mikece

HEIC is a container; HEIF is a container format. I don't know why images from my iPhone get saved with a HEIC extension... seems like it should be HEIF.

That said, when I move photos from my phone to by desktop via Signal; somewhere along the way it gets converted to JPEG so it's not a concern.

Any time law-makers claim that a law is meant to protect children you can guarantee that the safety of children had almost nothing to do with it. This is all a push to normalize digital ID (to protect the children!); once normalized it will become mandatory.

I realize this is a dupe -- I tried to delete... apparently I cannot now for reasons I don't understand.

Discuss here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140004

Alternate link: https://archive.is/O7rEl

I think the Cloudflare outage came down to a bad SQL query more than calling `.unwrap()` in production code... but a few less-than-ideal circumstances were revealed.

Yes, pretty basic looking mistakes that, from the outside, make many wonder how this got through. Though analyzing the post-mortem makes me think of the MV Dali crashing into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore: the whole thing started with a single loose wire which set off a cascading failure. CF's situation was similar in a few ways though finding a bad query (and .unwrap() in production code rather than test code) should have been a lot easier to spot.

Have any of the post-mortems addressed if any of the code that led to CloudFlare's outage was generated by AI?

The webserver was fast but PHP in the days before fast CGI didn't take all that much load to bring the server to its knees. And we didn't have cloud hosting at the time either so dynamic scaling behind a network load balancer wasn't a thing (and running multiple servers behind a reverse proxy was uncommon and expensive).

Based on metrics designed by Lockheed Martin? The Fat Amy[1] can be a good plane and clearly superior for certain tasks but unless Canada plans to be in a hot war where air power is paramount it would make more sense to get the Gripen and save a ton of money.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=fat+amy+f-35

I am not suggesting pushing in any direction; it was more a realization that one of my kids said they wanted to learn to program I'm not sure what the best first step would be (learning straight C like I did a long time ago probably isn't he best starting point) and I was curious if anyone else had ideas.

Not all Catholics, just the ones who go to the traditional Latin Mass. :-)

Interesting to see this topic being discussed on HN; I'm curious if any homeschooling parents here have kids who WANT to learn computer programming. I haven't pushed my kids to do any of the things that I loved doing growing up (or what I do now). If any homeschooled kids are getting into programming was it as a result of playing with something like Scratch or did they dive directly into writing Python or JavaScript?

I thought you were going to go in a different direction with that: recruiting. In States where home schoolers can play on public school sports teams there are cases where the family gets an apartment and one parent and the kid establishes residency for the purpose of being in a particular school district. A notable case in recent-ish history was someone called Tim Tebow in Jacksonville, FLA. It's not a common thing though, far less of a complaint-magnet than the Catholic schools who "recruit" players from all over a city or even region to come be a starter on their football/basketball team...

Or there could be absolutely no force or coercion involved: the mutual desire for him to work and her to stay home and raise and homeschool could have been how they met in the first place. You're not going to find people wanting that life on Tinder or Hinge or whatever people use for finding one another these days but it's easy if you want that kind of life.

Wait... you homeschool your kids and yet you write "...and [they] are jealous that she does both." No, they are ENVIOUS: one envies what they don't have and are jealous of what they have.

Sorry, couldn't let that one slide! :-)

And yet there are many homeschooling parents in this discussion thread (including a single-income dad of 9 whose kids are homeschooled). But I'm quite aware that I'm the exception on HN.

Mormons aren't the only people with large families. Ultra-conservative Jews, Muslims, and many Christians have large families. What I don't think I've ever seen is a couple who is non-religious or atheist and has a large family.

Only seven? :-)

(My wife and I have had 9.)

Homeschooled does not mean "completely isolated." My kids are in bands, sports teams, and numerous extracurricular activities both with other home schoolers as well as with public schoolers. Also, homeschooled kids are far less reliant on their same-aged peer group for socialization; my kids talk with people in public regardless of their age (something which surprises some adults).

There are tons of clubs for such things. My kids are in a homeschool music program (and learning piano and, until recently, bagpipes); half of my kids are playing competitive sports via homeschool programs that compete with other high schools; one is getting his certification as a welder (as part of a State program that pays for it if one is still in high school). Because class times and locations are more flexible this opens up far more possibilities for extra curricular activities.

Arguably a dupe. It was more about the Pipe Operator. But whatever... you do you.

How about this as a privacy law: if you collect data about people without their EXPLICIT permission[1] you can be charged with digital stalking. Same principle as stalking; escalating penalties for repeat offenses and for doing so in bulk or en masse.

EDIT: And you cannot share information gained by permitted collection unless EXPLICIT permission to share is granted.

[1] Eg: it's not sufficient to disclose this in equivocal text buried in 25k lines of EULA text.

While there's appeal in having one tool do several things I'm more a fan of the traditional UNIX philosophy that a tool should do one thing, do it extremely well, and allow for chaining of several tools together to achieve a multi-step process.

Is the point that you only need one tool -- ffmpeg -- to both generate transcripts as well as embed those into a video as opposed to having multiple tools?

Any chance our friend Vladamir is behind this?

"At compile I produce a “contract” that informs the back end what I “the front end” wants for the initial HTML response."

Wouldn't that be like a ViewModel in MVVM?

There are AI comments now? I think ZERO is the appropriate amount of AI comments on this site but I'm just one person.

No, I'm talking about running FreeBSD on the metal and then running containers without a Linux VM to as the host for containerization.

Stable? I know it was in alpha a couple years ago.

Oh ffs... Jails is not Containers.

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/

I know this is a dupe -- I tried to delete it right after posting but for some reason HN didn't let me. Y'all don't need to point to the other thread, I will:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725092