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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs (lalitm.com)
From the report, it sounds like a good thing, for the product and the team morale. Strangely the math looks such that they could hire nearly 1 FTE engineer that works full time only on "little issues" (40 weeks, given that people have vacations and public holidays and sick time that's a full year's work at 100%), and then the small issues could be addressed immediately, modulo the good vibes created by dedicating the whole group to one cause for one week. Of course nobody would approve that role...
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The unkind world we live in would see this role being abused quickly and a person not lasting long in this role. For one, in the wrong team, it might lead to devs just doing 80% of the work and leaving the rest to the janitor. And the janitor might get fed up with having to fix the buggy code of their colleagues. I wonder if the janitor role could be rotated weekly or so? Then everyone could also reap the benefits of this role too, I can imagine this being a good thing for anyone in terms of motivation. Fixing stuff triggers a different positive response than building stuff
That is why I stand on the side of better law for company responsibilities. We as industry have taught people that broken products is acceptable. In any other industry, unless people are from the start getting something they know is broken or low quality, flea market, 1 euro shop, or similar, they will return the product, ask for the money back, sue the company whatever.
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There should be better regulation of course, but I want to point out, that the comparison with other industries doesn't quite work, because these days software is often given away at no financial cost. Often it costs ones data. But once that data is released into their data flows, you can never unrelease it. It has already been processed in LLM training or used somehow to target you with ads or whatever other purpose. So people can't do what they usually would do, when the product is broken.
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Imagining that the software will be shipped with hardware, that has no internet access and therefore cumbersome firmware upgrades, might be helpful. Avoiding shipping critical bugs is actually critical so bricking the hardware is undesirable. Example: (aftermarket) car headunit.
> It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done. In my experience there are two types of low-priority bugs (high-priority bugs just have to be fixed immediately no matter how easy or hard they are). 1. The kind where I facepalm and go “yup, I know exactly what that is”, though sometimes it’s too low of a priority to do it right now, and it ends up sitting on the backlog forever. This is the kind of bug the author wants to sweep for, they can often be wiped out in big batches by temporarily making bug-hunting the priority every once in a while. 2. The kind where I go “Hmm, that’s weird, that really shouldn’t happen.” These can be easy and turn into a facepalm after an hour of searching, or they can turn out to be brain-broiling heisenbugs that eat up tons of time, and it’s difficult to figure out which. If you wipe out a ton of category 1 bugs then trying to sift through this category for easy wins can be a good use of time. And yeah, sometimes a category 1 bug turns out to be category 2, but that’s pretty unusual. This is definitely an area where the perfect is the enemy of the good, and I find this mental model to be pretty good.
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>high-priority bugs just have to be fixed immediately no matter how easy or hard they are The fact that something is high priority doesn't make it less work.
> Sometimes, a "bug" can be caused by nasty architecture with intertwined hacks The joys of enterprise software. When searching for the cause of a bug let you discover multiple "forgotten" servers, ETL jobs, crons all interacting together. And no one knows why they do what they do how they do. Because they've gone away many years ago.
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plus report servers and others that run on obsolete versions of Windows/unix/IBM OS plus obsolete software versions. and you just look at this and thinks: one day, all of this is going to crash and it will never, ever boot again.
That's what I hear. I've had some mix of luck and skill in finding these jobs. Working with people you've worked with before helps with knowing what you're in for. I also don't really ask anyone, I just fix any bugs I find. That may not work in all organizations :)
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micro-managing middle manager: "Are all your other sprint tasks finished?" code reviewing coworker: "This shouldn't be done on this branch!" (OK, at least this is easy to fix by doing it on a separate branch.)
A One-Minute ADHD Test (psychotechnology.substack.com)
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thought the test was finishing the article in itself
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My gripe with some of these simple questions is that they do not provide a framework to answer the questions within. "How often do you feel X?" With answers as "very often" means very different things to different people. For one person once a month could be very often since they expect this to never happen, while for another person a few times a day might be expected. The problem here is that if people think that they might have a condition or be sick, it has been shown time and time again that this might emphasize the symptoms and make a person "sicker". In addition these general questions that a lot of people can relate to will cause a lot of people to get unneeded screening, thereby straining an overloaded health service (it might be different in the US, I'm in Europe).
