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IMO it's still fun to hand-write C and Makefiles targeting an extremely resource-constrained device that's connected to an oscilloscope and a gunshot-wound worth of capacitance on …

Sometimes doing the thing is just doing a thing and then you get done with some milestone on the thing, you're like "why am I doing this thing. am I crazy for undertaking this thin…

Like others I found the concise implementation to be impressive! I have noticed a bug though. Using the "drive into the corner" strategy (I keep the high tile in the bottom left) s…

OP mentions housekeeping as part of his benefits. I also have had an every-other-week maid service for the past decade or so, and for me, it is a huge lifestyle improvement. The am…

A random dimensional analysis that I find amusing about fuel consumption units: liters / 100 km => m^3 / m => m^2 (volume) / (distance) => (area) This can be interpreted as the cro…

I'm surprised at how even some of the smartest people in my life take the output of LLMs at face value. LLMs are great for "plan a 5 year old's birthday party, dinosaur theme", "de…

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It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-si…

A mechanism for filtering by language or searching by keyword would be nice.

Attempting to operate in a space where 100x more money than you can muster is willing to burn itself operating in the same space.

For anyone who has ever had the laptop out in the garage next to the CNC machine, yeah, no, those things are extremely onerous. You're in the machine shop outside of town and you l…

> No online account. Among the nerds, the backlash has started. Watch out, Fusion 360. In the world of doing stuff with atoms, no one ever wanted their drafting table to have authe…

Presumably it's meant to be used when you're writing a shell script and you have some problem in front of you that would be trivial to solve in a real programming language and you …

> Someone who's trying to access my account (assuming news.ycombinator.com requires a client side TLS certificate as part of the authentication process) tries to forge the client s…

Idem. I remember not being able to get past the first page of the guide way back in the day, and indeed cannot today either. The signal to noise ratio is just abysmal. I also canno…

In my imagined system, there's no need for the CSR dance because hey, if the client can sign the crypto challenge and initiate a connection, then it holds the private key material …

What benefit would the site operator see by running a CA and requiring clients to do that dance vs allowing self-signed certs?

Can anyone explain to me why we couldn't just use client SSL certs everywhere? Before the first time you connect to a website, your browser asks if you want to generate a new cert …

Just say no.

As far as I could tell, there was no straightforward way to point a new instance of the compute resources back at the old storage resources since they're all provisioned in one CF …

We implemented it in Postgres with 'created_at' and 'deleted_at' columns on everything and filtering to make sure that the object 'exists' at the time the query is concerned with. …

From experience: Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics. Hard to diagnose per…