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jonatronon Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes

I always found the CPU pricing of cloud to be relatively reasonable. It's everything else that's expensive, and egress bandwidth just ridiculous.

jonatronon The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers

Getting the train was the original plan, but all trains to the airport were cancelled due to a passenger incident.

jonatronon The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers

Well everyone except Uber wins, because I deleted it.

jonatronon The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers

My personal experience recently. Needed a taxi to the airport. Opened uber, it said about £90, which seemed a bit expensive. Tried a local minicab company, there were no cars. Opened uber again, the price had gone up to about £150. Tried another local company, they were there within 10 mins and wanted £60. Opened uber again, the price had gone up to about £250.

jonatronon ISO name change for Türkiye

Although I'm not a copyright laywer, I did previously work for an intellectual property services company. The country codes collection is a service they provide designed to make it easy to keep country codes up to date. This doesn't negate the "free-of-charge use" of the database. ISO appear to have clarified this almost 20 years ago: http://xml.coverpages.org/ISOReaffirms.html , and it looks like the situation hasn't changed.

I don't see how your rights would be limited by including it in your app. You can just say the copyright to the ISO database belongs to ISO, but is free-of-charge, and the copyright to the code written by you belongs to you, which is not free of charge, or any license you wish.

Edit: Because I can't reply - CC0, a public domain - like license was released in 2009, well after the clarification of their "free-of-charge use" license.

jonatronon Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS

If Managed Kubernetes counts as a PaaS, maybe? https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/public-cloud/kubernetes/

jonatronon ISO name change for Türkiye

https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html

"ISO allows free-of-charge use of its country, currency and language codes from ISO 3166, ISO 4217 and ISO 639, respectively."

Doesn't sound like piracy to me.

jonatronon Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)

Last time I looked, Postgres full text search doesn't really do CJK without third party parsers, which can be a bit of a deal breaker.

jonatronon Is the smart grid all hot air?

The most recent in the UK was 11 June, I can confirm I had a negative rate for a few hours then.

jonatronon Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest

I wouldn't expect memcached servers to have any egress. Still I'd bet they're paying a lot for whatever their egress actually is.

jonatronon How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016)

Should've been at 7:22 King James

jonatronon Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 detected in London, UK

They're actively working on it: https://www.tideway.london/

jonatronon Cloudflare had a partial outage

Last company I worked for, we had many Hetzner servers. We had many drive failures and CPU fan failures. It's fine if you can deal with a relatively high chance of hardware failure.

jonatronon Web scraping with Python open knowledge

As the second sentence says, it's a cat and mouse game, so there's no incentive on either side of bot vs anti-bot to share information.

jonatronon The home of Walmart wants to beat sprawl

Sunset District, San Francisco, CA, has a lot of terraced housing similar to the UK, but with much wider roads.

jonatronon List of Tech company layoffs in Europe

The fast grocery delivery business was waiting on a crash. It doesn't make sense that there's Getir, gorillas, gopuff, zapp and beelivery. Plus deliveroo, Uber eats, and Amazon prime now. Probably more that I haven't heard of. All for inefficient delivery of small quantities of low value items. I have a supermarket a 5 minute walk away, I just don't get it.

jonatronon A rant about search engine results for large format laser printers [video]

Bing's results look just as bad for "large format laser printer"

jonatronon 9-Euro-Ticket

Ebbsfleet International - London possibly beats that in cost per mile. £5272 or £6056 with London travelcard for about 20 miles / 32km.

jonatronon Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

As I mentioned in another comment, EasyOCR and PaddleOCR.

jonatronon Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

For “text In the wild” or scene text, the last time I checked, EasyOCR and PaddleOCR were both good.

jonatronon Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed

I've noticed FTTP is now available to people served by wooden poles in my area. Metal poles or underground mean no FTTP. I guess attaching a box to a metal pole is an insurmountable engineering challenge in the UK. So some people have the choice between VDSL, FTTP, Cable, and others have only VDSL, or 5G I suppose.

jonatronon Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

No mention of WSL?

jonatronon How to use undocumented web APIs

There's plenty of Frida scripts that can disable app certificate pinning

jonatronon Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)

A skiing instructor once said to me: "Anyone can go fast, that's easy. Being in control with good technique is hard."

jonatronon Dango Views Cheatsheets

First: thank you. Second, Re: HN Hug, I see the header

    cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC

Maybe you should double check your caching? Edit: You've fixed it, it's faster now.

jonatronon Dango Views Cheatsheets

I find I don't need the DRF one because it's flatter, DRF DestroyAPIView has 4 ancestors compared to 8 in Django DeleteView.

jonatronon Ask HN: Software Developer vs. Software Engineer

Depending on who I'm talking to, I'm either a Software developer, Backend API developer, or I fix computers.

jonatronon Red Light Green Light

The Chinese for traffic light is red-green-light (hónglǜdēng).

jonatronon RIP Stack Overflow Jobs

I used to like SO jobs for the same reasons. Otta https://otta.com/ seems good to me, no recruiter spam, more salary ranges than other sites.

jonatronon Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan

Having been in a situation where Postgres suddenly decides to use a much slower query plan on a hot query in production, I'd agree.