Hacker News: Vendan

New comment by Vendan in "Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)"

Vendan — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:35:20 +0000

that's the entire point of tabs, they can be customized to what the person reading them wants. It's an accessibility issue (https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...).

New comment by Vendan in "Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float"

Vendan — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:03:37 +0000

information-optimal compression is "the theoretical minimum number of bits needed to represent data without losing any information, based on the data's entropy", so I think they mean the same thing you do

New comment by Vendan in "Apple Exclaves"

Vendan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:22:18 +0000

I'm a software engineer at a company that does all macbooks. I hate my M1 macbook because it's way less reliable then my desktop, both software and hardware. I have to hold the power button to force it off roughly twice a month, it absolutely refuses to play nice with my KVM (that my desktop has no issues with), and the "keyboard secure input" feature regularly goes on the fritz and breaks anything that taps into the keyboard, including stuff that I've specifically installed.

New comment by Vendan in "MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server"

Vendan — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:54:27 +0000

The website is out of date, last release was actually in may (like smtp4dev) https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/releases/tag/v0.10.0

Automate Rotating Credentials Using Terraform

Vendan — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.mixpanel.com/automate-rotating-credentials-using-terraform-b0e7dab4d793

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41104489

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Vendan in "Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets"

Vendan — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:09:42 +0000

Github had this planned in their old roadmap... But then they deleted it...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220831234107/https://github.co...

We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month

Vendan — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.mixpanel.com/how-we-migrated-from-statsd-to-prometheus-in-one-month-fb973af124f5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698875

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by Vendan in "How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?"

Vendan — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:54:29 +0000

More likely to be just standard Mobile IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP. Fairly standard stuff, can cause some false positives around traveling (I've seen people get freaked out about stuff like "This person just logged in from their home state and then less then an hour later logged in from France!" when it was just mobile IP treating their phone as still in the US while they were in France on a trip, but their laptop connected over normal internet was seen as coming from France)

New comment by Vendan in "The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction"

Vendan — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:47:29 +0000

Google asks your kid, and they can pick either way. You can tell them "Hey, this is a device I bought for you, using a cell phone service I pay for, so either reenroll in supervision or I'm taking my device back". A little harsh, but... then you still get roughly the same level of control as before.

New comment by Vendan in "Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)"

Vendan — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:13:51 +0000

It's about as much blockchain as git is blockchain, so... not really blockchain at all...

New comment by Vendan in "Go Style"

Vendan — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:31:00 +0000

That wouldn't pass a code review where I work... Use a defer to do the unlock

New comment by Vendan in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

Vendan — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:15:46 +0000

I'd honestly be shocked if "vented and refilled refrigerant" was legal, that sounds like something a shady repairman would do...

New comment by Vendan in "TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML"

Vendan — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:10:36 +0000

fortinet is a cyber security software company, that makes a product called fortigate that does SSL MITM to decrypt and monitor/filter your traffic. Probably want to poke your IT team or get very concerned about your ISP...

New comment by Vendan in "Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams"

Vendan — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:41:00 +0000

Where I work, IT owns laptops, and is not a part of engineering. Getting things installed on new laptops is apparently not possible. On the other hand, a cloud instance (either this or something similar) is owned by engineering, so it's much easier to control the base image and such.

New comment by Vendan in "Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams"

Vendan — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:35:15 +0000

Gcp supports it: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resu...

New comment by Vendan in "Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)"

Vendan — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:34:06 +0000

do `export EDITOR="code -w"`

`git commit` will then open up the commit message as a temp file in vscode, you can write your message then save and close (cmd-s, cmd-w on mac, probably ctrl-s ctrl-w on windows and linux?) and git commit will continue on. `code -w ` is telling vscode "open this file for editing and don't return until the user closes it"

New comment by Vendan in "An uroboros program with 100 programming languages"

Vendan — Sat, 28 May 2022 04:57:47 +0000

Sourcery!

New comment by Vendan in "How Go mitigates supply chain attacks"

Vendan — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:24:50 +0000

Well, the easy thing is just let something like Dependabot update your stuff. If you are just wanting "update all my stuff to the latest version", just run `go get -u ./...`?

New comment by Vendan in "How Go mitigates supply chain attacks"

Vendan — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:09:30 +0000

> Am I to understand that it's common to hand-edit the version constraint on a transitive dependency in your go.mod file?

No, run `go get @` and Go will do it for you.

New comment by Vendan in "Interview questions to ask your interviewer"

Vendan — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 05:05:59 +0000

I also run windows 10 and have never seen a single ad, anywhere in it. Definitely worth noting that this is on a homebuilt computer, and I paid for a windows 10 pro license. Definitely seen ads on my wife's store-bought windows 10 home laptop.