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swarfield

16 karma · joined January 26, 2021

Works for CloudFlare on the Workers Runtime, loves pizza and python.
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swarfield··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
Better than geoip, y'all could work with the French to have French networks point to a black hole server by having BGP point 9.9.9.9 at said server.
swarfield··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges
Makes sense but monitoring doesn't mean you have to have remote control of power.
swarfield··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
Why the fuck are those fridges even networked!?
swarfield··on Ask HN: Large companies with good customer support?
For insurance, USAA has god tier support. I've never had to wait more than a minute to get a US based rep that knows what they're doing.

Edit: That minute includes going through the "Press X for Y services" menu.

swarfield··on Open Infrastructure Map
Doh, thinking about it through that lens makes it obvious!
swarfield··on Open Infrastructure Map
:+1:
swarfield··on Open Infrastructure Map
Should we be marking key infrastructure, utilities don't distribute this information for a reason.
swarfield··on Ask HN: Any good Black Friday deals?
The Denver Post is $6 for an entire year.
swarfield··on Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest
Just because we messed it up in the past doesn't mean we didn't learn from it and can't adapt our strategies in the future as new data comes in.

Changing nothing is the most harmful strategy right now.

swarfield··on Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest
This really pissed me off. Half of the trees in RMNP were/are dead standing since the Park Service had put out all natural fires for a century and did not allow logging of the dead wood. We hit the point where the fuel situation is so bad that fires are no longer controllable, and the fires burn so much hotter that it permanently scars the land by burning seeds that usually would make it through just fine.
swarfield··on Our World of Pixels
It would be interesting to see some stats on what you guys are see performance wise, how much storage the project takes up, and what framework you are using. Honestly you guys have a lot of head room for speed improvements.

Btw the server implementation I could find was archived?

swarfield··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
https://imgflip.com/i/7tq0s3
swarfield··on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-learning-slide-continu...

Looks like a lot of it can be attributed to covid.

swarfield··on V8 Maglev: compiler design doc
Factory must grow
swarfield··on Show HN: Pinbot – An extension to privately search one's browser history with AI
Did anyone else think Pinball?
swarfield··on Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
It's really cool, I've used it before and it's super easy.
swarfield··on Ask HN: Aren’t high Egress fees clearly anti competitive?
Cloudflare's R2 (S3 Competitor) has no egress fees.
swarfield··on Git archive checksums may change
Using SHA hashes when building guarantees that the code that you are building is what you think it is. How else would you verify dependencies like this, GPG signatures would have the same issue if you change the underlying bits.
swarfield··on Git archive checksums may change
They have broken almost every open source project that builds external deps. Also broke homebrew apparently.
swarfield··on Git archive checksums may change
https://github.com/bazel-contrib/SIG-rules-authors/issues/11...
swarfield··on I Lost All Faith in LastPass
Can't believe that they were using Electronic Coloring Book mode!