whitepoplar

4,934 karma · joined October 6, 2016

Say hi: sierpinski9321 [at] gmail.com

whitepoplar··on Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing

Can you recommend a hosting provider that's better than Hetzner but not as pricey as AWS?

whitepoplar··on Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing

This is my primary concern. I want to use Hetzner so badly for important workloads, but just can't stomach the risk (even if it's a small one) of being null-routed.

Which hosting provider would you use today?

whitepoplar··on Simple Made Easy (2011) [video]

Facepalm! Thanks.

whitepoplar··on Simple Made Easy (2011) [video]

I can't seem to find a "Sermons On The Mount" talk. Do you have a link?

whitepoplar··on In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

What were the specific benefits you experienced?

whitepoplar··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)

https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1496765378592083968?s=20

https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1496770278612819968?s=20

https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1495875479475298324?s=20

whitepoplar··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)

SK Hynix and Sabrent: https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1496290369184874497?s=20

whitepoplar··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)

SK Hynix and Sabrent: https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1496290369184874497?s=20

whitepoplar··on Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

Which of DHH's technical decisions would you consider poor?

whitepoplar··on SanDisk Extreme Pro failures result from design flaw, says researcher

What brand would you trust the most, for SSDs and for SD cards?

whitepoplar··on Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM

As someone who loves ruby syntax, I'd be very interested to hear which parts of it you don't like.

whitepoplar··on Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma

What's the best free alternative these days?

whitepoplar··on WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs

What's the best NVMe drive for linux these days? (Seamless firmware updates, autotrim, rock-solid reliability)

whitepoplar··on WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs

Samsung Pro-series NVMe seems to be liked quite a bit.

whitepoplar··on ARM’s Neoverse N2: Cortex A710 for Servers

or just offer the hardware exclusively on Apple Cloud.

whitepoplar··on Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace

strongly endorse cloudflare and porkbun. namecheap is ehh.

whitepoplar··on (next Rich)

i'ved only dabbled in clojure/lisp, but i've heard many lisp programmers talk about "thinking in lisp". can you share some of the particulars of what that means and why thinking in lisp/clojure is beneficial?

whitepoplar··on We raised a bunch of money

Since you're hosting your own hardware, one request: if you end up doing managed Postgres, please give customers as much fast, local NVMe storage as they can use. 1M IOPS? Done. 10TB database on local NVMe? No problem.

whitepoplar··on Rick Rubin’s creative genius

I'm not familiar with Rubin beyond his public persona. How is he a scumbag?

whitepoplar··on Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years

Apple isn't perfect, but they're generally pretty reasonable and will work to help you, even if it takes multiple tries. My experience with Google has been the exact opposite. Everything they touch results in Kafka-esque psychological torture.

whitepoplar··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It

Which cloud vendors are using PGAF?

whitepoplar··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It

How are major version upgrades handled on PGAF these days? Last time I used it (it's amazing), there wasn't a great path forward for minimal-downtime major version upgrades.

whitepoplar··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It

What's the self-hosted Postgres HA story these days?

whitepoplar··on DDoS Protection

Isn't it trivial to discover the origin IP and then just hit it directly?

whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for

https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain

whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for

Try reading Sarno. Sounds nuts but it works.

whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Lots of AWS credits expiring soon, ideas?

Good idea, but make sure they don't accidentally blow past $10k, leaving you with a monster bill. People can be a little reckless with "free money".

whitepoplar··on Lately I've been using timers daily

Did he have a combo machine, or a separate washer and dryer? For some reason I thought he had separates.

whitepoplar··on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

It's a portable drive covered in rubberized plastic.

whitepoplar··on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

I'd read through this thread before purchasing an SK Hynix SSD: https://twitter.com/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056?s=20

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