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ejdyksenon Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code

I am still seeing the Fable message on the Claude CLI (2.1.205)

ejdyksenon Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)

Just one AZ, not the whole region:

> The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event.

ejdyksenon Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

> Why are all these things still in the macOS?

The Finder shows these icons for network volumes.

How does the Finder determine the model of the remote host? This is metadata in the _device-info._tcp Bonjour service record that is the server advertises. My Synology helpfully shows up as an Xserve, in fact:

  $ dns-sd -L "synology" _device-info._tcp local
  Lookup synology._device-info._tcp.local
  DATE: ---Thu 07 Aug 2025---
  0:24:28.117  ...STARTING...
  0:24:28.378  synology._device-info._tcp.local. can be reached at synology.local.:0 (interface 14)
  model=Xserve

ejdyksenon Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird

Yep, I was using MAPI as shorthand for both RPC MAPI (which was traditionally used inside corp networks, where port 35 would be open) and RPC-over-HTTP.

There's also a JSON-based web services API that is, as far as I know, unpublished (which OWA and I think the "next gen" Outlook uses).

ejdyksenon Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird

EWS is a SOAP-based web services protocol. Totally separate from MAPI.

What you're thinking of is called RPC-over-HTTP or sometimes "Outlook Anywhere".

ejdyksenon Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird

> facilitating the native support for the Exchange protocol

There is not one single “Exchange Protocol”. There’s MAPI, EWS, ActiveSync, and more. Anyone know what this uses?

ejdyksenon AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay

Back when I had Comcast (and thus native IPv6 at home), this was a great way to expose a web server at home without resorting to either weird port forwarding or setting up a proxy + SNI. Both of those work, but this is super clean.

(Now I only have IPv4, so I just use Tunnel).

ejdyksenon SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

From the livestream (at about T-30:00):

“We consider any data received that helps inform an improved future build of starship a success. From a milestone standpoint, our main goal is to clear the pad. Every milestone beyond that is a bonus. The further we fly, the more data we can collect.”

ejdyksenon FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank

Fair. Thought you were talking about making SVB depositors whole.

I’d call the BTFP a mechanism to stabilize the banking system in the US, given rising interest rates. I guess I don’t care as much about the semantics, though.

ejdyksenon FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank

It’s not available to banks, only to used-to-be-banks.

ejdyksenon Ask HN: Who is building credit card size tracker using U1 spec?

I believe this already exists

https://chipolo.net/en-us/products/chipolo-card-spot

ejdyksenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

Amazon Selling Partner Services | SDE II | Detroit, Phoenix, Seattle, remote (US) | Full-time

The Cross-Border Listings team (within Amazon's Selling Partner Services group) is looking for qualified devs who want to work at scale on the core of Amazon's retail flywheel. We work on systems that have a huge, direct impact on Amazon's business, serving selling partners who sell on Amazon all over the world.

Our team values work-life balance, and we prioritize work that keeps that balance in place (e.g. automation, tech debt). Our standups are almost always less than 15 minutes, and we don't do meetings on Fridays.

Tech stack is Java, JS/TypeScript, AWS.

Location is preferably within reasonable driving distance to locations above, but willing to consider candidates anywhere in the US. Also: open to candidates who might want to commute to Detroit from Windsor (this is niche, I know!).

I am the direct hiring manager of these positions. If you're interested, apply to either of these positions:

https://amazon.jobs/jobs/1350860 https://amazon.jobs/jobs/1521928

Yeah, these job descriptions are pretty generic--I didn't write them! If you have questions, please reach out to me directly: first_3_letters_of_my_HN_username@amazon.com

ejdyksenon Michigan DOT Snowplow Names

Even better, the "MI Drive" site (for Michigan road conditions) actually shows live webcam footage from many (all?) of the DOT plows.

