bvanderveen

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by bvanderveen 4mo ago
i lold
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by bvanderveen 4mo ago
IMO it's still fun to hand-write C and Makefiles targeting an extremely resource-constrained device that's connected to an oscilloscope and a gunshot-wound worth of capacitance on your bench. YMMV
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British Columbia makes daylight saving time permanent(text.npr.org)
9 points by bvanderveen 7mo ago|1 comments
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by bvanderveen 10mo ago
Sometimes doing the thing is just doing a thing and then you get done with some milestone on the thing, you're like "why am I doing this thing. am I crazy for undertaking this thing?" And yeah you probably are. Only in retros
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by bvanderveen 1y ago
Like others I found the concise implementation to be impressive! I have noticed a bug though. Using the "drive into the corner" strategy (I keep the high tile in the bottom left) sometimes the top left tile randomly gets a smaller
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by bvanderveen 2y ago
OP mentions housekeeping as part of his benefits. I also have had an every-other-week maid service for the past decade or so, and for me, it is a huge lifestyle improvement. The amount of time and cognitive overhead it saves is enormous. I
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by bvanderveen 2y ago
A random dimensional analysis that I find amusing about fuel consumption units: liters / 100 km => m^3 / m => m^2 (volume) / (distance) => (area) This can be interpreted as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical
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by bvanderveen 2y ago
I'm surprised at how even some of the smartest people in my life take the output of LLMs at face value. LLMs are great for "plan a 5 year old's birthday party, dinosaur theme", "design a work-out routine to give me
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-signalling—this is seriously the coolest toy you can think t
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
A mechanism for filtering by language or searching by keyword would be nice.
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Attempting to operate in a space where 100x more money than you can muster is willing to burn itself operating in the same space.
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
For anyone who has ever had the laptop out in the garage next to the CNC machine, yeah, no, those things are extremely onerous. You're in the machine shop outside of town and you literally have everything you need locally to make the
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
> No online account. Among the nerds, the backlash has started. Watch out, Fusion 360. In the world of doing stuff with atoms, no one ever wanted their drafting table to have authentication, ACL, 2FA, or storage/backup.
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Presumably it's meant to be used when you're writing a shell script and you have some problem in front of you that would be trivial to solve in a real programming language and you find yourself saying a sentence starting with &quo
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
> Someone who's trying to access my account (assuming news.ycombinator.com requires a client side TLS certificate as part of the authentication process) tries to forge the client side certificate. If the certificate is self signed,
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Idem. I remember not being able to get past the first page of the guide way back in the day, and indeed cannot today either. The signal to noise ratio is just abysmal. I also cannot read comic books and, with perhaps the exception of the sy
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
In my imagined system, there's no need for the CSR dance because hey, if the client can sign the crypto challenge and initiate a connection, then it holds the private key material associated with this certificate/account and they
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
What benefit would the site operator see by running a CA and requiring clients to do that dance vs allowing self-signed certs?
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Can anyone explain to me why we couldn't just use client SSL certs everywhere? Before the first time you connect to a website, your browser asks if you want to generate a new cert or reuse an existing one, you make a choice, and from t
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Just say no.
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
As far as I could tell, there was no straightforward way to point a new instance of the compute resources back at the old storage resources since they're all provisioned in one CF template.
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
We implemented it in Postgres with 'created_at' and 'deleted_at' columns on everything and filtering to make sure that the object 'exists' at the time the query is concerned with. Changes in relationships betwe
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
From experience: Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics. Hard to diagnose performance issues. Impossible to backup. Ran into one scenario
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Good luck finishing that on a tourist visa! Plus, camping is prohibited in France, so you'll need to walk to a town to crash every night. Huh!
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by bvanderveen 3y ago
Long as you're not concerned about your carbon footprint!
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
The proper procedure for interacting with banks as a startup is knowledge that isn't meant to be disseminated. The entire point this piece is the asides: to make sure the uninitiated know their place by signalling over their heads. The
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
All credibility lost here: > Cloud computing drastically reduced the capital and time required to start a startup. In the dot-com era a decade before, starting an internet startup required purchasing racks of servers and paying system ad
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
I call the state of affairs “being pinned down with the money firehose.”
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Interesting that ADHD skepticism is a guaranteed recipe for a downvote.
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
A tautology: Adderall improves everyone’s ADHD symptoms! <=> ADHD is just what life feels like when you’re not on speed. Cut down on pot and booze, move your body, avoid stressors, and take control of your things in your life. Don’t r

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