to SMS, if another user sends them a message via Signal it is lost with no indication. This is a growing problem as people try out Signal and when they get a new phone just forget or don't care to install it again.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:13:29 +0000

it really comes down to what you're building. many web app startups would be better served paying for PaaS that manage this for them. as an example: Netlify/Vercel. if you need a database add FaunaDB to that. if that sounds risky or expensive, consider the cost of building a DevOps team.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Nuclear energy is clean"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 06:09:04 +0000

Texan politicians didn't miss a chance to blame wind power for the outages. Unfortunately, those initial lies are still circulating. The primary cause was that the pipes supplying natural gas froze. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders"

throwawaycuriou — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:13:03 +0000

Anything we can read or watch on the transformation Amsterdam made?

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)"

throwawaycuriou — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:01:15 +0000

Oliver's most recent ditty did roast Biden remarking 'I can taste it. I think he could've done more to roast previous administration policies.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Amazon to Acquire One Medical"

throwawaycuriou — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:45:46 +0000

Wild. The technicality of earning a doctorate to be called a doctor is no more.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title"

throwawaycuriou — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:33:01 +0000

Along the same lines of utterly dominant and lesser known, Jahangir Khan in the sport of squash. Most famously for 555 consecutive victories.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Sitting and standing at work (2015)"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:02:10 +0000

The greater issue for this use case is latency. Bluetooth + cellular delay is not a kind thing to impose on your teammates.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Sitting and standing at work (2015)"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:00:01 +0000

If you do this, please use a cabled headset. Bluetooth headsets inevitably add latency, particularly off WiFi. Latency makes meetings more fatiguing.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

throwawaycuriou — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:17:37 +0000

Happened to me too starting a few weeks ago. What solved it was to turn off Bluetooth, and prevent from activating on start.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II"

throwawaycuriou — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:54:30 +0000

This begs a question: what technologies are inhibited by a looser definition of slavery? What inventions would arise if a global minimum wage was enforced?

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer"

throwawaycuriou — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:31:01 +0000

It's fair to compare what competitors baseline is here, at the risk of whataboutism. I find it surprising not a peep about the culpability Windows has in the equation.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer"

throwawaycuriou — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:08:41 +0000

A merger can eat that soul in the same fashion. Such as Boeing effectively becoming McDonnell Douglas.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot"

throwawaycuriou — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:45:56 +0000

Would be popcorn to see Epic make a saucy donation to the Godot project at this time.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Unity merges with IronSource"

throwawaycuriou — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:43:46 +0000

I don't recognize this company anymore. What a gibberish announcement. Their game engine is hardly discussed. Apparently the future is ads on mobile apps.

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)"

throwawaycuriou — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:05:25 +0000

I really enjoyed this book which covers the subject deeply https://www.amazon.com/Repeat-How-Music-Plays-Mind/dp/019999...

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Footage of Ice Avalanche in Kyrgyzstan"

throwawaycuriou — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:52:25 +0000

Skip the blogspam: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfyT6xcA27D

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Deepest infrared image of universe"

throwawaycuriou — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 02:48:15 +0000

Inspired tonight by this photo, I made this little tribute piece on my synthesizer: Webb Awakens https://drive.google.com/file/d/14mdhZ8yPdKarB8GHbWXToY9v_03...

New comment by throwawaycuriou in "Skyrim together: mod to play online"

throwawaycuriou — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:57:37 +0000

While the modding restrictions are bemusing to me as well coming from open source software, the introduction of Wabbajack a couple years ago greatly streamlined things so that you had one curated install that could encompass hundreds of mods. Collections as I understand is Nexus' take on the same idea.