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hestefisk··on Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth
Teenage riot!
hestefisk··on PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno
Looks neat. Is there a table generation / migration library included?
hestefisk··on Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser
Anyone remember the “boss key”?
hestefisk··on Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?
Yeah or a JavaScript location href = …
hestefisk··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Happy user for two years and going strong.
hestefisk··on Imba – A friendly full-stack language
Looks interesting. Has anyone used this for something “serious”?
hestefisk··on Choosing a more optimal `String` type
Optimal is optimal. There is such thing as “more optimal”. It’s either optimal or it isn’t.
hestefisk··on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Agree. The state of Kubernetes increasingly reminds me of the complexity hell that is Java J2EE. It’s an ecosystem of vendors with a self interest in selling complex solutions to sell high margin consulting services on top. Thus was J2EE.
hestefisk··on Ask HN: What item/service can you buy for less than $50 that is life changing?
Even better, buy one of the Omron devices and check it every day!
hestefisk··on My Node.js is a bit Rusty
Exactly my thoughts. I wonder how fast that could be processed by a Perl script or even awk/sed.
hestefisk··on UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B
Already does between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand with ISO 20022 compliant cross border fast payments.
hestefisk··on Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
Cool they are doing this. How do you plan to make money on the deposit rates you have to pay to attract cash? Will you do lending via API as well?
hestefisk··on A Dive into the Legacy of BSD Unix
Tell that to my FreeBSD server - the power to serve.
hestefisk··on German Cabinet approves liberalization of Cannabis Possession
Junkies? Stop trolling.
hestefisk··on Render nuked my entire account with no notice
+1 for Hetzner. I run my own server infra using FreeBSD. Much cheaper than GCP where I was before.
hestefisk··on XFS online filesystem check and repair
Is there any case where one would choose this over ext4 or even zfs?
hestefisk··on Ask HN: Path to become a self taught quant or learn financial concepts
F
hestefisk··on Ask HN: Is there an e-commerce platform that doesn't suck?
I use woocommerce. It’s ok. Not great but hackable.
hestefisk··on Canada’s new tech talent strategy
At least for those taxes, one gets somewhat free healthcare. I’d rather pay higher taxes and get access to a solid public healthcare system, rather than relying on the expensive private care in the states.
hestefisk··on NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux
It’s called “risk management” in corporate speak.
hestefisk··on My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
I want one. Where to buy? Are these super expensive?
hestefisk··on DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
Can someone explain in plain English what platform engineering is? TFA spends a lot of time criticising devops but takes for granted that everyone knows what platform engineering is.
hestefisk··on MacOS X 10.1 (2001)
I think they might be referring to the transition from 68K to PowerPC.
hestefisk··on Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?
RAID is not a backup guarantee. Use zfs.
hestefisk··on Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?
Set up a physical server on hetzner with a bunch of large disks. Then use zfs send. Job done :)
hestefisk··on Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
Looks interesting. Sent you an email.
hestefisk··on Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore
Until recently it was illegal to be gay in Singapore. I wouldn’t that “a western perspective”. Btw the army still classify homosexuality as a mental illness when they assess recruits for conscription.

As for the educational system, university is very expensive. Schools are free and yes they claim to be very good on academic scores. What they don’t tell you is they still do caning in public schools (boys only). Still stuck in the fifties. The educational system largely focuses on academic strength and if you are not academically strong you get put into a second tier system very quickly. Kids as young as 8 have exams and suffer from exam stress early in their life.

So yes, Singapore is an iron fisted, draconian police state, not much better than their Chinese neighbours.

Source: I live here.

hestefisk··on Systems explained by Humberto Maturana (2021)
How? Where?
hestefisk··on 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
Downvote? Seriously? It was a serious question. NetBSD runs everywhere, even 40 years old vaxen, so why wouldn’t it run on Psion?
hestefisk··on 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
Does it run NetBSD?
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