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itsthecourier

224 karma · joined November 1, 2015

A nominally decent programmer, avid prankster and serial entrepreneur

All the opinions presented here are indeed the opinion of my employer

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itsthecourier··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
"but open immigration policies also carry risks. New waves of migrants will be ethnically different, less educated, and sometimes unskilled…It will gradually dawn on governments that immigration alone cannot solve their demographic troubles and that much more active government involvement in encouraging or discouraging procreation may be necessary."
itsthecourier··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
after being flagged and down voted for mentioning Lee Kuan Yew views on Multiculturalism, I reiterate my comment with a direct quote to keep ynews truthful and not polarized towards the left:

"They are implacable in wanting to put down all who do not agree with them."

"What role does Islam itself play in fueling Islamic extremism? Muslims want to assimilate us. It is one-way traffic…They have no confidence in allowing choice.12 Samuel Huntington sent me a piece he was writing in Foreign Affairs called the “Clash of Civilizations.” When I saw him, I said, look, I agree with you only where the Muslims are concerned, only there…Hinduism, Chinese Confucianism or Communism, Japanese Shintoism, they are secular really. They know that to progress, you must master science and technology…But the Muslims believe that if they master the Qu’ran and they are prepared to do all that Muhammad has prescribed, they will succeed. So, we can expect trouble from them and so, it happened.13 Muslims socially do not cause any trouble, but they are distinct and separate Islam is exclusive."

itsthecourier··on Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
gonna ask the same... do far it's has been manually choosing what's useful in each command for the agents?
itsthecourier··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
Duke study showing all white jury's was 16% more harsh https://today.duke.edu/2012/04/jurystudy
itsthecourier··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
Trump is testing the limits of USA democracy every day, just from the top of my mind: top lieutenants worth 5%+ ownership in Thether holding company, Ivanka's husband with the Saudis, Ivanka herself in the ONU, shameless plugs of crypto tokens and cards in the podium after elections, pardons for criminals

democracy failed America

itsthecourier··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
been in China for decades, benevolent dictatorships allow long term planning, elections every 4 years favor short term decisions, populism and waste a huge percentage of time in after elections and pre-elections

China and Singapore showed democracy is not necessarily the most productive way to run a country

itsthecourier··on Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV
when your head move, and with it your eyes, you move what's in front of them to your perspective inside the simulation, just as VR works

but in this case it is detrimental because the screen is fixed, the natural behavior would be not to move it

or at least do very little with it like a parallax

the current demo would cause nausea after a moment

itsthecourier··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
may you please elaborate on poisoning?
itsthecourier··on Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
just reading gnutella triggered a really old memory of times when Ares, Limewire and eMule where places to try your luck getting mp3s and software
itsthecourier··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
thank you so much for sharing ir
itsthecourier··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
why won't it ever work?
itsthecourier··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
seems freenet is not free after all, maybe a rebrand to ianet would be more appropriate
itsthecourier··on The Palomar Lights
so it seems something was orbiting before satellites and for some reason very closely to atomic bomb test dates
itsthecourier··on Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
hope we see that code soon
itsthecourier··on 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
basically a post apocalyptic minecraft
itsthecourier··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
even Bill Gates bailed out of M$ https://finbold.com/bill-gates-foundation-fully-dumps-its-mi...
itsthecourier··on How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
this is the kind of research that creates new db types, or super optimized postgres im not sure yet
itsthecourier··on Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]
so let me get this straight Skippy, you're saying you got better performance and reliability than the LMAX disruptor with Multicast that runs inside many big exchanges?

I have a really hard time believing something decentralized will surpass the the physical limitations of speed of light and low level assembler from C++ optimizations without any GC

also the fact that hyperliquid sequencing of orders is opaque and not opensource, and there is indeed latency in the consensus, I cannot believe yet there are p99 stability in completed transactions

itsthecourier··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
it must be done, bro, for you, anything
itsthecourier··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
somebody explained me that the correct way to appreciate this painting is to invert it on horizontal axis.

the reason is, japanese is read from right to left.

once you invert it you can appreciate it better

itsthecourier··on Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)
how does this reduction in heartbeat at night affect the body?
itsthecourier··on PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption
been using for a while. nice Ubuntu distro.

system76 is great

itsthecourier··on 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron
empty? there's one promise: Learn Mandarin in one year. One lesson a day, 365 days.

that's exactly what it does. free. no ads.

yeah, google it. nobody in there, you won't enter, well you're not a maverick in curve of adoption. that's fine.

hand over your credentials? what's credentials? a Google oauth login?

uh?

itsthecourier··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
cloud vs bare metal is:

are you a capable engineer or do you believe in magic?

the savings of a cheap engineer disappear on the cloud bill. get a badass well paid engineer who can do both and doesn't talk his way out of this financial madness

itsthecourier··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
OVH is awesome
itsthecourier··on TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]
yeah, it becomes prone to mistakes and totals not matching between accounts, but with the atomicity of TB and some good testing this seems viable
itsthecourier··on 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron
I'm trying something like Duolingo mixed with Dark souls

https://dondeng.com

WIP (need more work in multi-hanzi words), but won't stay in the same 5 words for more than a day. it has been working well for me

the most interesting thing was GPT helped with the sentences and simplified words meaning and bing translate provided the audios

the goal is get the ~2000 words you need to be proficient in 1 year, 5 words a day plus refresh old words, also it keep track of your progress against the year, no streaks

itsthecourier··on TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]
sorry, i meant something like an external continuous backup. just in case the system get compromised, a constant off-site non operational backup
itsthecourier··on TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]
I have tried to use tiger beetle in production. haven't been successful yet.

nice stuff, multi master replication.

user API, super small.

doubts about how to do streaming backup.

after studying the API and doing some spike architectures I come to the conclusion (I may be wrong):

tiger beetle is awesome to keep the account balance. that's it.

because you pretty much get the transactions affecting and account and IIRC there was not a lot you can do about how to query them or use them.

also I was thinking it would be nice to have something like an account grouping other accounts to answer something like: how much money out user accounts have in this microsecond?

I think that was more or less about itm they have some special fields u128 to store ids to the transaction they represent into your actual system

and IIRC handle multi currency in different books

my conclusion was: I think I don't get it yet. I think I'm missing something. had to write a ruby client for it and build an UI to play with the API and do some transactions and see how it behaved. yet that was my conclusion

would be great to have an official UI client

itsthecourier··on Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)
I have dealt with many criminals through my life.

some simply wanna be Pablo Escobar and become a reggaeton poster child. they don't do it for other reason than become their mental image of a gangster.

yes, they are intelligent but they insist and insist into do what they consider cool, and that coolness come to be a "hacker" or a criminal

so far from top of my mind I remember a serial corporate scammer, a social media middle man who constantly sell access to people working in meta (unlocking/locking accounts), a drug precursor middlewoman, a money laundering mule/scammer/errand boy. every time it was the same. they wanted to show a gangster luxury life in ig. the middlewoman was something else, never got to understand her. 60 years. probably she was just for the thrill of it.

had they opportunities to do something else? repeatedly. specially after prison or with family help. but they refuse, the next business will be the one. they will become millionaires for sure. jail again.

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