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Re:If IPv4 Were Land on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:50AM (#50302214)
If you tax it, you get less of it.
From what I've gathered, this is the plan for all EU countries as well. But the pandemic has stalled the overall process.

https://jp.ibtimes.com/eu-clock-change-plan-stalled-104949

Bonus point for having an IRC channel for community forum.
Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:49AM (#47259714)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 this one comes to mind. A talk by Rich Hickey explaining that “simple” and “easy” are different concepts in software design, and that systems become better when we aim for simplicity (few intertwined parts) rather than ease (things that feel convenient at the moment).
Hello from a packed devroom.

You can't attend all 30+ tracks at once anyway, you need to see recordings afterwards anyway if you are remotely interested in consuming the conference. I'd say the experience is just as much about meeting the people behind all the internet handles, getting into a full lecture room one talk in advance and listening in to something you otherwise wouldn't, join something bigger than email lists and matrix rooms, it's a unique wibe you can't find anywhere else.

I wonder if it naturally regulates itself in the way that people who get fed up by the queues don't come back the next year. You can definitely start by adding measures to limit the capacity or whatnot, but in both cases you exclude a certain part of the potential participants. I think I'd rather keep the wibe and ensure people can at least experience it once, than start gatekeeping.

Also, the fries are good.

This is great, and fun, and rewarding, thanks!
I've been thinking about the same, but use old cassette tapess and just print a small QR code on the back, then rip out the intestines on an old cassette player and put in a raspi and camera to read the QR and play the equivalent song/album.
Re:Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:25PM (#45531990)
Has anyone encountered any good YouTube channels that explore and showcase these workflows in a productive and educational manner?
Nice to see tooling like this pop up. At previous company, when we built our, mostly self-hosted, analytics platform, and had devs average on one schama migration per day, we spent so much time dealing with this semi-manually, leading to all kinds of breaking and hiccups downstream. We had something working rather automatically at the end, but it really felt like tooling that should exist for everybody.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @03:01AM (#44431316)
Lol, yes.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:22PM (#44425082)
https://clubemate.place

Crowd source where to find Club-Mate shops.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:56AM (#44096108)
Yesterday's shenanigans: https://clubmate.place/ - find (and/or register) where you find your ClubMate! Just click on the map to add a store.
Re:My Sourdough Starter Has Twins on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @05:15AM (#43842848)
> If you keep your starter in a big jar, it'll just go to waste. Keep it small and you'll never need to throw any away.

I tend to make «sourdough discard crackers» if I have leftovers. It works well timing wise, I'm in the kitchen doing the initial stretching of my loaf anyways.

I like think of it less as artificial intelligence and more like a combination of a lossy zip file of the internet and like a pretty coherent word generator.

I recall my AI professor in uni telling us during the first lecture that «Artificial intelligence is this target, that, and once we get there it, is it no longer artificial intelligence, is just an algorithm» – and this still feels like the case.

Re:How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup on Sunday November 17, 2024 @09:22AM (#42164318)
I cannot recall why i did not go for wiki.js myself, I tried, but I kept looking. Ended up with https://docmost.com/ and I've been quite happy. It's probably more equal to Notion then Wikipedia, but as a internal knowledge base it seem to be hit the right spot in terms simplicity and features.
Re:How do you deploy in 10 seconds? on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:07PM (#41987580)
This is a great approach if you have an idea or startup and just want to get things done -- one I would choose 10 out of 10 times when starting something new. You'll know when it’s time to move on, and you can likely postpone that step a bit longer as well.
Re:My IRC client runs on Kubernetes on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:36PM (#41333681)
Yes and yes.
I actually just refer to myself as a Digital Janitor these days, even though I'm hired as SRE. Funny enough, it's met with much more understanding, and it is ironically kind of fitting as well.
Re:Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:09PM (#38370174)
Re:Cloudflare Is Having Issues on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:40PM (#36298804)
Welcome to the future!
Hackerspaces!

Check this list [0], maybe there is one close to you – and if you by any chance live in Oslo – swing by Hackeriet [1].

[0] https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

[1] https://hackeriet.no/index.en.html

Re:Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:08PM (#34755241)
Before we jumped on all kinds of SaaS offerings we used pgbadger.

https://github.com/darold/pgbadger

I came here to say this!
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:53PM (#33804620)
Hence the fitting subredddit https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight

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