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albru123··on Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
> Conversely Adsense sells ads based on "targeted users". Which means your original site is pretty useless to Adsense.

But how is the updated site any better? It surely must be, since it made it past the review, right? The whole post just shows how ridiculous and flawed the review process is and what it leads to.

albru123··on Inkjets are for more than just printing
Seems like the point of this article missed a lot of people entirely, since they are so fixated on consumer inkjet printers. That's a very specific case of inkjet printing, but inkjet technology is way more than that.

For example continuous inkjet printers are used to label packages of many items you buy every day. There's also research about inkjet printing wearable electronics etc. None of which has a lot to do with HP.

albru123··on Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform
Nice, a culmination of everything I hate about Slack and Teams in a single product!
albru123··on IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories?
We just ended up buying /28 subnet, because the whole v6 to v4 experience was too frustrating and would've probably cost more to solve all the issues (or hire someone who knew how to set it up properly) than to buy the subnet.
albru123··on Firefox UI/UX History
Still disappointed to this day that they removed Panorama.
albru123··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
We ordered a new root server a few days before this, but are trying to primarily use IPv6 anyway. However the more I try to set things up, the more painful it becomes, with services like Github not being entirely available on IPv6, various ISPs not supporting IPv6 at all, so service proxying is needed etc.

Is there any best-practice for IPv6 VM host setup? I found the IPv6 First Guide [0], but I'm not entirely happy with the bridged networking to VMs being used.

[0] https://ipv6-first-guide.hillbrecht.de/

albru123··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
Well, if you have virtuals running on your dedicated server, you're probably going to need more IPs anyway and IPv4 subnets now cost a small fortune on Hetzner, while IPv6 is free and you get a whole /64 subnet.
albru123··on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
I used Swiftkey for a few years and thought it couldn't get better... until I found Fleksy.

The autocompletion is just superb and nowhere near anything I tried before. It's made for typing without looking or worrying about hitting the right keys, so if you're not really comfortable with Swiftkey-like typing, you might wanna give it a try.

albru123··on Vue Native (2018)
To be honest, I don't see any reason not to use Flutter if you want to make a cross-platform app these days. Any other cross-platform framework I tried seemed somehow lacking, slow, unpleasant to use etc.
albru123··on SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
> C# is not nearly as good in this respect.

How so, I had nothing but issues when trying to deploy cross-platform Java because of the Java ecosystem itself being bad compared to C# or Golang where you just compile stuff and run it.

albru123··on Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
I don't see how it would be too short a notice for current CentOS users really. At least for majority of users running CentOS in their production systems and relying on a long-term support. It's not like they just go and trash their production setup the very moment its running distro lifespan is shortened. I'd expect the opposite actually, since you're looking for something well supported.
albru123··on The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
How is that removing if it wasn't there in the first place (AFAIK)?
albru123··on Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
Huh? The problem isn't that the developer itself is trying to cover his misbehavior, but the fact that the developer can get banned for something out of his control.
albru123··on Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder
So the end goal is basically Supernova: https://supernova.io/
albru123··on Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years
I've been told that welding components was considered a common practice in the USSR since it was cheaper than soldering them at some point in time.
albru123··on A final proposal for Rust await syntax
Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea they implemented this for C# 8.0

Also is it just me or the switch pattern really is inspired by Rust match?

albru123··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
A bit OT, but what's up with this usage of Amazon EC2 tiers as a unit of computational power?
albru123··on The Embedded Rust Book
I'm wondering if that's going to cut it though, since target audience for embedded rust isn't someone who wants to play with his Arduino, but people who write real world applications and are fed and tired of C/C++.
albru123··on Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
Except when you tick that box you have to live with all the leftover packages you don't remember installing, but they're still there taking up space.
albru123··on Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
Unfortunately Simple Tab Groups (or maybe some internal feature it uses, probably hidden tabs) somehow leak resources and end up eating all the RAM for me.

The end of Panorama (or Tab Groups as known nowdays) was a disaster for me, as I don't hesitate having over 3k tabs open.

albru123··on Reed Solomon codes are cool
I'm quite disappointed that nobody mentioned Viterbi algorithm, as it's often used together with RS and really interesting.
albru123··on Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference
That's exactly how Velvet revolution in Czech republic in 1989 happened by the way...
albru123··on Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
Firefox does not stack tabs like Chrome does and does not load all the restored session tabs at once either. Aren't these dumb design decisions enough to switch to a product where people actually think about how it's going to be used?
albru123··on Browsers
It's great that it follows all these standards, but the browser (due to recent changes) and the company behind it doesn't seem to follow some necessary ethical standards.
albru123··on Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust? [slides]
How constructive of you...
albru123··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
Viterbi algorithm used in convolutional codes

It is used in DVB-T combined with Reed-Solomon code for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm

albru123··on Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
ASP.NET Core MVC would be the way to go today actually - runs on Linux, does a lot of stuff for you (it's IoC container is pure magic) and is quite fast (IMO)