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bythreads··on Terraform MCP Server
Maybe i dont understand this to well but isnt this basically a wrapper for github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go/server
bythreads··on I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
Ah the good old us vs them thing popping up again. Manners
bythreads··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
Lol didnt know that one - marvelous!!!
bythreads··on 'Sun-Like' Stars
lol, sounds like a reddit bot commenting with max snark ;)
bythreads··on Show HN: A website for sharing the "Good, Bad, and Why"s of urban spaces
Love it, simple sentiment gathering. AI bots are going to love to crawl that one ;)
bythreads··on Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack
Fun fact: Turning off permessage deflate is nearly impossible when browsers are in the mix, best Option is to strip the header in a reverse proxy, since many browsers ignore the setting and emits the header despite your configs - add to that that most SERVERs assume the client knows what it is doing and adhere to the header request while not allowing a global override to turn it off.

gives you a fun ball of yarn to untangle

bythreads··on Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack
ramdisk!
bythreads··on Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack
Patently untrue,

Seriously try to Deflate a 50mb compressed json structure vs just piping it down the wire on a high bandwith connection and try to measure that. (In real life with a server and browser - browsers are super slow at this)

bythreads··on Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack
Just a question where you trying to optimize for speed or size?:

I never tried CBOR when looking for a sub 10ms solution for websocket comms, however my use case was not bound by datasize but entirely by speed (network not inet).

However it all came down to a suprising realisation: "compression on both ends is the primary performance culprit"

Optimizing the hell out of the protocol over websockets got me to a fairly ok response time, just using string json and 0 compression blew it out of the water.

So the result was that data load was faster and easier the debug going with strings of json vs any other optimization (messagesize where in the 10-50mb realm)

The amount of shotty ws sever implementations and gzip operations in the communications pipeline is mindblowing - would be interested in hearing how just pure json and zero compression/binary transforms performed :)

bythreads··on Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple
Isnt this basically comundo?
bythreads··on US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch
Pretty accurate since this works of averages - discarding outliners and norming get you close to the actual number pretty quickly - also with glucose your're interested in fluctuations more than absolutes
bythreads··on File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
so....does it fix the abysmal speed of copying files in windows?
bythreads··on Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App
Didn't realize circuit was used that way in genome / dna stuff
bythreads··on Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App
Same
bythreads··on Ask HN: How to handle pushback on a team switch?
Wh not transition out?, sure fire way to promo on switch (i mean to the next corp)
bythreads··on Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]
Hear hear!, It's like flogging packages and frameworks at a problem without ever considering if it was easier/more efficient to roll your own.
bythreads··on Nvidia, ASML plunge as DeepSeek triggers tech stock selloff
Doesnt that say they based it on llama?, sooooo not really a bottoms up training - since the cost of llama is 100% surely not part of their quote.
bythreads··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
And thereby you kill all inheritance, that is the while point of css.

I find it more magic to change a single class at root and have the entire design reflow (on purpose) -

Its beautifull when combined with shadowdom and wc

bythreads··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
You should really not do it like that,

--corporate-main-primary, secondary etc

Then map that to red-50 if you really want to.

but a design lives in cmyk/ral/rgb/hex not red-650

The go

--action-button-cta-hover etc that could map to corp primary or some other stuff

bythreads··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
Its horrible, annoying and gets in the way
bythreads··on Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity
Isn't "hot" sodium: Super corrosive,

Highly reactive (goes booooom with water or oxygen)

Expands incredibly when heated

For those efficiencies i would recon you'd need temperature in excess of 1500k right?

That does not sound like anything that is easily "safe" or "reliable"

bythreads··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Why?, iframes are Very much underappreciated
bythreads··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
now that i think about it you could do it quite nicely with svg's and foreignObject
bythreads··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Iframes lazy

Object content as lazy

Embed lazy

Image lazy

Link rel=import (not support that widely though)

Heck if you wanted to get REALLY cute you go use multipart-mixed-replace headers.

Or SSE

bythreads··on Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
Pov: (denmark) No SoMe, no smartphones - until 5th grade (class agreement and school policy).

No SoMe at all for kids under 13.

No messaging after 20:00.

1.5 h screentime (ios) maximum a day.

O.5 h enforced reading (actual books) from 17:30-18:00 (we make it a family thing - all reading together).

No screens at all at playdates until 4th grade.

No movies or media below age-level ratings without consent from parents.

No phones in bed or while sleeping.

Heavy utilization of screentime, unifi network blocks etc.

Works well for us

bythreads··on MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small.
In a system that requires the absolute speediest throughput compression is actually usually the worst thing in a parsechain - so parsing without first decompression is valuable.

I've tried messagepack a few times, but to be honest the hassle of the debugging was never really worth it

bythreads··on Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again
Milk is a byproduct of producing meat, and its a fallacy to see it in isolation.

Plantmilks are firstorder product.

This means that clinate impact of most plantmilks are higher than milks, excepting oat and ryemilk.

On a cost note - : making oat milk is literally just blending some oats and let them soak a day or 2, filter the water and done, perhaps do that if cost is an issue?

On a sidenote, if you drink soy, almond or worse ricemilk you're actually doing something worse for the climate/environment

bythreads··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
SSE are being removed from various stacks and implementations
bythreads··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
It's a good pattern to have a vanilla js network manager / layer in fe for this exact reason - makes swapping network technologies a lot simpler.

Only that knows url for endpoints, protocols and connections - and proxies between them and your app / components

bythreads··on Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation
i know how that movie ends! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/?ref_=nm_flmg_knf_c_3
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