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Kab1r

251 karma · joined April 19, 2022

DevOps Engineer in San Francisco

meet.hn/city/37.7707742,-122.3911712/Mission-Bay

Socials: - bsky.app/profile/kab1r.dev - discord:kabr.dev - github.com/Kab1r - linkedin.com/in/Kab1r

Interests: Climbing, DevOps, Open Source

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Kab1r··on Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
Arch for PCs
Kab1r··on Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee
But then sales taxes are fees, no?
Kab1r··on sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
Best library name.
Kab1r··on Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust
I don't think formally verifying my showing that the model is correct is good enough anymore. You must prove that your implementation refines the model.
Kab1r··on Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
I've been building a TLA style Temporal Logic library for Verus (using LLMs). My experience so far is that LLMs are surprisingly useful at generating the mechanical proof scaffolding (when they're not occasionally trying to cheat with `assume(false)` statements), but they are not a substitute for knowing what property you actually want.
Kab1r··on Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust
I have written complex proofs for distributed system using verus which are certainly not expressed by clippy
Kab1r··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
And some websites consume the entire history that a browser displays in that menu
Kab1r··on Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
I've had this a couple times too
Kab1r··on The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen
I think CXL, perhaps more specifically cxl.mem on edsff, is a more relevant replacement for DDR, that most have also not seen
Kab1r··on Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
An anthropic the only provider with an IL6 approved frontier model?
Kab1r··on US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers
Yes please take as many of the ≈10^12 unique email addresses I have used in the last year.
Kab1r··on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
As opposed to the rest of the world who believe you must let yourself be murdered /s
Kab1r··on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
Is there a good reason (other than licensing and Linux as an alternative) I shouldn't use Windows Server 202X as a Desktop OS?
Kab1r··on In S3 simplicity is table stakes
> S3 launched as the first public AWS service.

Didn't SQS launch publicly earlier than S3?

Kab1r··on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
> RAID or do regular off-site backups.

RAID is not a backup! Do both.

Kab1r··on AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
Does anyone know if this is the same vulnerability that ASUS leaked in a beta BIOS?
Kab1r··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
Being grateful for a miserable life marginally improving does not negate otherwise unavoidable prolonged suffering.
Kab1r··on Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
If the change is targeting a rust edition it's being treated as a feature/improvement not as a compiler bug. If there isn't a spec that explicitly says that this is expected behavior (and as far as I know there isn't a concrete spec for the rust language) it should be instead treated as a backwards compatible bug fix
Kab1r··on Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
I would call this a compiler bug
Kab1r··on Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution
Grace Hopper already includes Arm based CPUs (and reference motherboards)
Kab1r··on Civet: A Superset of TypeScript
I fell in love with pattern matching the first time I used Haskell. Having the feature is great, but I really don't like the syntax used here.
Kab1r··on Civet: A Superset of TypeScript
Am I the only one that really dislikes the syntax choices here?
Kab1r··on A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide
Either this or they worship Progress and Poverty like a lost religious text
Kab1r··on Enumerate all the subdomains for a domain name
Is this just searching certificate transparency logs?
Kab1r··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
If only it worked on ARM
Kab1r··on You can opt out of airport face scans
Last time I opted out of facial recognition when re-entering the US, I got put through an additional baggage and security scan with my passport literally locked in a box.
Kab1r··on Ly: Display Manager with Console UI
I tried Ly maybe a couple years ago, but I ran some issues. I've had great luck with greetd+tuigreet. The UI is quite similar as well.
Kab1r··on PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
I have used iodine, which though isn't the easiest to setup works on every airline I have tried, to bypass airline Internet firewalls. DNS packets are one of the few things they don't seem to even try to filter. I wouldn't be surprised if you could just run wireguard over UDP/22.
Kab1r··on Tell HN: Chromium forks for legacy platforms are disappearing from GitHub
I'm not sure if GitHub is the right place for chromium mirrors. When you upload to GitHub, you are agreeing that the code is licensed to GitHub under certain conditions (in addition to the license specified in the repository).
Kab1r··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Really? I don't think I've ever had a YouTube video take longer than 30 seconds to load on a good Internet connection
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