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mrunkel

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just some guy with some weird opinions

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mrunkel··on Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040
> Also, just nitpicks, but when was $5k a down payment for a house? 1955? And BlackRock isn’t a hedge fund.

The first house my parents bought in 1976 was $26,500. So I wager $5k down payment would have covered it. (And this was in Los Angeles County)

mrunkel··on Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic
https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

Doesn’t seem to be.

mrunkel··on Go with PHP
Async Messaging: https://symfony.com/doc/current/messenger.html#transports-as...

Some of your complaints are a little weird. * The OS package/pear package thing is highly dependent on what language features you want to add to the base language. If you want, you can install all those features with pear. It's just easier to install with OS packages. * Composer used to add libraries to your code base * The fact that "many projects still aren't containerized" has nothing to do with PHP. I doubt there are many languages where that statement isn't true. * No idea why you think Symfony has fallen off. Laravel has large chunks of Symfony code inside it and the project is going strong with regular releases.

mrunkel··on Go with PHP
Yeah, I think phptherightway.com does a much better job introducing people to modern PHP.
mrunkel··on Defamed by ChatGPT
Because there was no intent to harm, which is a component of libel.
mrunkel··on Google and Amazon Struggle to Lay Off Workers in Europe Due to Labor Laws
Cost of Living is much higher in Switzerland.
mrunkel··on Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
Whichever one you know is the one for you.
mrunkel··on Smart urinals stuck on boot at a gas station in Germany
> Euro paid toilets have always been outright disgusting and not once better than the free toilets found literally anywhere else in the semi-developed world in my experience.

No idea where you're using toilets, but I've been all over Europe and have yet to see a disgusting toilet.

mrunkel··on Professor Says He Was Barred from Campus After Monsanto FOIA Inquiry
My reference to side hustle is his being a paid expert witness.

We have no idea of the details of the investigation, we just have his version vs. the university.

That’s why I say seems.

mrunkel··on Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden
curl is basically a cli for libcurl.
mrunkel··on Professor Says He Was Barred from Campus After Monsanto FOIA Inquiry
While the headline is factually true, the investigation seems to have more to do with his side hustle than the inquiry from Monsanto’s lawyers.

Of course it may also be that the university is looking to dump an 86 year old professor that probably doesn’t bring in much grant money, and doesn’t even seem to teach many students.

I must say though, I was impressed by the article. Seemed to do a very good job of balancing the story, as opposed to the usual reporting when one side makes claims in a lawsuit. All you usually get is the claims, presented as fact.

mrunkel··on Core-JS is holding the internet hostage?
https://archive.is/TQ0BM
mrunkel··on “Nobody cares about your blog”
Hmm. It looks like it wasn't buried, but investigated by two different bodies and no ill intent was found.

The author of the content that was one of the allegations said:

>Bayor, who Magness had accused Kruse of plagiarizing, has previously told the ‘Prince’ that the accusations against Kruse were “politically motivated” and that “there is not a story here.”

It's from the article.

mrunkel··on No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
Why is that an issue?
mrunkel··on LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds
In what way?

I use ARM containers locally to dev and test locally, check in the code and the build server creates an x86 image for deployment to the server.

Worst case you have to build the ARM container yourself locally and tag it with the "remote" name and docker will just use it instead of pulling the remote version.

mrunkel··on GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain
What DNS change? Your request for $hostname is arriving at their servers, same as before.

Cloudflare has an entry in their system that $hostname is to be routed to service $foo.

I imagine you also have an entry in your domain name table that says I want $hostname to go to $bar. But that probably has lower priority that the list of rules that route traffic internally.

So again, nothing to do with DNS. The server that services a web request doesn't know anything about how DNS resolution worked. It just knows it has a request for a hostname, and that it arrived at a particular IP address.

mrunkel··on GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain
This seems to have zero to do with DNS and everything to do with how Cloudflare routes traffic inside their network.

I'm sure if you change the destination to somewhere outside Cloudflare, your traffic will hit the intended target.

mrunkel··on Ask HN: What Is a COO?
CEO - we are going over there COO - I’ll get the transportation, food, and supplies ready CTO - I’ll put everything in microservices CFO - We can’t afford any of this.
mrunkel··on My dad's resume and skills from 1980
> The last interview was with someone very technical, who had printed out a few pages of listings of the obfuscated C contest.

I had something similar happen in 92. The interview consisted of leaving me alone looking at one screen of Apple BASIC that came from their actual production code. The screen was nearly full of characters. I was supposed to tell them what that bit of code did.

I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, and though I think I could give the correct answer, I also realized I didn't want to work with this code base. I then thanked the interviewer and left.

The headhunter that sent me on this interview was quite irate that I had "embarrassed" them. C'est la vie.

mrunkel··on Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
> Finding a particular config option is always a hunt.

Do you know you can search for an option in the settings menu? Actually, you can search just about everywhere.

You can also set your IDE to store your config in a git repo so that it's the same everywhere you use it.

mrunkel··on Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software
There is no reason to be stuck on a previous version of Laravel.

With the help of rector, it should be an afternoon's work to upgrade.

https://github.com/rectorphp/rector

mrunkel··on Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015)
Ahh. This too was my first encounter with computers. The old “trash 80” in jr. high school.

I’ll have to check out the emulator. Thanks for sharing.

mrunkel··on Cpm65: CP/M for the 6502
I think you’d be much better served with the z80 card for the Apple II chassis.
mrunkel··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Apple wants to do away with all external connectors on that phone. My guess is that they won't have any ports once they get rid of the lightning connector.
mrunkel··on Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
I don’t understand the issue. If you’re already using google pay, then google is a data processor for you and you should have already received consent.

This isn’t stripe doing this, rather it’s google doing it.

mrunkel··on Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’
They can (and do in most of Europe) take public transport.
mrunkel··on iPhone app receives notification for another app
I’m guessing the other app maker used the wrong id for their notification.

That is a wild ass guess though. I don’t know how the notification system works.

If that were the case, it’s not a Apple problem, rather a problem for the other app.

mrunkel··on Ask HN: Should a German founder with a green card set up a holding company?
No, I’d you don’t have tax residency in Germany, you don’t pay income taxes in Germany. Independent of citizenship.

Only the US and Somalia levy income tax on non-resident citizens.

mrunkel··on Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor
LFTR?
mrunkel··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Because we as a society are better when everyone has access to the Internet. Just as we ran electricity and running water to neighborhoods that could never pay back the investment. Just like we build roads, bridges, and tunnels that probably never be afforded by the people they serve.

Maybe the person that lives in that house in the next generation is the next great scientist that discovers how fusion can work reliably for us. If that is the case, then it was worth 30k to link that house to the Internet.

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