Hacker News: AeroNotix

New comment by AeroNotix in "Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4"

AeroNotix — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:13:15 +0000

Makes you wonder if they asked their agent to formally prove it with TLA+ and it just responded that it had performed the proofing.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4"

AeroNotix — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:11:36 +0000

It's the old infinite monkeys typing on type writers except now it displaces an entire industry and the only people profiting are the ones holding the tech that powers it.

New comment by AeroNotix in "The Google Fit APIs will no longer be available after June 30, 2025"

AeroNotix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:45:10 +0000

Not sure if there are multiple products called "Timelines" but I can access my timeline on maps.google.com just fine and it has all my latest data.

New comment by AeroNotix in "My mental model of setf was wrong"

AeroNotix — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:35:21 +0000

I feel you. I've written quite a lot of Common Lisp over the years and I've tried to show off its capabilities to co-workers, often in comparison to the language used that that job.

Often I just get "huh, that's neat, now let's get back to mining the coalface".

New comment by AeroNotix in "Number 16 (spider)"

AeroNotix — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:28:28 +0000

I think the biggest issues involved around knowledge/skills/intelligence being potentially linked to genetics is that it often draws the eugenics proponents into the discussion and it's obvious how that conversation ends.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

AeroNotix — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:51:56 +0000

Even in binary you can see patterns. Not saying it's perfect to show binary diffs (but it is better than showing nothing) but I know even my slow mammalian brain can spot obvious human readable characters in various binary encoding formats. If I see a few in a row which doesn't make sense, why wouldn't I poke it?

New comment by AeroNotix in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

AeroNotix — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:48:35 +0000

Pure speculation but my guess is a specific state actor ahem is looking for developers innocently working with open source to then strongarm them into doing stuff like this.

New comment by AeroNotix in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

AeroNotix — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:38:10 +0000

Most editors these days should have "rename" functionality which is very aware of how that symbol is used across a codebase.

M-x lsp-rename in emacs, for example works great, if you're using lsp.

New comment by AeroNotix in "How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus"

AeroNotix — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:14:28 +0000

I find the standard blackbox_exporter far too limiting and static so I wrote an exporter which queries DNS zones from the Google API and creates targets dynamically from that.

It also has a feature which will query internal databases to find expected targets (kinda like service discovery). This covers more specific checks than what the DNS-based targets will provide.

These together mean that essentially no endpoint in our infrastructure is missing from being monitored in some fashion.

The exporter performs SSL checks (lifetime remaining etc) as well as providing HTTP/TCP latency metrics.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Why are bidets just now getting popular in America?"

AeroNotix — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:19:00 +0000

Not American but I can't stand using the toilet in places which don't have bidets. I feel disgusting and it ruins my day completely. I'd rather be uncomfortable and wait til I'm home or not go out.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Tortoise: Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling"

AeroNotix — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:04:18 +0000

I think this mostly comes down to whether applications can handle downtime if their workloads are restarted, scale up/down based on demand.

It happens shockingly often that applications only support working with a single replica and even worse when those applications cannot run concurrently with replicas of themselves which prevent smooth rolling updates.

IME if applications are fault tolerant of restarts, or support concurrent replicas then scaling up and down to meet demand is absolutely fine.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Association between cannabis use and subjective cognitive decline"

AeroNotix — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:49:17 +0000

I wonder if it's related to the fact stoners are likely to go to bed on time.

New comment by AeroNotix in "All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces""

AeroNotix — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:29:46 +0000

That's just kicking the can over to an object storage API instead of managing disks.

New comment by AeroNotix in "All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces""

AeroNotix — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:27:35 +0000

https://victoriametrics.com/ would definitely recommend anyone having performance issues with Prometheus to give VictoriaMetrics a try.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys"

AeroNotix — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:44:52 +0000

My daughter is bilingual too. I wonder if that has something to do with it.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys"

AeroNotix — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:41:35 +0000

I need to read up more on this because in my extremely small sample size this kind of dual naming understanding came in really early with my daughter.

I feel like it's a linguistic subtlety that us adults are struggling with conveying the exact concept.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys"

AeroNotix — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:39:02 +0000

I didn't even know "class inclusion" was a thing really. Though obviously the concept makes sense.

My daughter had a solid grasp of it definitely around 16-18 months. She could easily talk about books or toys, cars, food, drinks etc.

Not sure if this is unusual but 7-8 as the other poster mentioned sounds crazy late for that kind of conceptual understanding to appear.

New comment by AeroNotix in "The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax"

AeroNotix — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:04:13 +0000

Wrong. Just plain wrong.

TVR back in the day was literally for British hooligans. The car was built on a small scale in Blackpool of all places to compete with much higher-end manufacturers.

The fact that the end game for TVR was handled so poorly doesn't and should never retroactively change what the company's mission was, which was to build powerful British-style sports cars for enthusiasts.

Being a Blackpool lad myself - the first day I saw a TVR Tuscan roll out of the Bispham factory will be something I never forget.

They were working class heroes back in the day. They were approaching affordable for a lot of people, raw, powerful and styled in an otherworldly way.

The loss of TVR is a loss for all car enthusiasts. I don't think we'll see another manufacturer like them.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Opening /proc/self/fd/1 is not the same as dup(1)"

AeroNotix — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:22:20 +0000

In other words: it is software.

New comment by AeroNotix in "Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell"

AeroNotix — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:45:49 +0000

Oh, I know they exist already.