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> With answers as "very often" means very different things to different people. Agree, I think it's certainly a problem and I too wish it was more defined, but alas. Related, Literal Banana on surveys: https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/ > In addition these general questions that a lot of people can relate to will cause a lot of people to get unneeded screening Yes, a lot of people have ADHD. I link to the study that shows high specificity in the general population. Empirically, the tool works. You gotta start getting concerned about your symptoms from somewhere.
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Did you know that ADHD is more common among people on the autism spectrum?
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It’s different in the US- it is worse.
Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch (thoughtbot.com)
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Turns out people really, really, REALLY don't like to be forced to change their decades old thinking, vocabulary and definitions of words when they feel its either pointless busy work, propagation of an ideology they do not support or a straight up attempt at mind control.
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All the woke stuff was so annoying past 5 years. I don't remember the company name but it was one of those feature flag toggle companies. For a year straight they communicated this change they were doing, basically replacing blacklist and whitelist with more PC terms. Someone at the company decided to not only make it a recommended change, but that the old usage would BREAK the app. They couldn't handle the word blacklist in the codebase so much that they were willing to punish their users. It felt like I was getting an email from them every 5 days for a year. That all being said - main is shorter than master and I would say most of us here, probably 95%, are "used to it" and it would actually be annoying to go back to master.
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When we have sentient robots running around doing our bidding, I wonder what we'll call them.
Don't know why people here got triggered by DEI, but the "master" naming is just bad, "main" is actually a better and more generic description. The word "master" means someone/thing that has the capability of controlling things, like "Mastered", "Master Degree" etc. But in most Git contexts, "master" is just "one of the breach that we hand picked to put our finest results in", that's not mastering anything, it just means "if you know what's best for you (or not), just use this one". Another similar wording is in IDE hard drives. Remember the fun time where you can to setup jumpers before your secondary IDE hard drive would work? Yeah that secondary drive is called "slave". I'm still confused why the first drive must be called "master" since I never see it whipping any other drives to make them work harder or really doing anything that's remotely controlling. The computer guys in the old times really have a weird taste in naming things.
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You betray your own ignorance. Master has been used historically to refer to the "final" or "canonical" copy. For example, you make copies of a CD based on the master. Creating that master copy is called mastering. The word "master" stems from Latin, meaning "great" or "teacher". Just as teachers pass on knowledge to students, data is copied from the master. Any slavery related connotations is insanely recent, and arguably manufactured specifically for the purpose of linguistic censorship. Historically, slave owners were referred to as... owners.
Maybe they resisted because it was completely ridiculous waste of engineering resources all over the country and for absolutely no tangible reason other than white people trying to feel better about themselves. I work in the field of film mastering (with countless product names with the word “master” in it) and luckily no one got the ridiculous idea in their head that we need to change this lingo. Show me a single person who has a valid reason for me not calling my branch “master” or my bedroom “the master”. I honestly think this sort of ridiculing word policing is why we lost this last damned election. And if you’re somehow proud that you’ve renamed your git branches, you’re very likely a contributor to that lost election.
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This stuff reminds me of what my mother said about feminists trying to get people to spell women with a y. She didn't like it because it made feminism seem like something petty and frivolous. If I put my tin foil hat on it feels like a psyops to make the left look like a bunch of morons.
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Every time I push to master I get this song in my head Master! Master! Every time I push to main I have in my head: ...meh
This whole 'master branch' outrage doesn't even make sense. Should saying things like: "I've mastered computer programming." also be an offense? We absolutely should deny and disregard these nonsensical demands _by principle_. What was even the actual case made by people who wanted this? And don't tell me "well it's not a big deal, just accept it don't whine about something so small", because that won't fly, or shouldn't at least.
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You can go read the justification in a million places, I’m not going to repeat it badly here. From your tone I see you’d like to have an argument. While I’m sure that will make you feel good about yourself on this dull Monday morning, I doubt it will result in much valuable interchange of perspective.
> changing from SHA-1 to SHA-256 for greater security Linus has a different view, he referred to the SHA-256 migration as "pointless churn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI?t=11m SHA-1 is not broken enough to be a serious issue for git. The migration to SHA-256 has been forced by on git by clueless morons, and it is, in this very special way, similar to the master-main rename.
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Also wonders if SHA-384 or SHA-256 would be more "future proofing" or whatever the points the supporters making
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Only if you don't have any pdf files in your repo.
It’s non inclusive of people who think it’s stupid - their feelings are not taken under account.
