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nhumrich··on I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%
The real cost savings was from realizing the infrastructure needing nuking. Probably could have gotten almost the same savings keeping it in node and refactoring. Go doesn't seem to be the real hero of this story.
nhumrich··on Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
Actually, states can't legally pick permanent daylight, only permanent standard, which is what started this whole fiasco. A lot of states want permanent daylight time, not standard.
nhumrich··on Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
Schools can _already_ decide for themselves when to start
nhumrich··on I got into YC Startup School by hacking it
Except this was a computer hack. So technically wouldn't qualify.
nhumrich··on Firefox Containers Preview
The only feature I need to make containers complete is setting a container as the current container for external links.

It's a real pain to click links in slack/etc open in the wrong account. I would be okay with some type of "links currently open in which container" setting, and changing that as needed. Or some selector when external.

nhumrich··on Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?
For these specifically? Way easier than rabbitMQ. I love rabbitmq. It's an amazing technology, and if you need a high throughout message bus, it's still a better goto. But.. it does require quite a lot of expertise and know how to operate. Paged at 2am, you will likely get very frustrated. Pgmq though, is "just a bunch of tables". It's going to be a lot easier to figure out what's going on. You already understand transactional DBs.

Unless of course, you already know how to operate rabbitmq.

nhumrich··on Small Penis Rule
South Park has been sued many times. A famous case vs Tom Cruise, in which their defense was that they make fun of everyone, so it's not libel.
nhumrich··on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
Well sure. But not just kids get addicted to alcohol.
nhumrich··on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
All stocks are incentivized to go a specific direction. You could consider Options more like gambling, but for that reason they are restricted to specific people. We also have things to prevent bad incentives, like insider trading laws, which prediction markets don't have.

So, I guess the answer is, regulatory control.

nhumrich··on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
In Jesus' day, some Jews wanted to deport him. So ya, that fits.
nhumrich··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
> technically impossible

Not at all! Just very unlikely. It's about odds and statistics. Not physics.

nhumrich··on K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
K3s is so easy to install, that k3sup feels like an increase in complexity. Feels like an abstraction that provides negative value.
nhumrich··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
I don't think the difference between half the bottom and entire bottom would make a difference according to ifix it. It's more about: 1. Is it possible 2. Is it documented 3. Do you need proprietary parts 4. Without solder
nhumrich··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Personally, I don't understand aluminum chassis. Sure, it feels more premium, but it comes with quite a bit more weight than plastic, and I much prefer less weight over "feel" when it comes to a laptop.
nhumrich··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Dell Precision used to have track points. Now the only holdout is Thinkpad. I sometimes wonder how much the track point itself keeps that product line successful.

That being said, thinkpads are almost as upgradeable as frameworks. The latest t14 received a better score from ifixit than framework for repairability (first ever to get a 10).

nhumrich··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Or, another way to think about this: "buy more ram when it becomes more affordable"
nhumrich··on I just want simple S3
Well, OP, your requirements section is seriously lacking. You need "s3", but only local, non horizontally scalable?

You failed to answer why you even need s3... Why not a filesystem? Full stop. The entire point of s3 is distributed.

nhumrich··on They See Your Photos
For me, it was all vague stuff and yet, none of it was true.
nhumrich··on I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
Seems like most people have not realized this is satire.
nhumrich··on Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
Backblaze is a lot more affordable
nhumrich··on Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic
peps.python.org
nhumrich··on Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic
In a language without a spec? You don't. But python has a very strong spec.
nhumrich··on Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)
Appears to not work on Linux. Just launches, doesn't install an application file, window is blank on launch, and menu bar is all greyed out.
nhumrich··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
I don't think the market of people buying used phones for the purpose of graphene is going to make a dent in profits for Google. It raises resale value maybe by say, $0, considering the price is set by the average consumer
nhumrich··on What Claude Code chooses
It has one thing going for it: Setup.

And by setup I mean, integration and account creation. You don't have to do it. You already have a git repo, just add some yaml, and bobs your uncle.

nhumrich··on Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
This is called the "transactional outbox pattern"!
nhumrich··on People who know the formula for WD-40
A dry lubricant like graphite
nhumrich··on Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
It does.
nhumrich··on Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
Pypi is the only OS agnostic package manager already installed on every OS.

Also, it's VERY convenient for companies already using python as the primary language because they can manage the dependency with uv rather than introduce a second package manager for devs. (For example, if you run deno code, but don't maintain any JS yourself)

nhumrich··on Eat Real Food
Might be corrupt, but is at least closer to truth then the last corrupted version. Let's not let perfect be the enemy of progress
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