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Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:41PM (#50213556)
Alrighty, don't a lot of people already do this? Sometimes I'll do both an air purifier white noise and some music or something from myNoise
You might be putting too much dish washer detergent
Re:JDK 28 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:10PM (#50146438)
I'm curious what about Java concurrency hasn't made sense or not clicked? Also in comparison to other languages like Erlang or just in general?
Re:We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:43PM (#49824234)
"If the origin response does not include a Vary header, Cloudflare caches the response normally"[1]

"If one response omits it, Cloudflare could cache that response without the variance needed to keep it isolated."[2]

Will that non-Vary cache object front-run any Vary-segmented cache objects?

If so, probably worth adding a snippet rule to ensure every response has a Vary header?

1: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/vary/#how-v...

2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/#how-a-response-mov...

I took their point to be about wifi being jammable
Re:Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:10PM (#48113800)
Lifestreams was also an interesting take on a desktop UI back in the day
Re:Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:10PM (#47371244)
Is the AWS account phone number also their phone and not the business/corp phone? And you tried the dedicated lost MFA device form?
Re:Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:48PM (#44400090)
"- cursor position marked as ${CURSOR_TAG}: Indicates where the developer's cursor is currently located, which can be crucial for understanding what part of the code they are focusing on."

I was not aware that was a thing and useful to know. Thanks!

Re:Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools on Thursday May 29, 2025 @06:40PM (#44131061)
Anthropic employees Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken did an interview recently with Dwarkesh Patel, pieces here and there was about the circuit tracing insights.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2 -- search the transcript for "circuit" for the quick bits.

Eg, "If you look at the circuit, you can see that it's not actually doing any of the math, it's paying attention to that you think the answer's four and then it's reasoning backwards about how it can manipulate the intermediate computation to give you an answer of four."

https://transformer-circuits.pub/

Adding to the GP & sibling: Even in Los Angeles with some of the bigger libraries the IT/programming books were on the older (outdated?) side.. The more modern material was at the book stores like Barnes, Borders, or another one at the mall (I don't remember if it was B Dalton, Walden, or something else).. thankfully I could skateboard there after school or work and read them there for the evening since I couldn't afford them. Getting the internet and SNR of content back then was a game changer to me too.
Re:AI Demos by Meta on Sunday February 09, 2025 @03:35PM (#42993667)
Ahh I see. Thanks for the info!
Re:AI Demos by Meta on Sunday February 09, 2025 @02:25PM (#42992986)
Is this subject purposely spelled Aidemos somewhere like the HN title says instead of AI Demos?
Thanks for linking the list! I'm seeing "Sangoma U.S., Inc." in it, which might apply to quite a few people & companies.
Re:Willow, Our Quantum Chip on Monday December 09, 2024 @08:18PM (#42372609)
Reminder to anyone if DKIM keys haven't been rotated in a while they might still be 1024. Eg., Google Workspace but new keys are 2048 now.
Re:Functional PHP on Monday October 14, 2024 @02:09PM (#41840181)
Since php 7.4 there's been opcache preload to keep a lot of the framework instantiated, in php 8.1 opcache inheritance cache covered some ground with preload.

Some frameworks like symfony considered removing preload support but they were still seeing benchmarks of 10% better performance with it so it was kept.

The biggest pain point with preload IMO is it's global, not per pool, and php-fpm needs to be restarted to update the preload script.

Re:When Bacteria Are Beautiful on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:56PM (#39888004)
Relatedly the movie "The Fountain" they combined chemicals and bacteria to create some of the visual effects instead of CG. The DVD has an extra of "Peter Parks Bonus - Macro Photography Loop".
Re:Deploying Web Apps with Caddy: A Beginner's Guide Caddy on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @12:49PM (#39527071)
Recent question I haven't look much into yet: Is there a way to limit the number of simultaneous http2/3 streams from an IP address with Caddy?
Re:Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @08:10PM (#38704296)
Related: ACIDRain for the repeatable read without explicit "select .. for update" locking gotcha gift that still keeps on giving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027532
Re:Starlink Direct to Cell on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:57PM (#37849489)
I'm thinking the same.. if I've fallen off a cliff or crashed my bike and broken my leg, possibly in shock too, I want something rugged & simple to activate like a PLB
Re:Learn and Test DMARC on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:32PM (#37731072)
Dunno why you're being downvoted, you're correct that it's only "or".
Post on ACIDRain as an example of the ecomm time-gap issue back in the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027532
Re:Nginx Unit – Universal web app server on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:18AM (#37463177)
Another example is API Platform's docker setup:

Volume config: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform/blob/main/docke...

Caddy config: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform/blob/main/api/d...

php-fpm config: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform/blob/main/api/d...

I'm also curious on the performance differences between containers.

Re:We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:03PM (#36673606)
Tweeted Sep 21, 2010, might still be true for EC2 VMs though.
Re:Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:00PM (#36343468)
Do you have a blog post or writeup on how you discovered that? Thanks!
3M is also in another lawsuit for defective earplugs supplied to the US military: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/product-liability/3m-ea...

Additional info: https://www.millerandzois.com/products-liability/3m-combat-a...

Re:Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:16PM (#36245348)
It would be nice for web apps to have a setting users (not only the developers) can enable that will allow closing the app's window without quitting the app, like a lot of native desktop apps behave (eg, Safari).
WS = WebSocket? I think integrating with the Discord API would've been one use case until they added the slash commands & webhooks.

But looks like Discord Gateway blocks CF Workers: https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/6145#issu...

Maybe just me but the cloud desktops pricing still isn't all that attractive for some businesses to make a big shift to using them, but also not terrible for some businesses that could use the extra security or cloud environment benefits:

8hrs per workday for a 4 vCPU and 16 GB RAM = $217.36 per month[1]

1: https://cloud.google.com/workstations/pricing#pricing-exampl...

Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:17PM (#35964880)
Pretty sure referring to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275
In addition to the other comments, after it's up & running some colos will also offer "remote hands" assistance, like replacing a failed drive. In that case ideally the enclosure will or can be made to make that slot's LED red or something so they know exactly which drive to pull.

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