Heh. If only I had the budget for that. No, but the API I was using earlier was checking for truly available domains, but I got quickly rate-limited by that one. With the new api I get "available" even if it costs a house to buy it.
I'll try to add some additional checks and differentiate naked domains and expensive ones.
I am curious - are you getting any referral fee from GoDaddy/Namecheap when you send users for registration? I've tried to find a program on their site, but it seems like a dark forest. There are some referral banners, but not direct "register this domain, and get back a dollar" kind of thing.
I love the pencil-sketch style of your finding. Really cool.
I am using OpenAI GPT3 with a single (but long) prompt, explaining how to come up with the names that I think would be interesting.
Honestly, people who just about "prompt engineering" are pretty on point. It requires a bit of experimentation, but in this case I didn't have to do any fine tuning of the model itself, just the prompt.
I might come up with an array of different prompts to alter results, depends on user preferences.
Thank you! I will definitely add these to a list of new features and get them shipped. Btw, I just switched the API, so .com checking should be available again.
Unlike the old API, this one will mark something as "available" whether it's actually not-taken, or if it costs $9,000 to buy. Not ideal, as I think a lot of us would prefer actually cheap domains, but it's a midway solution to make it work right away.
Update: Apologies to anyone who doesn't get the red/green light on .com availability. I hit API rate limit on that function and quickly updating the backend to use a different API. Will be done shortly!
Yeah, whatever button I pushed to upgrade, it did the opposite. It created a new instance of PG and applied the new plan to it. Meanwhile I had to manually copy the data and shut down the old plan/db.
Update: found it while playing with a new project! There's "upgrade instructions" which guide you through the manual process, and there's an option to "upgrade plan" which just reassigns the existing db. Very intuitive!
p.s. Fun fact, if you spin out a new Heroku app (today, Nov 27th), it defaults to free stuff, and makes you upgrade manually, as opposed to just defaulting all the new stuff to cheap paid plans.
After you've upgraded, did your data get auto-migrated? It is my understanding from Heroku docs that data move is a separate process from the upgrade of the plan itself, and if you don't force a copy, you'll lose all your data anyway.
Looked into it a few seconds more and realized they've got a new "mini" plan, which is basically a free Dev plan, but costing 1 cent a month. I suppose this is a deliberate attempt to kill all the non-maintained projects, rather than a way to make money.
Thanks for the reminder! Could've lost a bunch of photos :) Also, it's interesting how little effort Heroku put into helping you upgrade. There's no one-click options, and instead it's a forest of choices and menus to jump through.
By the way, one hack to not upgrading your app? Move your DBs to a single shared instance on Amazon, and then point Heroku apps to that one instance. Meanwhile, in Heroku just remove the Postgres addon. As long as it doesn't see a free instance, it doesn't complain.
I think we've all seen Robocop and know how this works out. I am all for technology making our lives better, but autonomous robots (or even remotely controlled ones) that go around killing people at will isn't the future we should have. Theoretically it's a good idea, until for one reason or another you end up on the kill list. And then it doesn't matter who hacked it or how you go there, you're no longer available to argue. Seems like an awful idea.
Reading this and finding it amusing that Amazon, out of all places, is still operating the warehouse in a traditional way. Seems like a big win for the employees would be to have an Amazon Work app on their phone, which tracks their in/out time. Schedules could operate on rolling basis, so no one comes at exactly 6am, for example. You get 900 people funnel in from 5 to 8am, in 20 min increments. Everyone gets to park in peace, and no one is losing 20 minutes just waiting in line to leave the building. It's probably a more hectic scenario for the employer to operate.
Got ya. I guess I was thinking of a "Delta-V" (a book) type of scenario, where space exploration becomes conducted in space, and regulation from Earth get circumvented in order to achieve a much bigger outcome in the orbit and beyond.
I guess if indeed it's not a big deal though, then probably not an issue to worry about. Thank you for your answer!
