spaceknarf

6년 전discuss

Not if it's unknown _which_ month. Then you'll have to keep a stockpile year round, which is precisely the objective of grandparent.

spaceknarf

7년 전discuss

There are lots of books that changed the way I think. An example that may be of special interest to the HN community is "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport (http://calnewport.com/books/so-good/). I have spent lots of time finding the perfect career, until I learned from this book that you must stop finding the perfect career. Just do something that you like enough to spend lots of time on it. Everything else will come. It was very liberating.

spaceknarf

8년 전discuss

There's a lot of good descriptions in this book:

Backup & Recovery - Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/backup-recovery/0596102...

It's from 2009, but going through the comments here it seems not much has changed. It will help you choose the right tools, and with many of the open source ones, configure them.

spaceknarf

8년 전discuss

Yes, in the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark! (An AGI is implemented that makes money on Amazon Mechanical Turk.)

spaceknarf

9년 전discuss

What age were your kids when you started with this style of traveling?

spaceknarf

9년 전discuss

The parallels with the "Daemon" in Daniel Suarez' novel are scary.

small spoiler ahead

This Daemon is an AI that keeps data of big companies hostage - it will destroy all that company's data if the company does not pay protection money, or if the company involves law enforcement.

Because a lot of companies in the novel don't stick to the AI's rules, these companies go down with the exact same symptoms as Maersk is now having:

  - unable to do business
  - unclear what happened
  - declining stock prices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)

spaceknarf

10년 전discuss

I only visit https://news.ycombinator.com/best . The articles there don't change every time you press F5.