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laeri··on Getting forked by Microsoft
The author didn't seem to request payment in monetary form but expected some kind of contributions back which would have helped both sides. It would probably be difficult to include some guarantees about upstream contributions into the license but interesting takeaway.
laeri··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Parent poster wasn't referring to Ozempic but a general healthy lifestyle. Which requires resources many people do not have such as time, money, education etc.
laeri··on Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)
This might be misleading as often biodiversity can't be measured by how lush it looks and how much vegetation there is. Certain plants and animals can only survive in arid landscapes that look 'dead' but can't survive otherwise as they are adapted to an environment with less nutrients. So it is possible that you actually reduce biodiversity by doing things like this. Often land has too much nutrients due to farming and leaving arid landscape as it is might be better.
laeri··on What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?
I am confused, they didn't contact the company at all and just disclose this publicly? Very immature handling of a vulnerability finding.
laeri··on C Macro Reflection in Zig
In this case you probably haven't looked at it properly. There is just the starting entry main.zig, and a root.zig file which you can remove if you don't need it. Nothing complicated or annyling problems at this stage.
laeri··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Also the use of the words "dropshipping" and "windowshopping"
laeri··on Swiss vs. American parenting: Differences according to a US mom
Your point stands but in summer it gets up to around 35 degrees, 95 fahrenheit to be correct.
laeri··on Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg [video]
If it is needed soneone will and probably is currently doing original research. The payoff is too great that alternatives would be ignored. As long as financial incentives exist progress will inevitably happen and the financial incentives in this case is massive.
laeri··on What are third places? How do I find one?
That is not necessarily true all over Europe. In my area prices were increases somewhat recently and I now decided against going there anymore. However, they did not change any seating inside, everything stayed somewhat tge same
laeri··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
*One of the richest men. Bernard Arnault seems to claim top spot currently and the definition of richest man is also very vague in general.
laeri··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Not sure what is hindering you talking about it. You seem to be proud of it.
laeri··on Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
It doesn't need a name change. You would write wank in a completely different way only the spelling sounds the same.
laeri··on Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise
What kind of structures did you develop that you can't get by weightlifting? I assume these are some kind of stabilizers that you train by some tai chi movements. If this is the case then it should also be possible to train these using a weightlifting regime with some specific movements targeting those stabilizers.
laeri··on Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry
The shoes are none of that. They are great :)
laeri··on Goodbye non-KISS appliances
It actually makes sense to own a larger car and fridge in this case. I wouldn't have thought about this as I usually go once or twice a day to the grocery store and just buy what I currently need as the grocery is on my way to work (walking distance).
laeri··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
This includes assets right or some kind of prebuilt data in custom formats? Otherwise it would be hard to have this much data in source files.
laeri··on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
They are involved in helping their queen produce new offspring that also contains part of their own genetic material. In bees and ants you have to think of them as one single individual. Each single worker is not able to reproduce but they still will indirectly still reproduce through their queen. Not sure what being good humans has to do with this.
laeri··on Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
If input validation is not present in your framework of choice then the framework clearly has problems.

If you do not validate your inputs properly I am not sure what you are doing when you have a user facing applications of this size. Validating inputs is the lowest hanging fruit for preventing hacking threats.

laeri··on Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
Query input validation is nearly a solved problem. If you don't I would argue this is an incident if in this case 500's are returned.
laeri··on The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List
FIDO/physical keys still work and they are still the best solution. Sure they can be stolen but physical access is much harder to get than digital access. The loss problem is also practically not of importance as a backup key can mitigate this. Also physical loss does not guarantee access to the new owner as they need to know which identity uses the key as well as the password as the key is only the second factor.

Best solution would probably be an implant of the physical key which makes it nearly impossible to lose it (apart from the worst case scenario).

laeri··on Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
A malformed request should not lead to a 500, they should be handled and validated.
laeri··on Ask HN: Experience Starting a Blog
The hard part is to stay consistent and take your time researching so the blog actually has some depth. Negative feedback is not a problem without a comment section. I don't even know how many people visit my blog apart from a few friends that I know of as I have no tracking at all. The question is what's your goal. Mine was to have more opportunity to write and to actually force myself to finish and release my writing.
laeri··on How I destroyed the company's DB (a stupid SQL mistake)
Which did you use and what kind of experiences did you have with them?
laeri··on How I destroyed the company's DB (a stupid SQL mistake)
That can happen, I had this case with a local payment gateway. When a user started a checkout session we created a database object that tracked the specific checkout with an id the payment gateway handed back. When the user aborted the checkout the corresponding order within the gateway however was only kept for around 30 minutes and then deleted. This meant a checkout row in our database tried to associate an external order with an id for an object that didn't exist anymore.

This lead to some errors when we tried to get data for these checkout items and got back that they weren't found.

laeri··on Milk Tea Addiction
Then its regular sugar addiction and not necessarily related only to milk tea. Milk tea does not need to contain sugar. Bubble tea chains usually give you the option to choose. Also when I visit indian friends some of them usually refrain from putting a lot of sugar into it, not bubble teavin this case but still milk tea.
laeri··on Milk Tea Addiction
Which would mean people should be addicted to milk in general and not necessarily to milk tea only. Chain of causation might be inverted here as parent suggests.
laeri··on Milk Tea Addiction
So you think tea itself is addicting? Milk tea is basically tea with some milk.
laeri··on Milk Tea Addiction
It doesn't necessary need to be sweet. Many bubble tea shops and chains in Taiwan gave the consumer the option to choose the sugar level. Most people probably choose some sugar but this was a nice surprise for me when I visited.
laeri··on Ask HN: Good Books on Universal Basic Income?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson is probably also a good book related to this. It mainly argues against subsidies, minimal basic income, price regulation and gives some good arguments against government inventions in general. As someone with quite different viewpoints regarding these topics it was a very interesting read with very well formed arguments against some held beliefs of mine.
laeri··on Important Coding Habits
Totally agree, either physical or mental health problems is the most dangerous risk we face. Doing or not doing something over a long period of time can have serious consequences.
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