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New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier"

ChymeraXYZ — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:19:22 +0000

I know it may sound stupid but in my latest project I chose ULIDs because I can easily select them as one word, instead of various implementations of browsers, terminals, DB guis, etc each have their own opinion how to select and copy the whole UUID. So from that point of view ULIDs "look" better for me as they are more ergonomic when I actually have to deal with them manually.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues."

ChymeraXYZ — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:10:42 +0000

No... No, it's not. Just require password/confirmation for every purchase. I have 3 kids and not a single one has purchased anything without me approving it (where they did not pay with their own pocket money).

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

ChymeraXYZ — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:16:08 +0000

Could be, but it does not change the fact that we do not understand them as of now.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

ChymeraXYZ — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:51:51 +0000

What is the reason it should not be able to support rendering markdown?

The underlying files are still just plain text and if it's not .md (or whatever other extensions may make sense) it's not rendered.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Sysadmins rage over Apple's 'nightmarish' SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts"

ChymeraXYZ — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:46:09 +0000

(a) Not everyone can afford to manage that (e) They key point is that it needs to be standardized to the point of the vendors supporting it. As long as there is a general API (for example) on the device that I can point a plug-in to, it's fine, but AFAIK such a thing does not exist at this point in time.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?"

ChymeraXYZ — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:39:36 +0000

Personally I'm using Migadu at the moment and for me the killer feature is that the price per month is not bound to users and/or domains. I have several tens of "users" (many are myself but for reasons with completely separate identity as far as the server is concerned), and 8 or so domains. There is barely any traffic (in the order of <10 emails in and out per day).

Most other providers I would have to pay 10-30x as much, just because I have several users and domains, at a grand total overhead cost of 0$ to the provider.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "What UI density means and how to design for it"

ChymeraXYZ — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:35:01 +0000

> Some sites disabled pinch zooms (massively frustrating for images).

Best are the blogs that have embedded images of graphs or something and they are as large as you can make them (edge to edge). Try pinch to zoom... nope. Tap on image... Here is a smaller version of the image (not edge to edge). Oooookay... Can I zoom now? Hahahhahah....nope!

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs"

ChymeraXYZ — Tue, 07 May 2024 07:04:22 +0000

Migadu is Swiss

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool"

ChymeraXYZ — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 23:07:57 +0000

I am maintaining a fairly complex set of nodered flows, dealing with some long running tasks performed by other tools.

When checking n8n the impression was that it's like a v2 of NodeRed that learned from what NR did wrong. Lots of tools an capabilities you end up wishing for in NR are built into n8n.

For example:

* data flow is simplified, no one global "msg" var that gets clobbered by every 2nd custom script * you can fairly easily test flows * you can see execution history, including in/out data * you can see exacting flows

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Orb is a free and open source web desktop"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:07:28 +0000

General question: Is there an actual use for this kinds of projects, beyond showing what can be done? I have seen many different "web desktop" projects and while most of them were impressive in their own (technical) ways, I could never see the an actual use case for them.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:57:24 +0000

> That’s a poor analogy, you do have the tools to properly and easily compensate such linguistic disability, as easy as having someone double checking their writing or having one of these new AI spell check tools, etc.

If the hypothetical person in question had such tools, then we would not see their "handicap" right? So the discrimination would not have occurred...

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Sketch of a Post-ORM"

ChymeraXYZ — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:00:09 +0000

Yes but then it's no longer declarative, is it?

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support"

ChymeraXYZ — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 06:11:19 +0000

"you’ll be paid in STORJ Token." https://www.storj.io/node

This statement basically makes me unable to take this seriously.

At "Egress Bandwidth $20/TB" it should pay off to buy up all the cheap hetzner servers and convert them to storj nodes. They would pay themselves back after 2 TB and then you are off making profit.

But wait, there is more:

They charge 7$ for egress bandwidth... How can they pay 20$ to the one providing the bandwidth. Oh, right they don't actually pay the operator, they give you a crypto token.

So all in all paying for storj feels like supporting yet another crypto scheme.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Sketch of a Post-ORM"

ChymeraXYZ — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 05:52:19 +0000

How do you deal with for example with this:

New column C

C = A + B

Drop A, B

If I just specify the desired state I get data loss...

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Sketch of a Post-ORM"

ChymeraXYZ — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 05:48:07 +0000

This!

Ever since I discovered sqlc it's my go to for any dB it supports.

It's a joy to work with and does exactly what you expect it to, no strange magic.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Linux vs. Mac"

ChymeraXYZ — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:12:07 +0000

I switched last year after being exclusively on Linux for approx 5 years.

Hardware is hands down the best in terms of battery life. It's hilarious compared to pretty much anything else I have tried.

Software is... Meh. But the part that really is the window management. What is there currently in mac (and Windows) is, mildly put, a joke.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:46:45 +0000

> So long as the amount of audio sent in a packet is larger than how long it takes the next packet to get there, you'll be transfering audio data faster than it is playing, making minor fluctuations in timing between packets irrelevant.

Even major fluctuations. Not talking about the quality here (but the received quality is identical to what is being sent), but just think about Netflix & Co, Imagine if they had to maintain an "ideal network, with no packet loss and constant ping" to your device or otherwise audio and video would be out of sync?

There are protocols that shuffle more or less raw audio streams over the network (Dante for example). In that case yes, you do things to make sure the variables are within a certain range by (usually) segregating the traffic etc, but even then if the timing is off the playback will stop until the stream is reestablished properly. Theoretically it's the same as with any other media stream, just much more sensitive to fluctuations as it is real time (i.e. delay so low you are unable to hear it).

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:46:19 +0000

Yeah, no because "streaming" is just transferring a chunks that can then be played. You are not sending bits from the network card straight to the audio out. Even if you have a certain % packet loss, there is 0 impact on the playback as long as the next chunk arrives before the previous one has finished.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:03:25 +0000

> What does it mean to be worst-in-class for text chat

I expect a chat program to show me all messages the have been sent in a chat, in so far the other party intends me to view them (have no been deleted etc.). That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

I expect an edit (mine or someone elses) to be reflected on all my devices. That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

I expect to do the same series of keystrokes in a blank "chat input" field and get the same result. That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

I expect the text that I see as have been sent to appear the same (for a reasonable value of "same") on the other persons screen. That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

I expect that if I scroll to the bottom, I will be able to make the last message intended to be visible, become readable and copyable. That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

I expect that when I select a text and press "ctrl-c" or the local equivalent, the text now in my clipboard is always predictable. That is not an expectation Teams manages to fulfill.

And yes, I have personally seen and experienced each and every one of this things.

New comment by ChymeraXYZ in "Objection to ORM Hatred (2019)"

ChymeraXYZ — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:41:36 +0000

> And with good ORMs like Entity Framework the underlying queries they generate are predictable.

Right up until they are not and generate crap. I went from "predictable" EF generated queries to handcrafted ones reduced the load on the DB by about 70% while having more queries per second...