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hestefisk··on DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported to NetBSD
Well done to the NetBSD team. I haven’t used it for many moons, so maybe it’s time giving it a spin again.
hestefisk··on Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
What lies, specifically?
hestefisk··on Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
Fair enough. Polio is a better example. Either way, you get the gist.
hestefisk··on Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
Parents have a responsibility of best interest for their children. Not vaccinating them so they can die from chicken pox is unforgivable, sorry.
hestefisk··on The 'buy now, pay later' bubble is about to burst
The fees to the merchant can be quite exorbitant. That’s how the BNPL operators make their money.
hestefisk··on Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
I feel the same. This is insanely cool if it does what it says on the tin. I am going to try it out.
hestefisk··on Show HN: Mapperly – A .NET source generator for object to object mappings
Why not just have no mappings and reuse the same objects?
hestefisk··on Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on Covid vaccine “consistent with the value”
Only because it was underwritten by government balance sheet.
hestefisk··on Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on Covid vaccine “consistent with the value”
This is why vaccine development and pharmaceuticals in general should be a public good, owned by the public sector, priced as a public good.
hestefisk··on Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator
Agree. People bought tether to have a stable store of value so it will only push funds into USDC or similar.
hestefisk··on Just: A Command Runner
How is this different to a shell script / command alias?
hestefisk··on Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days
No, cash deposited is a liability for banks. Bank loans are assets. It’s a reverse balance sheet compared to non bank companies.
hestefisk··on Weird Laptops are Coming – CES 2023
It’s enough for reading books… but might be too hard for terminal editing?
hestefisk··on Weird Laptops are Coming – CES 2023
The e-ink display on the laptop is quite cool. I could use that for writing simple notes and likely save a ton of battery.
hestefisk··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
Then too much religion causes harm too.
hestefisk··on The beauty of CGI and simple design
I wrote Perl cgi scripts for a self-serve customer admin interface for an ISP in the early 2000s. As users grew, we started hitting the limits of what 1-2G ram could do. Thank goodness for mod_perl and HTML::Mason, which could REALLY speed up performance. I remain a huge fan of Perl these days.
hestefisk··on MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes
I think it’s the Unix cli web browser “Lynx” ported to classic Mac.
hestefisk··on The all in one web editor for M68K
Can G4 macs run OS 9?
hestefisk··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
Because it does not cause harm. Alcohol, tobacco, cars, and guns etc do.
hestefisk··on Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring
Potato, potato
hestefisk··on Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
[ insert random Wayne’s World reference here ]
hestefisk··on Start a fucking blog
It might be poor code, but it runs pretty much everywhere and is very popular :)
hestefisk··on Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?
I like rpc because of its simplicity. Function call done over the wire. I want to just invoke a function somewhere without worrying about constraints of “style” (rest, graph quality, etc). Whether it’s json, xml, grpc etc underneath doesn’t really matter to me.
hestefisk··on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes
Good symbolic act, but as the fine article states, it’s unlikely to have material effect on housing affordability for the average person until supply is increased.
hestefisk··on VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux
One for Late Night Linux predictions
hestefisk··on Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
“I’ll kill that cat.”
hestefisk··on Auth.js Authentication for the Web
Why risk the potential security holes that have already been solved for you?
hestefisk··on Show HN: RSS Brain
$5 / month is a bit stiff. Why not just allow onetime purchase ?
hestefisk··on Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
Then I’d happily pay more then 15% income tax in this country so we can provide better foreign aid to said countries so they can afford a better education. Encouraging slavery does not solve the root cause.
hestefisk··on Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
Because I don’t want to feed the system / make it legitimate. It’s a matter of principles.
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