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ryall··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Weird take, credit card debt is much more of a risk to that demographic than debit cards ever will be
ryall··on Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home
Must be nice to work under the eternal threat of being laid off on a whim.
ryall··on Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
It's annoying that smart plugs/bulbs etc use wifi when Powerline exists
ryall··on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries
I don't understand why powered IoT devices (lightbulbs, switches etc) don't use powerline for network access.
ryall··on Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand
No BS here. The _average_ house price in Auckland is 1 million dollars. How long does it take to save a 20% deposit on 150k in a HCOL country? And 150k is generally a senior level wage, no one in NZ is starting on 150k
ryall··on Ask HN: Why’s it difficult for techies to return to their home base post remote?
Why's it difficult for techies to accept a lower quality of life (when it's completely unnecessary)?
ryall··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
For me, having to log in to multiple AWS accounts, Firefox containers are a killer feature
ryall··on We need young programmers; we need old programmers
This is why you need older programmers, protection from the hubris of youth
ryall··on WHO calls for ‘urgent’ action to stem monkeypox spread in Europe as cases surge
That generally prevents epidemics, yes.
ryall··on Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?
I think I've commented before on this but I've had great success using VSCode Remote Containers. Essentially using the M1 as a frontend to an x86 environment.

Works great and I can move between a local and cloud servers depending on requirements

ryall··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022)

  Location: New Zealand (UTC+12-13, can work within the range [UTC+10 - UTC-08])
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Not at this time
  Technologies:
    - Python, JavaScript, ReactJS, TypeScript
    - Serverless Framework, Ansible, GitLab CI
    - AWS, Docker, Linux, KVM, ESX
  Dabbling in:
    - Electron, NextJS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Go
  Résumé/CV: On request
  Email: ezra AT bn0.io
I'm a full-stack/devops generalist with 20+ years experience weighted more towards DevOps/Backend development. I believe knowledge across a broad range of technologies brings a deeper vertical understanding of each specific stack. More than happy to learn new technologies.
ryall··on Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug?
I get this on my M1 Air, maybe once or twice a week.

I use a Magic trackpad, and when it occurs the built-in trackpad still works fine.

To fix it I disable Bluetooth on the M1, then re-enable and everything is fine again.

This lead me to believe it was related to the Bluetooth stack, but if people are experiencing it while using built-in trackpad if be interested to know if my workaround still fixes it.

ryall··on Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
We did both, customer got an iso image with a single line install command. The installer would automatically download all the docker containers and lock the system down.

Since this was the customer’s initial impression (and we wanted the IT gatekeepers to be happy), we strove to get installation as close to turn-key as possible

ryall··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
It's funny you mention WAF because that's exactly what kept me away from 1password.

I loved almost everything about 1P but their reluctance to authenticate with keychain means it's a PITA for me, and an absolute deal breaker for my wife.

Has this changed or do you still have to enter your 1P password every time you log in or your session times out?

ryall··on OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
Exactly! When it comes to home media I prefer the Linux model of small utilities connected by pipes.
ryall··on Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
Maybe I'm way off base from what you're asking, but would a Raspberry Pi with an amplifier hat solve this?

I _think_ Rpi supports HDMI-CEC, but then again I've never seen CEC working properly outside of the fantasy realm

ryall··on Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
But it's such a great litmus test to instantly identify the people that don't know what the hell they're talking about ;)
ryall··on Ask HN: How to learn how to sell?
I recommend "The Introvert's Edge". The premise is to break down sales into a process, measure then iterate.

For me it removed a lot of the sleazyness feeling I had associated with selling.

ryall··on Things I wish someone told me about getting a promotion
Premature Optimisation is terrible for your career path. In this case premature means “before management notices” ;)
ryall··on Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship
Are they not aware of the irony here?
ryall··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
"you people" sounds so much better
ryall··on We should pay politicians more
You make a convincing argument, how can we conscionably blame these people for wanting to feather their nest, considering the pittance the public pays them?

Now replace politicians with police, and corporate interests with criminal interests (I'd wager they're equally as damaging), perhaps we have people with the wrong ideals in these positions?

ryall··on Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
And the way you're doing it sounds like you avoid the docker mount slowdown issue. Sounds like quite a good solution
ryall··on Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
Yeah I dusted off an old licence I had for resilio sync and use that to sync with my local machine.

You can get around this by running git clone inside your container as part of the startup process. But 1. It can add quite a delay to starting a container depending on the size of your codebase, and 2. Not all of my code is necessarily committed and pushed.

For me, syncing works well but I can see how it would not suit every use case

ryall··on Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
I've been considering writing one myself, admittedly it's not an easy road at first, and a step by step guide would've helped a lot.
ryall··on Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
I do this except the Linux is on a separate box and the dev envs are docker containers.

Decided to spend my money on decent, upgradeable hardware instead of shelling out 5k for another MB Pro. My next MacBook will probably be the most low-end I can get.

VSCode's remote/docker support is a godsend. Seems like we're heading back to the dumb terminal paradigm.

ryall··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
I'd hardly call America a country with a governmental system that's representative of the people
ryall··on Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano Style Cheese” [video]
Armagh Shiraz would like a word...
ryall··on GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
You forgot to mention the elephant murder [1]. At best, they're a company with extremely questionable ethics. It's entirely understandable that HN wouldn't question one more example of shady practices from godaddy.

https://science.time.com/2011/04/04/godaddy-ceo-on-shooting-...

ryall··on If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion
I like it! "Team Support" would be the perfect job title to really drive this home
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