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cosudon Love of cargo bikes is changing how we deliver goods in our cities

They are stil very expensive where I live(NL). EUR 4K+ on a cargobike or renting one for 150+ per month is A LOT for a normal family with 1-2 children. To add to that recently there's been a case in NL where more affordable manufacturer was deliberately selling cargo bikes with frames of sub-par quality[1][2].

I've been renting cargo bikes from two competing companies in Amsterdam (cargoroo and baqme) one offering super premium bikes bosch motors and the other with cheapie bafang motors. The build quality and riding experience is night and day.

Owing a cargo bike to me is more a life style choice or just virtue signalling. It's hard to justify the up front cost. Choosing cheaper options is risky since the maintenance cost is high or just unsafe.

[1] https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2024/02/14/nvwa-b... [2] https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/actuele-onderwerpen/freq...

cosudon How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

I was in the same situation as OP a few months back. My bill was $3000 after creating a "vanity bucket" which saw 500M accessed denied POST calls over a month. I took a while to get a one time refund.

cosudon Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020

Fascinating to see that airport codes are used as datacenter names. I know at least one other company which does that but I thought that's something peculiar to them.

cosudon Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

For REPL like things prompt_toolkit is great. For anything else (menus, forms) i find it difficult to use or at least discouraging.

cosudon Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

Great writeup! PS: "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is devops." -DevOps Borat

cosudon MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data

what about a live data option ? That's the one feature of highcharts I use the most.

cosudon Interana (YC W13) promises Facebook-style analytics for everyone

They're blazing fast. The guy who started facebook's SCUBA is behind this. see the paper on scuba: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/courses/fall2013/static/papers...

cosudon Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack

Wow a Romanian script kiddie at work. This kind of modus operandus is so 2004. Nice tool showcased though.

cosudon Russia approves use of military in Ukraine

Sure, they can call it however they want. Technically they're the same language. There are only minor lexicographical differences, the grammar being roughly the same. Blame Stalin for the confusion.