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nyc_pizzadev

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Just another dev working for pizza.
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nyc_pizzadev··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Agreed. There is even a full POSIX S3 filesystem: https://fiberfs.io/
nyc_pizzadev··on You are no longer invited to dinner
I love hosting, especially because I have invested a lot in my cooking skills. However, now inviting someone over means hosting an entire family and my job has evolved into cleaning, doing dishes, and prepping food, while everyone else is having the time of their life (we don't have a large space). Just not so enjoyable, so we have slowly stopped doing them and others rarely host them as well. An alternative is that we now do dinner picnics at the park, way more easier and no one is stuck doing hosting work.
nyc_pizzadev··on CDs vs. NIMBY
Not sure this home math is right. Usually home builders are profit seekers, so if they build in a neighborhood of 1MM homes, they will price aggressively against those comps and quality. Let’s say a home goes for half price, then those homes will get snapped up and eventually everything resells closer to the true valve. Given real estate rarely drops a lot in value, that price might be a bit below 1MM.
nyc_pizzadev··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
Interesting related article: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/29/closed-mode...

Looks like the AI models either refused to work or produced obvious garbage. "GLM-5.2 is what finished the job for me, re-auditing K3's work and putting together an airtight case."

nyc_pizzadev··on Chatto is now open source
You can totally run AGPL code as a service. You can run it as a service unmodified or if you modify it, you just need to make the source available.
nyc_pizzadev··on Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3
I agree that most usecases are best suited just using S3 directly, but I would check this out if you want an S3 based filesystem: https://fiberfs.io/
nyc_pizzadev··on Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3
Worth mentioning FiberFS: https://fiberfs.io/

I believe it just recently launched.

nyc_pizzadev··on πFS
Just a heads up, this is writing 16 bits for every 8 bits of input:

https://github.com/philipl/pifs/blob/fded8bf7b8f4fc64233e37b...

nyc_pizzadev··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
No, because AI is still unprofitable and could even be called a speculative venture given the crazy spending amounts. Let the speculators take the risk and reap the rewards. When profitability and all the other conditions are met, I’m happy for the greater market to buy in at the price the market determines. I think everything is functioning as designed.
nyc_pizzadev··on The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)
This one is wifi based, made for kids, it has a free plan, safety and security features. Pretty well put together.
nyc_pizzadev··on The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)
Worth mentioning the Tin Can phone: https://tincan.kids/

All their batches are sold out, I guess it’s pretty popular. Interesting tidbit, it needs to be plugged in at all times, not meant to be mobile.

nyc_pizzadev··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Social security is self funded and is actually a buyer of US debt. So there is no direct connection between social security shortfalls and US gross federal debt.
nyc_pizzadev··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
I was in the Google Domain sold to Squarespace boat too. To this day, that sale makes zero sense, mind boggling they would offload such a critical part of consumer infrastructure. Anyway, I had zero trust in Squarespace, so I spent some time and moved all my domains to Cloudflare and couldn’t be happier. Lots of nice bonus features also popped up.
nyc_pizzadev··on Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Very nice. I actually spent a bit of time browsing a few topics, which is something I rarely do these days!

A few things... when I click an article and try to jump to a new topic, the top search box (labeled "Search titles and full text...") doesn't work. Second, when I first came to the site, I was a bit stuck. It took a bit of time to realize I need to click on "Articles" or even "Topics" to start browsing. Not sure why, maybe I expected the image to let me enter the site somehow...?

nyc_pizzadev··on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
If you control the domain, LetsEncrypt will happily issue you a fresh certificate.
nyc_pizzadev··on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
How realistic is for a TLD “owner” to take over a domain like this?
nyc_pizzadev··on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
Random question, does cargo have a way to identify if a package uses unsafe Rust code?
nyc_pizzadev··on S3 Files
This is very close to its first official release: https://fiberfs.io/

Built in cache, CDN compatible, JSON metadata, concurrency safe and it targets all S3 compatible storage systems.

