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_t2kx··on Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
“Just abandon your hobbies and interests!”

Be fucking serious

_t2kx··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Expenses were more on purpose, they amortized a bunch of hardware depreciation now instead of over 5-7 years with the new tax changes. This is pure greed
_t2kx··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Prince is a sociopathic liar
_t2kx··on Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?
No, I definitely still use Git on solo projects, there’s no reason not to do so.
_t2kx··on The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
if you had a lossless source then sure, otherwise lossy to lossy transcoding is not great.
_t2kx··on Vim – Minimal Setup Explained
which interestingly enough can also have things abbreviated, ie Invoke-Web-Request can be used as iwr.
_t2kx··on AirPods don't “just work”
They stopped including it a while ago, I think they stopped with the XS.
_t2kx··on AirPods don't “just work”
Or, if you get a wired->BT adapter like the FiiO uBTR, it’s another device you have to remember to keep charged.

(Btw there are 3.5mm to lightning adapters that let you charge while listening, just not made by Apple)

_t2kx··on The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
"Bet. Enjoy!" works for both.
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
This looks super interesting and basically exactly what I was looking for in a db product, definitely going to be checking this out!
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
I've heard a lot of good things about Linode over the years, they slipped my mind while thinking of the more manual options. I'll have to check them out!
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
Seen GAE referenced across several comments and apparently Snapchat started on GAE as well (lol not that this has any chance or even need in the big success case of scaling up so much) so it's definitely something I will look into!
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
GAE/Cloud Run are certainly possibilities, I'll have to look into them.

> I'd suggest porting to key/value pair DBs like mongo or firestore.

Why? The data set feels pretty "relational" to me (contests have divisions, divisions have scorings and results, results have players, players have sponsors) and seems to fit SQL. To be fair though, I've not used Mongo or Firestore or a NoSQL db in general before.

The "scorings" part is the only thing that tripped me up designing a schema since it varies between divisions in a contest as well as between contests themselves, so I ended up w/ a JSONB column for scoring rubric for divisions and then in the results table there's both final_score and scoring_breakdown columns, the beakdown being another JSONB column w/ the individual category results.

_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
https://free-for.dev is a great resource I wasn't aware of, thanks for linking it as well as the ideas about YugaByte and CockroachDB!
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
i like the simplicity of this idea, keeps things in perspective.
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
Interesting, I hadn't heard of Dokku before (looks similar to Flynn and Deis (looked into those back in 2016 before k8s was the de facto choice) but still actively developed) and I overlooked Lightsail. I'll have to price out DigitalOcean as well, I used them for a project in school because they gave out free credits and the experience was good iirc.
_t2kx··on Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
Read it as "cost-efficiently externally hosting" then I guess. For a PoC I might host locally just to show it off to others, but I wouldn't want to deploy it there long-term, mostly since I'm not physically near said lab for several months at a time so if things went down it'd be a drag.
_t2kx··on iPhone 13 Pro camera review: Tanzania
Can’t you take photos in RAW though, on iPhones at least? My assumption is that would produce a file w/o the AI processing applied that you could then process yourself, but I don’t know for sure if that’s the case.
_t2kx··on Linux on the Framework Laptop
the exact thinkpad style is probably patented but it's a pointing stick, a feature common across laptops in the past. I know for sure that some Dells (TrackStick) and HPs (PointStick) had them.
_t2kx··on Liquidsoap – A scripting language for multimedia streaming
For video theres VapourSynth[0], not sure of an equivalent for audio outside of just scripting ffmpeg but that’s probably not as flexible as what you’re after.

[0] http://www.vapoursynth.com/

_t2kx··on Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert
You could've just said you haven't been able to find a solution.
_t2kx··on Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
"i cant make friends if i cant make dumb jokes about minorities and women"
_t2kx··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
yes, for that exact method you need xcode. there's other methods.
_t2kx··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
nobody asked or cares but you do you
_t2kx··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
you've been able to sideload apps on iOS for a bit now.

2016 article: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ip...

_t2kx··on Culture Fit Interview Questions
No
_t2kx··on Systemd-Homed: Systemd Now Working to Improve Home Directory Handling
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd-resolved by default, not that it matters all that much to me.
_t2kx··on Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
which Florida.
_t2kx··on The Truth About Tonkin (2008)
> Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

Their name is John Bolton and they're the National Security Advisor of the USA.

_t2kx··on Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
yeah no shit, apple only wants you to run macos on their hardware.
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