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kencauseyon Apple Turned on 'Discoverable by Others'. You Might Want It Off

Context is Journalling app.

kencauseyon I am the OP of that $104K bill post and I have some follow-up questions

You probably should have included an explanation of why the OP would have experienced a markedly different experience with the service you mention. This seems to be the answer:

https://pico.sh/faq#are-there-any-bandwidth-limitations

  "Currently we get 10TB egress per month through our cloud provider. We are nowhere near that number today (~60GB/mo).

  So until we reach 10TB per month, there are no bandwidth limitations.
  
  Having said that, once we reach that number, we will average the cost across all users."

I have to wonder how well that will work out after multiple episodes of heavy bandwidth usage as experienced by netlify in this instance and others in the past.

kencauseyon Visual Analysis of Binary Files

Previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140249

and other instances without comments.

kencauseyon Burger King owner will buy out its biggest franchisee in US for about $1B

Here's an Associated Press article:

https://apnews.com/article/burger-king-franchisee-carrols-15...

kencauseyon Farms drained part of the Merced river for months

https://archive.is/I0G1P

kencauseyon Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

After posting this comment I then decided to look into it (in my usual way) and just looking for homemade brown rice onigiri what I found was that at least the couple of recipes I looked at used short grain brown rice (which I did not even realize existed) and/or recommended using more water than usual.

kencauseyon Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

Have you checked the list of ingredients to check for a binder of some sort?

kencauseyon Verizon to keep charging controversial fee despite $100M settlement

I won't defend most of the practices but sales tax is, in at least some US states, required by law to be listed separately.

example: See Kentucky Revised Statues (KRS) chapter 139 section 210 paragraph 1: (PDF) https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id...

edit: cited example

kencauseyon It's 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features

According to Youtuber Techmoan there is only one company making actual cassette playback mechanisms anymore and the mechanisms are not great. Any device claiming to be able to play standard audio cassettes sold in recent years is built on one of these barely acceptable mechanisms.

Does anyone have a counterfactual to that?

edit: typo

kencauseyon Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]

I'm curious about this consistent claim that electricity is at low demand at night. Perhaps this is less true of areas in the winter with electrically provided heat?

kencauseyon Mathematica 14

Archive from 20220805:

https://archive.is/4l509

kencauseyon Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack

Probably someone seeking a ransom.

kencauseyon High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time

Thanks, I was thinking of early development which I'm assuming is well before the existence of Windows. However I understand you may not have awareness of this period of development.

kencauseyon High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time

On what platform did development take place?

kencauseyon Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine

Thanks for confirming that Nebula originally used Tcl. I considered posting to ask but was not confident in my memory.

Another hazy memory is that I contributed to an early reference manual for Nebula. I probably was using the name 'nikos' at the time.

kencauseyon The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

(2019)

kencauseyon Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in 'safe parking lots'

I'm not sure if your friend is in the US but:

https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm#streetaddress

kencauseyon An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia

The post is not deleted, it is hidden. Go to your profile at

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=willsoon

and enable 'showdead'.

kencauseyon Cowgol 2.0 (2022)

Poking Technology (aka hjalfi) is David Givens' youtube channel and I believe there have been videos in the past on implementations of this or related anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/@hjalfi

kencauseyon HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

I have no actual experience with them but have you looked at the Epson printers that you refill with bottles of ink?

kencauseyon Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

I'm afraid that you are about 60 years late on that one.

kencauseyon Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig

Title is a bit clickbait. This is regarding Hashmaps specifically. Read or at least scan through it where the author will submit a fix for the Zig implementation resulting in Zig's Hashmap being 50% faster than the Factor implementation.

kencauseyon Why is "pineapple" in English "ananas" in other languages? (2013)

loo-uh-vul

kencauseyon Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?

Using whitespace for formatting while standard is optional, you can instead use braces. See section 2.7 of the Haskell Language Report: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch2....

kencauseyon Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]

I'm just guessing but it seems highly likely that the original production was recorded to film and not to tape. Given access to the original film would make it easy to transfer at a higher quality than the original broadcast.

kencauseyon Counterfeit Apple II computers (1985) [video]

Did it look like this one?

https://youtu.be/vYMiSz-WlEY?si=Mk8Bua_2xGkgLDeR

kencauseyon Factor 0.99 Now Available

The previous release, 0.98, was just over 5 years ago:

https://re.factorcode.org/2018/07/factor-0-98-now-available....

kencauseyon The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

Have there been any machine learning related deployments on a modern mainframe? Would there be any value in doing so?

kencauseyon Why ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ still matters at 50

https://www.wku.edu/hardinplanetarium/

kencauseyon Constructing the Other Half of the Policeman's Beard (2021)

https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse

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