This is valuable during the winter to see the road conditions outside of areas like metro Detroit or Grand Rapids (which have fixed road cameras).

https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map?plows=true

EDIT: I mostly drive between Grand Rapids and Lansing, and I haven't looked in a while, but there are actually a lot of fixed cameras on major highways now, even outside metro areas:

https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map?cameras=true

ejdyksenon Tqdm (Python)

If you like tqdm, it's worth checking out pqdm, a parallelized version. If you have embarrassingly parallel work to process in a script, it makes it dead simple to parallelize and monitor the progress of something. Highly recommend:

https://github.com/niedakh/pqdm

ejdyksenon Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

The app and car communicate directly over Bluetooth for a number of functions, like lock/unlock, popping the trunk, and starting the car. This outage didn’t affect that (I drove my Model 3 during this time period).

You can start the car over the internet, too, but this is not typical, and the app actually warns you when you try to to do this.

Finally, the Model 3/Y have backup keycards that Tesla encourages you to keep with you just in case your phone dies. The app tells you this when you first pair your phone.

ejdyksenon GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

You can do this right now with the Remote SSH extension for VS Code:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

ejdyksenon Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]

That video is a screen capture from another video (which was screen capped from a livestream), but the original has much better audio quality.

Here's a direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOL_rCK59ZI&t=28293s

ejdyksenon How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS

Grand Central Dispatch (the OS-level framework that handles these QoS classes) elevates the priority of a queue if there is high priority work waiting on low priority work to finish.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

ejdyksenon Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

From WWDC 2020, it has been "highly tuned" for Apple Silicon:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/?time...

Makes sense, since Accelerate has been available on iOS for many years.

ejdyksenon Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

At least in the US Store, the Intel Mac Mini is still for sale:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini/3.0ghz-intel-cor...

ejdyksenon Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

Microsoft has had an architectural license for quite some time:

https://www.eetimes.com/microsoft-takes-arm-architectural-li...

ejdyksenon Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

In Michigan we have webcams on the front of our snow plows, in addition to their GPS location. This is useful for seeing road conditions throughout the state in places that don't have traffic cameras.

Just click the little icon that looks like a snowplow on this site. No plows out today, however...

https://michigan.gov/drive/

ejdyksenon The Founding of Google Maps (2015)

I do! I remember showing everyone in the family black and white satellite images of our neighborhood.

I seem to recall it was the first place any of us had seen satellite images outside of movies or CNN, and certainly the first place we had seen images of where we lived.

ejdyksenon Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?

Microsoft’s Channel9 was named after this (United Channel 9), and had the same intention: to be an unvarnished look behind the scenes.

https://channel9.msdn.com/About

ejdyksenon iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time

It's not a native feature of FaceTime, but it is a native feature of macOS--specifically iMessage.

Just start an iMessage conversation, then click "ask to share screen" or "invite to share screen" from the Buddies menu.

https://i.imgur.com/vRtuIQM.png

ejdyksenon Is this my interface or yours? (2016)

Windows 10 now uses the first person plural ("we") to talk to users, which I always thought was an interesting choice. Things like:

  We're setting things up for you
  We can't sign into your account

Etc...

ejdyksenon IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions

Here's an outline of the steps you need to take to get things working:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-mi...

ejdyksenon The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-all' email hell

This feature exists in Exchange! It's called MailTips. It warns senders in Outlook and Outlook Web App before sending of a number of conditions (including sending to a "large audience").

I was the PM who owned MailTips when it was created/introduced, and our research at the time showed it would be effective for preventing reply-all storms.

Implementing this is, of course, harder than you think. The size of groups has to be calculated nightly and distributed to every server, since groups can be nested (and have duplicate recipients).

ejdyksenon Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API

That is pretty old, considering what S3 has changed in the past two years. In particular, it talks about reading S3's us-standard region from the East and West coasts, and that has evolved to where us-standard (which is really us-east-1) is now the same as all other regions when it comes to consistency (presumably because all requests physically go to the East coast now, but I haven't tested that):

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction....