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Re:Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:37PM (#49060368)
Some OEM systems are sensitive too. My mother has a Hyundai that triggers the alarm whenever a heavy truck drives by.
Re:Unifi Travel Router on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:21AM (#46374272)
I always travel with my GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) and this is what I use it for:

- My wife and I travel with multiple devices (laptops, phones, Chromecast...) and when we get to a hotel/Airbnb, I simply connect my Beryl AX to their network (it deals with captive portals btw) and all of our devices automatically connect.

- I changed the `/etc/hosts` directly in the router, meaning I can test my local servers under custom domains easily on my other devices like phones/tablets without apps like SquidMan.

- I route specific domains through specific VPNs. Government websites, streaming websites, AWS services, etc.

- I can plug in a 4G USB modem into it and it can automatically fallback to it if the main connection drops.

- It has built-in Tailscale support.

Re:Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:22AM (#44931391)
Yeah I understand the frustration, I had issues setting up ESLint/Prettier years ago and spent a few hours getting the Biome configuration right. Also a monorepo with ~4000 TS/TSX files. If you ever feel like trying it again, make sure that you have "files.maxSize" and "files.ignoreUnknown" set. And be very careful with the "files.includes" list.
Re:Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:01AM (#44931280)
Idk, I'm having a good experience with Biome 2 in a large codebase. 4s to do a full-check including floating promises, undeclared and cyclic dependencies, and sorting imports. Our ESLint setup used to take almost a minute. The Biome team has been fixing bugs on a daily basis. Version 2.2.0 (released 3 days) ago addressed a common high-CPU-usage bug, try it out.

Edit: it's not 4s anymore, I just measured with the latest version and it takes ~900ms. Insane.

Re:Open models by OpenAI on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:20PM (#44801051)
Getting lots of 502s from `https://api.gpt-oss.com/chatkit` at the moment.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:37AM (#44796404)
Same, not available in Spain.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:28AM (#44423042)
I'm dealing with mime types and max file sizes for an uploader, and improving error messages. Instead of relying on the file name to detect the mime type, I'm using the file binary header instead to reject dodgy files (for ex a `sample.jpg` file that is actually a ZIP or EXE under the hood).
Re:Brazilian Suicide Electric Shower Heads [video] on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:45AM (#41694918)
30yo Brazilian here. I nor anyone I know have heard of issues with electric shower headers. Electricity in Brazil is highly available and relatively cheap. I actually think they're amazing and I would pick it over any gas shower out there, they heat up pretty much instantly and some models even offer high precision temperature control of 1 degree Celsius.
Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @06:53PM (#38467176)
A few months ago I ordered an Uber Black in Bangkok and the driver showed up in a C300 AMG. I know it's not a high-end model (~50k USD), but I was shocked at how cheap the entire car felt. The leather is worse than the one used in base VW models, the armrests are pathetically small, visibility is bad. I'd 100% prefer to be a passenger in a Corolla or Camry.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling on Saturday June 24, 2023 @05:46PM (#36462930)
I should've typed "meat and soybeans". You're probably right about the destination of most of our soybeans.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:22PM (#36406426)
I recently drove more than 1000 miles from Sao Paulo (Brazil) towards the south and many cities looked dry, completely covered with soybean plantations, and they're growing quickly [1]. Brazil basically exports a shitton of water in the form of meat. We have 36 million hectares dedicated to soybeans alone, that's Germany's total area. I wonder how long this is going to last.

[1] https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-...

Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:10PM (#36206263)
So unimpressive. The demos were terrible. Who would actually use it the way it was presented?
You're correct about Pix, it averages at 0,22% [1]. It's free for personal transactions and some card/POS machines have zeroed the fees when you scan a Pix QR code to pay at small shops. It's currently the most popular payment method in Brazil (credit card is second) [2]. It's slower than just tapping my Apple Watch to pay, but tap-to-pay with Pix is in development and I can't wait for it. Installments are also coming. Our Banco Central is really pushing it and the big banks are not liking it, at all. Good.

