<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: __david__</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__david__</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:53:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=__david__" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __david__ in "Running out of disk space in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file.  In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.</p>
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<p>I discovered long ago that psytrance/goa was perfect for me. It works almost as well as caffeine and I can work for hours and hours as long as it’s blaring.</p>
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<p>> But from a UX standpoint its a nonstarter<p>Disagree. The UX would be pretty similar. Click a mailto link which opens the email client with to, subject and body precomposed. Click send. Server receives mail and the web page continues/finishes the sign up process. No need for an email reply.
It’s different, but it’s not crazy.</p>
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<p>> how do you "be careful" with spoofed email?<p>You actually verify DKIM and SPF—you know, that “dmarc stuff”. That’s enough to tell you the mail is not spoofed.</p>
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<p>Isn’t that just the way old school Perl/ruby/php web apps from 20 years ago did things but with a fancy name?</p>
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<p>My cats actually love their cat tree. I’ve had to replace it because they clawed through the scratching post legs (<i>all</i> the way through the cardboard underneath the sisal rope).<p>Knowing that they love rectangles explains a lot too. They love every Amazon box that arrives, the folded hand towel in the bathroom, the top of my pc mini tower (rectangular <i>and</i> warm). Though they get off the tower when I’m playing a game since the gpu heats up so much and the exhaust fans blow out the top—it just gets too hot for them. I made a “cat catcher for my bed—a single hand towel folded in half lying on the otherwise featureless comforter. There’s almost always a cat there when I wake up in the morning.<p>This desk might actually work for me since one of my cats loves to sleep right under my office chair, dangerously close to the wheels. He’s got real long hair and I find tufts of fur around the chair and feel absolutely horrible. Crazily I almost never notice when it happens, he doesn’t yelp! I finally ended up buying a small scratching post with a bed on top and set it under my desk. He instantly took to it, so no more running over the poor cat. As a bonus he’s now in petting reach so I can get my cat fix whenever I need (petting is a two way street).</p>
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<p>Yes, but if the server you’re logging into only accepts keys then leaking its password isn’t nearly as bad. Though I guess if your local ssh client is compromised then your local private keys are also compromised so you’d be screwed anyway (unless you are using a yubikey type of thing—I should get me one of those).</p>
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<p>Similarly, one of your nephews has a friend with parents that don’t lock their liquor cabinet, which means despite all the laws not allowing sales of alcohol to minors, they still have access to it.<p>I think what your sisters are doing is fine—they’re sending a signal to their kids that this stuff isn’t “good” and though they’ll undoubtedly encounter it in the world, they’re now going to be inherently biased a certain way. And that’s kinda the best you can hope for.</p>
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<p>Correct. Just ask the Silk Road guy…</p>
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<p>Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a different direction it’s hard to see what blind spots they might have. It’s not crazy to ask people for input and it’s not crazy to say “we’re open to patches if you just want to do it yourself”.<p>For me personally I was (and still am a bit) unclear on what being “based on git” means. Can I just rebase with abandon? Is there a concept of force push? Can I safely use lazy-git, tig, commit-patch, and other git utilities? Or is it more integrated and i have to use the rad cli to avoid corrupting the git repo? What about the issues? If I write some software and publish it with radicle, is there a way for plain git client to clone the repo without installing radicle (and without keeping a plain git mirror somewhere)?</p>
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<p>Interesting, that kind of reminds me of Things In Rings [1]. I haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good.<p>[1] <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings" rel="nofollow">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings</a></p>
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<p>Oh yeah, Unreal was so nice looking. For me, though, that moment was in the Quake prerelease demo (“q1test”). It was clearly polygonal and you could look up and down with the mouse at a very nice high frame rate, which was pretty amazing in its own right, but then I walked up to a hole in the floor and looked down into a completely different but equally well rendered room. Suddenly the possibilities of verticality hit me and I just sat there mesmerized…</p>
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<p>Worse is that the notification for this “error” telling me I couldn’t back up without OneDrive was behind the little dot in the restart/logout menu in the start menu, which (until now) only showed me that updates were required. Now that they’ve infested that notification with ads there’s no reason for me to ever look at it again. Good job, Microsoft.</p>
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<p>Perhaps, but I fear you’re veering way too much into “clever” territory. Remember, this code has to be understandable to the junior members of the team! If you’re not careful you’ll end up with arcane operators, strange magic numbers, and a general unreadable mess.</p>
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<p>Perhaps my searching skills aren’t great but I don’t see any consumer ssds over 8TB. Can you share a link?
It was my understanding that ssds have plateaued due to wattage restriction across SATA and M.2 connections. I’ve only seen large SSDs in U.3 and E[13].[SL] form factors which I would not call consumer.</p>
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<p>But I bet you could really list some rubbish with it…</p>
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<p>I love tcl. My absolute favorite thing about it is that `man tcl` [1] gives a dozen paragraphs that <i>completely</i> describe the language itself. Its simplicity always astounded me since it seems really simplistic but at some level it’s just as malleable as lisp. I wish it had caught on more (outside the hardware community which seems to have fully embraced it).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/Tcl.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/Tcl.html</a></p>
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<p>Another nit, while test and [ are indeed binaries, they are also bash built-ins (for performance, presumably) so bash won’t exec them normally.</p>
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<p>I like `tig blame` for this. It has a key (comma, maybe?) that pops back to the file just before the change on the highlighted line so you can quickly work your way backwards through non-changes like you describe. It doesn’t deal with renames well, though.</p>
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<p>Yep, the original Zork was a big sprawling game. I originally played the (pirate?) pdp version when I was like 6 years old. A few years ago I took one of the c versions (this one one was run through f2c and then cleaned up by Ian Lance Taylor) and ported it to wasm. I also added in a mapping system using my favorite dungeon map. You can play it at <a href="https://dungeo.org/" rel="nofollow">https://dungeo.org/</a></p>
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