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jlogsdon··on A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)
Yes

https://youtu.be/0bAuP0gO5pc

jlogsdon··on BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
Important to note that AWS doesn’t control spot prices: it’s a market where you bid on what you’re willing to pay. Customers control the cost through their bids.

edit; and prices tend to surge at end of quarter, regardless of provider. I’ve seen that for years at AWS and it’s only increased year over year.

jlogsdon··on Volta
asdf is a pluggable version manager for many languages and tools, not just one language.
jlogsdon··on Factorio 1.1 is getting close
Resource patches get richer the further you go out always in vanilla, not just rail world. Richness is a function of distance from your spawn point.
jlogsdon··on Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology
It's even on their official sites demo video! As shared in another comment https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
jlogsdon··on Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology
There are plenty of video interviews where Musk himself shows using auto pilot with his hands off the wheel.
jlogsdon··on Show HN: A Let's Encrypt Certificates Manager for Kubernetes
What's the benefit of this over using cert-manager?
jlogsdon··on VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits
I am using a free tier instance in GCP and using tinc to accomplish exactly this. It's not "click and play" but setting it up is simple. If I ever outgrow the f1-micro its easy enough to add another node with a public IP.

It has the added benefit of being a full-on VPN, though I don't generally use it for regular internet browsing.

jlogsdon··on Node.js Logging Made Right
Specifically in the area of high CPU load tasks. NodeJS is perfectly fine for heavily async tasks, especially calling out to external services. When you have CPU intensive tasks the lack of control over the event loop (task list) can be painful.
jlogsdon··on Node.js Logging Made Right
It's not 100x as stated by the OP, but I wouldn't use it (async_hooks) in situations where performance is actually a concern. I wouldn't use node there either, but that's besides the point.

async_hooks are 100% usable in production right now, we use it at my current gig for tracing and its had minimal impact on the services using it.

jlogsdon··on Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks
From their Privacy Policy (https://www.gurn.io/privacy-policy/):

  4. We may collect the following Data, which includes personal Data, from you:
    ....
    l. A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on the Website,
       and the site you exit to (automatically collected);
jlogsdon··on Show HN: JinjaSQL – Generate SQL Queries using a Jinja Template
This library doesn't run SQL, its only a template engine that gives you back a parameterized query and parameter array back. It's up to you to actually use them with an adapter, which means you can use prepared statements.
jlogsdon··on Node v4.0.0
IndexedDB is standardized for IndexedDB, which is not at all designed for use on a backend.
jlogsdon··on Tighter Control Over Your Referrers
Not only that, it doesn't break anything at all. Referer is a completely optional header, and all this does is introduce a <meta> tag for controlling that. I hope more browsers pick this up soon!

And also let me enforce my own setting.

jlogsdon··on Some simple steps to scale a Ruby app
WebRick is only meant for development mode, not production.

Another choice (which we use) is Unicorn[1], though I have become a huge fan of Puma lately.

[1] http://unicorn.bogomips.org/

jlogsdon··on Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
Now I hear live translation along side the speaker. Awesome.
jlogsdon··on Show HN: Virtual File System in PHP
You can use PHP built-in functions. Check out the readme. The API is shown alongside using functions like file_put_contents and require.
jlogsdon··on Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet
It's all possible with HTTP statuses according to a link[1] posted above.

[1] https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...

jlogsdon··on Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains
Thanks, what I searched for didn't really bring anything up.
jlogsdon··on Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains
> unlike, say, CloudFlare

Care to elaborate?

jlogsdon··on Just Use Sublime Text
You can do exactly that with GVim if you are so inclined.
jlogsdon··on Link Bubble - A new browser for Android
According to the developer, Chris Lacy[1], Link Bubble was in development before Facebook's Messenger was released.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454918

jlogsdon··on How times have changed for PostgreSQL
Technically mysql has "built-in fulltext search" as well, but the implementation leaves something to be desired.
jlogsdon··on Amon.cx: New Server monitoring beta to compare with New Relic
Upstart can indeed keep your process running. We use it for all of our process monitoring and it works like a charm.
jlogsdon··on Amon.cx: New Server monitoring beta to compare with New Relic
Adding in the ability to mark when a deploy goes out makes it really easy to see when deploys caused issues historically (and immediately for those not involved with the deploy itself).
jlogsdon··on Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern
Here's a tip: if you have a problem you're having trouble solving, work/think about it a bit before going to bed. It will be fresh in your mind, and as you sleep your brain will churn away at it.

This works for pretty much everything.

jlogsdon··on FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
Can't deliver privacy guarantees unless you have a secure system in the first place. That's not to say Google does care about privacy, but security being top makes sense.
jlogsdon··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
and heavily extensible. You can basically clone Winamp 2, 3 and 5 with it. The community is really strong, as well.
jlogsdon··on Unofficial Github Cards
I think they are synonymous currently. I wouldn't mind seeing Cards used for "static" things and Widgets for more interactive... widgets.
jlogsdon··on Most detailed Github issue ever
For issues and comments you can simply drag an image into the body area (or use the upload button) and it will upload to GitHub. You only need to reference from your repository for README or other files inside of your code.
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