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aarbor989··on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Eufy C120 is $35 and you can put an SD card in it for continuous recording and no cloud subscription required. Can watch the camera and playback any time using the app, no cost.
aarbor989··on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
I have a completely free, unpaid GitHub account and have always had my support requests answered by a human in less than 24 hours
aarbor989··on Elixir and Phoenix can do it all
But on the flip side you can also do "if my_var", which will evaluate to true for any non-nil value and non-false value
aarbor989··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
Despite the fact that this is a claim with no basis in reality, what you are saying is that people who don't understand the core concepts the language is built on write bad code...Isn't that true for every language?
aarbor989··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
I use Go and Java every day, and Java is way more enjoyable to use
aarbor989··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
Do you mean overloaded methods? You can "override" methods in Go in the sense that if you have an embedded struct you can provide your own implementation in your struct to use instead
aarbor989··on Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
yea, Upwork said they can't disclose to me what action(s) they took "due to account privacy"

You mean...the account privacy of someone pretending to be me?

aarbor989··on Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
Yea that's pretty much what I did...I added a note to my "headline" on LinkedIn saying if you found me on Upwork, it's not actually me
aarbor989··on Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
According to Upwork support when I spoke to them

> Please know that as soon as the freelancer applies or is offered a contract, we would run an identity verification process which would have them submit a Government-issued ID and have a quick video chat or send us a selfie to prove their identity.

However, this is way too late in the process for my liking...and who knows how strict they actually are?

aarbor989··on Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
According to Upwork support, they do something like this before a contract is actually signed. But in my opinion that's way too late in the process - someone impersonating me could completely ruin my reputation before any contract is handed out
aarbor989··on New MacBook Air with M2
My 16in M1 Max with MagSafe is not compatible with the older MagSafe chargers
aarbor989··on Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to prove I own my account
You can do an in-kind transfer to move the assets over to a new firm without having to sell first. Definitely works for cash, stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. Not sure what else you can do it for
aarbor989··on I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
I've had nothing but negative experiences debugging elixir honestly. In a large project, trying to step debug is just way too slow
aarbor989··on I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
what elixir tooling are you using? I absolutely deplore writing elixir because I just find the tooling atrocious
aarbor989··on Show HN: Resume maker with no sign-up or subscription
I never knew about this...is this true for resumes converted to pdf from latex? Is there a way I can check my resume to see if it is getting parsed correctly?
aarbor989··on Don’t use environment variables for configuration
These are good examples but I think these fit under my “global argument” umbrella. Imagine if every Linux command had a different argument name for the pager?
aarbor989··on Don’t use environment variables for configuration
Maybe I live under a rock, but I feel like command line utilities taking environment variable arguments just isn’t that common of a practice? The only examples I can think of are when an argument is more of a “global variable” that many different commands may find useful such as JAVA_HOME, GITHUB_TOKEN, etc. For web applications and docker containers, environment variables fit easily into the deployment process and for all intents and purposes, are pretty much static.
aarbor989··on Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
Curious as to why you think WeWork is a bad idea?
aarbor989··on Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
This is totally irrelevant to the discussion but I found it amusing that the author of that articles name is Jim Halpert and actually very mildly looks like Jim Halpert
aarbor989··on CA Root expired on 30 May 2020
We had to get an entirely new certificate to resolve this. We had recently migrated our docker images to be based on Amazon Linux 2, and low a behold, there was no easy way we found to upgrade to the required version of OpenSSL on Amazon Linux 2. Was easier to just upgrade our certificates
aarbor989··on Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
Awesome..is there anywhere I can track the integrations, like a public roadmap or something along those lines?
aarbor989··on Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
Would love to get off JIRA but the leverage jira has over alternatives is that there are integrations for _everything_. Slack, PagerDuty, Freshdesk, etc. I wonder how long it will take Tara to get up to speed
aarbor989··on SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
Can I ask why? I've tried it out (albeit, very briefly), and it just seems like the same thing but with different command shortcuts. Is it just because it's newer?
aarbor989··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
I have Fork, but I don't see any word diffing functionality, unless you are just referring to an additional highlight on the changed word(s)
aarbor989··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
Have you tried tig [1]?

[1] https://jonas.github.io/tig/

aarbor989··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
Which GUI clients that you know of do support word diffing?
aarbor989··on TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
Back about a year and a half ago I was having some issues with the fuzzy search being laggy and submitted a feature request. The dev responded and had a beta for me to try out within a day or two. Overall it’s a great product. Definitely one of the best db clients out there. Only reason I stopped using recently is because my team got an all access IDEA license so I switched over to datagrip
aarbor989··on Show HN: Create apps from GraphQL APIs without writing code
Really wish I didn't have to create an account just to see what it looks like
aarbor989··on BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
Thanks for your reply. I actually did specify my packages in the agent -javaagent:/Users/aa/.BugJail/agent.jar=--snapshot:.--primary:io.mycompany. but it didn't seem to help too much. I'll shoot you an email to get notified - is there an estimated timeline?
aarbor989··on BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
I tried using it and my first impression is that it's pretty difficult to use for a webapp (or maybe just specifically a Spring application since there are a ton of added proxy classes) without the ability to search. You need to know exactly which thread accepted your http request and then dig your way down the call stack to find your method invocation. You should be able to search for your method invocation and then go back up the call stack from there.

Other than that, seeing exactly how long every single method call took is awesome. I think there's a lot of potential, but without the ability to search I can't see myself reaching for this again

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