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whitepoplar

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Say hi: sierpinski9321 [at] gmail.com
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whitepoplar··on LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
Members of the security community whom I trust gave their recommendation to those two products and went out of their way to suggest not using other products. I trusted that advice and picked 1Password. Also, AFAIK, even though 1Password is closed source, it has been audited.
whitepoplar··on LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
Last time I checked (a couple years ago), the only seemingly trustworthy password managers were 1Password and pass. Has this changed?
whitepoplar··on In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system UIDs and GIDs
Cool, just curious...why do you want them to be the same everywhere?
whitepoplar··on In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system UIDs and GIDs
Why do you manually pick user UID/GIDs?
whitepoplar··on Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID
Because apart from this, MacOS is an excellent operating system that "just works" for most people, and Apple's hardware is excellent.
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
From the rumor mill, Apple is building a dedicated service just for classical music.
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
The block storage devices are HDD, not SSD. You have to pay extra for SSD storage.
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Are Oracle's lawyers really a concern for people? How can Oracle's lawyers screw you if you're simply using one of their VPS's?
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Tower, Postico, Arq, 1Password, M1 MacBook Air, Hetzner servers, HHKB Hybrid Type-S, eero WiFi Systems
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Oracle Cloud (crazy, I know) will give you a 4-core ARM VPS with 24GB memory and 10TB bandwidth per month for free!
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
Did you read it in the original French, or as a translation? I tried reading the English translation and found it a bit....rough.
whitepoplar··on Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
Oh my god, lmao
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
Software is a thing too!
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
Vimium! (x1000)
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
PETAL (Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine.js, LiveView)
whitepoplar··on Pgagroal: High-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL
Check out pg_auto_failover! It's the easiest HA option for Postgres atm.
whitepoplar··on Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?
I think it's because they're primarily sold to enterprises, so if you're buying one in a personal capacity you're paying enterprise rates.
whitepoplar··on OpenStore Raises $75M to Acquire More Shopify Sellers
Same founder as Opendoor
whitepoplar··on Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
Thanks!
whitepoplar··on Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
Would an app-side ORM that has built-in connection pooling + PG14 (w/ connection scalability improvements) generally benefit from a connection pooler like Odyssey/PgBouncer, either server-side or app-side, when the number of app servers is low (<5-10)?
whitepoplar··on Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
Thanks! For a Postgres n00b, can Odyssey work alongside a HA solution like pg_auto_failover running on the same nodes?
whitepoplar··on Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
How does Odyssey compare to other high-performance poolers like pgagroal?
whitepoplar··on Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
Everything that comes out of Yandex is seemingly great. It feels like a lighter, leaner FAANG and as a result, it feels like their software is more usable by small teams (as compared to what the actual FAANGs put out).
whitepoplar··on We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
Kinda unrelated, but I have a question for anyone who is knowledgeable about running Postgres on ZFS...does setting a large-ish ZFS block size (e.g. 64kB) for use with Postgres (default 8kB blocks) cause a great deal of write-amplification even when ZFS `full_page_writes = off`?
whitepoplar··on We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
The post is literally about how ZFS compression saves them millions of dollars.
whitepoplar··on We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
They never said they were using rsync on their datasets. They're likely using ZFS snapshots.
whitepoplar··on Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?
Read any of William Bernstein's books. The Investor's Manifesto is a good one.

If you don't want to engage in the emotional rollercoaster of price, it's a good idea to set your investments on autopilot--have your broker automatically buy a certain amount each month without having to think about it. Don't touch it! (Except for rebalancing)

whitepoplar··on Ubuntu 21.10
Thanks for the heads up!
whitepoplar··on Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next
What's the compensation range for senior devs your company wanted to hire?
whitepoplar··on Postgres text search: balancing query time and relevancy
You may want to check out the ZomboDB Postgres extension!
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