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perakojotgenijeon I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

But you would also never ask such an obviously nonsensical question to a human. If someone asked me such a question my question back would be "is this a trick question?". And I think LLMs have a problem understanding trick questions.

perakojotgenijeon When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

Shameless plug - this is exactly the same problem that our team had when we had to maintain a bunch of our customer's servers. All of the subnets were same, and we had to jump through hoops just to access those servers - vpns, port forwarding, dynamic dns with vnc - we've tried it all. That is why we developed https://sshreach.me/ - now it's a click of a button.

perakojotgenijeon Accepting US car standards would risk European lives

And that is not counting in the fact that there far more pedestrians on the street in EU than in the USA. If there were the same amount of pedestrians in the USA as in the EU the statistics would be even worse.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

My father is 75 and he still works, has his own software development company with his own back-office program written in cobol. He started a company back in 1991 with two other cobol programmers, they are retired now, and while almost all of the code they wrote has been replaced with c# code by younger programmers there are still some parts of the code written in cobol that he still maintains.

perakojotgenijeon Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)

Shameless plug:

What to do when you want to ssh to your linux server or IoT device but they are behind the firewall and without a static IP? You can use a tunneling service like https://sshreach.me.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)

  Location: Hungary/Serbia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, C#, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bash, gdscript (godot engine), C/C++, PHP, Lua, Visual Basic, COBOL, PostgresSql, MsSql, mercurial, git, pgbouncer, nginx, samba, web2py, django, .net, websockets, WinForms, ssh, samba, postfix, jquery, redmine, puppet
  Email: forhire@draganmatic.com

Résumé/CV: https://blog.draganmatic.com/init/default/download/plugin_ck...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragan-matic-7963231/

I have been involved with computers since my earliest age - my first experience in programming was using BASIC on Commodore 64 some 30 years ago. Since then I've had experience with a lot of different computer languages and technologies. I am a forward-thinking professional offering more than 20 years of experience and versed in multiple programming languages, frameworks and development tools. Background in product development, project coordination and client communications.

I am the author of https://sshreach.me/ and https://gabngabn.com/

perakojotgenijeon Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

Quicktile: https://github.com/ssokolow/quicktile

https://ssokolow.com/quicktile/

Nobody is mentioning it but it is such a great tiling manager, I use it all the time. Just select the window with alt-tab and then tile the windows with Ctrl+alt+numeric keyboards. It's quick and it doesn't need a mouse to tile windows. And it can integrate into any x11 windows manager.

perakojotgenijeon Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

If you live in the USA and have eastern-european or balkans shop in your area you can buy "smoki" which is essentially the same thing.

Or you can order it from amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Smoki-Peanuts-Flavored-Snack-Pack/dp/...

perakojotgenijeon How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop

That's the first thing that came to my mind. I remember connecting two laptops using LPT or COM cable and transferring files using norton commander (if I remember correctly) 30 years ago.

perakojotgenijeon OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning

nice reference :-)

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?

My Casio F-91W thought it was March the first and got me confused for a moment. But other than that I saw no other bugs.

perakojotgenijeon Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines

if you're using linux I highly recommend conky_seamod:

https://i.imgur.com/oMPG7IO.png

https://github.com/maxiwell/conky-seamod

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)

  Location: Hungary/Serbia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, C#, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bash, gdscript (godot engine), C/C++, PHP, Lua, Visual Basic, COBOL, PostgresSql, MsSql, mercurial, git, pgbouncer, nginx, samba, web2py, django, .net, websockets, WinForms, ssh, samba, postfix, jquery, redmine, puppet
  Email: forhire@draganmatic.com

Résumé/CV: https://blog.draganmatic.com/init/default/download/plugin_ck...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragan-matic-7963231/

I have been involved with computers since my earliest age - my first experience in programming was using BASIC on Commodore 64 some 30 years ago. Since then I've had experience with a lot of different computer languages and technologies. I am a forward-thinking professional offering more than 20 years of experience and versed in multiple programming languages, frameworks and development tools. Background in product development, project coordination and client communications.

