mosselman

I think this is unfair, they could be referring to proprietary projects at their job or something.

When you create a blog post about it though, I do agree that showing the projects will greatly increase the value of your claims.

I am sorry, I wasn't reacting to you I was reacting to the commenter who said:

"Programmers don't appreciate the fact that you can just violate terms of service."

That is what they meant

And it isn't an office suite at all

Indeed. I read a lot of comments like these one you are responding on HN. It seems like there is a type of person who thinks that writing down what their rules are has some magical power.

“This isn’t what it was intended for”. Who cares?

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I would encounter warnings on pirating websites saying “If you are an FBI agent you are not allowed to continue on this site”. Imagine their utter disbelief and shock if they were to be arrested by an FBI agent that clicked past the warning anyway.

I agree is must be programmers as a type that like rules a lot and, they think, what a perfect world it could be if people would follow them.

What would be a good book to have in the house that could help me in as many emergencies as possible, but still be portable enough to actually bring when fleeing the house or something?

Alternatively, what would be a good bigger book for the same goal and/or be more about long term survival in case of being trapped in the house long?

Some people don't have a choice. Of course they could choose to lose their job over it, but for some that is not an option.

I also totally don't get why you would want to share your location, even with family. I don't want to know where they are either.

"just a whole extra framework"

"if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia React + Component library"

I don't think the target audience of RailsUI are people who want to use a front-end javascript framework.

A more suitable alternative is: https://railsblocks.com/

What was your reason to do this and how is it one of the best things you've done on your iPhone? I am very intrigued by the concept.

Hard disagree.

Sure the sound quality isn't great, but cassettes have a great user experience.

My kids listen to stories on CD and Cassette. With Cassettes you can just stop and continue later exactly where you were. On CD they have to remember the chapter and the number of minutes. Which they never do so they are less motivated to continue listening.

The same is true for VHS. One of the great benefits of Netflix is that you don't have to keep track of where you were in a series and can quickly continue. DVD or separate downloads never had this, with Netflix you can just continue. The same is true for VHS, you can just pop it back in and continue where you were.

Also, with both cassettes and VHS you could very easily record things. This was never easy with DVDs, so much so that it basically wasn't a feature. HDD recorders were also quite bad.

Quality of sound and image is just one part of the equation. I would never listen to a music album on cassette, but the medium, from a usability point of view, is great for specific use cases such as stories and creating your own mixes.

Many years ago I spent quite some time getting used to Gimp and did some designing on it, etc. I also wrote a tutorial for it to create some torn paper effect.

I say all this to give some context to the following: GIMP is just not great software. It is super unintuitive and when you don't use it for a while, you totally forget how to use it to select things, put them on layers, etc.

I use Pixelmator on Mac. I bought it years ago and haven't regretted it. It is getting better and better of the years, the UI is great. When I use linux I miss Pixelmator more than I do Photoshop. So if someone were to create a Pixelmator-inspired editor for linux, that would be great.

That doesn’t sound healthy man. Unless that other thing you should’ve been doing is giving CPR or something then stop feeling guilty.

“Productivity” is not the end goal, you are allowed to play games in life. In fact, shouldn’t work be about enabling you to enjoy life?

Comments such as these are what allows developers to justify ignoring our privacy.

"Everyone knows in {{BUSINESS_TYPE}} there is no real privacy".

Be it fintech, AI or social media. You give them a free pass with being flippant about companies respecting privacy.

Being flippant about anyone being careless about our privacy is doing us as a society and injustice. We should demand privacy, not laugh at the notion of privacy.

You have a graph that shows a multi provider setup for a domain. Where would routing to either machine happen? As in which ip would you use on the dns side?

For some reason this confirmation is always much louder than the music you are listening to.

If you tell Siri to play some obscure artist or title of which there seem to be about 10 possible hits, then sure, we need confirmation. If I tell you to play Riders on the Storm by the The Doors, just play it damn it.

I read it as they meant all Apple apps, not all apps.

Back when deepseek came out and people were tripping over themselves shouting it was so much better than what was out there, it just wasn’t good.

It might be this model is super good, I haven’t tried it, but to say the Chinese models are better is just not true.

What I really love though is that I can run them (open models) on my own machine. The other day I categorised images locally using Qwen, what a time to be alive.

Further even than local hardware, open models make it possible to run on providers of choice, such as European ones. Which is great!

So I love everything about the competitive nature of this.

Apart from the fact that not even every human would read this and add it to the subject, this would still work.

I doubt there is any spam machine out there the quickly tries to find peoples personal blog before sending them viagra mail.

If you are being targeted personally, then of course all bets are off, but that would’ve been the case with or without the subject-line-trick

Getting a pop-up like this would be a sure way to get me to never buy your brand again.

They are based in the UK. That is technically Europe, but I believe for privacy regulations it isn't the same as a EU-country, but I could be very wrong. Would love to be educated on this by someone.

Cloudflare provides some nice services that have nothing to do with cloud or not. You can self-host private tunnels, application firewalls, traffic filtering, etc, or you can focus on building your application and managing your servers.

I am a self-host enthousiast. So I use Hetzner, Kamal and other tools for self-managing our servers, but we still have Cloudflare in front of them because we didn't want to handle the parts I mentioned (yet, we might sometime).

Calling it a mistake is a very narrow look at it. Just because it goes down every now and then, it isn't a mistake. Going for cloud or not has its trade-offs and I agree that paying 200 dollars a month for a 1GB Heroku Redis instance is complete madness when you can get a 4GB VPS on Hetzner for 3,8 a month. Then again, some people are willing to make that trade-off for not having to manage the servers.

Cloud servers have taught me so much about working with servers because they are so easy and cheap to spin up, experiment with and then get rid of again. If I had had to buy racks and host them each time I wanted to try something, I would've never done it.

> The intent behind these sites might stem from a desire to encourage better questions, promote self-sufficiency, or manage repetitive queries. However, the act of posting the link itself often comes across very differently.

Hate to break it to you, but shaming and ridiculing is always the intent when I use those types of links.

What do you mean? Could you share your insight?

I had a USB-A from sandisk which was very solid and I used it for years. It wasn't flush with the body of the laptop, but was rounded and strong.

This looks super flimsy and like it might break off easily and ruin your port.

The horror of needing to replace a routing layer. Why is this not a solved problem?

This is an undervalued advantage of using steady frameworks like Rails that in essence is the same as 20 years ago, but with lots of extras. I don’t remember any big changes in the routes at least. Nor in any of the other basic building blocks.

You could come back to rails after a 10 year break and pick up pretty quickly where you left off

uv is great. I am a Ruby developer and I always loathed having to work with Python libraries because of how bad the tooling was. It was too complex to learn for the one-off times that I needed it and nothing worked properly.

Now with uv everything just works and I can play around easily with all the great Python projects that exist.

Are there any good instructions somewhere on how to set this up? As in not 63 nodes. But a distributed duckdb instance

How about no gambling at all? That would work for me.

You are focusing on the least interesting part they said. Even if Windows is rock solid, it is still out to steal your data 100% and there might be a chance some linux distro is doing the same. When it does, it ends up being flagged by users as happened now. When Microsoft does it, nobody is surprised though.

What is a duckdb server? I was under the impression there is no server in duckdb, just the client.