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PetahNZ··on Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes
Not to mention most of my bash scripts are just wrappers around calling some other binary executables
PetahNZ··on Go with PHP
I know it's just meaningless numbers, but our php backend handles 10 orders per second peak. And obviously a order requires many more requests than just 1.
PetahNZ··on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
But isn't the point of "I'm feeling lucky" to take you to the first search result instead of the list? Not just take you somewhere random.
PetahNZ··on AMD and Jedec Are Collaborating on DDR5 MRDIMMs at 17,600 MT/S
Most people would be better off putting that money into a backup solution.
PetahNZ··on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended
Same kind of issue. Signed up for PayPal, instantly banned before I could even do anything. Email support just said there is no recourse and no explanation why. Ended up ringing the support phone number and they managed to unban the account.
PetahNZ··on PhpBB 3.3.10
But what makes it good? It's fast, it uses low memory, it has a great package manager, it has great backwards compatibility, it has a huge ecosystem of libraries, it is easily integrated with other technology, it scales, it has an easier learning curve, it's easy to hire for (although it has been getting harder).
PetahNZ··on PhpBB 3.3.10
No typed variables, no generics, threading/async is hard(er than other languages).

[This is coming from a long time PHP dev who actually loves it.]

PetahNZ··on PhpBB 3.3.10
Are you asking what php version uses copy on write for arrays? If so, it's all of them (at least in the last decade). I have never known it not to do this.
PetahNZ··on ChatGPT Plus
If it saves my time working, it doesn't mean I get to spend that else where though. Just more work.
PetahNZ··on Stripe issues
Are you tracking declined payments, and using the fraud/risk metrics? Doing ZIP checks and 3D secure?
PetahNZ··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
You don't need to encode it to do that though. You can just sign the URL
PetahNZ··on Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation
Come on, it's not their main usage... An intentional side effect maybe, but their main usage is clear.
PetahNZ··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
Well on my older 4770 PC, Windows doesn't bug me to upgrade to 11, since it knows it can't.
PetahNZ··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
I am on Ubuntu and it constantly bugs me to upgrade:

> New release '20.04.5 LTS' available. > Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

PetahNZ··on Copilot Internals
We are doing this all the time anyway during code reviews.
PetahNZ··on Atom was archived today
Opening large files is a pretty niche case anyway. Even CLI tools like less and grep are slow with things like searching muti GB files.
PetahNZ··on Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
Deep packet inspection hardware/software that was sold to controversial governments/militaries who ended up in a coup and used to track and ** opposition.
PetahNZ··on Show HN: Paid job search? Are you nuts?
Filtering seems broken. Either changes are ignored, or it gets stuck on a loading spinner.
PetahNZ··on AMD Launches EPYC 9004 “Genoa” Processors – Up to 96 Cores, Zen 4, AVX-512
I'm not sure the comparison here. I could get 8 t3a.micros (16 cores total) for ~$700 reserved for 3 years, including power costs. And I don't have to maintain it, or the network connection etc.
PetahNZ··on Optimizing images with the HTML <picture> tag
Yep, we do about 30TB of user images a month, looked into converting to avif for storage savings, but the processing time basically stopped that. Ended up on webp.
PetahNZ··on Write better error messages
As long as you are logging the error with the context somewhere that's fine. You could always include a timestamp or request ID with the user message to not give away information, but be able to easily search your logs for the occurrence.
PetahNZ··on We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
Unless your app is doing a lot of compute. We tried moving our workers to lambda, it was 10x the cost vs an EC2 auto scaling group
PetahNZ··on Six months as a full time pancreas
Its almost uncanny the similarity I have to Graham. NZ, programmer, daughter T1 diagnosis about 2 years ago. A CGM and insulin pump were absolute game changers for us. We went with the Dexcom CGM (not funded) and t:slim pump (funded). The control IQ software in the pump is great and we have got her time in range to > 95%. One scary story to share though, as we started trusting her school/teacher aids to administer/supervise bolus and corrections (before she was on a pump) it only takes one small mistake to potentially kill her. She was had high BGL and needed a correction to take her back down to 7 mmol. There is a bit of math to do, but they made a mistake and corrected her to 0 mmol. Luckily because we had the Dexcom we were alerted. We tried contacting the school when we saw her dropping, but got no answer. We rushed to the school to find he delirious lying on the field alone. It could have been worse but we are grateful for the technology that we have that basically saved her. Needless to say, we don't trust anyone else with those calculations any more.
PetahNZ··on Charl-e: “Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click”
You draw over the part of the image that is not ideal and get it to infill it
PetahNZ··on Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (2017)
Beyond All Reason gets pretty close
PetahNZ··on Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Maybe we should teach beginners PHP instead of JavaScript then.
PetahNZ··on The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
Cause an OS update has never broken docker before right. And prod doesnt run linux with a gui.
PetahNZ··on Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
CloudWatch is basically that.
PetahNZ··on Poll: Self Hosting Git Repositories
Self hosted gitlab breaks all the time, at least for us. Maybe had ~10 significant issues just the last few months.
PetahNZ··on Show HN: thin.dev, back end for making realtime, typesafe React Apps
Seems like hot web3 buzzwords without much substance.
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