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kukkukb

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Technical co-founder of Netstock https://www.netstock.com
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kukkukb··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
Surely, at some point in the near future, they'll be producing solar panels using solar energy?
kukkukb··on 'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain
There's a very fine line between Just In Time and Just Too Late. We advocate for Just In Case inventory, which is much more resilient.
kukkukb··on Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site
Thanks. That might be a privacy issue, especially if the requester is from the EU
kukkukb··on Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site
When the end user asks a question, is it sent to OpenAI? Or is this an LLM you built yourself?
kukkukb··on Julia 1.9
We run Julia code in production. These are compute-heavy services called by other parts of the app. Version upgrades are normally easy. Upgrade, run the unit tests, build the Docker images and deploy to K8s. Maybe we've been lucky, but since 1.3 we've never had big issues with version upgrades.
kukkukb··on C Rival 'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50
Oh, how the mighty Slashdot has fallen!
kukkukb··on Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen
+1 for Linux, please
kukkukb··on Launch HN: Frigade (YC W23) – Faster, better product onboarding
We use Rails's built-in i18n. So this should work, as we could just send in the translated strings.
kukkukb··on Launch HN: Frigade (YC W23) – Faster, better product onboarding
Congrats on launching! This looks really cool. Any plans for i18n?
kukkukb··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
It's me!
kukkukb··on Minify Your SVGs
Because when the browser un-gzips it, it takes a lot more memory than the minified version. And everyone seems to complain about browser bloat.
kukkukb··on 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Johannesburg, South Africa. 100mb/s home fibre:

  ping 1.1.1.1
  PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=1.36 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=1.32 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=1.34 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=1.38 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=1.37 ms

  ping 8.8.8.8
  PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=1.33 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=1.38 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=1.35 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=1.36 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=1.35 ms
kukkukb··on My smartphone as a shortcut helper
This looks like it could be a great add-ion to Synergy
kukkukb··on CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform
Would this help against DDoS attacks on a web site?
kukkukb··on Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
I guess it's styling is a bit like the X6: http://www.bmwusa.com/bmw/xmodels/x6
kukkukb··on Say Hello to Nest Cam
Enhance!
kukkukb··on Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks
We experience the same kind of thing to assembla.com. It often times out. Quite frustrating when in the middle of development.
kukkukb··on Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks
I'm in Johannesburg, and my ping to facebook.com is 310ms. The thing is everyone seems to be used to the lag, so there isn't any complaints.
kukkukb··on Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib
Wasn't this one of main reasons that thenNeoVim project was started?
kukkukb··on Android 5.0 Lollipop reviewed
I recently upgraded my Note 2 to a Note 4. One of the first things it asks when you first switch on the phone, is to log into your Google Account. After that it asked a couple more questions. By the time the install wizard was done, most of my phone had been restored: Apps Contacts (including favourites) Emails (they live in the cloud) Photos Music Even things like WiFi passwords, preferred hotspots, etc.

I don't even think about backing up and restoring my Android device. It all just works.

kukkukb··on Please don't make us use iCloud anymore
Yes they do: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=google%20docs&hl=en

Docs, Sheets and Slides are all APPS now, with real-time syncing

kukkukb··on 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan
I can only give you anecdotal evidence on two Linodes we use:

  root@web1:~# uname -a
  Linux web1.netstock.co 3.9.3-x86-linode52 #1 SMP Mon May 20 09:32:28 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  root@web1:~# uptime
   15:29:46 up 328 days, 13:16,  4 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.15, 0.12
and

  root@li346-160:~# uname -a
  Linux li346-160 3.7.5-linode48 #1 SMP Thu Jan 31 14:40:54 EST 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  root@li346-160:~# uptime
   15:31:11 up 487 days, 11:10,  6 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.09, 0.07
kukkukb··on The desktop and the developer
I had the same problem with the choppy ThinkPad (Yoga) trackpad. It's very easily fixed. http://fully-faltoo.com/2013/07/20/lenovo-touchpad/
kukkukb··on Test your server for the Heartbleed bug
Excellent! That did the trick. It was nginx and percona that also had to be restarted.
kukkukb··on Test your server for the Heartbleed bug
I have a bunch of servers on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Did the test. Came back as vulnerable. Then did an apt-get upgrade, which upgraded a bunch of SSL services. Did the test again. Still vulnerable.

What else should I do?

kukkukb··on Ask HN: What Linux distribution do you use?
Desktop: Linux Mint 14 with Cinnamon | Servers: Ubuntu 12.4 LTS
kukkukb··on Keyboards, UX, and “Fuck”
I use Swiftkey, and on the first try, I could "type" Fuck using flow (aka Continuous input)
kukkukb··on Show HN: A Dashboard for External Monitors
Four screens for me. The left two 24" screens are connected to a Linux Mint box. That far left has a browser with developer tools. The next one has a full-screen vim session. The right two are connected to a MBP. The left 24" has terminals (ssh'ed into the linux box) for Rails console, MySql and Rails log running in real time. The laptop's built-in screen is the far right, with everything from Assembla to email to Skype, etc. Here's a typical screen-shot of how I work: http://i.imgur.com/UVOfAan.jpg As others have said, I can also do with more screens. At the moment both the Linux box and the Mac has 3-4 virtual desktops each.
kukkukb··on Discovering Sketch
Inkscape?
kukkukb··on Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again
Get AirDroid for your Android device. You'll never look back.