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pqdbr··on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
I assume they just eject the SIM card tray and get your phone number from the SIM by simply putting it into another phone.
pqdbr··on Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
We really wanted Backblaze to work. However, there's not a single week it doesn't have downtime at least once or twice. It's really really not ready for production usage (trust me - we've tried in production and had to revert back to S3 after two major outages).

Willing to try wasabi next time.

pqdbr··on Shipbreaking
The last two pictures are the most impactful.
pqdbr··on Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse [pdf]
The report mentions that "Six victims were later recovered by divers".

I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to a diver when he actually finds a dead body underwater. I guess there's no amount of experience that desensitizes you for that encounter.

pqdbr··on Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing
I'd love to be able to visit Disney Imagineering. Much more than the Disney parks themselves actually.
pqdbr··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
Blog posts like this (instead of endless YouTube sponsorships like their competitors do) are what made me choose them as my VPN service.
pqdbr··on Autotuner: How to speed up your Rails app
Also using ruby-lsp with VS Code and it's been a game-changer.
pqdbr··on A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library
This is such a cool name that I'd open an issue and suggest the rebranding :)
pqdbr··on Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques
How do I check if my Ubuntu kernel has already been patched?

And if it hasn’t, any tips on how to upgrade?

pqdbr··on Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
This is an honest question: are you browsing the web in 2024 with javascript disabled?
pqdbr··on Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers
I agree. OP's comment could be quickly rewritten into something useful and just by changing the tone, for example:

"26.8% fewer search steps than standard A∗ search" For reference of prior art, it's slightly better than A*, which is far from SOTA on Sokoban (https://festival-solver.site/).

pqdbr··on Stable Diffusion 3
The sample images are absolutely stunning.

Also, I was blown away by the "Stable Diffusion" written on the side of the bus.

pqdbr··on Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
I do not concur. JSON might not be perfect for e-mail (it isn't?) but it's great for a huge range of use-cases.

It's a great achievement of our species.

pqdbr··on Making SVG Loading Spinners: An Interactive Guide
Sorry to disappoint you, but historically a majority of progress bars in UI have shown either fake progress or a huge jump between low and high % of completion.
pqdbr··on Fort Botox, Where a Deadly Toxin Yields $2.8B Drug (2017)
I visit HN daily more times I'd like to admit and I hadn't seen it before.

If OP gets some karma every time he posts it, like he did from me this time, what's wrong with that?

pqdbr··on How China Built BYD
As someone who just took delivery of a BYD Song Plus, I can say I’d be very, very worried if I was BMW’s CEO.

And yes, I’ve owned 5 BMWs before this new BYD.

pqdbr··on It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
Kudos for mentioning Back to the Future. When I was 8/10 yo, I could recite all the lines from the first movie up to 15 min or something. I really, really loved it.
pqdbr··on London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime
And you say this based on what exactly?
pqdbr··on Making Apple Vision Pro [video]
Amazing to see what a bulky, massive piece of aluminium the structure is machined from (at https://youtu.be/luFGI13Mv8o?t=39, 39 seconds)
pqdbr··on The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
I really wished Backblaze B2 worked better to be a real alternative to S3. The pricing is a middle finger to AWS and other providers.

However, we were having 1 outage per month with B2, and in the middle of 2023 we decided to go back to AWS and only use S3 for replication.

We still monitor both services simultaneously (S3 and B2), and every other month we are still having an episode where the latency rises from 15ms to something like 25 seconds for each write/read operation.

pqdbr··on TC39: Add Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
On a side note, I really wish I could learn to tell exactly if a new feature like this is already supported in a project I'm working.

babel.config.js is just a mistery to me. @babel/present-env, targets: { node: 'current' }, forceAllTransforms, useBuiltIns, 'corejs', modules, @babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread.

I mean, I generally dump it into Chat GPT and ask for an explainer, but... how can I know for sure I can use `array.reverse()` and it will be correctly handled in older browsers?

And how does the babel version in yarn.lock relate to all this?

What about the .browserslistrc which contains 'defaults' ?

My god.

pqdbr··on I Love Ruby
In my experience this is almost never the case. #supports_feature? would be defined right there where you'd expect - in that Subscription model.

Even tough you can reach for metaprogramming (like define_method or method_missing), that's really not how the entire ecosystem of guides and tutorials will point you.

Anyways, when in doubt, just plug a debugger and call "@subscription.method(:supports_feature?).source_location`, and generally that's all it takes.

pqdbr··on Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
The governor even made a video [1]. A professionally produced video (which means expensive, obviously paid by the taxpayer) to convince (!?) Jeff Bezos.

What does he really expect? That Jeff will go "Yeah, you got me, I was waiting for this, here are some billions of dollars to you" ?

[1] (Note it's from one year ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeYCqsD1hg

pqdbr··on Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
As a Brazilian, I can testify that we’re all deeply ashamed of this stupidity.

It has even become a meme.

pqdbr··on Accidental database programming
I did that!
pqdbr··on Accidental database programming
Can someone explain me how it's syncing the state between two different devices without any activity in the Network tab in DevTools, not even WS traffic?

I get that you can sync state between browser tabs, but I'm trying on two different devices (iPhone and Desktop).

And as far as I can tell, the Wasm layer can't perform network requests directly.

UPDATE: In the console tab I can see 'coordinatorUrl: 'wss://sqlsync.orbitinghail.workers.dev', but I was expecting to see this Websockets connection in the Network tab, and it isn't.

pqdbr··on Claude 2.1
Does anyone know why Brazil is not supported yet?
pqdbr··on Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
Mainly cost. I also don't mind the insane performance of bare metal :)

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb

pqdbr··on Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
As a web developer who manages his own servers, ChatGPT has been a godsend for things like creating Ansible roles and docker / docker compose files.
pqdbr··on PID Control Challenges
Show code or it didn't happen :)
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