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hiroprot

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https://martinmay.net https://twitter.com/hiroprot

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hiroprot··on Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control
I love the concept, and it's super timely of course (or about time, depending on your perspective).

I was trying to find your website to get a better understanding of it all, is this it? https://www.enhancedradar.com

If so, for most people it would be super helpful if you could put together something that explains this a bit better, with visuals, videos, testimonials, etc. I work on similar challenges in a completely different problem domain, and it takes quite a bit of material / explaining to really show what we do / what's possible, and make it feel less abstract.

hiroprot··on Stimulation Clicker
Level 42 was my limit
hiroprot··on Stimulation Clicker
Best way I've found to stimulate quickly, resize your window to be as small as possible, and have lots of bouncing DVDs.
hiroprot··on Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)
Fun fact about the sequel, it comes with a sticker that says "kids" that can optionally be used to cover up the Babies label, for those children who'd refuse to pick up anything that is targeted at babies :)
hiroprot··on What Was ISDN?
That brings back fond memories. In high school (a long time ago), I coded up a client-server application in Perl/Delphi to utilize the ISDN D-channel to transmit small amounts of data by repeatedly dialing a destination, using the call initiation metadata to communicate, and then hanging up before the call got established.

In Europe at that time, every call (even local ones) started getting billed as soon as the dialed party picked up. So effectively, this allowed for fee-less small applications that didn't need much data, but that I wanted to invoke many times a day (think checking email, checking server status, IM, etc).

hiroprot··on 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series
From his FAQ:

What does the name 3blue1brown refer to?

I'll be the first to admit this is a little odd. The logo is a loose depiction of my right eye color. It has what's known as "sectoral heterochromia", meaning there are different colors in different sectors, which in my case looks like 3/4 blue and 1/4 brown.

In the same way that many channels simply share their name with the author, a younger me thought that a more genetic signature might be neat. Plus, the channel is all about seeing math in certain ways, so it felt fitting. The name is just a reference to the logo, factoring in a desire for something deliberately weird-sounding that stands out.

hiroprot··on 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series
Fantastic channel, and I love that he named it (and designed the logo) after his heterochromia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum
hiroprot··on Advice to a novice programmer
This was a fun distraction to track down...looks like the IP that this site is hosted on is in some IDS rulesets, likely this one, which Ubiquiti uses: https://github.com/vncloudsco/suricata-rules/blob/main/tor.r...

Looks harmless, but I learned something new today :)

hiroprot··on Advice to a novice programmer
Maybe somewhat off-topic, but visiting this URL causes my Ubiquiti setup to trigger a Security Alert about an Incoming connection from the IP that hosts plover.com related to TOR (screenshot of the alert: https://share.cleanshot.com/J1cfSd1W)

Curious if anybody else experienced this, and what's behind it?

hiroprot··on Snow Crash Related Items Auction
This
hiroprot··on Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
Given that they are not necessarily the same, perhaps more accurate to say "So who crossed the finish line first?" in your article? We know who won.

As someone who has both won and lost bike races determined by photo finish, I enjoyed this article a lot. Well done sir!

hiroprot··on How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB
Most blog posts are marketing efforts. I think the test is whether the article provides value. I have a pretty okay background in this field and found it interesting.
hiroprot··on Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights and checks for eligibility
I filed my first claim with AirHelp a few weeks back. It’s “sent to airline” now, so we’ll see what happens.

I don’t think that I’ll hook this directly into my email, but if the one-off service works well, I’m sold.

hiroprot··on iPhone 7 audio-adapter delivers lower quality sound
Sorry...here it is: http://m.heise.de/ct/artikel/iPhone-7-nachgemessen-Audio-Ada...
hiroprot··on iPhone 7 audio-adapter delivers lower quality sound
Link to the actual article: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/iPhone-7-gemessen-Aud...
hiroprot··on iTerm2 Shell Integration
I really like this, but am wondering if something like ZModem over SSH would make the file transfer stuff more convenient...I feel like some things have become more complicated since the BBS days.
hiroprot··on The Dark Science of Interrogation
The title of the article is "THE DARK SCIENCE OF INTERROGATION", not "Dark Side".
hiroprot··on Show HN: Insights into billions of daily smartphone notifications
How do you deal with apps that have in-app preferences to toggle certain notifications on/off? Or is this just for notifications that are enabled by default?
hiroprot··on Show HN: Insights into billions of daily smartphone notifications
Are you using ANCS to capture the notifications?
hiroprot··on Show HN: Branch – Mobile links that pass data through install and open
Alex, thanks for the detailed answer. Looks like you're building some really interesting stuff.
hiroprot··on Show HN: Branch – Mobile links that pass data through install and open
How are you doing the tracking across the app store? Some kind of cookie in Mobile Safari, or attributing based on time/IP address correlation?
hiroprot··on Don’t fly camera-equipped drones over our police stations, LAPD says
The video brings up some interesting points. Are we looking at lots of new legislation to address things like this?
hiroprot··on GitHub and BitBucket's SSL Provider's Cert has expired
Their SSL chain includes an expired DigiCert certificate as well.
hiroprot··on GitHub and BitBucket's SSL Provider's Cert has expired
It doesn't for me.
hiroprot··on Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push
Headline could use some clarification...at first I thought this was about enterprise push notifications.
hiroprot··on C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database
That actually sounds great...hope to give it a try once the OSS version is available.
hiroprot··on C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database
I think a good way to explain the project would be to outline how it improves upon vanilla HBase. I'd be interested in seeing the differences.
hiroprot··on C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database
I got that part, but a decent part of it is new and unproven, right?
hiroprot··on C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database
I love the premise of this, but consider me sceptical...those are some pretty bold claims for a brand-new database.
hiroprot··on C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database
So, where is the opensource version for this?
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