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fortytw2··on Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard
I have a Hisense HiReader Pro and it's awesome + super usable for actual day to day phone things on wifi, but the cell reception overlaps with a single LTE band in the US that's not really usable around where I live.
fortytw2··on Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone
I have a HiSense HiReader Pro that I picked up right when it came out. It's absolutely loaded with nonsense + makes zillions of requests to Chinese IPs and it takes ages to figure out how to disable / block it all.

It also only works on a single GSM band in the US (which to be fair, I knew before I bought it), but I was hoping that single band would be usable.

I went back to using a Kindle because the experience is so much better all around. Vaguely intrigued by the new Boox Palma though.

fortytw2··on ParadeDB – PostgreSQL for Search
Seems like this is more of a "PostgreSQL distribution with search extensions" than "ParadeDB is an open source ElasticSearch alternative built on Postgres..."

Interesting, sure, but confusing marketing/positioning at a glance

fortytw2··on Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report
fwiw that's a vehicle with a modified exhaust (and not a particularly fast one to begin with)
fortytw2··on T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B
Also anecdotally in this group - switched from AT&T yearly prepaid (25$/m or so) to post-paid Verizon because it got worse and worse over the three years I had it. Throttling got significantly worse over time and had a number of support issues with the yearly setup.
fortytw2··on [dead]
> American pickup truck driver never asks his gigantic blacked-out coal-rolling Ford F-150 Raptor

I'd love to know how a gasoline powered F-150 can roll coal.

fortytw2··on How likely is losing a Google account?
Fastmail!
fortytw2··on [dead]
It'd be an excellent joke to not fix it
fortytw2··on Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?
I can’t wait for the day the EU actually tries to enforce their laws on individuals and companies with no presence there. Will be a fun extradition battle to watch
fortytw2··on Is there any place for monoliths in 2021? (2020)
Many of the points in this article are entirely a matter of implementation, not inherent to or ingrained in any particular architectural choice.

You can just as easily build a highly modular and decoupled monolith as you can a tightly coupled and fragile microservice. The same point holds true for many of the other pro/cons the author brought up.

fortytw2··on Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks
I used to use mithril for almost every new project I'd start, but I've switched over to using React w/ Hooks for just about everything for two main reasons:

- toolchain support is a lot less finicky and better supported (you can use parcel and it "just works") - should I need to bring in a obnoxious third party library, it's far more likely to exist in a react world than mithril

If you're just building something small / on your own, mithril is definitely worth a shot though, it's relatively pleasant to use and packs in some very handy XHR related helpers

fortytw2··on Team Comtress 2. TF2 Fork with a community development team
> TC2 is based on the 2017 TF2 source code leak ...

Has Valve ever made a statement on this? Sounds like a terrible idea to me / this could be taken down on a whim by Valve.

fortytw2··on The Car, Reinvented
The third point is extremely close to how trucks have always been built. Body-on-frame construction has been prevalent in the automotive industry for a very long time.

Ever see a crazy classic car body dropped on top of a truck frame, i.e. a 4x4 60s mustang on a bronco frame?

fortytw2··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
Is it just me or did apple just bungle this entire announcement by not announcing a consumer facing ARM MacOS device, only a hot-rodded Mac Mini with an iPad Pro chip inside.

How many devs actually have the setup in place to use a non mobile device?

I also wonder if the current+last gen iPad Pro that has the new keyboard + trackpad case will gain the ability to run Xcode and native macOS apps in the near future.

fortytw2··on Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut
I'm pretty sure google allows you to do this though, so Apple isn't bypassing any "rules" on android.
fortytw2··on About Musl
by doing this, do you suggest also tying your dependencies versions to those packages with the distro version you're running?
fortytw2··on I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
I absolutely agree. The one time I had the great misfortune of building software for windows I was extremely happy to see Go worked at all.

Linux and OS X largely work the same way due to their shared Unix-ness and pretty much everyone I’ve ever met or talked with uses Go on one of those two platforms.

If you have to develop software primarily for Windows, maybe don’t use Go - it’s easily the least actively maintained OS target and there are many options for languages that are well supported on Windows by vendors who actually care. Kind of the same folly as trying to write an iOS app not in Swift or ObjC and then complaining it doesn’t work well.

fortytw2··on Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month
I’m pretty sure all roads above 55mph in the US are restricted access (exit/entrance ramp only) interstates - not highways with stoplights and intersections.
fortytw2··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
VINs roughly follow patterns, so if you know one, you can figure out many other cars with very little brute force effort.

vinwiki probably has a guide explaining them somewhere if you search

fortytw2··on Show HN: A keyboard shortcut library for React
This is neat, but the way blueprintjs handles Hotkeys is my absolute favorite of anything I've used.

https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/hotkeys

It's essentially a JS decorator `@HotkeysTarget` and then your component gets a `renderHotkeys()` method on it.

fortytw2··on Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?
Kinda anecdotal, but the one in Richardson (DFW) is almost always packed. Easily one of my favorite brick and mortar stores anywhere.
fortytw2··on Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for building your next app?
Go, Postgres and a dirt simple React/Typescript/Parcel app as the frontend. 99% of the time you won’t need anything else.
fortytw2··on Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
Ah, I've been assuming that a vCPU == a CPU hyperthread since forever, hadn't realized that changed.
fortytw2··on Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
Both EPYC and Intel chips behind these?

So is there potential for much different performance between the same sized instance based on chance?

fortytw2··on The Great Cannon has been deployed again
Yes, and I would imagine that could only be done inside of the Great Firewall, which I’m pretty sure is operated by the Chinese Government?
fortytw2··on The Great Cannon has been deployed again
I didn’t see this anywhere in the article (maybe I missed it), but because this utilizes the Great Firewall, it’s undoubtedly done by the Chinese government, right?
fortytw2··on The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
I agree! That's why I think it's so interesting.

Aside from bugfixes, I'm sure they could have done absolutely nothing since launching and be profitable and useful.

fortytw2··on The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched.

Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.

fortytw2··on Go’s Features of Last Resort
empty interface{} and struct tags really shine when used as a library author, or authoring a bit of extremely reusable code that’s pervasive throughout a codebase.

Think things like json encoding (entirely réflection based), or writing a set of functions that can operate on something more generic. It’s not scary and it’s not really that slow, you just need to be very particular and choosy in your application of it.

fortytw2··on Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
Oh, the macOS app? I've never used that or the Windows app, do you still use the CLI to control them?

Docker Hub is kinda worrying for me, as GitHub, Gitlab, GCP, Heroku, and AWS all offer container registries now (and Quay is open source)

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