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mahalol··on Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)
Great timing on this article. I have a rpi4 and a pi cam v2 which I want to have some fun with and was in need of inspiration. I am currently using it as a security camera while I am away on holiday but wish to have a play both with slow motion video and perhaps some object detection using opencv. The latter I have already tried but all the articles I found seem out of date so I will need to spend some more time on.
mahalol··on I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns
In NZ some ISPs use cg-nat meaning that you will have many people under one public IPv4 address. Going by this logic you could ban a whole ISP in one go.
mahalol··on Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams
For me, the reason was that I had found out Obsidian is not open source as I initially thought.
mahalol··on Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?
Hey man, I'm a Kiwi as well and have been considering an arrangement like this as I'd like my next job to be full remote and unfortunately this hasn't yet been a thing in NZ (Don't see many full remote jobs on Seek)

Any chance you'd be keen to share some details?

hn at maha dot nz

mahalol··on We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers
That is amazing, your company rocks.
mahalol··on Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better
From my experience, the problem is the lamination of the NZ ones, causing refraction and making it hard to scan. I find that even at the right distance I have to move my phone left and right until the light isn't reflecting
mahalol··on Amazon EKS Anywhere
How is this different from Azure's AKS on ARC which you can run on prem nodes but managed via Azure management plane?
mahalol··on Ask HN: Any Good Alternative for Docker?
I've had a bit of a play with Singularity containers and thought they were quite cool. Popular in the science circles but not so much anywhere else. I wonder why.
mahalol··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
A bit more manual, but I've been saving webpages I like in Obsidian.

First, click the reader view in Firefox, then select all, then paste it into a new Obsidian page. It's really good at keeping a nice formatting and importing pictures etc. You can then export the result to PDF if so desired.

mahalol··on Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?
Hey, thanks for posting this video. I am in awe watching him move so fast.
mahalol··on Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose
I know this wasn't intended as satire, but that's how I read it.

Very modern stack but totally overengineered.

mahalol··on Automated Data Wrangling
Can I do this programmatically? I need to automate some manual processes.
mahalol··on Automated Data Wrangling
This may be exactly what I need. I want to point it to a csv file and generate a schema of what type of data is in each column.

I do want some flexibiliy though, for example, if a certain column is filled with 9 digit numbers, starting with 0 then treat it as string.

Will have a look at it, thanks for the link!

mahalol··on Setting up a Raspberry Pi with 2 Network Interfaces as a simple router
Can confirm, I have been using pfSense on one apu board, and debian on another older 2c13 board. they are such nifty devices with a very simple case.

Big fan.

mahalol··on I tracked down my impostor
Well, this is definitely the kind of content I wouldn't be surprised to read on reddit, but a bit disappointing to see it on HN.
mahalol··on Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
Unfortunately, in some organisations the OS on your workstation is not a choice you can make, so for some of us that are stuck in Windowsland it's quite a treat to have all these goodies available.

Windows is probably the best DE for Linux now. ( I'd still use i3 if I had a choice)

mahalol··on Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the Year: What Happened?
Hah, I'm also still rocking an i5-2500k. Didn't even think it is worth trying this game but seeing your comment gives me some hope.
mahalol··on OpenBSD Router Guide
Hey, I've got an apu2c4 and was actually thinking about installing Ubuntu or Debian and try to run ansible on it, but your Nixos idea sounds good. Do you have any references for the setup? Have you found any downsides?

The reason I want to move away from pfsense is the lack of support for Wireguard.

mahalol··on Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters
From my experience, I simply end up eating more after breaking the fast, so overall the same amount of calories a day (if not more).
mahalol··on Mastering Jq: Part 1
Oh, would you mind sharing your list please?
mahalol··on Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium
Azure LogicApps are good for these kind of silly integrations, if it has a connector for it then it's a piece of cake.

They have a pretty limited use case though.

mahalol··on A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
Personally, I can't see a reason to see these many people at one time.

Nine people on the screen is a nice ratio, and if the 10th person says something, they take the place of the person that hasn't said anything the longest on the grid.

There are other reasons I dislike Teams, but this isn't one of them.

mahalol··on Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
We use the MMP system in NZ and it seems to work quite well, though needs a bit of fine tuning as currently you need 5% to get into a coalition and that is slightly too high.
mahalol··on Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How often do you go over them?
I think your approach sounds interesting.

When you say you write things down in log format, do you use a field as a tag?

Any chance you can paste an example entry?

mahalol··on Initial Impressions of WSL 2
Thanks for that, I have hit this bug once with WSL1 in the past and didn't think much of it at the time. Good to know what caused the issue.
mahalol··on Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
That's a pretty cool project. As a Sysadmin I know a bit of Python and how to use Rest APIs but would you mind pointing me in the right direction on how you present an API to the front end? I'd like to learn how to build a website like this.
mahalol··on Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference
Midnight to 5.30 for me. It's considerably better than when he used to wake up several times a night. Never going through that again.
mahalol··on Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
I use 'tldr' for that. It's a great man summary tool.
mahalol··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
I can comment on this for my wife who suffers from anxiety.

She is very good at planning because she needs to feel in control all the time. You are right that when things don't go as planned and the pressure ramps up she loses her control and makes poor decisions or no decision at all.

It's interesting to me as I am on the opposite side for most of the time.

mahalol··on Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
In NZ we have two options for domestic travel Jetstar ( cheap and unreliable ) and Air NZ which usually costs more but it's better overall.

A lot of people I know and myself choose to pay more for a better experience.

It's not always about the race to the bottom in my opinion.

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