antithesis-nl

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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
"Dear HN -- I was recently assaulted by flight attendants when I tried to open the plane door at 30000 feet to get the required line of sight for my Starlink connection. I was then called a wannabe Nazi by several passengers and arrest
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Ah, yeah, I already wondered why these guys were suddenly back... The tell-tale sign here is admission scam emails from name-alike-domains for (mostly) Indian and (some) US colleges (with the payload being, mostly, crypto harvesters), but
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create those ? Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my laptop and/or ramp up my GPU mining Führercoins, so
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
> iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that delivers helpful and relevant intelligence OK, so the predominant opinion of HN seems to be that Apple is really good at marketing. So, which target grou
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Mentoring really only works if the junior person actively seeks out a trusted colleague, ideally in the context of a formal program (with clear guidance on expectations and such). What you have here, basically, is a customer abusing an API.
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
> The Trump administration is instead discussing tearing down NOAA Nah, they're just straight out going to do that. States are then free to sign up for the SpaceX-in-proud-cooperation-with-Starlink-and-Tesla Extreme Weather Notifica
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
The premise of the article seems a bit flawed: Nigerians are not replicating hyperscalers, but more like building local Hetzners. And that is a fine idea! A big problem for people doing this, however, is that peering is pretty much nonexist
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
That's interesting, because for me, being able to read a language comes first, then being able to understand it being spoken, then speaking it in some (but definitely not all) contexts. So, you spoke German at some point, but these day
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
From personal anecdata, I can assure you it's entirely possible to 'lose' a language ability. Native tongue? Not so sure, but a closely-related one, definitely! I'm a native Dutch speaker and used to be relatively fluent
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Very cool! Yet: I found out that CDs are edible PSA: CDs are not, in fact, edible, nor are DVDs or Blu-ray media. Sure, if you click through, you'll see that the CD was not actually damaged and that it was only the printed lic
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Nice as a thought experiment, but you actually do get this in real life as well, when maintaining a public API with a large user base (where even the details of the internal workings need to be frozen over time.) Gives you lovely stuff li
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Using the SQLite backup API, which pretty much corresponds to the .backup CLI command. It doesn't block any reads or writes, so the performance impact is minimal, even if you do it directly to slow-ish storage.
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
A Windows Server VM on a self-hosted Hyper-V box, which has a whole bunch of 8TB NVMe drives; this VM has a 4TB virtual volume on one of those (plus a much smaller OS volume on another).
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Yup, they win. My biggest SQLite database is 1.7TB with, as of just now 2314851188 records (all JSON documents with a few keyword indexes via json_extract). Works like a charm, as in: the web app consuming the API linked to it returns pagin
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Yeah, can confirm, there are a lot of targeted emails going out inviting people to dodgy auth flow endpoints. Disabling device authentication (which is rarely needed anyway) and forcing Microsoft Authenticator (with the yes-this-is-really
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Yeah, possibly, but it just goes to show that vague side-swipes are never good in presumably technical posts, and that I should know better as well :)
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
It's a wash. Modern mechanical HDDs are so reliable that the vendor basically doesn't matter. Especially if you stick with 'Enterprise'-tier drives (preferably with a SAS interface), you should be good. Aside from some m
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
They, ironically, got acquired by Western Digital. But the 'Ultrastar' line name is still alive, if that's what you're looking for. 'Deskstar' seems to be gone, though.
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Previous discussion of another write-up on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945013
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
> For example, counter() keeps increments consistent No, not in the face of any sort of concurrency it doesn't...
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
> I have made my peace with the fact that a windows system is just going to be filled with garbage Or, you know, create a "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Actual Documents" folder and set that as the default open/save location in th
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Oh, well, surprisingly, it seems this article hadn't been posted here yet? Do enjoy the discussion, and, whatever you do, please don't let the apparent incongruity of "near miss" when it's clear that it should b
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
(1997), which I wondered about due to the "Many people continue to be affected by the decisions on frequency standards made so very long ago" phrasing and the intro-bit about the need for adapters in the paper itself. Because thes
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
I would love to hear about any useful work around leak/abuse-resistance improvements of service accounts and API keys (i.e. the 'NHI' referenced here -- awkward terminology!). Passkeys are a great solution when some kind of
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Ah, yes, this is delightfully useless! Well, maybe good for stress-testing language tooling (that single huge type expressing the Mandelbrot generator is... something to behold), but mostly just cool-that-this-can-be-done. Another cool thin
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Yeah, overly complicated firmware like this just isn't great. It's always hard to debug and fix these issues, and there is no "if everything were just written in X" miracle-world where that goes away. For example, I&#x
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble in that case, but "getting dangerous drivers off the road" isn't going to happen. Actual case study, maybe slightly summarized an exaggerated: -Prosecution: here is a video of Defendant repeatedly
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
> In my city, 70% of the operating budget is labor Link? Because, well, your city is certainly special! Unless, like, you group things like 'pension liabilities', and 'insurance involving personnel' under 'labor&
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Yeah, I think surveillance is valuable. Do you think 'surveillance' is always bad? Like: nobody should mention the tree blocking the road, because, well... the implications?
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by antithesis-nl 2y ago
Nope. Does my HN user name give any hints? Over here, bus drivers (and taxi drivers, ironically, despite being not exactly being law-abiding-as-a-class) account for, like, two thirds of all non-urgent-law-enforcement calls.

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