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gbajson··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Poland. Most of the popular sites are down. Including community forum on Cloudflare.
gbajson··on WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
Would anyone of you if it is trained to recognize geographical places, famous people, etc?
gbajson··on Open-source network emulators and simulators
Would anyone of you know any tool that would simulate working on GSM connection (EDGE, 3G, LTE) on Linux box?

I am looking for any reliable way of simulating user application working on mobile phone.

gbajson··on The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
In my area in the winter you always sense air pollution.

But with just a nose it's hard to say if it's 100 μg/m3 of or 200 μg/m3 of PM2.5.

gbajson··on Google Cloud Europe service disruption
"europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded [...], but has zero impact elsewhere."

I am afraid this is not true. We have nothing in europe-west-9, but problem in this region caused global problem with Cloud Console, which hit us, because we were not able to use it for several hours.

Snippert from https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...:

"Cloud Console: Experienced a global outage, which has been mitigated. Management tasks should be operational again for operations outside the affected region (europe-west9). Primary impact was observed from 2023-04-25 23:15:30 PDT to 2023-04-26 03:38:40 PDT."

gbajson··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Reduce? They are hiring in Poland!
gbajson··on Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
Lay-offs?

Companies are hiring people as fast as they can! I am writing from Poland.

gbajson··on Switzerland: snow flown in by helicopter in attempt to keep ski slopes open
Snow cannons are much cheaper, but don't work when temperature is above 0 °C; helicopters can still fly and carry snow.
gbajson··on National Archives Releases Thousands of Kennedy Assassination Files
"Over 97 percent of documents related to the event are now publicly available."

Read - "Over 2% of all documents are still classified."

gbajson··on North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies
How exactly does US support it?
gbajson··on The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game
I was looking for this port for years. Thank you!
gbajson··on Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade?
Experience is an important factor here.

Minimal wage in 2022 is 3010 PLN (~630 Eur), so juniors/mids rather won't make 10-12x.

gbajson··on Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade?
Not in Poland.

They grew ~3-4 times during last 10 years. COVID-19 definitely helped here!

gbajson··on A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch
Very good, interactive article describing how the watch works: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
gbajson··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
I 100% agree with you. I will keep Warp on my radar, but without proper tmux support it's no-go for me.

All my friends, which are using terminals, are also using tmux. It's still small sample, but probably we don't represent such a tiny minority here.

gbajson··on Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
"We have no clue how our software works, so we will sue you".

It's a disaster from any point of view. Also ineffective.

They could easily designate not 10M, but 100M for bug bounties and simply solve their problems.

gbajson··on Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
Yet another similar story.

Will your next startup also rely on Google?

gbajson··on Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
Governments are printing money, inflation is eating savings. Properties are safe and easy way to protect money.

When buying properties will be banned, what would you recommend as an alternative?

gbajson··on How I Practice Piano
What do you think about applications like Simply Piano? I am 40+ yo, and never played any instrument before. After 3 years of practicing with Simply Piano I am able to read and play some sheet music, but I'd like to know which areas need improvements.

Do you know any applications which can record performance of a song and evaluate it?

gbajson··on Decoded: GNU coreutils (2019)
I have just spent 5 minutes trying to find any useful use cases for 'vdir'. Does anyone of have idea why other 'ls' has been created?
gbajson··on Bongo Cat
Feature requests:

- ability to save played melodies,

- ranked playlist.

gbajson··on “I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots”
I am wondering if he runs any OCR or object recognition on collected screenshots.
gbajson··on US debt surpasses $23T for first time
Does anyone of you know who owns this debt? What will happen when citizens decide to null it?
gbajson··on Things to use in Python 3
Standard logging functions, without f-strings. So instead of: logging.debug(f'Problem with {x}') use: logging.debug('Problem with %s', x).
gbajson··on Things to use in Python 3
I already experienced performance issue, just because log messages (millions/s) were evaluated, for logger in debug mode, so it really depends on the system.
gbajson··on Things to use in Python 3
The example of f-string in the article is quite unfortunate, it suggests using it for logging messages. F-strings shouldn't be used in loggers, because they aren't lazy evaluated.
gbajson··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
I have just tried it. The idea is nice, but browser needs some fixes. I could not close cookie warning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813921
gbajson··on Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
How is it related to the topic?
gbajson··on The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
Similar thing has happened to me. I joined a security team in a Big Bank. During the first month of my work I discovered a terrible and obvious security hole, which was there for years. My manager took me aside and explained that they can't fix it, or even start doing anything about it, because the whole team will look incompetent. I was told not do anything and reassigned to the completely different tasks far from the team. After another month, I left.
gbajson··on Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
Has anyone of you seen such beautiful explanation for other protocols (TCP, 4-way handshake)?
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