Hacker News: afgrant

New comment by afgrant in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

afgrant — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:59:53 +0000

Does Postgres no have online backup built in? All of the other major DBMSes do.

New comment by afgrant in "Buy Nothing Day"

afgrant — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:35:44 +0000

It’s the same as trying to tell everyone to stop buying gasoline for a day.

New comment by afgrant in "The New Audi A3 Is Amess with In-Car Subscriptions"

afgrant — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:39:05 +0000

My phone is always with me when I drive and has a data connection that a car can tether to.

New comment by afgrant in "WASM by example"

afgrant — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:49:17 +0000

Everyone: Please stop using ‘#’ as an href placeholder. Don’t make your ‘’ elements rely on events. If you want to replace their events with others, go for it. But please make them work at the base level.

New comment by afgrant in "Meta Quest 3"

afgrant — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:08:25 +0000

If your MacBook battery is recent and lasting for less than 8 hours, you’re doing something very unusual.

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:31:15 +0000

When the encoding relies on differentiating between lowercase and capitalized characters, you’re hitting a high level of ambiguity. Hexadecimal UUIDs don’t have this problem.

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:15:22 +0000

128 bits versus 64 bits is a deal breaker?

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:10:22 +0000

It exists, but I wouldn’t call that “lucky”, or a selling point.

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:07:31 +0000

It’s just a 128-bit value that’s hexadecimal encoded. What can be controversial about that?

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:46:55 +0000

The hazard of base64 is the use of '+', '/', and '=' characters, which most HTTP engines treat as special.

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:41:59 +0000

Are there modern databases that can’t readily index on a 128-bit value?

New comment by afgrant in "You Don't Need UUID"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:36:33 +0000

It’s a sales pitch for base58 that I’m not buying at all. According to the code segment, they include numeral “1” but exclude lowercase “l”?

0-9 and a-f are unambiguous and widely understood. They’re more “human readable”.

New comment by afgrant in "MAC Address Vendor Lookup"

afgrant — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:36:05 +0000

Is this any better than the Wireshark database? https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html

New comment by afgrant in "Bun v1.0.0"

afgrant — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:11:53 +0000

For the benefit of the future reader, I’m guessing you meant “CJS”, short for CommonJS.

New comment by afgrant in "A state official refused to release water for West Maui fires"

afgrant — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:01:51 +0000

Houses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.

New comment by afgrant in "The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you"

afgrant — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:42:38 +0000

The “unlicensed” aspect was never preventing this. Do you deny the basic benefits of end-to-end encryption?

New comment by afgrant in "Show HN: Degrees What?"

afgrant — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:34:30 +0000

I don’t get why you would conflate temperature degrees with angular degrees. They have nothing to do with each other.

New comment by afgrant in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

afgrant — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:23:50 +0000

If employees are getting paid salary, getting health insurance, getting retirement contributions, they’re by-and-large not going to quit

New comment by afgrant in "Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480"

afgrant — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:36:19 +0000

I’m in the same mindset. My 2009 MacBook got regular OS updates until 2017, then security updates until 2019. I replaced that one with an M1 Air and it’s been smooth sailing.

New comment by afgrant in "I don't like making the best things"

afgrant — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:16:45 +0000

I’ve looked at my work from 7-8 years back and realized that it’s actually better. I’m not sure yet what this means.