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hrdwdmrbl··on MicroVM by QEMU
They mentioned a baseline for benchmarking but didn’t offer any benchmarks. I’d enjoy seeing some if anyone has.
hrdwdmrbl··on FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials
I suppose they would be required to work with an independent 3rd party that would manage the reviews. A little bit similar to the Credit Rating companies.

IMHO it could be a good, kind of, separation of responsibility.

hrdwdmrbl··on DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube
Fun! In an ideal world it would be better to use ML to recognize the faces, arrows, etc. A first pass could blur them. In a real ideal world the ML would watch the video and give it better titles and thumbnails too! Sadly we live in the real world . Maybe in 2030
hrdwdmrbl··on Where did the long tail go? (2022)
The book is just a means to an end. I mention it as a summary of the idea that life is best when you make your own economy by making the internet work for you. A world of culture tailored to your preferences is available to those that want.

For example, all the indie music is on Soundcloud and Bankcamp, not on Spotify.

hrdwdmrbl··on Where did the long tail go? (2022)
You are still free to [create your own economy](https://www.amazon.com/Create-Your-Own-Economy-Prosperity/dp...)
hrdwdmrbl··on Buy well, buy once
Yeah that is kind of me. I like it though
hrdwdmrbl··on Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design
I would pay if you could show me the formula for how measurements are calculated.

The most common question I'm always asking myself is: Why is this like this? For many properties the browser can tell you which CSS selector "won" a property such as "font-family".

But for something like a width, the actual formula being applied is often hard to puzzle out. The browser will tell you its result but now how it arrived at that result.

For example, the element with id "pagespace" on this page. It has width that works out to some px depending on your screen width. But why that width specifically? I can personally figure it out by going up the DOM tree to see that each element is the full width of its parent (and that's how display: table-row, table-row-group and table all work) until we get to the "hnmain" element which is 85% width (of its parent). And then its parent is the body which has 8px margin all around. So the formula is something like: (screen-width - 8px * 2) * 0.85. But that took me how long to figure out manually?

Show your work!

hrdwdmrbl··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
Think about it this way: you have to implement the same amount of business logic in any case. The only question being discussed here is where the work will be performed. The author is talking about scaling. If you have 3 server insurance but 1 database instance, it’s better (generally speaking) to put the logic in the server because there are 3 of them. That will scale better. In the case of Postgres, even if you have replicas, they’ll be read replicas. If you put everything in Postgres you are putting everything in the bottleneck. You can add more server instances but you can’t add more database writers.
hrdwdmrbl··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
I’ve even found “Is not null” queries on a Boolean column to be slow so I made a generated column that’s Boolean.
hrdwdmrbl··on Show HN: How to find the best bank for your needs
Love it! Hopefully you can get a referral fee from the banks!

Btw, I’m Canada, we have a unique Money transfer system called “bill pay” (it probably has an official name but that’s what everyone calls it). I’d love for you to add more filters for whether banks support features like this and others.

Another for me is Canada-based USD accounts that accept EFT transfers.

hrdwdmrbl··on PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
Really happy to see this problem see continued development. I remember when it was just a proposal.
hrdwdmrbl··on BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration
Is this more of a teams app (Slack, Teams) or more of a chat app (Whatsapp, Signal, Messenger)?
hrdwdmrbl··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
I skimmed the entire document and didn’t see any new information and in particular i didn’t see any evidence of a particular crime that could be pinned on SBF, other than negligence. (I’m sure he’s guilty of many crimes, i just didn’t see new evidence in this document)
hrdwdmrbl··on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera
Why can’t phones easily add capabilities on both sides of the visible range? IR and UV. The visible range isn’t special except to us, right?
hrdwdmrbl··on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
At this point it isn't a technology problem but a business problem. The tech exists, but how do you get everyone to adopt it? I genuinely wish I knew!
hrdwdmrbl··on Building NAS with ZFS, AFP/Samba for Time Machine (2021)
The OMV is wired but my computer is wireless, though it’s within 2 meters of the router.
hrdwdmrbl··on $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
As an e-commerce store owner myself with a small amount of experience selling on Amazon, I consider this to be a good idea. I do admit to a instinctual aversion to lawyers. My tech-bias is to grind forward through the "official" routes. Use the existing systems that Amazon put in place. (Though perhaps my tech-bias should push me to "hack" around obstacles using things like lawyers)

This reminds me of the recently popular article https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-paypal-and-i... which also gave some great legal advice for routing around useless customer service.

Next time I will be quicker to seek a lawyer

hrdwdmrbl··on Building NAS with ZFS, AFP/Samba for Time Machine (2021)
Can anyone comment on the reliability of a setup like that? I've used OpenMediaVault for a few years and I've had terrible network reliability. I believe that it's basically just a GUI on top of those packages, eh?
hrdwdmrbl··on I fought the PayPal and I won
This is great! I just sent out a Notice of Dispute to eBay. I think I'll send one to Shopify next!

Correction: Shopify does not have an arbitration clause. Instead they specify the court of jurisdiction. Looks like it's Ontario court system for me.

hrdwdmrbl··on The 'attention economy' corrupts science
Should we instead call it the "status economy"?
hrdwdmrbl··on Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
I'll chime in and say that I did the same. A lot of people like Fly but I wanted super low complexity. My hope has mostly panned out. I was able to move without too much difficulty and I'm happy with how it turned out.
hrdwdmrbl··on Bizarre Vintage Photos of Steam Engines After a Boiler Explosion
Question: What is the reason that the tubes extend like that?

Hypothesis: Is it that after material (metal) of the pipes weakens from the heat, it becomes pliable? An explosion will cause outward force which will stretch the weakened pipes?

hrdwdmrbl··on Show HN: uFuzzy.js – A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck
This reminds me of my dream of a decent desktop search product
hrdwdmrbl··on Google is shutting down Stadia
Yup, that's exactly what everyone expected since the beginning. And that's why publishers were not very interested, because they always suspected that's what would happen. Why invest when Google will get bored and shut it down in a couple years?
hrdwdmrbl··on Flyweight: An ORM for SQLite
Why a whole new ORM and not an SQLite adapter for an existing ORM?
hrdwdmrbl··on Real World Micro Services
Wow! Incredible work. Is this the work of a single person?
hrdwdmrbl··on Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)
A cheap way to do it is to use Nativefier. It's not perfect but it's like a 80% solution.
hrdwdmrbl··on What would a “good” WebMD look like?
I think it would need to ask more questions. Interrogate the question asker more, like a doctor would
hrdwdmrbl··on Desktop Apps with Deno
I think you're right
hrdwdmrbl··on Dusting “Attack” via Tornado Cash to Public Wallets
I believe I was wrong about this. The recipients do seem to have received 0.1 ETH
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