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Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#11

Post by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:10 PM UTC

Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know...

'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)...

can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my terminal", answer: a non-https javascript needing website!!!

>>> 'super simple: clone it to some device that's always on, compile it, set up some systemd stuff, and it's ready to rock on port 8180'

"super simple"... sounds... super simple... installing rust nightly as we speak to build it /s

this world of ours

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#12

Post by andrepd » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:16 PM UTC

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #11

Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…

I for one welcome the era of PaaS (ping as a service).

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#13

Post by ipsum2 » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:27 PM UTC

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #11

Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…

How was it possible to read "easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal" but not finish the sentence to "especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal"?

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#14

Post by hatware » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:48 PM UTC

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #11

Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…

Definitely has a "but why?" vibe to it. OP probably learned a lot getting this up and that's usually what motivates me to learn.

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#15

Post by amelius » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

Nice. Now all you need is a catchy URL so people can remember it.

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#16

Post by KMnO4 » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

Matthias247 wrote: post #8

The times will be super different between initial load and retries, since the first request requires a potential DNS lookup, establishing a TCP connection, and potential TLS handshake, and only then the request can be performed. Follow-up requests don't require an additional connection. If you want timings only for TCP connection establishment, or only for the request, you can use the browsers navigation timing APIs…

Won’t the browser first do an OPTION before the test (GET) starts? The lookups should be cached.

Re: Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

#17

Post by userbinator » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 11:30 PM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #13

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #11

Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…

How was it possible to read "easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal" but not finish the sentence to "especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal"?