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rblatz··on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
The espresso martini would like to have a chat with you.
rblatz··on Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
Yeah, and life was tough back then. My services have gotten significantly easier to manage since moving away from stateful services.

Even at a new company I don’t think I’d ever want to go back to stateful sessions. I’m not close to Google or Amazon scale, and managing state was significantly harder than dealing with JWTs.

rblatz··on Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
It’s not hard to stand up, managing state across sessions and versions of your app is hard. For example a site I use frequently the Morgan Stanley portal is stateful and you can only be logged in from a single device/tab at once.

Most websites don’t need it, and it makes things harder to manage when rolling out new versions of your services. Life got significantly easier once I moved away from stateful services.

rblatz··on How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?
If you are going to that effort do a 220v with a 60amp, should cost almost the same but is typically the top of level 2 charging specs.
rblatz··on How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?
This is a thread about US charging infrastructure, BYD does not sell vehicles here and large trucks and SUVs are extremely popular here.
rblatz··on Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
Oh man, he goes straight to stateful services as an alternative to JWTs. What an absolute nightmare, if JWTs are too hard stateful services are certainly more difficult.
rblatz··on The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy
I’m sorry, but would you mind clarifying that last statement? Is Long Island a hotbed of cancer? Did you move to Long Island to work with cancer patients?
rblatz··on The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy
Do you have to be over 50 to take it?
rblatz··on Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
Could it be that autism is in part the inability to think abstractly around social situations?
rblatz··on Scandal at America's top science fair
If you or someone you know was in the science fair, or you were involved with it somehow. Maybe if you users just really invested in science fairs, those are all reasons to be angry. But if you are like most, this has no impact whatsoever on you or your life. At most this should provoke a shrug, a head shake, and a “that’s not right, I hope they do something.” From the vast majority of people.
rblatz··on Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember
Agreed, I believe code I wrote over 20 years ago is still running. It wasn’t good, but apparently that’s not as important as we tell ourselves.
rblatz··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
The point I made at the beginning of this thread is that it’s a long term high cost and a potential dead end, that really didn’t save you much time. If you are in early stage and just need to move fast and find your product fit it could make sense. But again the problem it solves isn’t hard, and quickly makes things harder than they need to be.
rblatz··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
Yet another solution that makes easy things easier, while making just about everything else significantly harder if not impossible. RBAC, monitoring, telemetry, merging data from multiple sources, migrating between data stores, database structure optimizations, caching... These are just of the top of my head of issues that this is likely to make harder, all to prevent writing some of the most simple code you can write.
rblatz··on How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
Just do it in space and avoid the whole atmosphere and ground based light pollution. Space is cheaper than ever now, this is a problem for amateur astronomers, and hobbyists shouldn’t hold back progress.
rblatz··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
Shortwave is e even better, why not mandate that everyone have a shortwave radio if you’re mandating obsolete technology.
rblatz··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
I’m good, I’ve got no need for more junk that I won’t use.
rblatz··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
It’s been well over a decade since I’ve listened to AM radio, and I couldn’t tell you a single FM station and I’ve lived in this city for 12 years. AM radio is literally not even on my radar as a way to get emergency information. I don’t even think we have access to an AM radio. I’m an elder millennial, over half the country is younger than me.

This legislation is absolutely out of touch with reality, and will do nothing but allow the old guard to slow down innovation and force the past on people who have no interest in it and will receive no value from.

rblatz··on Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
I think this is the biggest shift that us technically inclined people will need to make. Bots are becoming useful.
rblatz··on The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem
It’s always been the network, and it always will be. I went to a public university, all my friends and roommates are doing well, but none of them have started a company worth more than a million or so. Some are director level at big tech companies, but none are exec level.
rblatz··on Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
Does a sizable portion of people shop for apps in the Microsoft or MacOS App Store? I was under the impression that neither are very popular.
rblatz··on Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
You don’t have to pay to do that on MacOS, they can bypass the warning saying it’s unsigned and that the developer can’t be positively identified.
rblatz··on Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
There are numerous compounding pharmacies selling generic ozempic (Semaglutide)

There is competition, I see ads on Facebook and Instagram for it all the time, there are clinics all over where I live advertising Semaglutide treatment for weight loss.

rblatz··on Burn After Wearing
My wife has found a local “Buy Nothing” Facebook group that she posts all sorts of stuff like that on. Most of the time someone is happy to jump in and take things like that off our hands.
rblatz··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
The back button is probably the biggest thing keeping me from an android. Every time I’m handed an android to look at something that stupid button gets triggered.
rblatz··on Client libraries are better when they have no API?
Having to force all your requests through a single IP and maintain some weird crypto wallet is easier than grabbing an OAuth library?
rblatz··on Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on
If you don’t have a million your probably have most of your wealth in your home (typically protected by homestead exemptions) or retirement accounts (IRAs up to 1 million and 401k have no limit). Then a simple cheap umbrella policy could fill any gaps.
rblatz··on Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on
Insurance companies payout, unlike people with assets structured in a way that protects them. Thus insurance companies are heavily incentivized to reduce the likelihood of having to pay out claims. They are experts at estimating risk and managing risk.
rblatz··on Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on
I assume you own your house instead of a trust owning your house. Start there
rblatz··on Amazon's "Just Walk Out" checkout turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop
Honestly I think it's cool that Amszaon took that approach. Do things that don't scale to better understand the value/market fit. Then you can work on the hard problem of building the complicated tech to enable it at scale. So often companies jump straight to the hard tech issues without even trying to learn from the real world.
rblatz··on A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
The lack of signals isn’t remotely the largest issue with JS, and adding them has minimal impact for most users of JavaScript. The biggest issue is the lack of a standard library, resulting in npm hell in most projects.
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