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4khilles··on uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache
It's probably the fastest strong* cryptographic hash function to date.
4khilles··on NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast
The heat shield is a bit different, and the reentry profile is a bit different as well.
4khilles··on SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
No, both Garrett Reisman and Andrej Karpathy worked for Elon for more than 5 years.
4khilles··on Systemd-coredump: CVE-2022-4415: local information leak
Alpine's great. My entire homelab runs on it. Only complaint I have is its IPv6 support sucks. I have to hack together a bunch of scripts to get a reasonable network configuration.
4khilles··on Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
Do you have a source on Microsoft employing GKH? First time I've heard of it.
4khilles··on Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
I think their auto-scaling is somewhat broken currently. I set up auto-scaling with min=2 and max=6, and my VMs aren't scaling down from 3 to 2 even though there are 0 active connections on all the VMs.
4khilles··on Tesla Vehicle Production and Deliveries for 3Q 2022
In what world is 42% yoy growth in deliveries stagnant?
4khilles··on Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
I think a species of 7.8 billion individuals can afford to do things in parallel.
4khilles··on GitHub incident – now resolved
Highly recommend https://builds.sr.ht. I've been using for ~2 years, never had an issue.
4khilles··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
No, it's the opposite of your point.
4khilles··on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
Good news, you need less than $250. Just buy a Protectli appliance, install OPNSense on it with the wireguard plugin. Setup Mullvad config and route all traffic through the tunnel. That's it!

I've been running a similar setup for a couple years now. It's been great.

4khilles··on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
See: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation/.

Also, the Swedish government can't compel Mullvad to divulge information that it doesn't have.

4khilles··on Switch to VPC Endpoints from Nat Gateways to Reduce Bandwidth Charges
The starting point should be the simpler solution. What's the argument for introducing NAT? Why is the firewall (that you need anyways) insufficient?
4khilles··on Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
I miss the days when "installing" something meant copying a file to the machine.

I don't really remember ever doing this, but I still miss it somehow.

4khilles··on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
> The results of the review were pushed back by 2 weeks from the original date

This is just the most recent of a series of delays. The report was originally due by the end of 2021.

4khilles··on SplinterDB: High performance embedded key-value store
I did see a full copy of the SQLite amalgamation file in the FDB codebase, but you're probably right that they might be using internal APIs.

I'm still skeptical of the "tremendous performance penalty" you'd suffer from using SQLite. Just because you do fewer things doesn't necessarily mean you're faster at doing them. I've hit ~120,000 inserts/sec on SQLite without weakening any of it's durability guarantees. If you play fast and loose with fsync and WAL, I'm sure you can squeeze out even more performance.

I can also think of use-cases where you don't want the write amplification that comes with RocksDB or the memory constraints of LMDB.

4khilles··on SplinterDB: High performance embedded key-value store
> In other words, you'd use this when you just need a persistent KV store and want to build the higher level semantics according to your application's needs.

Why can't you use SQLite for this usecase? I believe FDB uses SQLite as an embedded KV store.

4khilles··on PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update
I have the same issue on the latest Fedora. It's very disappointing that bluetooth connectivity isn't a solved problem in 2022 (at least on Linux, haven't noticed any issues in Windows for a while). Are we ever going to get to a point where bluetooth "just works"?
4khilles··on Public Money, Public Code
Is this a case where 100% of a research effort is publicly funded or more like 10%? If it's closer to 10%, why would a company take the risk of putting up 90% of the capital when they can just wait for their competitor's IP to become public? Maybe the duration of a patent should depend on how much public funding was received.
4khilles··on SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
Out of all the tools you mentioned, pledge and unveil are the most pleasant to use from a developer and operator's perspective. I'm hoping something something similar will arrive in Linux without it becoming xkcd 927.
4khilles··on Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product updates after Elon Musk deal
Cash flow != profitability. You can be profitable but have negative cash flow. If you have negative cash flow, you need to borrow capital to keep growing.
4khilles··on The Hare programming language
I would struggle to write a bootloader in JavaScript or a database in Vimscript.
4khilles··on Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet
This might be possible in the near future using smart NICs that support eBPF offload.
4khilles··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
Good point! I wonder what happens to unvested RSUs in an acquisition like this.
4khilles··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I misread the parent's comment. Looks like they were referring specifically to the shareholders that choose to stay on as investors.
4khilles··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
Why would Twitter profits matter to shareholders after they divest?
4khilles··on Ask HN: Do people at Google not use Gmail? Why don't they improve it?
It's useful because it saves me time and effort when writing emails.

I know how to touch type.

Most of my email responses are pretty generic, I'm not writing any haikus. Should I be?

4khilles··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
The ground stations aren't in Ukraine. So, Ukraine doesn't have a means of enforcing whatever restrictions on speech come with martial law.
4khilles··on Ask HN: Do people at Google not use Gmail? Why don't they improve it?
I have a feeling you're not really looking for answers, but ... Yes, we use Gmail. We do try to improve it. For example, I think smart compose is a pretty nice improvement.

I'm not sure about the specific issue you're facing. For me, attachments show up as these rounded rectangles and images in the signature don't. I'm currently on mobile, so I'm not sure about the web UI. Can you post a screenshot?

4khilles··on Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar
That's not at all close to textbook terrorism. There's no violence or intimidation. It's not even clear whether this is unlawful.
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