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I'm with you on the cost basis for this. It makes no sense to die on this hill. But to answer your question, it's unclear how "inclusive" this actually is. No person of color I've talked to about this (at least 3 that I can recall) has thought this was anything other than weird virtue signaling by admittedly mostly white social justice warriors. Their feelings on "master" terminology ranged from mild bemusement to "I REALLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT." If the only people being "included" by this are people whom are themselves being uninclusive, even if for the right reasons... I question how "inclusive" this actually is. That said, I'm definitely in the idgaf camp. My new repos are "main" because that's the default. Most of my old repos are still "master" because I never bothered to change it.
Are you alright?
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no. I just had flashbacks on how many scripts I had to change and build edge cases in back then when they changed master and slave in mysql. But everything to make slaves happy and not feel triggered I guess.
Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies (github.com/wailsapp)
Anyone knows how wails v3 is progressing and if they are actually adding mobile support?
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beta soon tm. mobile eventually with some PoCs around but nothing concrete yet sadly.
because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web
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My cross platform application written in C#/.NET and Avalonia strongly disagrees with this crazy assertion. I can also think of QT and GTK for other languages too.
There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come to mind.
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I wouldn't exactly call Flutter native. It uses its own rendering engine and doesn't necessarily behave like operating system native controls. It is not really different from using electron.
RuBee (computer.rip)
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> Long ago I wrote about ANT+, for example, a failed personal area network standard designed mostly around fitness applications. I didn’t know ANT+ was “failed”, I use it all the time with my Garmin products. It’s cheap and it works better than Bluetooth. I have ANT+ cadence and heart rate sensors. Lights, camera, Varia radar and power meter. Some of that can be done with Bluetooth but realistically not all at the same time. Apple refuse to support ANT+ so I need a dongle for my Mac and it’s the reason I don’t have an Apple Watch. No biggie.
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I like the Univers-like font on this page.
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i'm a little bit sad the kernel diagram background is gone
There are barely any civilian gun markets outside the US. US is really really unique in their relationship to guns.
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This. There’s many countries that allow civilians firearms (e.g. Canada and much of Europe), but generally for hunting purposes and thus more likely to be rifles and shotguns than concealable handguns.
smart guns is future dystopian
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regular guns is current dystopian
Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub (bbc.com)
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As a European I have to say I am extremely jealous of a government with the willingness of doing something as radical as this. Europe desperately needs to secure its own semi conductor supply chain. Neither the EU nor any member states seems willing to do anything about this though. Europe still is in a position, where it feasibly could control 100% of the semiconductor value chain on the continent. But besides meaning posturing there is nothing being done.
It would be darkly amusing if all chips come from either politically unstable Taiwan or seismically unstable Hokkaido. But then Japan seems amazing at producing all sorts of other delicate things, despite all of its soil being basically built out of earthquakes, so I guess they have this bit figured out.
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That's not even a tough call if you had to lay odds on which would go offline first. Is "politically unstable" once again an acceptable euphemism for a small democracy being threatened with destruction by a totalitarian superpower? I thought we decided that was gauche. After, say, the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
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If we aren’t already in a world war from China solving Taiwan as you say, we would be in one from China taking Korea or Japan.
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Taiwan just the last remnant that the losing faction of the China civil war still holds. I don't think that China wants to conquer korea or japan. Having a vassal is usually cheaper than outright conquest and occupation. They just want the US vassals to switch to being China's
What's with all this scaremongering around China gonna invade everything anytime soon? How many wars has China started? In my lifetime I've only seen one major county besides Russia having a habbit of starting illegal wars whenever geopolitics doesn't go its way and it's not China.
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US needs China to have something for us to rally against, otherwise focus might be on the asset owners vs workers, which would cripple us. We need to win the AI race! The implication being that there can not be more than one winner…
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> How many wars has China started? Perhaps you would be well served by opening a history textbook. In 1962 China launched a surprise war against India completely unprovoked over some border territory. China’s aggression continues unabated even into present day - they’ve been illegally annexing territory in Bhutan to put pressure on India. That has been China’s way of negotiating all their borders - through violence first. More can always be said but here’s a simple 2 minute video explaining the 1962 war - https://youtu.be/zCePMVvl1ek . Here you are defending China when I bet you’d be hard pressed to point to Bhutan or Aksai Chin or the Chicken’s Neck on a map. But those are lesser known places. Are you seriously claiming you don’t know of the Nine Dash line and the violence with which China enforces its absurd maritime claims? It’s always an option to just not say things instead of making claims like what you’ve made.
