https://www.phantomriverstone.com/2020/09/ryo-goes-to-moon-s...

Anecdotal, but the alarm before the auto braking in my Crosstrek (2020) saved me two times. And I was in the car with a friend who activated the auto braking when they had just purchased it and weren't used to driving it.

I know their blog, which is their HN username, and this tool found their other account.

Perhaps ironically, this person stood out a lot because of this and I didn't forget them.

Aggregate database queries using Meteor (at least as of 1.0) would create an immense amount of backend overhead if you queried through minimongo. And the overhead was incurred as long as a user was on that page because of how the reactivity worked. I tried making a PR to optimize this but apparently it wasn't comprehensive enough. I kept checking for years but no one attempted to fix this. Before you get nostalgic for Meteor, issues like that were awful.

Meteor (and RethinkDB) were just* pub/sub you had almost no control over. Was fun playing around with, though!

* (also, being able to automatically add accounts and authentication was great)

Crowd-sourced humans are making Google appear more intelligent than they actually are. I always envisioned that spam efforts would just immediately set off an alarm that would be handled by a bot to blacklist you without a human even knowing your site existed, but there still seem to be at least a few ways to game Google's search ratings.

But then C# started adding compiler flags that allow a redo of past suboptimal decisions (nullable reference types) without breaking existing code.

What is the current feeling on this? It seems kind of countered by the fact that the C# team is no longer bound by any past decisions.

For whatever reason, I like keeping track of 1000 day anniversaries

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+days+after+today

Shortly before any kind of 3rd anniversary or birthday I try to remember to check this.

But doing that is actually easier than having to deal with all the different ways of versioning packages. For example, I am not using git tags in my project, some others may be, some may be using a branch not named `master` to deploy from. They're going to have to intelligently traverse the git tree to draw meaningful conclusions.

I got a PR in my repository a few days ago leading back to a team trying to make it easier for packages to be reproducible from source https://github.com/microsoft/Secure-Supply-Chain

When you're in your youth working, you have no idea what this number is and better to be safe than sorry. If the amount of work you need to do to get through life with your target level of comfort were "solvable", then people would do it. But capitalism is a world of exponential growth, decay, and unpredictability.

When all financial advisors stop padding the hell out of their client's target retirement date just to be safe, then we can say this regret is solely on the conscience of the person on their deathbed.

> Jobs are tailored to your location and skills

I live near a metro area and have been asked dozens of times if I'd be cool 'coming in 1-2 days a week' even though the job listing says 'remote'.

I think, for a 100% remote job board, you may consider revising it to something less specific, but specific enough for taxes/residency/cost of living purposes.

> Jobs are tailored to your country and skills

If nothing else it's a pain point for job sites that I rarely see talked about so hopefully you find my reply somewhat useful

I've always really wanted to make a terminal app to keep track of how busy my local places are. Not saying I'd become a customer who would keep the lights on or anything like that, but at the very least it would make a cool demo.

"Last Impact" never got a takedown notice and PC Gamer even wrote an article about it (as well as Nintendo clearly being aware of Kaze).

As I said, there is a lack of aggression against SM64 hacks and it has never really been explained--but yes, they do hate copies or extensions to their engines that are essentially their own game, but better. SM64 online definitely qualifies. But again, this isn't correlated to how popular or how much of an online footprint the games have.

(Article here https://www.pcgamer.com/super-mario-64-rom-hack-last-impact-... )

Curiously, there is a thriving Super Mario 64 rom hacking community that is rarely hit with notices. Afaik, no one really knows why. There are 100+ games and even a nearly complete level editor. Even when Nintendo were demonetizing videos of their games, these were spared.