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Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:41AM (#49933424)
https://www.moosfietsen.nl/museum.html also has a nice collection of old bicycles!
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:29AM (#49593905)
my experience with LLMs is that when you get answers to questions you didn't ask that it's repeating something that already exists. In other words, it probably regenerated a tool from which it was trained on.
Re:Hyperspace on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:53AM (#49253534)
I don't think it's very useful but there's already a checksum in the meta data of an S3 object: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Object.h...

It might be better to keep an index of paths to checksums and use the checksum as object key in S3.

I'm not sure what you like to achieve but if you use restic with S3 as a backend you can achieve much better deduplicate and compression.

Re:Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade? on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:59AM (#48322541)
I don't agree that you don't have to know CSS/HTML when you use a frontend framework.

I guess some frontend frameworks can abstract it away but most don't and you almost certainly will run into the limitations of those frameworks and then you still need to understand HTML/CSS

You can load a model from this page but it's only for testing purposes on this page and it won't be used for the Prompt API.
I think this policy will disable the automatic download of the model:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#GenAILocalFoundati...

The prompt API can be tested here: https://chrome.dev/web-ai-demos/prompt-api-playground/

It would be really helpful if there was a way to download the model to a central location, so multiple users on a single system could easily share it.

Wooting has done this already for many years: https://github.com/WootingKb/wooting-design
Re:sc-im Spreadsheets in Your Terminal on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:15PM (#47664720)
The first spreadsheets I remember were TUI (pccalc, Lotus 123)
oh nice! I hate it that you can't disable mouse acceleration in macOS.
Re:Flightradar24 for Ships on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:19AM (#47207469)
I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored
Re:Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:53AM (#47098168)
if possible you can also just create directories if they don't exist (ie. mkdir -p) and just exclude it in your root .gitignore (ie. ignore all build directories). That would safe you from creating multiple .gitignore files.
Re:Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop on Sunday December 07, 2025 @01:54PM (#46184052)
I tried this for a virtualized full screen gnome desktop environment but the latency was unbearable. I also couldn't get passthrough of command/caps lock etc to the virtual machine stable. Finally connecting an USB device (like a yubikey) didn't work seamless.
Re:Show HN: Strange Attractors on Saturday November 01, 2025 @08:05AM (#45781009)
very nice, if you want to know more of the history of chaos I recommend the following book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%3A_Making_a_New_Science?...
I think you should create a new ssh key for every computer so you only have to share the public key .
Re:RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync on Thursday May 29, 2025 @11:14AM (#44126892)
I don't like GUIs for this so I made a simple cli frontend for rsync/rclone so I can just run pull/push in a directory like git. https://github.com/meeuw/rzn
Re:Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail (2023) on Sunday May 18, 2025 @01:27PM (#44022921)
davmail supports smtp through outlook(365)
Re:Making a smart bike dumb so it works again on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:25AM (#43768594)
something more problematic of this smart bike is that it also requires an app to unlock.

from what I read they used many (low quality) custom parts for this bike which aren't available anymore.

AIS-catcher is an open source multi-platform AIS Receiver with realtime data found at aiscatcher.org
Re:So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:49PM (#42857039)
Not sure if this is a rhetorical question but I'll bite :-)

> where do you keep the ECS service/task specs and how do you mutate them across your stacks?

It can be defined in CloudFormation, then use CloudFormation Git sync, some custom pipeline (ie. github actions) or CodePipeline to deploy it from github

You can also use CodeDeploy to deploy from Git or even a AWS supplied github action for deploying a ECS task.

> How long does it take to stand up/decomm a new instance of your software stack?

It really depends on many factors, ECS isn't very fast (I think it's on purpose to prevent thundering herd problems).

> How do you handle application lifecycle concerns like database backup/restore, migrations/upgrades?

From what I learned from AWS is that ECS is a compute service and you shouldn't persist data in ECS.

Run your database in RDS and use the supplied backup/restore functionality

> How have you supported developer stories like "I want to test a commit against our infrastructure without interfering with other development"?

If it's all defined in CloudFormation you can duplicate the whole infrastructure and test your commit there.

Re:Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:44PM (#42359781)
Lately I was thinking "what's the best way to integrate/use a task runner like mise in a github actions workflow".

Looking at the workflow files in the mise repository it seems like they gave up and just put in a few run: mise steps (having to rewrite / unable to use dependencies etc).

I think it would be better if you could generate the workflow files but I haven't found such a project yet.

Re:Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:16PM (#41882543)
The RFC 6902 - JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch standard is also used by the AWS Cloud Control API:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudcontrolapi/latest/APIRefere...

There's GlobalKnownHostsFile and UserKnownHostsFile. The global known hosts file is usually stored in /etc/ssh, linux distributions could store common ssh host keys in there.
hey this is the same guy who did some work for running osx on qemu/kvm. https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
Re:S3 is files, but not a filesystem on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:23AM (#39657131)
I talked to people at AWS who work in RDS Aurora and they hinted they use S3 internally as a backend for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage on Saturday January 27, 2024 @01:06AM (#39153049)
Rclone is a magic tool, I've used it for many different use cases.

When I last checked it doesn't use the AWS SDK (or the Go version is limited). Anyway, it isn't able to use all settings in .aws/config.

But it is kind of understandable that it doesn't support all backend features because it's a multifunctional tool.

Also the documentation is full of warnings of unmaintained features (like caching) and experimental features. Which is a fair warning but they don't specifically tell you the limitations.

years back I've used linux netem for such a purpose, back then it was already fabulous
I'm fairly happy with a Cudy WR1300, which runs openwrt out of the box. Only €40 euros on amazon.

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