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Timucin

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Timucin··on New brand
I liked the logo but that red is too bright for my liking.
Timucin··on I Beat an Online Course Scammer
IMO it really doesn't matter if people make an example out if it, they should go to such lengths if they have such power - assuming that won't take away their sanity or much of their time. That's how things change.

Companies and countries starts to recognise these problems as the number of complaints gets higher. They become familiar with the problems so they don't get confused with the following cases.

Timucin··on Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
Kurzgesagt is a group of people who are aiming to explain science in a fun and visual way.

They have recently deleted their 2 most-watched videos (31M views at total) because they thought one of them was biased, wasn't wrong but didn't reflect the opinion of the other side and the other one was prepared with a moment of desperation.

I am a follower of the channel for quite some time. They already have my respect and love but they have managed to earn both once again.

Timucin··on Is fasting safe? A review of adverse events during water-only fasting (2018)
I am on mobile, couldn’t find the original article but this one seems good enough. Please take a look.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fiber-famished-gu...

Timucin··on Is fasting safe? A review of adverse events during water-only fasting (2018)
Not only electrolytes but the lack of fibre is also a big problem when you fast more than a few days.

Body needs fibre to maintain a healthy gut flora. So when the body lose the flora, it will struggle to digest the food, take the vitamins and nutritions from it etc. at the end of the fasting period.

This is not only something I read from articles but also something I have experienced for a long time by the way. So please bear that in mind, keep your gut flora healthy and your life will be easier.

Timucin··on A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016)
It’s sad that I couldn’t read/see this from my mobile because of the full page cookie consent popup which doesn’t have an option to opt-out from the ad tracking of their partners.

So you have to go with the personalised ads if you want to visit their articles...

Timucin··on How to Secure a Linux Server
Yes, you can add it to almost anything and the best part is; you don’t have to be online to generate and/or verify the code.
Timucin··on 3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display
I had the same problem until I download the version that comes with it's on Java runtime environment. The problem does not exist for me anymore but you'd like to try to same if it's still a thing.

Also try to disable any installed plugins if you have any. Some old markdown plugin were causing a stability problem on PhpStorm back then. You may have experiencing something similar.

One last suggestion: try to move/remove the folder that keeps your settings.

Not sure if any of these would help but may worth to try.

Timucin··on 3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display
From my experience, scaling problems are usually related with the app itself rather than the screen or the OS but;

After getting used to the retina display of macs, you realise how bad, how pixelated 1080p looks on texts. Especially the workplace monitors since they are usually the cheapest ones. Upgrading 4K gives you joy after being exposed to those cheap screens. :)

Timucin··on 3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display
I guess I must say this first: I am not working at JetBrains, not defending or advertising their products in any way. Just sharing my own experience and opinions.

I've been using a few products* of JetBrains on MacOS for the last 3 years, either with 1 or 2 1080p monitors or with an additional 4K monitor but unlike the rest, I haven't had much problems.

There were times the IDEs were consuming too much CPU and were super sluggish as described but then, somewhere in their forums, I found that they have suggested to use the Java suite they have provided with the IDE itself instead the default one and that solved my problem once and for all.

On the other hand, a colleague of mine had suffered a lot from the very same products because of slow disk speed. This is not the case for other ~50 engineers I am working with though and all of them are using new Macbook Pros and JetBrains IDEs.

So I guess it is safe to say that they are usually working OK on modern day computers.

* PhpStorm, WebStorm, GoLand, IntelliJ

Timucin··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
Not really.

Put X instead DuckDuckGo, the meaning and the intent of my post doesn't change. You just choose to see it in that way.

Timucin··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
It requires a bit time to get used to it but not more than couple of days I think. The interface is quite similar to what google provides and I quite liked seeing the answer I am looking for as a part of the search.
Timucin··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
I've recently moved away from Google to DuckDuckGo, so didn't notice that but I noticed something similar on YouTube.

For some reason, it keeps recommending the videos I already watched, the ones in my save for later and the most annoying one: the ones from the channels I marked as not interested.

My recommendations also getting less and less relevant.

They definitely changed something and broke a perfectly working system.

Timucin··on Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game
Amazingly simple yet awesome. Well done.
Timucin··on A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (2017)
I was expecting to see a series of cartoons explaining a lot about WebAssembly as Julia Evans does from time to time.
Timucin··on How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square
/gif but why?

I understand how this entertains people momentarily but I still don't understand why people are choosing to waste this much in general...

Timucin··on Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999)
The site is loading the file called qtime.htm, so

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=../../../../etc/p...

Oh the nostalgia... :)

Timucin··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
This happened 4 years ago so I found the emails to refresh my memory. Here's what happened according to the emails I have;

1 - I woke up to an unresponsive server in the morning. Couldn't reach to the server in any way.

2 - Got in touch with the support and they asked me to give them like 50 mins to check the hardware and disks and get back to me with;

Dear Client,

We have found this disk S/N xxx defective. Please confirm the full data loss on it in order to replace it.

right after that they wrote;

Dear Client,

We have found this disk S/N xxx defective. Please confirm the full data loss on it in order to replace it.

I asked if they mean data lost on this single disk or the whole array, they said;

Dear Client,

We cannot tell you how is going to react the raid controller as can happens also data loss if it is defective. For that, we recommend before to take Backups of the data. When you are sure to replace the disk tell us, confirm data loss and we will do it.

after many emails and sharing error messages I've got from the raid controller Hetzner said;

Dear Client,

We see our test reported that 2 drives are faulty, but we have replaced one of this only. Now, we could offer to replace the second faulty one (SN: xxx).

