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megavolcanoon Ruby vs. Crystal Performance

Does it also have a massive community and thousands of libraries(rubygems) for almost every possible thing you can possibly think of?

megavolcanoon Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu

These days Debian Gnome and default Ubuntu are so similar these days the difference is negligible once you installed 1 or 2 plugins that mimic the Ubuntu functionality. Ubuntu's gnome is just plain gnome with a few in-house extensions made by Canonical - hardly worth it in my opinion while Debian is rock solid. Buster (the current stable) is nearly perfect IMO.

megavolcanoon Ruby vs. Crystal Performance

Huge ruby ran here. Ruby on Rails has been my day job for a decade, and it pays the bills well enough. Crystal has always been a curiosity to me, but I have never been as productive in any other language or framework as I have been with Rails. I dont' care if you're language is "ruby-like" or "go fast" - if I'm not as productive with it as I am with Ruby, I'm not gonna touch it.

Get back to me when there is Crystal on Rails.

megavolcanoon Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?

AWS KMS. Access is added invidually using IAM roles. That's it.

megavolcanoon Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft

Been using the new WSL2 integration with Docker since it became GA yesterday, ditched my VMWare setup and loving it so far.

megavolcanoon Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft

megavolcanoon What Peak Hello World Looks Like

Reminds me of the Java version, Hello World Enterprise Edition

https://gist.github.com/lolzballs/2152bc0f31ee0286b722

megavolcanoon Deno 1.0

What about the dependencies of your dependencies? You're gonna get burned when a breaking change gets introduced a few levels deeper than your package.json. Not everyone follows semver perfectly, and sometimes malicious code gets distributed as one of these transitive dependencies.

megavolcanoon Deno 1.0

Why are you _regularly_ clearing lock files? If you're bypassing lock files you're going to have the exact same issue with npm or yarn or any other package manager that downloads from the internet.

megavolcanoon Deno 1.0

Deno has lock files and caches files locally on first import.

megavolcanoon AWS services to avoid

I joined a company that had their application on about a dozen environments in Elastic Beanstalk that would fail for no reason during deployments. When everything went find it took about an hour to deploy, when stuff goes wrong - say goodbye to half your day (at a minimum). The general solution to most deployment issues was to just terminate every instance but 1, deploy to 1 instance and let the scaling policies kick in to replace the terminated instances. EB is absolute trash.

megavolcanoon We Are Trying Out PeerTube

Why wouldn't you just give them a direct-link to your "not-youtube" channel?

megavolcanoon Initial Impressions of WSL 2

The thing about Type 2 virtualization not working is true, but if you hyper-v enabled you already have type-1 virtualization so type 2 is kinda irrelevant.

I've been using Hyper-V for about 5 years and never noticed any performance impact worth mentioning. Type 1 hypervisor VMs are still technically running on the metal.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

Not all hospitals and morgues are overrun, a lot of them are actually massively under capacity. The media hysterics about this is complete nonsense for the majority of hospitals. NYC is not the US. Hell, NYC is not New York STATE.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

People aren't catching type 1 diabetes because they are sick by coronavirus - they already had it. Comparing it to an immunodeficiency disease is not the same. It makes zero sense to generalize the fatality rate across a healthy population and include those with pre-existing conditions when trying to gauge the response for an entire state/country when the vast majority are healthy and those who are dying are not. When I want to know the risk to me or my family, I don't care that an 81 year old with stage 4 lung cancer died when he got COVID-19 - I want to know what my chances are among healthy people - but the media hysterics cling to the vulnerable people when it has no bearing on healthy ones.

We need detailed demographics of infections and deaths. We need to break down the risks, because a blanket totalitarian response of "SHUT DOWN LITERALLY EVERYTHING" is absolutely ridiculous when the general population is going to be fine. We didn't shut down the world economy for SARS, H1N1, MERS or any particularly bad flu season and we shouldn't shut down for this. We should focus our limited resources on protecting the vulnerable and let everyone else get back to work. More lives will be destroyed from an extended shutdown than this virus ever could.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

Paraphrasing Dr. Birx: "There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem, some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. The intent is ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that."

