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amne··on A bug that spoke Russian and crashed my app
The API is the problem here. The method names in this case: getLanguageCode() and getLanguageName(), or getLanguageDisplayName() even, are much better names.
amne··on Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
I tried to get caddy to listen to both ports 80 and 443 in a cluster. I failed miserably. The documentation simply dismisses this as a possible scenario.
amne··on Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
that's because I prefer to have it all in one board. I use colored tags to mark things as "done" and , eventually, archive them later during a cleanup
amne··on I don't want to fill out your contact form
Yes. I browse, I see banner (slide, popup, sidebar), I close tab.

I have friends that ask me if enjoyed the paragraph about something they shared a link to only for me to have to come back and say I closed it after reading two words and getting interrupted by ”Put your email here to read more". Nope. I tell them that is not a good web experience for me.

I just hope that more people start doing this.

amne··on Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
I just use trello. I have columns for songs, movies, roadtrip ideas, coding ideas, you name it.

Everything looks the same everywhere, desktop, phone, tablet.

amne··on Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
I think he means uncensorable or at least very very hard to censor.

The problem is it could be very expensive. Think NFT but the metadata is the source code of the emulator. You're not removing that from the blockchain, ever. It also needs to be a popular blockchain, like ETH, BTC, SOL or whatever people still use today.

There are "coins" where your stake is disk space but if it's not a widespread thing it just dies off (conway GoL style)

amne··on Apple announces $110B share buyback after quarterly profit and revenue drop
is it? don't they need money for the buyback? and they only have about $160b. what am I missing?
amne··on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
and your username is also a coincidence. moving along now
amne··on New startup sells coffee through SSH
here we go again. domain and path restricted cookies anyone?
amne··on New startup sells coffee through SSH
I was asking myself the same thing while watching the live stream where they somehat explained how it works.

It's still not clear to me if they are compliant.

To make it work like in the browser it would require some sort of SSH multiplexing where your client is connected to both the shop and Stripe's SSH server and you enter your card data into a terminal region that is being rendered by stripe's ssh server. And then the triangle is completed by Stripe notifying the shop that the payment is ok.

amne··on Only9Fans
I can't do anything on my own comment. I don't know why it got flagged tho. Don't people read hacker news? Wasn't there an article yesterday or so about CSS discussions around "masonry" layout options to be added to grid or flex or whatnot? If you're ignorant move on I guess.
amne··on Only9Fans
You made me google "no-halftone-screen". I'm lost!
amne··on I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs
I don't even know what Java 6 means. Last time I wrote something in Java it said Java 1.5

  compiled Java class data, version 49.0 (Java 1.5)
amne··on The Stainless SDK Generator
From experience I can tell you that you just need to do it manually. And keep maintaing the spec manually. That keeps you aware of it. It is your contract with the outside world. You don't want tools to automatically update it everytime you push. On the contrary, you want tools to slap you hard every time you push and you forgot to update the spec. Now you're going to think hard why did you change the spec and if you maybe need to bump to /api/v2/*

As far as generating the first spec from an existing API I think there was shown here on HN a while ago a tool that can generate the spec from you just "browsing" the API with developer tools or something. Maybe even from a HAR file IIRC.

amne··on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
most likely because of greyhairs with PTSD
amne··on Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
I started catching myself saying something is "easy" and now try to say "it's a solved problem".

Most of dev work these days is actually plumbing hardwork found in libraries : serialization? solved. Handle HTTP requests? solved. DB modeling? solved.

amne··on Framework laptop DongleHider+ Expansion Card for hiding up to three dongles
A USB dongle server? It's missing the "April 1st" disclaimer somewhere, right?

What is the use case of this box?

amne··on Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)
This is all good advice .. for your hobby project. But the moment that server goes down and you have stakeholders draining your phone's battery you'll realize that scaling also brings availability as a very nice bonus. Sure, 99% of the time it looks like you're wasting resources. Until you need it and you do the math and realize you're way ahead in revenue not lost.
amne··on Blink to generate power for smart contact lenses
... and run to cool them
amne··on Ask HN: Should employers pay for employees' phones if 2FA apps are required?
I am speaking from experience. People complained they want the company to provide phones for the oncall rotation. In less than two rotations everyone was forwarding the oncall phone number to their personal one. Soon the phone was lost in a drawer and we integrated an oncall notifying app that everyone just installed on their phone.

The hassle of carrying an extra device, charging it, storing it and taking care of it is exactly that: a hassle.

amne··on Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
but we have artificial intelligence. it's just not autonomous. it doesn't popup a notification in the middle of the day saying "You know? I've been thinking about your issue you mentioned in the morning daily and I think you have a race condition. here's a link to a POC to see what I mean"

That's what I mean by autonomous.

amne··on Ask HN: Should employers pay for employees' phones if 2FA apps are required?
You know they'll give a low-tier samsung with physical buttons that barely passes for a smartphone and you'll complain in less than a week that you can't install work apps on your personal phone.
amne··on Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
Then what you want is another type of AI: Autonomous Intelligence
amne··on Scripts should be written using the project main language
I try very hard to do just the opposite. If I need a script to do something existing code can't ,then it is most likely exciting and I'm going to use that energy to learn something new, be it a language or tool.

Here's a hotter take: your team colleagues are more likely to wear your clothes than to use your scripts.

amne··on Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques
Dodged it!

5.10.184-175.749.amzn2.x86_64 #1 SMP

amne··on Best engineering interview question I've gotten
All I see is a company that is developing a database engine and looking for people that can do exactly that.
amne··on What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)
it's not, but only because someone keeps printing more money.
amne··on Nintendo emulator 'Suyu' removed from Gitlab following DMCA request
I don't get it how that letter can stand? Quoting from the first paragraph:

     | ... namely Suyu uses unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys to decrypt
     | unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch games ...
Shouldn't the "unauthorized" word be proven true before this kind of letter is thrown at the wall to make sure it sticks? Not in this world apparently
amne··on Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for self-driving car future
the alternative is 5km long traffic jams in all 4 directions waiting for 2-3 cars to pass each green phase.
amne··on Show HN: Skyvern – Browser automation using LLMs and computer vision
isn't that crazy rabbit thingy supposed to do just that? I hope you pre-ordered. I hear they're in great demand.
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