Could we do this anytime?

I don't know what kind of test they did but I believe the report he mentioned is from the very first diagnose they did.

I wouldn't know the details since I didn't argue on how they could oversee this, I tried to find a solution.

Edit : I fixed the order of messages.

Timucin··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
Hey Tim,

I totally agree but working on a remote machine it's not always possible, even through KVMs, so Hetzner had to step in on this one.

There were 2 faulty disks from the same 4-disk Raid but once they have found the first, they assumed that first disk was the issue and didn't test the rest, so that ended up with loosing everything.

Even if they are helping as a courtesy, they should test all the disks and do this right before let the customer continue.

Timucin··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
Dear people who downvotes this comment, care to elaborate why?

Is it just because you don't like to see something negative about the provider or is it something else?

Timucin··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
I was a customer of Hetzner for years but my experience was way worse than others unfortunately.

I have lost my data twice on different hardware. The first one was totally Hetzner's fault since they have failed to identify the faulty disks when they check the disks for it. They were like `oops, sorry, it seems second disk was faulty too` AFTER I tried to re-build the RAID array on a recovery attempt. And the second one was being a bit unlucky, the RAID card didn't detect the faulty disk and tried to sync the broken disk with the healthy ones. So I lost data on a RAID-10 array, twice.

I asked them to do tests on the faulty hardware to identify the problem, to confirm my suspicion, so I could go back to my clients with a proper explanation and things got interested at this point;

While I was talking to the technical people at Hetzner and trying to explain why I think the RAID controller is the problem and how the RAID logs are confirming that, a guy called Arno, Head of Product Advice and Sales took my ticket over. He said;

``` First of all we want to apologize for what happened. Why it happened is hard to say. As you wrote at least one disk was so faulty that your data was corrupt.

Those things can happen and from our point of view no one can prevent from happening again. The only things that help are good backups and a good recovery strategy, which I think you have both.

Of course extra efford on your end occurs for recovery and since it happend the 2nd time, we want to compensate you for that.

What compensation would you expect from us? ```

which was kind of ridiculous because I didn't ask for a compensation, I didn't even imply that I want a compensation for what happened. I was simply requesting a solid explanation and/or confirmation and this guy was saying that I lost my data on a RAID-10 array because 1 (ONE) of the disks were faulty.

I asked him to handover the tickets to the technical people since he's from sales and what he says doesn't make sense. Also provided him some numbers about how much money the sites were making on that lost server, just to prove how wrong he is to approach to the matter from that perspective and guess that was the bit what triggered him.

He fought so hard to not handover the ticket back to the technical people, explained how much he knows about RAID-10, how loosing the server is our fault while making so much money the sites because the server was cheap (WTF?), they won't do the testing because they host many more servers with the same hardware and they are just working fine etc.

After using Hetzner for 7 years, I cancelled the service I take from them, along with other 11 company accounts and tens of dedicated servers and never looked back.

Hetzner is a company that ask you to move from their network to some other provider when you ask what happens if you get DDOSed (this happened before they introduced the DDOS protection).

So never again...

Timucin··on WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
Not sure if anyone mentioned that but WBasic would be a much better name I think. Just like GWBasic and QBasic.
Timucin··on The use of "blacklist" is offensive
> While I am entirely in favor of non-racist terminology and not offending anyone

And you can't even comment on it without giving this explanation first because people will assume that you're racist if you don't do this first.

This makes me sad since we have so much do to and we can achieve a lot yet we're focusing these so-called problems.

Timucin··on Flutter – A mobile app SDK for iOS and Android
Shame this comment isn't sky rocketing between others.
Timucin··on This Industry is Fucked (2015)
I haven't read all the comments but must say this;

The behaviour she witnessed is not about technology, industry or gender -yet I agree that the women is targeted more. It's just people when they think they are unreachable, they can get away with it. Internet is the perfect place for them to be themselves.

I am not saying it's how it should be but it's kind of unavoidable in the current state of internet. So the best is dealing with this as you do in real life: keep your distance, ignore them as much as possible, use your rights when you can (let the authorities deal with them if there are threats for example) and don't let them get into your skin.

Timucin··on Clean up your existence
Isn't it ironic that the system asks you to "Sign-in with Google" to clear your existence(!) ?
Timucin··on Splix.io
WebSocket connection is failing for me but it's probably because of my workplace's network limitations.

Shame, I was quite excited when I first saw the game :)

Timucin··on Ask HN: How to handle less-than-committed colleagues?
"I am working day and night and send emails 24/7 whenever I have a question or have completed a task, but my colleagues never reply unless it is during business hours."

Because they are living like normal human beings instead slaves? Being a workaholic is not healthy and definitely not productive. So I don't think you're in a position to judge people for it.

I would agree with you if you'd say something like "my colleagues don't do their work properly while they can" but that's not what I am reading.

Timucin··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
I wish the author put the single sentence at the end to the up with a TL;DR; note: send verification emails, which I don't agree 100% while the article/author claims that's the 100% right way.
Timucin··on Dakotaraptor ruled Hell Creek Formation as lethal predator
Aaaand I am closing the tab for another seems-interesting-article just because of the site is forcing me to join/login or to do some other stuff.

I have no idea how these sites ending up here, in the first page but it's getting the most annoying thing on the internet. At least for me...

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