I am the author of https://sshreach.me/ and https://gabngabn.com/

At this moment I am not searching for a job that uses PHP, or JavaScript/Typescript as primary languages/technologies.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)

  Location: Serbia/Hungary
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, C#, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bash, gdscript (godot engine), C/C++, PHP, Lua, Visual Basic, COBOL, PostgresSql, MsSql, mercurial, git, pgbouncer, nginx, samba, web2py, django, .net, websockets, WinForms, ssh, samba, postfix, jquery, redmine, puppet
  Email: forhire@draganmatic.com

Résumé/CV: https://blog.draganmatic.com/init/default/download/plugin_ck...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragan-matic-7963231/

I have been involved with computers since my earliest age - my first experience in programming was using BASIC on Commodore 64 some 30 years ago. Since then I've had experience with a lot of different computer languages and technologies. I am a forward-thinking professional offering more than 20 years of experience and versed in multiple programming languages, frameworks and development tools. Background in product development, project coordination and client communications.

I am the author of https://sshreach.me/ and https://gabngabn.com/

At this moment I am not searching for a job that uses PHP, or JavaScript/Typescript as primary languages/technologies.

perakojotgenijeon Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

I was luckier, this method also resurrected my GTX 970 and it worked for two more years. It was still working when I sold it.

perakojotgenijeon Hospitals are reporting new mothers for neglect from poppyseed false positives

The image in the text shows a bagel with some poppy seed sprinkled on it. If I compare that to poppy seed strudel[0] the amount of seed on that picture is laughable. I wonder what would the test show after a few slices of said strudel. Are those strudels available in USA?

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=poppy+seed+strudel&hl=hr&sxs...

perakojotgenijeon Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

If you can't find Bamba but you have European or Balkan shop nearby you can try buying Smoki [1], it's the same thing.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=smoki&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiE...

perakojotgenijeon Choosing a Postgres primary key

integer/year works almost flawlessly as invoice ID. It is unique and readable.

If the company has more than one unit that creates invoices than just add unit ID, so it becomes invoice_id/unit_id/year. Still unique and very much readable.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Eastern Europe and STEM has more women than Western Europe?

Eastern Europe had highest highest gender equality index in the world in the 1980's

https://twitter.com/ChelseaWooff/status/1566180834104823810

perakojotgenijeon Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement

Because it works flawlessly on all three major operating systems (windows, linux, macos), unlike Signal who can not make a decent linux port.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Europeans, what keyboard layout do you use for programming?

I use US keyboard layout for programming, then change layout with alt+shift if I need to type string with non-English letters and then change back to continue programming. Changing the layout takes a fraction of the second and is really not a problem.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL?

Do COBOL programmers really get paid that much? I have more than 10 years of experience with COBOL, and I've left it long time ago because I hated the language. But now I wonder where could I find some of those well paid COBOL jobs (and of course - remote)?

perakojotgenijeon The Case for a Confederal Europe

That is totally incorrect, that is what article 50 is and that is how UK left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U...

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

My daughter (6 years) really likes My Brother Rabbit. It's a point and click adventure with no violence and a decent story.

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?

If he is interested in playing video games, I would recommend "Learn to Code FROM ZERO with Godot, the Biggest Free Game Engine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G7jbafLdv0

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

You don't need any approval, I just don't understand that after saying "I don't want to buy a mac" you come with "You should buy a mac". What was the point of it?

perakojotgenijeon Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

OP has emphasized that they do not want to use Windows or MacOS and yet you recommend a Mac like some Apple fanboy. Why?

perakojotgenijeon SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel

Your internal computer is still protected by password and/or public/private key-pairs, so even when the tunnel is open nobody can enter your computer without having those.

It is _your_ computer that makes connection to our servers, so you are in control of everything and there is literally nothing on our forwarding servers that would allow anybody to enter your computer.

perakojotgenijeon SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel

shameless self-promotion: https://sshreach.me

We have a ssh reverse-forwarding based solution. And unlike the Cloudflare solution you don't need to "give the keys of your house" (as someone here commented) to reach your private machines.

You can remotely open and close the tunnels through our web interface or our web API.

Plus, we have web API-based automated deployment solution if you have many clients.