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zja··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
Are there any Go team members that don’t work for Google? It’s a lot easier to remain civil/avoid drama when people know each other personally, and work together at a big company with an HR department.
zja··on TSMC CEO predicts AI chip shortage through 2025
How would Taiwan start a nuclear program if they get invaded?
zja··on WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC.

The trend of using discord over forums does suck though, it’s really hard to search old discussions.

zja··on Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
The post about hacking Gab’s AI prompt that they linked to towards the end of the article was wild:

https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072

zja··on AzerothCore: Self-Hosted World of Warcraft 3.3.5a Server
It’s jargon in World of Warcraft for characters that level up to a certain point below the max level, and then acquire all the best gear available at that level. Typically twinks are a lot more powerful than other characters at the same level.
zja··on Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud
It’ll probably be a while before i get a chance to work on one of these machines, but I had a chance to meet a couple employees, Steve Klabnik and Travis Haymore, at a “Beers and Boards” meetup Oxide put on after a conference in Raleigh last year. They were really cool, as were a lot of the local folks that showed up. Would highly recommend going if they ever do one in your city!
zja··on Ask HN: What problem does tailwind solve that is not solved by CSS modules?
It seems to me like its main value is in some sensible defaults.

In my opinion it isn’t really different enough from CSS to be useful, and every time I’ve used it I have to read through the docs to find out what CSS it’s generating so I can debug it.

zja··on Write libraries instead of services, where possible
You have the same problem with services and libraries when you’re introducing a breaking change. With services you can make non-breaking changes like security patches on the server side, without needing to coordinate with a customer.
zja··on Ask HN: Is AI safety simply the thought police?
I think adding safeguards to tools, especially ones that are relatively new and not well understood, is pretty reasonable.

It’s not thought policing, you aren’t being punished by not being able to engage with the tools in a certain way.

zja··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
You were right though, OpenAI Inc, which the board controls, is a 501c3 charity.
zja··on Self-hosted Deno KV, continuous backups, and replicas
Hey Luca, thanks for all your work on Deno! Deno Deploy's KV runs on FoundationDB rather than SQLite like this open source version. Are there any plans to support Foundation as a back end for the open source version?
zja··on Show HN: A simple Pastebin Clone using Deno
> Deno apps don't seem to need/want to be dockerized. Which means less overhead.

Why do you say that? I can’t think of any reason a Deno project wouldn’t benefit from Docker more or less any other application. There’s an official Deno Docker image, so I wouldn’t say that not using Docker is a part of Deno culture.

But I could see the single executable being easier to use than Docker if you’re just trying to run a script on a home server!

zja··on Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
I think it depends on the carrier you use, but a lot of other carriers support it.
zja··on Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories
“Contact” without the drums will be interesting.
zja··on Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
> the only way to test is... to call 911

You should be able to use 933 to test emergency services. https://support.bandwidth.com/hc/en-us/articles/210291778-Th...

zja··on iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues
Absolutely, I have the 12 mini, and if my phone is plugged into my car while using maps + Spotify, it shuts down to prevent overheating.
zja··on Deno Queues
> The KV feature in the Deno runtime can be used without the hosting service.

But one writes to foundation, and the other writes to a sqlite file. You wouldn’t be able to self host an app written for Deno Deploy and have it work out of the box.

Are there any plans to open source the KV backend so that people could host their own KV databases? Now that you can connect to remote Kv databases, I suppose someone could implement their own?

zja··on Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support
Caddy has a lot of great features, but (at least as of last year) Nginx has the edge on documentation. Caddy’s docs were almost useless. Hopefully they’ve improved since I last used it.
zja··on Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming
Deno.dev (deploy) uses a different, proprietary runtime than Deno. I believe Ry mentioned at a recent talk that on deno.dev, the kv will be synced across all instances. Obviously this can’t be the case for stock Deno.
zja··on [dead]
Not for an action taken in his capacity as president. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_immunity
zja··on Ask HN: What piece of financial advice made the greatest impact on your life?
> Pay yourself first by making your monthly investment before any other bills.

You should probably prioritize rent, groceries, credit card debt, and other bills over buying index funds!

zja··on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
> If not Cloudflare, then someone else, that's the reality of it.

When has this ever been a valid excuse for bad behavior?

zja··on Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
Kind of interesting that the patent troll going after them used to be a patent agent ~15 years ago. I wonder how common that is?
zja··on I launched my first macOS app
Looks slick, good luck!
zja··on Ask HN: Best Digital Assets to Invest In?
Domain squatting is pretty scummy, don't do that.
zja··on Download the full collection of Paul Graham essays in ePub for easy reading
That would certainly be copyright infringement.
zja··on The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
The Highland Games held in Grandfather Mtn, NC each year is one of the largest outside Scotland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Games_in_North_Caro...
zja··on We've added a “No thank you” button to our login page
It just sends you to a survey asking why you don’t want to give them your email, and that’s it. Still can’t use the app.
zja··on RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
Very cool, thanks!
zja··on RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
How have you been doing that? I'm new to using matrix, is that a builtin functionality or an extension to the client you use?
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