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The South China Morning Post itself recently wrote on speculation that Beijing could try to challenge Tokyo’s control of Okinawa, given its history and proximity to Taiwan.[0] [0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3333468/chinese-state-media-calls-more-research-ryukyu-history-amid-row-japan
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About a decade ago, some Chinese propagandists were encouraging calling Okinawa the Ryukyu kingdom and trying to ferment an independence campaign. It didn’t get too far.
A LOT of countries on the planet talk about annexing their former territories, like Orbans Hungary. Others have actually done it (Armenia- Azerbaijan). What do you want to do about it? Start a world war with them just in case to provent them from doing it (further)? Bombing them in the name of peace?
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The best defense is to have a military strong enough they won't dare attack.
China has started border skirmishes with India every twenty years or so since the founding of the PRC. And then there's Tibet. Just because they haven't initiated a mass invasion of Eastern Siberia you shouldn't get the idea China isn't pursuing an expansionist foreign policy.
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Speaking as an Indian. Most of these are just diplomatic flexing of muscles which mostly reduce to literally nothing. There is not going to a be a war in the modern context. Secondly, only one war has happened between China and India, in which arguably we Indians kind of started it- Read here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_policy_(Sino-Indian_conflict) """ The forward policy had Nehru identify a set of strategies designed with the ultimate goal of effectively forcing the Chinese from territory that the Indian government claimed. The doctrine was based on a theory that China would not likely launch an all-out war if India began to occupy territory that China considered to be its own . India's thinking was partly based on the fact that China had many external problems in early 1962, especially with one of the Taiwan Strait Crises. Also, Chinese leaders had insisted they did not wish a war. [18] """
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Nonsense. China occupied big chunch of Indian land. They will be a big war sooner or later. It's just how the world works
China maintain the view that Tibet is part of China since the establishment of PRC, and they make this very explicit. Same for their border disputes with India. China never admitted that they believe it's not theirs. Mea while China does not ever say that Japan or Korea is part of China (and it's the only reason why they keep North Korea from collapsing despite it being super annoying). So, again, any example of China suddenly started to claim lands?
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> Perhaps there are not many instances in history where one country has gone out of her way to be friendly and cooperative with the government and people of another country and to plead their cause in the councils of the world, and then that country returns evil for good Jawaharlal Nehru (India’s Prime Minister), on the day that China launched an unprovoked surprise war against India in 1962. It was a crushing victory for China, and they grabbed all their territory they wanted. More can always be said but here’s a 2 minute video that explains the war - https://youtu.be/zCePMVvl1ek You know how Mao said diplomacy flows from the barrel of a gun? That wasn’t a metaphor. That is PRC policy since 1949.
isn't that the same clever argument that Comrade Vladimir uses in Ukraine?
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Bingo
> Japan has neither and it's dubious whether the United States would step in. There is NO QUESTION the US would provide a full defense of Japan against any aggressive party. The US has multiple military bases in Japan, with 35,000+ military personnel. Japan pays the US billions every year to support the US military presence there. Japan is also a too-big-to-fail economy (4th in the world) and US trading partner. And strategically, what do you think the US "pivot to Asia" means, if not defending close US allies in the Asia-Pacific from unprovoked aggression? For over 60 years the United States-Japan Alliance has served as the cornerstone of peace, stability, and freedom in the Indo-Pacific region. The U.S. commitment to Japan’s defense under the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty of 1960 is unwavering. https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-japan/
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The Budapest Memorandum (1994) gave assurances, that the U.S. would militarily intervene or defend Ukraine under attack like an alliance-treaty. Ukraine surrendered the sharpest tool in its arsenal for those assurances, its inherited nuclear arsenal, the world’s third-largest at the time. But the loss was broader than warheads; it was the surrender of a strategic future. America first means America first. All politicians will say one thing and do another, always check the incentives…
The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing (gist.github.com)
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What happens if you don't use Cloudflare and just host everything on a server? Can't you run a website like that if you don't host heavy content? How common are DDOS attacks anyway, and aren't there local (to the server), that analyze user behavior to a decent accuracy (at least it can tell they're using a real browser and behaving more or less like a human would, making attacks expensive). Can't you buy a list of ISP ranges from a GeoIP provider (you can), at least then you'd know which addresses belong to real humans. I don't think botnets are that big of a problem (maybe in some obscure places of the world, but you can temp rangeban a certain IP range, if there's a lot of suspicious traffic coming from there). If lots of legit networks (as in belonging to people who are paying an ISP for their network connections) have botnets, that's means most PCs are compromised, which is a much more severe issue.
