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Re:Monosketch on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:53PM (#47008938)
One of the few things I miss after ditching the mac
Re:Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:03PM (#35177276)
Very interesting! The choice with the subnetting is a bit odd to me, it's surprising that you got the hosts talking to each other with that addressing. I would have chosen a proper /30 between the two computers, that would be 10.0.0.1/30 and 10.0.0.2/30.

    10.0.0.0 network address
    10.0.0.1 host (usable)
    10.0.0.2 host (usable)
    10.0.0.3 broadcast address

Nice writeup nonetheless!
Re:JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:49PM (#35085713)
unfortunately, compilation times are not so good.
Re:WebKit Quirks.cpp on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:24PM (#33208973)
Interesting bits are to be found under the rug :-)
Very useful. Just built and installed with the Go tooling.

Friendly reminder: you can name the binary WHATEVER YOU WANT in your system. There's absolutely no need to nitpick on the name.

Re:Mourning loss as a remote team on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:10AM (#30820379)
Thank you! I'm much better now.
Re:Mourning loss as a remote team on Saturday March 26, 2022 @06:49PM (#30816058)
Back in 2020 I could very well have been the Pete in this story. I was struggling so bad with mental health issues, financial issues. On top of that, my father was giving the figh to prostatic cancer. I was just starting working remotely for the first time for a Canadian company. My employers were the nicest guys I have ever meet online and I was thrilled to have been asked to work for them as a software developer. At first I felt relieved because I finally landed in a job to do things I like using the tools I like with great people. Even though I desperately needed money, I was willing to work on a dime just to prove myself that I was sufficiently skilled to be "one of them".

But as exciting as it felt, there was an impedance that made things so difficult for me and my brain. It rapidly started to erode my self-confidence, I began pushing so hard trying to solve every task and every little detail in the most perfect way possible and felt like I was failing at everything. I certainly was failing at one thing and it was communication. The language was a barrier (English is not my native language), and I think there might have been some kind of «cultural mismatch» at play too. In hindsight, I think my employers were also failing to read what I was writing on the wall. I let them know I was struggling with mental health issues and I think I made sufficiently clear what my struggles were. They tried to help me the best they could but kept insisting on things that were irrelevant to me. Apparently they thought maybe I was doing "just a theatre" because I was afraid of asking to renegotiate my compensation (I wasn't). That was particularly frustrating to me.

At some point, feeling like a lightning rod in the middle of a thunderstorm, I was on the brink of doing what can't be undone. I had it all planned.

Lucky me, my wife was wakeful enough to notice what was going on and helped me get out of the pit.

Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:06PM (#30463600)
I don't think it's necessary to physically cut cables. What if critical infrastructure is isolated from savages by just not having routes to/from them? I mean, in a similar way the Team Cymru UTRS[1] works by publishing a list of BGP filters to be imported in routers.

[1] https://team-cymru.com/community-services/utrs/

Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:32PM (#30463429)
Probably I'm just naive but I really don't understand this cyber warfare theater. Why aren't all internet operators in the free world just blackholing all russian ASNs (complete with the other allied bullies) from the internet routing tables? Wouldn't this be enough to avert all the nasty attacks on critical infrastructure?
Re:Passwordle on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:40PM (#30364701)
the wordle craze is getting out of hand
Re:Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:47PM (#29632012)
Impressive. Yet another disappointing reminder that, as a programmer, I'm not worth the salt of the food I eat daily.
Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:37AM (#28850926)
Very cool project! It's exciting to see two reputable Qt & KDE devs doing fresh stuff. (as a long-time linux user and Qt and KDE hobbyist I recognize their names like a sports fan recognizes their favorite players' names)
Re:Modoboa – Open Source email server on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:13AM (#28584941)
"Regain your independence and protect your privacy by installing your own email server. It takes less than 10 minutes!"

Well, I just spent more than 10 minutes and couldn't even find a download link. There's nothing in the page that suggests it's an actual free and/or open-source project.

Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:02PM (#25064067)
I too remember _why.
Re:Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:55PM (#24829622)
Already replaced fail2ban for sshguard [1], which I like better. But I'll be testing this even not being a fan of crowd sex :-)

[1] https://www.sshguard.net/

Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:42AM (#23583887)
Dr. Richard Hipp? Thanks for all your work. The world is a significantly better place thanks to you.
Re:Show HN: sqlc – Compile SQL Queries to Type-Safe Go on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:28PM (#21767895)
What a neat idea! Congrats on the project!

Without having a look at the sources yet: could sqlc generated code take any advantage pgx[1] extra features or is it designed to use strictly database/sql?

[1] https://github.com/jackc/pgx

Re:Setup for Your Next Golang Project on Friday December 06, 2019 @07:52PM (#21727664)
Thanks for sharing. I've been perusing your blog posts and GitHub repositories for a week or so. Very useful stuff :)
Re:Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:03PM (#19480042)
Screen res/size, 3D (aka force) touch, front camera (5 vs 1.2MP), slightly bigger battery.
There’s croc[1] too, which is basically the same thing but written in Go.

[1] https://github.com/schollz/croc

Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @05:59PM (#17605306)
I bet y'all would enjoy reading the article after installing this Chrome Extension [Cloud To Butt Plus](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...).
Re:Use a Mikrotik as Your Home Router (2017) on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:24PM (#16963394)
MikroTik gear is awesome. Extremely flexible and reliable. I work with different models daily since ~2007.
Would it be acceptable for vegans to eat animals that died accidentally or without human intervention? There’s some valuable proteins in that squashed skunk ma’am
Re:How I learned to code in my 30s on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:26AM (#14653480)
Yes, I think my discomfort comes mostly from that. And from realizing that I'm getting older, with too many responsibilities and less time each day in a path with no return. At this point I even doubt switching to a software dev job would be satisfying for me anymore.
Re:How I learned to code in my 30s on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:33PM (#14651066)
I'm 36 and already feel "old" and unfit to continue pursuing a career as a software developer, which I consider(ed?) my dream job. I began programming at ~20 yo but had to work in another barely related field (still in IT) because where I live it's more profitable as a lone ranger. It's difficult to find peers in my area.

I work as an independent consultant wearing many hats, doing all kind of weird network related jobs for small cable operators and small/medium businesses in a shitty country in south america. This includes devops tasks, planning data networks with structured cabling, fiber optics, setting up and maintaining servers, routers, switches and a bunch of appliances that I didn't even know they existed a few years ago (all that ugly shit in HFC networks). I hate my job and feel very unhappy and depressed. I'm on meds, many visits to psychiatrist lately.

All these years I kept learning all I can. I'm an avid *nix user, can program in a few languages and have read more about programming languages, libraries, frameworks, etc. that any other subject that I can think of. I dropped out of university only a few years from getting a degree but continued spending my free time learning about software development just because I like it. I enjoyed many detours with many technologies, loved learning Java, C++/Qt, Python, Go, Perl, etc. I spent too much time and money in books, online courses, software licenses, etc that I feel failed and guilty.

Re:Show HN: Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:01PM (#14170895)
I was actually surprised when Kaspersky announced NIC.br was compromised and many banking sites where hijacked. If I remember correctly, they (NIC.br) identified a vulnerability but then denied Kaspersky claims.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hackers-hijacked-banks-entire-...

Re:Wine 2.0 released on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:28PM (#13487261)
I use it all the time (in macOS and Linux) for running MikroTik's[1] configuration tool (named "winbox.exe").

[1] http://www.mikrotik.com/

Aren't you doing exactly that with another recursive resolver?
Re:China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017 on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:51PM (#13288522)
"by the end of 2017"?

This must be a joke. Why not earlier? Why do they have to wait a whole year to enforce a ban like this?

It's almost like "China announces ban on human trafficking by end of 2017". Yeah, let's give criminals some time to find new career opportunities!

Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:33PM (#13072716)
I don't see anything disruptive here. I already have roughly the same cost/benefit with Linode.

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