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dinkledunk··on Meta’s chatbot replying that Dutch politican is a terrorist
edit: @dang has decided not to let me respond to any comments. Since I'm no longer able to reply, I'll just remove my comments.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

dinkledunk··on Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
It's not clueless or sloppy. They are most likely using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token which is a well-defined standard and extremely common in the authentication world because it makes a ton of sense. It lets your authentication server be mostly stateless instead of storing tons of sessions unnecessarily.
dinkledunk··on Devs don’t want to do ops
> How? Just use AppService / EC2 for managed machines. Scales just as well.

It's not about scaling. It's about being able to make a docker image, run that locally on your developer laptop (even if it's a mac) and running the exact same thing in production. Sure you can use docker on top of EC2 but why would you? Just use the ready to go solution you can just buy (managed k8s) and avoid the lock-in. Again, it's critical that you use managed k8s. Don't roll it yourself on top of EC2.

> You need a DB most of the time. Managed DBs are easier.

Sure. Using k8s for your app isn't stopping you from doing that if you want. We deploy 1 database server per testing environment, which kubernetes makes easy to do. For production we use a managed database, but they're too expensive for testing environments.

> Our crapware doesn't freeze. Needs a custom Health Check endpoint. Can just as easily restart the instance when that check fails.

Mine doesn't either. But I have to run plenty of software that isn't mine.

> K8S is a ton of extra overhead for no gain

If you used managed k8s you're just trading server management for kubernetes resource management. I've migrated our system from Ansible + Cloud VMs to kubernetes several years ago, after running it for years before, and things have become significantly easier to maintain and our costs are roughly the same as before. Less vendor lock-in, too. It would take me an about an afternoon to switch between any of the major managed kubernetes offerings, and some of our clients have expressed preferences for a specific cloud.

dinkledunk··on Devs don’t want to do ops
k8s saves a TON of time if you need to run on more than 1 machine and you use a managed solution (by AWS/GCP/Azure) and only use it as a glorified docker container orchestrator. Ingress solves how to route HTTP traffic coming into your domain. PersistentVolume solves how and where to store data. LivenessCheck solves how to restart your crapware when it freezes. Just don't go crazy with it unless you actually need the fancy stuff.
dinkledunk··on Devs don’t want to do ops
Their loss. If you don't consider where and how your software is going to run it's pretty much guaranteed to be garbage anyway.
dinkledunk··on SSH commit verification now supported
Because if you're signing your commits you're probably also the type of person to sign your email with the same key.
dinkledunk··on Military drone swarms and how to combat them
Put your drones inside a missile and launch them at their target.
dinkledunk··on A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
Maybe if you compare the US to China. But compared to the EU the US is basically worse.
dinkledunk··on A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
I wish lawyers would lose their license when they're obviously attacking people (or in this case companies) in bad faith. This is ridiculous, go grieve like a normal person.
dinkledunk··on Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not
Me not buying their products doesn't stop my users from doing so, or my employer from demanding we support them. Also you've clearly never been on the submitting side of the app store, this "careful curation" often misses blatant violations and instead nags for weeks on minor or non-existent issues while refusing to elaborate.
dinkledunk··on We switched to cursor-based pagination
Yes, my business users will feel like they don't have sufficient access to their data if they can't.

> If your column is fairly uniformly distributed you can guess the index for any arbitrary page.

I don't think that'll work in a multi-tenancy situation with complex filters.

dinkledunk··on We switched to cursor-based pagination
how to jump to an arbitrary page?
dinkledunk··on Hacker News Official API
Yes, it is. And if you feel that way, that's fine. Why gatekeep?
dinkledunk··on Hacker News Official API
There's been several, but they always get abandoned after a year or two.
dinkledunk··on Googling 'cancer genetics conferences' only returns ads
Literally no ads at all. Try posting a screenshot.
dinkledunk··on Supabase Vault
+1 for Hashicorp Vault, it's amazing and easily extendable. My plugins which I developed years ago still work with the latest version.
dinkledunk··on App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
I would be, considering how inconsistent the reviewers are.
dinkledunk··on LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
It works fine and lots of people do it, I have been using mine without issue for a few years now. It helps to put a concrete slab in it, but it's not necessary. The lack table does have a tendency to amplify the noise though.

Here is a guide by Prusa to build one for their printers: https://blog.prusa3d.com/mmu2s-printer-enclosure_30215/

dinkledunk··on See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
That's because only "bad guys" do this. If a "good buy" does this, they automatically become a "bad guy".
dinkledunk··on Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
English is not my main language and I do not know the right word. But yes, that. Phobic of other cultures maybe.
dinkledunk··on You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord
Yes, as in, anyone can start a star registry and charge people for an entry. It's all meaningless, so NFTs seem like a perfect fit.
dinkledunk··on Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
Not being snarky. It's legitimately unclear what the poster meant and the answer is vague enough that it could be true for anything.

> Did people go back?

Yes. At least partially.

> Did people quit?

Yes. At least partially.

See? It's confusing.

dinkledunk··on Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
"Did A, B, or C happen?" "Yes. At least partially."

So, which of these did happen?

dinkledunk··on Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
> we make some exceptions for people far from the office

So move far away from the office. Got it.