krisrm

You are not alone in this... The first time I heard "smee", I thought my ears had gone.

I haven't read much about Cloud Firestore before. My experience with NoSQL is limited to older (Lotus Notes/Domino). How does this compare to something like MongoDB.

I remember designing plenty of "BazAdapterFactoryManager" software in my early days of software engineering.

Sometimes I still have to maintain that software, and I remember quickly what regret feels like.

Realized after reading this that it's American Thanksgiving today. Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends. I'm thankful for a lovely forum where we can read and share articles like this one.

"every economist worth their weight in salt"

Which ones might those be? I think the public's trust in economists has been rightly damaged for a long time.

Apologies - my comment was poorly worded and I think it caused confusion. The article sort of implied that Visual Studio was "The Way to Develop in .NET", while both you and I obviously know that's not true.

I've seen a lot of documentation (third party and Microsoft) that just start in on a "Visual Studio"-based solution while ignoring everything else, which kind of rubs me the wrong way.

Is the truth really always somewhere in the middle? It was certainly true that tulips weren't actually worth as much as houses, in the end. Why can't the same be true of cryptocurrencies?

"One of my personal epistemic precepts is that if I disagree with somebody who is (a) at least smart as I am, (b) has generally sound judgment and (c) is better informed on a subject, then I ought to concede that I’m probably wrong and revise my opinion in their direction. "

I appreciate this point of view. I think it's also worth noting that your smart, of-sound-judgement friends have their own personal epistemic biases. Some of which can be for or against crypto currencies.

I've personally decided it's not something I value, despite knowing many smart people that invest or are involved in crypto. If I am leaving a bunch of money on the table, at least I know why.

Very good list.

[22] Avoid using real-time for correctness guarantees or comparing clocks across machines unless you have (and understand) error bounds on the clock.

I shudder to think of the hours spent head-scratching that went into this Lesson Learned :)

Just to clarify something at the start of the article... If you are using full Visual Studio to develop with .NET 6, you will need 2022. If not, (eg. VS Code), will work with the command line sdk.

This doesn't make sense to me. In what use-cases do we use our personal computers authenticated but also unauthorized?

This makes me sad.

As someone who's used Rust but isn't fully familiar with the community, what would the expected roles of these moderators have been? Is it just forum moderation or are there other components?

I'm no fan of crypto currencies (as my comment history will show), but does "different" imply "fraudulent" necessarily? or are there other factors at play? eg. easier APIs, more variance in crypto prices so that an automated trading strategy becomes potentially more lucrative?

Regular expressions are one of the first things I remember being taught in my intro CS class that really broadened my perspective on programming. Probably helped that the main language being taught was Perl, and my previous programming experience was BASIC ... Expectations might have been set low. One of those tools that's often over-applied, but invaluable in so many other situations.

> Being able to use Arch Linux or Debian, and the latest mainline kernel and have replaceable storage is just so much more flexible in what you can do.

Why not use dedicated router/firewall software like pfsense, OPNSense, or Untangle (all BSD-based, Untangle is a paid product though)?

I bought a little NUC with an Intel CPU and NICs to run pfSense a few months ago and it's been fantastically stable.

Mirrors my feelings on the crypto-craze. As "decentralized" as some may want crypto currency to be, there are some inherently "central" activities (exchanges being one of them) that tend to be skirted around by proponents.

Also, Decentralized Woo Hoo sounds like a great band name. Or something naughty from The Sims.

Agreed. It certainly doesn't demonstrate honesty or integrity, qualities which I value. While I'm sure plenty of adulterous people have made fine business partners... I'll take mine without, thanks.

Interactions like this are why I spend my "social media" time on hacker news. Good on you for building the tool in the first place, and for being willing to admit a mistake.

I do worry about the oversight and auditing of such metrics. The article does refer to the problem of "I planted X trees therefore I removed Y carbon", when that is true only under particular conditions.

The related article on blackjack (linked at the bottom) was also a great read. I've never felt like I really understood card counting but it makes a lot more sense now. Also explains why I don't go to the casino :)

It doesn't look like hackers are necessarily the intended audience, but it would have been interesting to read about some of the failsafes preventing this system from causing overdoses or other dangerous conditions.

Strong agree on this. Whenever I find my shoulders getting tight with stress, a walk outside might not fix everything, but it sure makes a difference.

I'm not certain if you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but I would think that often this would be positive net-value to content quality. If it takes a troll or a bot to stimulate quality discussion... so be it, I suppose.

If you're looking for DNSSEC specifically... I have not read this one, but enjoyed another in the "series" by the same author (TLS Mastery).

DNSSEC Mastery

https://www.amazon.ca/DNSSEC-Mastery-Securing-Domain-System-...

The article doesn't detail why the microcontroller transfer is necessary (unless I missed it). Does the phone do some sort of hardware verification to confirm the existence of the original camera for FaceID?

I guess I don't even think of these two languages as direct competitors. PHP is highly geared towards web scripting, Python is highly geared towards... well, just about every sort of scripting, and a lot of other stuff too. I don't think PHP has nearly the versatility of Python.

Is there an end-game for the food delivery industry that doesn't involve investors, restaurants, and customers being fleeced? From what I can tell, consolidation and monopoly-seeking is the name of the game in a business where there's not enough margin to go around...

In your opinion, what would be an example of a "beautiful skeuomorphic gradient"?

I don't use Apple software (or hardware) much, but I recall a certain stitched-leather user interface for iCal that really put me off skeuomorphism in User Interfaces.

Agreed, I hadn't seen anything on this subject before and wasn't aware it was a copypasta response. I get that hn doesn't want to turn into the cesspool of inside jokes that reddit has become, but a quick jab like this here and there never hurts, imo

While I agree with much of this, it also reeks of confirmation bias. It's very difficult to notice when software is reliable, but poor reliability can often (but not always) be quite apparent.