Paraphrasing mostly, but this is Dr. Birx admitting that the government is overreporting by default. So even if you exclude NYC, it doesn't change my point.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...

"The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive."

I suppose the New York Times is propoganda? I know Donald Trump would agree with that statement...

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

The fatality rate of the seasonal flu is around 0.1%. We originally thought that COVID-19 had a fatality rate fo 2-3%, but now that antibody testing is more and more widespread we are finding more and more cases of people testing positive for antibodies - indicating they had and recovered from the virus - without ever having any symptoms.

A study from Santa Clara just recently found that there are probably 50 to 85 times MORE infections than originally thought, just that the vast majority of them were asymptomatic.

Should we be focusing our energy on protecting our elderly and immunocompromised? Yes, absolutely.

Should we be mandating that people stay home, putting millions of perfectly healthy people out of work? It's absolutely insane to me that this was even considered, let alone implemented.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

You answered your own question. When comparing estimated flu deaths to the overinflatted corona reported deaths. Do I really need to be so pedantic?

Vaccines existing for the flu is the point, COVID is way less deadly considering we don't_ have a vaccine.

megavolcanoon Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

Considering that the more data we get with regards to fatality rate, it's looking more and more along the lines of the seasonal flu (which has a vaccine, generally). The drastic measures taken to protect a tiny minority of people are looking to be more and more pointless. We would not tolerate shutting down the world economy to protect people from the seasonal flu, and we should not tolerate it for this.

megavolcanoon Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study

NYC is massively overreporting deaths. Just the other day they added 3700 "new" deaths that didn't even test positive, they just suspected (ie. pulled it out of their behind) that it was cause of death.

Death numbers are overreported in general - Dr. Birx herself even claimed that if you test positive but die of something other than the virus they track it as a COVID death. It's preposterous.

megavolcanoon It’s Time to Build

It's time to build - but yet most of us are legally mandated to stay home and NOT build.

"I'm from the government, I'm here to help" - inspiring confidence in nobody since forever.

Regulatory capture is the biggest problem stifling innovation today. The government needs to get the hell out of our way and let us get back to work.

megavolcanoon We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

And what do you think would happen if we decide to hike taxes on the uber wealthy once this is all over? The same thing they always do - go stash it in some tax haven, never to be seen again. For all intents and purposes, it has evaporated.

megavolcanoon TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

from the website:

> TablePlus is a native application. We are using Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Perl for OSX, C# for Windows.

megavolcanoon TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

and redis lol

megavolcanoon TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

gave it a trial install, and one thing I noticed right away is that memory usage shoots up and responsiveness slows to a crawl when working with medium-ish tables (hundreds of thousands of rows) if you happen to run a select and forget to limit your query, it slows to a crawl

datagrip paginates results in batches of 500 by default, which helps with not accidentally making the interface implode on itself

megavolcanoon We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

> we need a real correction in order to redistribute some of the wealth.

There will be no redistribution, that's a fairy tale. There will only be evaporation.

megavolcanoon Goat2Meeting

Um...I eat goat quite frequently. It's very tasty.

megavolcanoon Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

This is why I don't use SSO for personal affairs, unless required. The convenience is not worth it to me, especially because I just use a password manager to log me in anyway. The provider will just cut you off at a moment's notice and then tell you to shove it. Besides, logging in is faster than having to be redirected to another page just to use my password manager to log in to my google account, redirect me back and then I'm in...just log in directly.

I also never, ever, for any reason, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who I am with, or where I am going, or where I've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever link a business email account to a personal account. I use different browser profiles and keep all that stuff segregated.

megavolcanoon Asciiflow in VS Code

> released 7 hours ago

Nice, thanks for letting me know.