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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:47PM (#45766289)
> Add remote control door opening without destroying my flat's intercom system.

Oh hey, I made that[0] at a previous apartment! It sat on my LAN and I'd VPN in if I was out of wifi range.

I struggle to find time/motivation for stuff like that these days. I was contracting back then and had downtime between jobs.

[0] https://github.com/jeremy21212121/doorman-building-arduino

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:22PM (#43449512)
Incorrect. You are thinking of -40.
Here is an archive link https://archive.ph/ACL9Q
Are there any security related accreditations for a company that are worth more than the paper they are(n't) printed on?
Re:Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:02AM (#41979879)
For even more savings: One netip.Prefix will use less memory than two netip.Addr

Better still, use the free geolite ASN MMDB with geoip2-golang[0]. Or the lower-level maxminddb-golang[1] if you only need certain fields.

0 - https://github.com/oschwald/geoip2-golang

1 - https://github.com/oschwald/maxminddb-golang

Re:Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn on Monday September 16, 2024 @11:30PM (#41563815)
FYI something is wrong with your client side routing. From the blog post, clicking on your logo, the URL updates to the homepage but the content doesn't change til I do a full page reload.
Re:CSS @property and the New Style on Thursday September 05, 2024 @11:28PM (#41462629)
It's like designers are the very first corner to cut. Or the dev is expected to also be a designer. It's a very different skill set. I'll build your mock-ups, or copy the look and feel of something else, but I can't design my way out of a paper bag. My brain just doesn't seem to work that way.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:59PM (#40423586)
It seems they identify so closely with dotnet that any perceived criticism is taken as a personal slight. It's the only thing that explains such a rabid response to a reasonable observation.
They are in that institution because they didn't respond to the threat of penalties.

Even if the penalty were death, a new inmate would be coerced to grab the package under threat of a worse death.

TypeScript is nice here because you can specify the specific strings you accept in a union. Eg. `unit: 'AC'|'DC'`
> Its time that we think about decoupling corporate control of the internet and establish some hard and fast ground rules

The time to do that was many years ago. I'm afraid it's too late, the entrenched interests have too much money/power.

Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React on Saturday February 03, 2024 @10:13PM (#39247182)
> poor state management in the wrong locations

Can you expand on that? I've never hit perf issues with react but I've been curious how it commonly happens.

Re:Looo.lol – a binary math site on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:30AM (#38890239)
Hackers use binary! Must be a hacking site.
Re:Loongson releases next-generation CPU on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:11PM (#38481652)
The Welsh have their own dragon (on their flag)
Re:They're Made Out of Meat on Sunday November 26, 2023 @11:47PM (#38428175)
I present my fav "The Machine Stops" by EM Forster with 41

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=the+machine+stops

It serves the cert for 0pointer.net, which is served from the same IP. I think it is more likely to be a poorly configured personal site than something nefarious.

If you are concerned, 0pointer.net has contact info.

Re:Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:31PM (#37540589)
Lenovo seems to have a pretty good selection of models offering Linux.
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:24PM (#37056285)
It can be an aspect of it. For example, if there are suddenly many unique fingerprints making purchases from the same residential IP, that might look suspicious.

Granted, I'm not aware of a lack of fingerprint being penalized. That said, there are products that allow custom rules, in which case anything is possible.

I work for a company in this space. Opinions are my own.

Wikipedia to the rescue!

> jelly (from the French gelée)[29] is a clear or translucent fruit spread made by a process similar to that used for making jam, with the additional step of filtering out the fruit pulp after the initial cooking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves#Jelly

Re:Software Engineers Hate Code on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:58PM (#36649203)
We're in the midst of a couple rewrites that are going/have gone well. Perl to golang and angular1 to react.

The common factor is doing it gradually, basically page by page. There is no big switchover, new code goes live as it is ready. We have some very competent people with long tenures which surely helps.

Erasing the fossil fuel industry over night would have the unfortunate effect of grinding the rest of the economy to a halt. You can't just look at it in isolation. Unless you had something like worldwide nationalization in mind. I suppose then it might be possible to transport other goods while still eliminating the speculation on and profiteering of the fossil fuel industry.
Re:OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:14PM (#36221992)
I really want to try this out on my work ThinkPad since it stays plugged in effectively all the time. It requires a kernel module though, I'd need to get that approved first and I haven't got around to it.

Naïve me doesn't understand why it can't be done from userspace, but I'm sure there is a good reason...

Re:Ibramenu: Bash-based Self-hosted App Deployment on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:28PM (#35908620)
Not much info in the readme yet, the website might be a better link

https://ibramenu.io

Re:Triplebyte Acquired by Karat on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:52PM (#35185548)
You should probably disclose that you are a Senior Interviewer at Karat
Re:My Startup Banking Story on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:38PM (#35163055)
Here's the twist: the closing of the Chase account led to Alex's career tanking. Thus began a downward spiral of his life. His wife left him and took the kids. He turned to the bottle and it got worse from there. He became indebted to the wrong people.

It was then he remembered that Hashicorp account. When he was shown the door at Chase, the account had a few hundred grand in it. Through knowledge of internal procedures and some social engineering, he began fraudulently obtaining funds from the account. He hoped they had forgotten that the account existed. It must be pennies to those people, they shuffle around millions without batting an eye.

Then, one day the cops show up at his seedy motel room. He was arrested for the fraud and found guilty. The judge was particularly heavy-handed and gave him 10 years, despite no priors.

Alex kept a picture of the founder of Hashicorp on the wall of his cell all those years, blaming him for the turn his life took. He did push ups and other exercises to keep himself somewhat sane. All the while, dreaming of the day he would get out and take his revenge.

Fast forward to today and Alex is recently released from prison. Biding his time, plotting his revenge...

Alex spends a lot of time on hacker news, hate-reading about these startup types that ruin lives. Getting into the mind of his enemy. One last twist, Alex is me! /s

Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:58PM (#35064637)
Then the bad person gets charged with the crimes. It's not like a judge would just throw their hands in the air because there is a small amount of indirection.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:26PM (#34770105)
That sounds kinda ominous, like you were pumping NFTs or spreading government propaganda or something.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:20PM (#34770070)
It certainly defied my expectations. Chrome is the same. All I can think is that they wanted an inprivate window's tabs to share a jar and that then gets kinda complicated with popping tabs into their own window, putting them back, flicking between those accidentally while dragging a tab, etc.

Looking at the docs it appears that Safari gets around this by just having a separate jar per tab? On desktop at least, mobile appears to be shared.

The people here are so negative. Fortunately not ur target market. I think it's great. I saw the example, and immediately got the idea and tried it out. Well done!
Re:Marko: An HTML-Based Language on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:25PM (#34598230)
It's a whole weird world that just doesn't die. I worked at a place with ~ half a million lines of CF last year. There is a thing called CF Script which has vaguely JS-like syntax which can be used instead of the XML-based logic. There are even open-source frameworks built on top, with religious quotes in the documentation for some reason[0].

[0] https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform

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