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ChatGPT would be better than whatever wrote this, I had to stop reading.
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:57PM (#38586015)
But... those go in your ear. These don't.
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:38PM (#38585813)
What devices do you use this to charge aside from your phone?
Right. Unfortunately their right to request increases was removed. The exact wording: “Based on your service usage history you are not eligible for quota increase at this time” and then dead ends trying to reach someone.

They had billing accounts set up for all their projects. They were happy to hand over money but had no ability to.

Anecdotally, I know a paying GCP customer that recently got quota blocked on the number of global static IPs they are allowed to create. We could not figure out how to contact someone to increase it, and nobody knew why the quota was set so low (4). We just kept running into automated systems that gave circular information on how to request an increase. We kept getting links to sign up for a free tier account.
Re:The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes (2019) on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:07PM (#34656552)
The article? What happened exactly?
Re:SQLite Doesn't Use Git on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:38AM (#32810999)
I feel like you inadvertently confirmed the authors point. In your “complicated” example, in order to visually show the baseline after rebase you removed the earlier C3, C5, C7 and C9 commits. But the authors point is that merge commits just need better tooling that can make it clearer what the baseline is!
Re:Built-in container support for the .NET SDK on Sunday August 28, 2022 @11:27AM (#32629125)
Container to build is nice in CI pipelines, then you don't need msbuild installed on CI runners.
Re:Paginating Requests in APIs (2020) on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:19PM (#31542493)
> Pagination is often implemented as an premature optimization.

or for forwards-compatibility.

You betcha. Once upon a time there was a 6-person rotation, now down to 2.
Industrial IoT company | Canada | $60/day ($65 on weekends) for simply being on call, plus any alarm/issue after-hours I get paid my hourly-salary-equivalent with a minimum of 3hrs no matter what the issue is | on-call 26 weeks of each year.
Re:SPAs Were a Mistake on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:45PM (#30533633)
I showed an interviewer a piece of something I built in a traditional page-per-view design, with some xmlhttprequest where appropriate, and a sprinkling of Vue where it added usability to some of the modal dialogs. Their only response was "why didn't you build it in React?".

I stopped interviewing for front-end work since then. The landscape changes frustratingly too often.

Re:Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:16PM (#30520098)
> One of my biggest hopes

Nice way to flip "my greatest fear"

Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:18AM (#29648901)
The affected zone is use1-az4. Whatever that maps to (1a, 1b, 1c) is different per customer.
Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:59AM (#29648699)
Was stuck on stopping in us-east-1b. Cannot start now.
Re:Okta Outage on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:02PM (#29572160)
Now that Okta bought Auth0 what's the developer experience like I wonder? I imagine the infrastructure of the two products are still completely isolated. But is it still a separate product you can use for identity management or are new customers forced to use Okta?
Strange the cheat-sheet does not list setting the environment variable LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true as a mitigation, which supposedly works for log4j versions >=2.10.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:21AM (#29474316)
The majority of our errors stem from:

- writing to Firehose (S3-backed)

- publishing to eventbridge

- terraform commands to ECS' API are stuck/hanging

Other spurious errors involving kinesis but nothing alarming. us-east-1

Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:16AM (#29188720)
Our local development environment has evolved to a complex enough sequence of steps to set up and troubleshoot that I spent 2 weeks creating tooling that you can simply point at source checkout locations and the tool will take care to setup that repo.

It broke on the first try on a jr hire's machine, the source checkout location was `C:\source code`.

Re:Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:17PM (#29006370)
Audit tables are awesome, this technique is great. We had one additional requirement that got us away from using a trigger for this: we wanted to know what user (in the application) caused the change. So we moved the logic of "insert into audit_table" into the application code itself using a CTE, roughly translated as:

    with affected_rows as (
        insert/update/delete into/from ...
        returning *
    )
    insert into my_audit_table
      select @op, current_timestamp, @userinfo, * from affected_rows
where @op is bound to one of "insert", "update" or "delete" and @userinfo is the user(name|id|various|etc) of the user that caused the change.
Re:How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:38PM (#28464380)
> A big downside of vanilla database/sql or pgx is that SQL queries are strings

What's wrong with strings? The argument in the article is that they cannot be compile-time checked, but I'm confused as to the solution to that problem ("you need to write exhaustive test coverage to verify them"). Is this saying that if they weren't strings you wouldn't need test coverage?

Re:Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video] on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:35PM (#28438887)
> IFF they can see the door at all

That is typically one of the conditions encompassed by "network relevancy".

Re:OnlyFans drops planned porn ban on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:52PM (#28303895)
The momentum from these groups against OnlyFans (and others) started last year when covid hit and porn consumption in general "went up".

https://reason.com/2020/04/24/people-stuck-at-home-are-makin...

Re:OnlyFans drops planned porn ban on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:21AM (#28302036)
Craftsmen who are willing to do a small job for me are so hard to find right now, they're busy enough NONE of them in my area need the business. Every quote I get is either overblown "to make it worth my time", or I simply get declined. Ontario, Canada.
Wow I read that same section twice and didn't catch this.
Re:New Leadership at Blizzard on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:20PM (#28051745)
I'm a bit out of the loop on what has led up to this. I did a bit of searching and came up with a recent thread (within last 2 weeks) of an Activision employee (female) committing suicide after experiencing sexual harassment (involving nude photos being distributed) while on a business trip with the harassing supervisor?

The thread is here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/employee-takes-her-o...

Direct url to the "gif" in that twitter post: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/E5R5lsfXoAQDRkE.mp4

I could not figure out how to show it larger on the twitter UI. I don't have a twitter account so that may be the problem.

Re:OBS Studio 27.0 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:00PM (#27362559)
> This fixes the black screen issues on laptops in particular

My youngest wanted to learn how to use OBS so he can begin making videos of his gaming. I tasked him with figuring out everything, from how to download it (I closely monitored this part), install it, and use it. He watched tutorials.

He got so far but got discouraged when he ran into the above issue and started the whole process over again because he thought he must have messed up. We eventually figured out the workaround but so happy to see they've fixed it!

So much agree. Their taking issue with that detail made me trust their viewpoint less.
> The uploading channel is "Alice Violet Molland - Topic"

I went searching around using that info and came across a (similarly outraged) thread on google's support forums about this video, in which someone named longzijun seemed to make a reasonably sound counter-argument:

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/108213944/a-posted...

> Then she files a counter-notification. The appeals process has not been completed. She is only part-way through it.

> Once she files that and if she does it properly, the claimant has 14 days to initiate a court action against her or the claim is released, the strike removed and the video goes back online.

> Obviously, the claimant will not pursue legal action in this case.

> False claims can cause inconvenience for sure, but with the counter-notification system, they don't do long-term damage.

> Both the takedown system and the counternotification system are mandated by US law (specifically the DMCA).

> YouTube is not supposed to intervene in copyright cases. If they do so, they will lose their safe harbor status (again under the DMCA) that protects YouTube from being sued for hosting copyright infringing content.

> To sum up

> 1) the dispute process has not been completed in this case

> 2) your beef should be with US legislators, not YouTube

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