Does this actually have any impact on Space? In other words, FCC can regulate what American companies have to do, but Papua New Guinea would come out and launch 50k satellites tomorrow, and it would be out of FCC control.
If that's the case, then space junk removal is just a financial obstacle that will make it more prohibitive to launch new sats, and cause the business to move to other counties.
If anyone knows the specifics of how this would work, could you enlighten? Thanks!
Check out the book “Hard Drive” about the early days of Microsoft, and you will never be able to see anything that corporate does without suspicion, and for a good reason.
Honest concern: how do we know that Apple isn't going to secretly share this data anyone who asks for it politely? I know they've been very good at maintaining privacy-first appearance, but where is too much good stuff a bad combo?
Seriously though, I love iPhones as the next guy, and find them very convenient, but are we trading convenience for carrying an unbound GPS tracker in every pocket, and if so, how do we change course? Is it even possible these days to unsubscribe from Apple/Google without feeling like one's living back in the stone age?
It you haven’t seen it, take a look at a movie called “Midnight in Paris.” It does a great job highlighting how each generation find the past to be somehow better than current.
If you look at the scientific papers on how our bodies burn stored energy, then it becomes rather straight forward why high intensity exercise leads to weight loss.
Exact numbers escape me, but exercise somewhere between 65-80 percent of your heart rate leads to optimal consumption of carbs and fats. Too low stress and you aren’t using up much stored energy; too high and the body needs sugars to keep going.
Better yet, it’s prolonged intensity that matters, as it takes the body a few minutes to activate all the pathways required to start burning fats and carbs. So for example long distance running will burn more fats than sprinting.
This isn’t discussed very often, but if you have an old model, like we do, the Charging a Tesla takes forever. Out 225 mile range battery takes 1.5-2 hours to get to full charge.
Some would say that’s not necessary, but there are certain stretches of the road where we came down to Zero miles, after having full 100% charge.
It doesn’t feel great to almost run out of power at midnight with two young kids, in the middle of nowhere.
I’ve only driven a Y as a loaner, and although it’s 80% as good or better than X, I gotta say there are some features I still dig on the X.
X has more physical controls, which come in handy. It’s got a better steering control imo. We also got air suspension, which comes in pretty handy, especially while climbing over rocks in Colorado mountains.
That said, is it worth 50k more? No :) But we got an early model and got a bunch of tax credits and discounts, at which point it made more sense (and Y was not even announced yet).
Mistakes happen. Kudos to the author on taking it as a learning opportunity. I am friends with a lot of smart devs, and many of them have dropped a production db at least once, and if not then, then accidentally emailed 10k people …etc. It happens. Work to avoid it, but plan for what to do when it inevitably happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I quit social media two years ago, and pretty much all the point about news also apply to social. It feels soooo good to not care what people say on the internet, it’s remarkable. HN rocks tho ;)
This is so awesome. This is what the web used to look like in the 90s when I was a kid learning to program, and it was glorious. Now everything top-10000 websites looks the same. Let's have more daughters design websites!
Heh. I've actually experimented with something like that before, then came to a conclusion that we have so much information added every day, there is very little value in the archives. It's not to say there's not value, but the effort to create one doesn't justify the return. Maybe you just have to be very interested in the content, or just be a very kind person?
I haven't played video games or had LAN parties in 20 years. Got too much of it early on, and that was enough :) Could you extrapolate on how it works nowadays? Also, is this purely probono, or do the players pay to access these servers?
Yup, the customers are definitely happy. Getting 1Gig on their own is rather expensive, but this way they pay indirectly, and still get most of the benefit. Many of the users don't overlap, where some come in the morning, some mid day, and some late at night. On top of that, most of the time they aren't exactly downloading terabytes of information, it's predominantly Zoom and YouTube, plus some general web traffic. I could do something with 20% of the bandwidth and no one would blink. But yes, in general, I would err on the side of offering better internet to the users, rather than making an extra buck with some trickery.