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by mnutt 3y ago
That’s awesome. I love that it’s the intersection of tech and something so wholesome and unequivocally good. It feels hard to find in tech these days.
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by mnutt 3y ago
That's amazing! I'm separately very interested in LLMs, but still very much in a "keep them the hell away from my kids" mindset.
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by mnutt 3y ago
That's great, I didn't know about those. For anything that an adult depended on, especially if I didn't live with them, I'd prioritize simplicity and robustness over almost everything else.
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by mnutt 3y ago
ctrl-c was one of the first things I had to teach him :-) He has a Pi with a 7" touchscreen and keyboard, with xterm and a notes app. Compared to other technology it seems to be fairly self-limiting.
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by mnutt 3y ago
My son _loves_ the train status aspect and I'm happy to oblige as it gives me an excuse to hack, but as other people point out you can get a lot of mileage out of even just getting a landline. Or you could probably connect the Grandstr
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Show HN: Rotary Phone Project(github.com)
208 points by mnutt 3y ago|46 comments
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by mnutt 3y ago
I went down a somewhat similar path a while back. I liked some of the functionality OwnCloud/NextCloud offered, but it seemed like there were just more and more php projects bolted on and I was worried about it from a security perspect
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by mnutt 3y ago
That was the promise of Sandstorm. "Easy to install" is important but sandboxing and data protection _even of the data you give the app itself_ is just as important. I really hope it or something like it succeeds someday. Edit: th
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by mnutt 3y ago
I struggled with this recently, upgrading qtwebkit from Qt5 to Qt6. Qt5 used platform-specific height values, while Qt6 now uses win height values, for consistent rendering across all platforms. It’s better in concept, the only issue is tha
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by mnutt 3y ago
Back when my company was a tiny startup the old nyc building door had an intercom buzzer and physical keys. To make it easier to get in I wired a raspberry pi w/relay into the intercom and built a web UI. The pi setup wasn’t solidly re
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by mnutt 3y ago
Adium was a very well-designed mac app that I used for many years. All of its messaging connectivity was due to its use of libpurple (formerly libgaim).
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by mnutt 3y ago
They have a known system that can go from specified coordinates to images in the form of puppeteer (chromium) and so they can run it on lots of websites to generate [coordinates, output image] pairs to use for training data. In general, if
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by mnutt 3y ago
Today’s flooding was caused by excessive rain, and I think the problems are mostly around inadequate drainage? Whereas Sandy was a storm surge and could have been mitigated with something like levees.
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by mnutt 3y ago
The creator of Asterisk (the linux-based PBX) has been building a modern modular avionics system which I believe is Linux-based. From what I can tell they have plans for certification. https://www.avilution.com/
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by mnutt 3y ago
jq is great for letting users munge their data; we do something similar letting users provision an incoming webhook endpoint, send us arbitrary json data, and set up mappings to do useful things with their data, along with regression tests,
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by mnutt 3y ago
It reminds me of the method redis used for evicting keys: it would randomly choose N keys and evict the oldest of the set. It approximated evicting the oldest key in the database (more or less, depending on your value of N) but was cheaper
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by mnutt 3y ago
I don't see where the latter is the case? For that I believe regular NAT gateway bandwidth charges apply?
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by mnutt 3y ago
It looks to be available, but (from the bottom of the article) "Regular NAT gateway charges may apply."
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by mnutt 3y ago
I spent a good portion of this weekend tracking down a minor text rendering issue I was having in WebKit. It is mind-boggling just the mountains of code that go into text rendering, and pretty amazing that they have managed to keep such a c
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by mnutt 3y ago
It works, but it may depend on how resilient your workload is. We have timed spot instances that come online shortly before the top of the hour in the morning eastern, and via specifying instance alternates we'd often get instances tha
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by mnutt 3y ago
You could go with sticky sessions, or consistent hashing to maximize cache hit rate. Then you may run into hotspots and look at bounded-load consistent hashing, etc.
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by mnutt 3y ago
I thought of another variant: with AWS autoscaling groups using spot instances you can list a number of different instance sizes and say "give me whatever is cheapest" and you'll often get a mix.
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by mnutt 3y ago
The simulations are really cool. I'm trying to think of a real-world situation where you'd have differently-sized backends though. I guess it might help if your server runs hourly cron jobs that take away system resources from req
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by mnutt 4y ago
Related, the Dark Sky website and API began returning 503s earlier today, despite the Dark Sky Blog (the only thing still up) prominently displaying: > The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.
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by mnutt 4y ago
Does phantomjscloud still run phantomjs? How do you keep it up to date with security patches? Have you benchmarked how this new chrome performs against the old headless chrome and against phantomjs?
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by mnutt 4y ago
I run into this a lot where I'd like to see some real world use cases of a method in FooClass, but get a hundred pages of forks of the FooClass.h header file. In some cases I've been successful adding "-filename:FooClass.h&qu
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by mnutt 4y ago
The SSD data tiering sounds interesting, is there anything written about how it works?
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by mnutt 4y ago
I don’t know what they said before, but they now say: “Do you have a question or comment that involves "security" and "hashids" in the same sentence? Don't use Hashids.” Still, I can see the temptation that these ge
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by mnutt 4y ago
Yes, if you outgrow autoincremented ints then hashids may not be a great fit I think?
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by mnutt 4y ago
I wonder how this might compare to just storing regular autoincrementing ints in the database, and converting to/from hashids ( https://hashids.org/ ) at the edge. It eliminates the collision concern and stores more comp

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