jsjohnst

32 ms·

391.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
I miss YQL much more than Yahoo! Pipes. My memory is hazy, but I think YQL is what ultimately killed Pipes actually, then YQL died because everything that didn’t generate revenue at Yahoo! died.
392.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Windows 7 and 8 haven't been supported in years Windows 7 hasn’t been supported for two years now, but Windows 8 EOS isn’t until January 2023.
393.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
Instagram had around 10M users at acquisition too when it was acquired a decade ago . IG has way way more staff now that they have scale. Must we continue to compare Apples and Oranges?
394.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
Well, let’s see. IG was acquired by FB in April 2012 and had somewhere above 10M users at the time. Around the same time, Twitter had around 140M accounts in US alone, nearly 500M worldwide. Do we want to continue the apples vs oranges comp
395.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> The ads I’m referring to are for Wyze’s add-on features. Ah, gotcha. I’ve seen those before, but haven’t experienced same issue with getting in way. Maybe I’m just slow to click. > And also to be clear, the axe I grind is small. I g
396.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Now the app takes much longer to load, and has the uncanny ability to insert an advertisement under my finger just before I touch the camera feed I want to view. Which platform? I’ve never once seen an ad in the official iOS app. The a
397.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> That's near enough to true for anyone not operating at "web scale". FAANG/BAT engineers need to care. I’d argue even then it’s really not much a concern. You’d need to generate 1 billion UUID v4’s per second for ove
398.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> The “outdated” knock on it is relevant because it points to Wyze once giving a nod to tinkerers The RTSP firmware for the v3 isn’t even a year old (was released after June 2021), so “once was a nod to tinkerers” combined the rest of yo
399.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> outdated If it works, it works?
400.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
Wyze has an official RTSP firmware you can download from their support section for the v3. It’s beta, but has mostly worked for my needs.
401.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Search and Rescue is one of the few services that is almost uniformly free Just wanted to come and confirm based on first hand experience that this is true and also say a heart felt thank you for doing what you do!
402.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Oh, it's now a reference implementation... since when?! Do those people who climb on the Mastodon bandwagon know this is just a POC turned into a Product, which now competes with Twitter?! Might I suggest you take a deep breath an
403.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I admit to being misinformed Thank you for replying earnestly and humbly. I wish more did that!
404.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> It’s trivial to survive HN traffic with a static site It’s fairly trivial to survive HN traffic, full stop. I’ve seen the RPS live from several “#1 on homepage” posts with hundreds of comments (let alone upvotes) and as another comment
405.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Where have you been? I think you may be uninformed on this. I think you are victim to reading headlines and not understanding what Twitter went to court over. Elon paying the $1B wouldn’t have gotten him out of having to complete the d
406.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> And you'd never want to use wire ($18+) for paying friend back for pizza Sending and receiving wire transfers is free with my bank, but even still no way I’d ever use it for that use case.
407.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> it cannot be confiscated by govts. Say what? The US government alone has confiscated _billions_ in Bitcoin. Use search term “confiscated bitcoin” and you’ll find thousands of examples trivially.
408.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> My understanding is that this is more of the equivalent of making sure you land on heads all 3 times Yep!
409.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> finding the phone number of a PayPal board member, or cloning it You don’t need to clone it, you just change the SMSC registration to reroute delivery to the screen of your choice. If you have access, it’s trivially simple to do, but I
410.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
You’re down into single digit percentage by the time n hits 7 in that case. What are we at, 4th re-entry? So 25% chance it lands in water given your formula. Given Chinese superstitions around the number 4, let’s hope this one has a safe an
411.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
The months leading up to Verizon's fateful decision in December 2018, they were in the range of over 500 million MAU. Within a couple months after, the number was half that.
412.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
Exactly my point and that of GP.
413.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Like imagine a telecom owning a social network? You mean like Verizon and Tumblr? ;)
414.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
How do you define secure in this case though? A definite case could be made that Rust is more secure than either option listed. Context matters and arbitrarily picking a context to exclude one vs another is rather disingenuous on the au
415.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> However, for server-side applications, Rust also presents some challenges. Rust programs are compiled into native machine code, which is not portable and is unsafe in multi-tenancy cloud environments. We also lack tools to manage and o
416.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I don't understand what it does. It shows me where hot code is, but where is it being optimized? Is it changing my source file? Does it create a 'compiled/optimized' copy of my source file? Is it an alternative inte
417.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
May (followed by April and June) are the most active months for storms, especially tornado producing ones in virtually every state in the Midwest USA, well before “hot summer” days.
418.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> interestingly this is considered a HTTP 0.9 request, which HTTP 1.0 compliant servers need to handle For GP, the reason this is an HTTP/0.9 request is because it doesn’t specify a version number on the GET line (HTTP/1.0 woul
419.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> but by your definition every function that operates on sorted arrays and doesn't verify the input is sorted is inherently unsafe Are you claiming it’s not? verify all input should be the baseline to call something safe imho.
420.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
I’m also a scuba diver and have also touched sharks while diving. They reacted in a similar way to a dolphin or a seal or any other large aquatic animal, as in it all depends on how they are touched. If it’s a gentle “pet”, they don’t seem

More ›