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thepaulmcbride

590 karma · joined May 27, 2020

Software developer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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thepaulmcbride··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
This sounds like a super interesting product, but I'm always reluctant to build on anything that isn't a portable industry standard.
thepaulmcbride··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
Would you mind sharing the part of your nix config you use to set up Sunshine? I'm having a rough time getting it to work well with my AppleTV.
thepaulmcbride··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
This isn't an all or nothing approach. People can exercise the options they have without being a puritanical crazy about it. This isn't a strong argument. You can protest about how society is structured while still taking part it in.
thepaulmcbride··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Sure you can. This is kind of like not voting and lots of people live their life like that. However, if people use their ability to shape and influence the world by voting with your ballot as well as their wallet I think that is equally valid.
thepaulmcbride··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
There are literally dozens of us that either live outside the US or are from other countries
thepaulmcbride··on Incident with Actions and Pages
We’ve had GitHub actions for long enough, it’s time for GitHub consequences.
thepaulmcbride··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
In a society with a progressive tax system these things are overwhelmingly paid for by people who have vastly more money than they need to survive. Taxation when done correctly is a good thing.
thepaulmcbride··on Facebook is cooked
This is exactly the same experience I've had. I recently re-installed the app to use marketplace after moving to the US. My feed is mostly AI generated half naked women and AI generated conservative rage bait. It is so obvious that it's AI slop, but none of the comments ever mention it. I too assumed they were bots.
thepaulmcbride··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
It's wild to me how many people in the comments see any form of government doing anything as shady. It is doubly wild to me that using public funds to create art is seen as a bad thing.
thepaulmcbride··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
I want to like this so bad, but the free tier changes still haunt me. I ran a little hobby project for a while on it that helped junior developers find jobs. The work needed to switch from PlanetScale ultimately meant I just canned the project.

Fairly or not, when I see PlanetScale, that’s what I think of.

Seeing the CEO on here defending it as if they nailed the execution of it doesn’t help either.

thepaulmcbride··on Ruby Blocks
Ruby is really let down by the tooling around the language. The language itself would be so much more fun to write if the lsp would reliably jump to the definition of functions etc that seem to appear out of no where. It has been the biggest source of frustration for me while learning Ruby.
thepaulmcbride··on Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections
Even HEPA isn’t a requirement, you just need a high CADR. Doesn’t matter if the filter doesn’t catch a particle on the first pass as long as it does one a subsequent one and the flow rate is high!
thepaulmcbride··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
I wonder how this will work for visa waiver programs like the ESTA. I have family visiting next year and if they have to pay an extra $1k, it won’t happen.
thepaulmcbride··on Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws
I moved from Ireland to the US and noticed the same. So many people in the US treat others as if they are NPCs. Rules only exist so that they can’t bother you, but the rules don’t apply to you. It is extremely frustrating!
thepaulmcbride··on The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
Notably Volkswagen is missing
thepaulmcbride··on Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?
I would love to wear more shirts, but I’m not a fan of wearing cloths that contain a significant amount of plastic. Cotton shirts are a pita, but I’ll try these tips, thanks!
thepaulmcbride··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
Am I misunderstanding or is this using non-actualised gains to buy actual things? What are the tax implications of this?
thepaulmcbride··on Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?
Is wearing button downs every day not a buttload of ironing?
thepaulmcbride··on NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”
Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...
thepaulmcbride··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
Everybody wants affordable housing until it’s their housing becoming affordable.
thepaulmcbride··on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
The angle of attack at both takeoff and touch down is pretty wild!
thepaulmcbride··on Kagi Launches Kite
Ahh crap, only just seeing this. I’ll delete as soon as I figure out how!
thepaulmcbride··on Advent of Code 2024
I usually get to around day 10 in AoC before they get so time consuming that I give up. I still really enjoy the first week or so though!
thepaulmcbride··on We're excited about our new roundabout
In the UK a lot of roundabouts have traffic signals for this purpose that only turn on during busy times.
thepaulmcbride··on We're excited about our new roundabout
I live in the US now, but originally from Ireland. My least favourite part of US road infrastructure is the 4 way stop. They are just not good compared to a roundabout. Half the time the only way you can tell it’s an all way stop is by looking for the back of the stop signs on the perpendicular road.

With a roundabout, you only have to look in one direction, and if it’s clear, you don’t even have to stop.

thepaulmcbride··on Firefox search update
Anyone know why this is only available in the US?
thepaulmcbride··on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
If you had a lifetime subscription of around $250, I’d buy it instantly.
thepaulmcbride··on TypeScript: Branded Types
Yep, you’re absolutely right
thepaulmcbride··on TypeScript: Branded Types
You’re right. This is what I meant, but I was not at all clear in my original comment.
thepaulmcbride··on TypeScript: Branded Types
Classes are very underutilised in TypeScript. I recently introduced them to our codebase at my day job and got a fair bit of pushback because it wasn’t “JavaScripty” enough.
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