nyc_pizzadev··on C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro
Genuine question, does Rust know if `expensive_to_compute()` has side effects? There are no params, so could it be compiled out if the return value is ignored? Ex: `expensive_to_compute()` What about: `(void) expensive_to_compute()`?
nyc_pizzadev··on C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro
This is just a symptom of a bad assert() implementation, which funny enough is the standard. If you properly (void) it out, side effects are maintained.

https://github.com/fiberfs/fiberfs/blob/7e79eaabbb180b0f1a79...

nyc_pizzadev··on C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro
The nice thing about assert() is you can just define your own:

https://github.com/fiberfs/fiberfs/blob/7e79eaabbb180b0f1a79...

In this case, the ability to see the actual values that triggered the assert is way more helpful.

nyc_pizzadev··on So where are all the AI apps?
A friend of mine who is tech savvy and I would say has novice level coding experience decided to build his dream app. Its really been a disaster. The app is completely broken in many different ways, has functionality gaps, no security, no thought out infrastructure, its pretty much a dumpster fire. The problem is that he doesn't know what he doesn't know, so its impossible for him to actually fix it beyond instructing the AI over and over to simply "fix it". The more this is done, the worst the app becomes. He's tried all the major AI vendors, from scratch, same result, a complete mess of code. He's given up on it now and has moved on with his life.

Im not saying that AI is bad, infact, its the opposite, its one of the most important tools that I have seen introduced in my lifetime. Its like a calculator. Its not going to turn everyone into a mathematician, but it will turn those who have an understanding of math into faster mathematician.

nyc_pizzadev··on Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
Ya, I like when it’s automatically done on my featured photo, gives the phone a very 3D look and feel.
nyc_pizzadev··on Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
It’s not in my opinion. Look how wide the bottom is, so the laptop will rest diagonally across the bag which makes it not ideal to carry or put other items inside. I’m all for the perfect laptop bag, this isn’t quite it.
nyc_pizzadev··on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me
Google has been a hot mess for me lately. Ya, the AI is awful, numerous times I’m shown information that’s either inaccurate or straight false. It will summarize my emails wrong, it will mess up easy facts like what time my dinner reservation is. Worst is the overall search UX, especially auto complete. Suggestions are never right and then trying to tap and navigate thru always leads to an mis-click.
nyc_pizzadev··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
I got this ad, and ya, I was truly bewildered to get such an ad and then shocked that it came from my Wallet. I then spent the next hour searching how to disable this new marketing stream and it looks like nothing can be done. Anyway, glad to see I’m not alone here.
nyc_pizzadev··on Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403
So if you get less HTTP bytes than expected, then it’s a HTTP response error and you throw the whole thing away. For example, this sort of situation happens when streaming HTTP. The server first has to send the response headers, which would be a simple 200/206, then the data, which could have a much more complicated code path. If there is an error in that data code path, all you can do is close the connection and trigger an HTTP error since less bytes were delivered than advertised. Client needs to detect this and retry. While this may seem uncommon, this is well understood behavior for HTTP systems.
nyc_pizzadev··on Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript
A lot of people were speculating he would make his findings official and didn’t want to over share. I do see a comment about his theory being debunked. That would be expected, the language used was a mashup of several existing languages, so it’s possible a lot of what was written is copy-pasta gibberish. However, the video points out of a lot of cultural aspects of the book which support a Romani origin.
nyc_pizzadev··on Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript
Someone was able to translate portions of the Voynich Manuscript but has unfortunately removed his videos. I found a bit more info here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/comments/ev9h5v/does_anyone...

This gist is that nomadic Romani people settled around Syria and wrote it. The language and writing is a blend of several languages and cultures. The evidence in the videos backs this up pretty well.

Edit, found the videos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/comments/ev9h5v/comment/joy...

nyc_pizzadev··on The Math of Card Shuffling
Check out Jason Ladanye. He’s a magician who uses shuffle math to place cards exactly where he wants them to be in the deck. Both impressive and scary.
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