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Yeah, you can. Lots of people use raspberry pi’s for this, which is a smidge anaemic for some decent load (HN Hug Of Death)- even an Intel N100 is more grunt, for context. This makes people think that their self hosting setup can never handle HN load; because when they see people talking about self hosting the site goes down.
Thanks for doing the meme! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat You are very intelligent!
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That's fair. However I don't think I would have wrote that if those thoughts were shared on a blogging platform. Most blogging platforms do not qualify as critical infrastructure. GitHub with all its CI/CD and supply chain attacks does. There is a certain particular irony of this being written on critical (centralized) infrastructure without any apparent need. Maybe it was intended, maybe not, in any case I found it funny.
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I agree. I think the whole point is someone like TFA author has a pretty broad choice of places they can choose to publish this and choosing GitHub is somewhat ironic. Reminds me of the guy who posted an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg like "we are not for sale" on LinkedIn, a place that literally sells access to its users as their main product.
So were going backwards to a world where there are basically 5 computers running everything and everyone is basically accessing the world through a dumb terminal.Even though the digital slab in our pockets has more compute than a roomful of the early gen devices. Hopefully critical infrashifts back to managed metal or private clouds - dont see it though with the last decades of cloud evangalism to move all legacy systems to the cloud doesnt look like reversing anytime soon.
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Yeah it's crazy to realize it takes a room of electronics for me to get my (g)mail. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
I'll die on the hill that centralization is more efficient than decentralization and that rare outages of hugely centralized systems that are otherwise highly reliable are much better than full decentralization with much worse reliability. In other words, when AWS or Cloudflare go down it's catastrophic in the sense that everyone sees the issues at the same time, but smaller providers usually have much more ongoing issues, that just happen to be "chronic" vs "acute" pains.
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And the irony is that people are pushing for decentralization like microservices and k8s - on centralized platforms like AWS.
I wonder what would life without cloudflare look like? What practices would fill the gaps if a company didn't - or wasn't allowed to -- satisfy the the concerns that cloudflare fills.
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Pretty much exactly like it does now but with less captchas. Fun fact: Headless browsers can easily pass cloudflare captchas automatically. They're not actually captchaing - they're just a placebo. You just need to be coming from a residential IP address and using a real browser.
The cynic in me wonders how much blame the world's leading vendor of DDoS prevention might share in the creation of that particularly problem
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They provide free services to DDoS-for-hire services and do not terminate the services when reported.
Even more so when most of the internet is also down. What are customers going to do? Go to competitor that's also down? It is extremely annoying, will ruin your day, but as movie quote goes - if everyone is special, no one is.
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They could go to your competitor that's up. If you choose to be up, your competitor's customers could go to you.
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If it’s that easy to get the exact same service / product as another vendor the maybe your competitive advantage isn’t so high. If Amazon would be down I’d just wait a few hours as I don’t want to sign up on another site.
Even if you learn to Host, there are many other services that are going to get relied on those centralised platforms, so if you are thinking to Host, every single thing on your own, then it is going to be more work than you can even imagine and definitely super hard to organise as well
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Anything.
McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (bedelstein.com)
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My father is a metalworker and I grew up with stacks of their encyclopedias all over my house. Was always amazed the sheer amount of stuff in them, probably saved a few trees with their website.
Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
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Germans have https://geizhals.de
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Having used both extensively, Geizhals doesn't hold a candle to McMaster. McMaster is, bar none, the single best e commerce website I've ever used (if you already know what you're looking for, and definitely still top shelf if you don't). But McMaster and eg Amazon are optimizing for different things. McMaster knows its clientele isn't going shopping, they're solving problems. As such, McMaster focuses on helping your solve your problem and get back to work. Amazon, on the other hand, is focused on just selling you "as much 'anything' as possible" and wants you to spend as much time there as possible in the hopes that you'll stumble on an impulse buy.
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Except for the annoying cookie popup. If only we had a simple browser setting/header that could answer this question without another click. Hmm
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We do! It recognises the 'Do Not Track' sent, at least on FF for me. I get a very small popup telling me it's respecting this setting, and no request for accepting anything else: > "Do not Track"-Modus erkannt! Es werden nur technisch notwendige Cookies verwended. [Datenschutzerkl"arung](...) Lovely. If only the rest of the web looked like this.
Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
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Has anyone tried AirPods Pro as hearing aides? I remember Apple talking big game about getting them certified or something
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Someone I know does in fact use the m for that. I am not sure how serious they are about to though, it's their first hearing aid.
I'll tell you what is NOT hot! I have Phonak Audeos paired over bluetooth with my iPhone. A few years prior, I used to have Oticon, also paired with my iPhone. With the Oticon, if I made a cellphone call, the iPhone would use the default iPhone microphone while the audio would stream to my hearing aids. It was good that way because in a noisy environment I could hold the iphone right up to my mouth and the other party would be able to hear what I was saying. With the newer Phonaks, I was very disappointed to find that the new hearing aids would only use the microphone input that is built into the hearing aids themselves, and not the iPhone mic input. I discovered this when I realised that talking directly into iPhone mic did not make it any easier for the other party to hear me. I complained to my Audiologist who explained that yes, the new hearing aids were copying the behaviour of Apple AirPods, which also have the mic input on the earpod itself, and that there was no way at all to configure the Phonaks to use the iPhone mic input instead. Why is this a problem you might ask? Because my hearing aids are Behind The Ear (BTE) and thus the mic input on the hearing aid is a good 4 inches away from my face and thus my voice cannot possibly sound as clear as when I could speak directly into an iPhone mic. When I next replace my hearing aids, I shall look for aids that do not mimic this crappy AirPods behaviour...
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iOS 26 finally enabled custom mic selection! Settings > Sound & Haptics > Input > change from "Automatic: ..." to "iPhone Microphone"
I trialed hearing aids a little while ago and ended up not committing, because the sound quality was bad, wheezy and tinny, and gave me headaches. Particularly bad in noisy environments, which is where I'd most need the help. Also the app sucked, Bluetooth pairing broke all the time and the controls were just confusing. They were Phonaks. I guess I'm glad to hear that it's not intrinsically a hearing aid thing, and I may find a better experience with other brands.
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The tinniness is something your brain adjusts to and prices in, and if your hearing aid is properly set up, it is very likely that to start with it will sound tinny if your hearing is deficient with high frequencies. It is boosting those frequencies to make up for your lack in hearing. You probably need a good 2-6 months to adjust. Mine were exactly like this to start with and over time the effect goes away such that you don't notice. I'd recommend if you do actually have hearing problems, sticking with it for quality of life improvements.
I’ll chime in with a sidebar: Anyone got any experience using hearing aids for the "hearing in noise" issue (aka. King-Kopetzky syndrome or lack of cocktail party effect [0], part of a whole bunch of things also called adhd for ears). Essentially I have filtering issues, as soon as multiple people talk, I can’t really understand anyone anymore, unless they very directly speak into my ears so they are significantly louder than other noises. It’s a brain thing, my hearing itself is above average for my age (40), so I’m not sure what exactly can be done, but there was an article many years ago about someone (Bose?) working on aids for that issue, no idea what came of it. I guess all modern hearing aids have some focus mode. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder edit: In case there’s an airpod suggestion, I’ll also need to know if that feature works on Android, it’s not crippling enough to make me use an iPhone.
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Hearing in noise is both what most people want from hearing aids and what they are least equipped to provide. The traditional solution is an FM system where you give the person speaking a microphone linked to your hearing aids. There are dedicated ones like Phonak Roger. You could probably also use your phone as a microphone if it's bluetooth connected to your headphones or hearing aids.
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Ego, empathy, and humility at work (matthogg.fyi)
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Daily standup being absolutely useless has nothing to do with ego.
“A guide for people with Autism”
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You're preaching to the can stacking choir. Jokes aside, so many "guides" and analyses found online these days seem to be just common sense if you're an adult. But if it helps people who do not seem to possess it, I guess that's a good thing?
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How old are you? It might be common sense to you, because you grew up at a different time with different parenting.
> The following is a short, incomplete list of typical statements we as developers might say or hear at work. If you parse them more precisely each one is an attempt at self-justification: […] > “We should start using this new tool in our pipeline.” > “We should never use that new tool in our pipeline.” I don’t get what’s “wrong” with those two. There’s no justification (self- or otherwise) whatsoever in any of those statements, not even a hint of an attempt. Justification, as I understand it, requires a “why” (possibly, only suggestively implied, but nonetheless present in some form) and I see absolutely none, just a call to action. If someone sees it, can you please explain?
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even if someone IS ego driven, if the justification is scientific or evidence based then It doesnt Matter too much. Science is the antidote to ego, not morality
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