michaelmdresser

In past experience with DuckDB I have found this soft-limit distinction to be very important.

I think this is the source of me misinterpreting the symbol a few times, so yes.

I’ve been sticking to the weekly edition of The Economist for years to stay informed while escaping the news cycle. The US coverage is remarkably good. The weekly cadence mean I’m often a week behind the news, but to me that’s a feature. The editorial pieces (those expressing “the opinion of the newspaper”) are kept separate as “Leaders” and I read them last, if it all; I usually read each issue back-to-front following a tip from HN years ago.

For US-interested people, I’d also like to recommend Checks and Balance, a podcast by some of The Economist’s US reporters.

I’ve really enjoyed using sqlc for a small project. I’m comfortable in SQL and enjoy not having to go through an additional layer.

I assume the grandparent is referring to Nim’s insensitivity to underscores and capitalization in naming [1]. I’ve found this a tad annoying as well and I imagine I’d find it more troublesome in production use—I use ripgrep often to search codebases.

[1] https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/#_variable_declaratio...

Over the Wire's "Bandit" game was my tool of choice for teaching the introduction to shell for my university's Cybersecurity Club a few semesters in a row. It didn't feel like a chore because of the gamification and the go-your-own-pace approach -- the hints are also a nice touch. I highly recommend it to build some shell muscles and maybe learn something you didn't already know.

For something more advanced with less help available, I recommend Hack The Box [1] which frequently rotates challenge "boxes" with new combinations of configuration and vulnerability. I haven't touched it in a few years, so take that with a grain of salt. It used to be the case that you had to "hack" the website (very easy) in order to sign up for an account, but it appears that that may no longer be the case :(

[1] https://www.hackthebox.com/

I believe this is adjacent, but I quite like https://asoftmurmur.com/. I’m not sure if it’s able to run offline.

How do they pass DNS queries? Just UDP on 53? If so, you could just proxy instead of relying on the DNS protocol.

I had the exact same motivation as you! I've since moved onto other, much less passive, activities but for a brief moment in time my little tool gave me a lot of peace of mind while fully tabbed out of EVE. Optimizing my game experience for minimal effort/attention and maximum profit has historically taken the enjoyment out of games for me, so I'm glad to have moved on.

Thanks for the kind words. One of the things I have always loved about EVE is how open it is (relative to other MMOs) with information like this as well as providing APIs [1] and game data dumps [2]. The data isn't always perfect, and the APIs don't always cover everything the playerbase wants, but I'm just happy any of it exists in the first place! I used the data dump in conjunction with this log parsing to get an automatic "distance from my current location" of enemy players. It isn't anything too special—other developers have made much better tools—but it has been a very fun project.

[1] https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/EVE_API_Guide

[2] https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Static_Data_Export

What would they be instead?

I’ve been encountering similar challenges dealing with old Kubernetes library versions, CRDs, etc. Is this a problem mainly with the Kubernetes project or just Go dependencies? It’s quite frustrating, and I always discover some new set of voodoo to handle it.

Does anyone have a ublock origin filter they use to block YouTube recommendations and/or comments?

Looking particularly at latency measurements, I found the "How NOT to Measure Latency" [1] talk very illuminating. It goes quite deep into discussing how percentiles can be used and abused for measurement.

[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/latency-response-time/

I'm a little confused by this use case. Do you spin up individual pods for each user/group? Is this for other resources like secrets?

There are many niche subreddits with deep knowledge about their respective subjects. This knowledge comes out in product recommendations, discussions about interesting nuances, and as a place to share original creations (which I don’t think should be undervalued, even if one is an advocate of personal websites—I think content aggregation and easy posting does have value). Subreddits that personally come to mind are /r/fountainpens (a wealth of knowledge on maintaining and restoring pens), /r/mechanicalkeyboards (fascinating when it comes to custom boards), /r/watches, and of course /r/buildapc (an unparalleled resource of computer building lore for part compatibility, build failure debugging, etc). I’m certain there are plenty of other subreddits that provide similarly excellent value for their communities. Why should anyone have to log in to Reddit just to read someone’s post on /r/buildapc about how they should fix their unique issue?

My experience with Twitter is more limited, but I know people use it as sort of a microblogging platform sometimes and it benefits from the same ease of posting+content aggregation setup I mentioned earlier.

This is all my take, of course! I just hope we can avoid balkanizing the internet, despite all of the incentives these social media companies have to do so.

What is “wet marketing language?”

I really don't mind the individual pages and I don't think it really "pollutes" the browser history either. Rather, I think it makes it much easier to link a friend to a specific comparison.

Hey HN, I've been working on a CLI for our product for a little while now and I wanted to show it off, particularly because I was inspired by some posts about TUIs to also add a TUI to it! We just made the decision to open source it, let me know what you think!

I'll be around to answer any questions and take feedback. Making good CLI tooling is still a relatively new area for me but I've been diving into it more and more, as I spend a ton of time in a terminal and find CLI tooling so much snappier than browser-based applications.