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theultdev··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
You're conflating illegal immigration with immigration.

In no way is illegal immigration "good for America".

theultdev··on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
Sails are not a new experiment.

Hundreds of years of progress and known limitations.

They failed immediately because of a storm.

theultdev··on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
Well it does use oil.

> The 136-metre-long vessel had to rely partly on its auxiliary motor and its remaining sail after the aft sail was damaged in a storm shortly after departure.

Used the motor "shortly after departure".

theultdev··on Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
Looks beautiful! Have you done any focus on Typescript by chance?

I will test it out and report any abnormalities I see!

theultdev··on Making MLS More Decentralized
Yeah... extremely disappointing sums it up.
theultdev··on Making MLS More Decentralized
I immediately thought message layer security.

Had never heard of the MLS soccer league until just now.

This is a tech forum.

theultdev··on Making MLS More Decentralized
For those interested in a TypeScript implementation of RFC 9420, this is a great project:

https://github.com/LukaJCB/ts-mls

theultdev··on Why aren't smart people happier?
You can see farther ahead in life.

That makes you think about those things.

You get overwhelmed.

Others live day to day.

Ignorance is bliss.

theultdev··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
That's referring to American Airlines Flight 191 (May 25, 1979).

https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...

I watch a lot of airplane disasters.

TLDR: you are supposed to properly disassemble and use a proper lift to lower the engine, not shove it in with a fork lift (even though it's quicker).

I don't think this was the cause of this accident though, the engine was on fire before takeoff.

Not an airplane engineer, but I very much doubt anyone has used a forklift to install an engine since 191. Procedures got much more strict.

theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Until you learn it's not individuals, but groups of them with ideas that persist for multiple generations.
theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Luckily we all have the link and can see the top comments so we don't have to live in your reality.

You can't be arguing in good faith as it's clear as day the general sentiment difference between the posts.

theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
That was your honest takeaway from the Castro thread?

How many glorifying top comments did you scroll through to find him being called evil?

Fidel Castro executed and tortured people.

Jack Welch fired some people.

The general sentiment towards Welch's death was very negative.

The general sentiment towards Castro's death was very positive.

Does that clear things up?

theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Yes it's that type of comment I'm talking about.

Pretty much sums up his HN death post, while you'll find mostly praise for Castro.

You'd think Welch executed and tortured people and Castro was a saint.

theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Your history of Castro is extremely whitewashed.

You forgot the mention the political prisoners, torture, executions, and the authoritarian regime overall.

Thousands have risked their lives trying to escape it.

The juxtaposition of the comments between Welch and Castro is appalling.

Cheney and Castro are closer in terms that they both caused unnecessary death, but one gets praise upon death, and the other condemnation.

theultdev··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Now I didn't like the man or his legacy, but I always find it interesting to compare the HN response for controversial figures' deaths.

It's a pretty stark difference depending on the political alignment. Scan the tone of these comments, and then scan Castro's for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886

Jack Welch is also another that didn't receive much love here:

(and he certainly was not as controversial or brutal as Castro)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22464733

theultdev··on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
Slightly higher latency. I've seen about 20-30% increase from S3 to R2. But the bill is magnitudes lower.

Agree with the KV point, Upstash is the same. But I just use dragonflydb on a single VM. No point paying for transactions.

Hell, S3 could have 20ms latency and it wouldn't matter since I can't afford it.

theultdev··on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
Luckily it's just static files. You can use whatever host you want.
theultdev··on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
R2 is S3 compatible with no egress fees.

Cloudflare actually has built in iceberg support for R2 buckets. It's quite nice.

Combine that with their pipelines it's a simple http request to ingest, then just point duckdb to the iceberg enabled R2 bucket to analyze.

theultdev··on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
Still qualifies imo. Everything is static and on a CDN.

Lack of server/dynamic code qualifies as no backend.

theultdev··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
well there's npm, pnpm, yarn, bun package managers

not a python developer, so not sure it's equivalent as the npm registry is shared between all.

theultdev··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
> I wonder if the remaining engineers' salary increased by the salary of the laid off coworkers'

Never does.

theultdev··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
Yeah or start my own company since they're basically doing everything now it sounds like.

Someone barking orders at you to generate code because they are too stupid to be able to read it is not very fun.

These people hire developers because their own brains are inferior, and now they think they can replace them because they don't want to share the wages with them.

theultdev··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
Yeah I'm sure they aren't complaining because you'll just lay them off like the others.

I don't see how you could think 7 engineers would love the workload of 20 engineers, extra tooling or not.

Have fun with the tech debt in a few years.

theultdev··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
> reducing the number of needed engineers at my business

> code is getting less and less important in our team

> the engineers aren't complaining

lays off engineers for ai trained off of other engineer's code and says code is less important and engineers aren't complaining.

theultdev··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
Yeah I mean, aren't most of the blackouts controlled?

Not the lack of supply but shutdown on purpose due to the risk of power lines causing fires?

Seems burying them would be a more effective use of money if you're trying to solve blackouts.

theultdev··on Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
Not about responsibility. Just makes your life easier.

Noone is saying it's acceptable, just offering advice on how to mitigate the situation.

Should is the keyword of your last sentence. In a perfect world sure, but the world is not that.

You never know, you may even become friends. Doesn't hurt to attempt once at least.

theultdev··on Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
Lots of assumptions you're making there.

Better to just have the cup of coffee and see.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to disarm people with kindness, you should try it.

theultdev··on Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
"kill them with kindness"

it's very effective in a lot of cases, with no downside.

best case scenario, they were unaware and re-adjust how they talk to you.

worst case scenario, you know they are just being an asshole and you can go back to hating them.

If it all fails, my go to is patronizing kindness to taunt. Much better than complaining or arguing.

theultdev··on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
Interior enforcement is the focus currently.

Crossings are lower overall due to securing of the border.

theultdev··on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
Difference between deportations under Obama vs Trump is they aren't coming right back over.

Easy to inflate deportations when you catch the same fish and the river is flowing.

Much slower when you dam off the river and have to dig the remaining catfish out of the mud.

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