A nice side-effect of it all is that many credit cards are offering great rewards without any annual fee. I get year-round access to VIP lounges at any airport here, car/travel insurance AND cashback/miles for $0, it's a very different scenario from say 5 years ago.

[1] https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/pix-e-mais-bara...

[2] https://febrabantech.febraban.org.br/temas/meios-de-pagament...

Re:How to Quit Cars on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:27AM (#35999898)
I drove and walked all over SF a few months ago, and while I agree it’s feasible, the lack of bike lanes is disheartening, much worse dedicated ones. Your standards are so much lower, it looks like your tax money goes into a blackhole never to be seen again, and I’m saying that from a very corrupt third-world country.
Re:How to Quit Cars on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:18PM (#35995656)
My car stays in my garage 80% of the week, I only use it when visiting other cities on the weekends. I chose a relatively dense Brazilian city and I do everything here by bike or on foot (about 6-8mi per day). People have started noticing that I'm looking healthier, fitter. It'd be very very hard to do the same in any American city other than New York, you people are trapped.
Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:08PM (#35708681)
There's sooo muuuch typing lag it's unusable for me, and I'm on a top-of-the-line MBP. I have already tried different browsers, disabling extensions and the Electron app.
Re:A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:23PM (#35648762)
Is this satire? You'd end up with 130-140k post-tax. Are you single? How much are you spending on rent, food and transportation? Genuinely curious. I know it's not an absurd amount of money in cities like San Francisco, it wasn't when I was living in Sydney, but broke?
Re:Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:54AM (#34695240)
Mostly Reddit or Twitter via Google.
The tweet has it as well, at 5s of the second attached video: https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1614370783899303938/video...
Re:What if writing tests was a joyful experience? on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:49AM (#34354250)
Oh, at first it seemed equivalent to Jest's inline snapshots [1], but it's going way deeper, nice.

[1] https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing#inline-snapshots

How much of that is actually due to the Clean Water Act (nation-wide)? Moving industries away to SEA/China/India probably had a bigger impact, now it's their problem.
Has it? Ecuador is doing relatively well overall. Decent infrastructure, growing exports, one of the most stable economies in Latin America. Their GDP grew ~6x since 2000. They took the risk and seem to be on a good development path. Would any other country have offered them loans on better terms? Doubt it.
Re:Replit's In-Browser Coding AI on Monday October 31, 2022 @01:08PM (#33408902)
Is a VSCode extension on the roadmap? Refactoring existing code using AI looks extremely useful. Using Github Copilot I have to trigger synthetise multiple times.
Re:Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:09PM (#33015196)
And that's exactly what GP is trying to convey.
Re:Ask HN: 2FA for Credit Cards? on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:56AM (#32737930)
Happens most of the time I spend a few hundred dollars or more with N26 (Germany), Revolut, ING Direct (Australia) and Nubank (Brazil). OTP via their mobile apps (or SMS fallback).

1. Ye, it'd be great if I could configure it to do 2FA on all online transactions. Does anyone know what exactly triggers 2FA?

2. I have an account with BTG Pactual (Brazil) and their virtual card gets a new CVC after each transaction, pretty cool.

Re:Ask HN: How do you get side gigs? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:23AM (#32651529)
Yep. And £200k/y is about £120k/y net. That'd be tough for a family with kids.
Re:FedNow FAQ on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:34PM (#32512600)
And they recently launched the ability for trusted apps to start a Pix transaction. It'll open your banking app with the recipient and amount pre-filled, and all you have to do is authorise it.

They're working on an offline version now, we'll see... that'd be amazing.

All in all, I'll keep using credit cards for security (Pix transactions can't be disputed) and miles.

Fair enough.
Re:Brazil's answer to the Sichuan pepper on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:29PM (#32193885)
What a keeper!

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