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New comment by akvadrako in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

akvadrako — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:17:11 +0000

Most states default to registering you when you get a driver's license, but you can opt-out. Some are opt-in.

New comment by akvadrako in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

akvadrako — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:46:20 +0000

YAML is actually very complex, to the point that basically nobody implements the full YAML 1.2 spec from 2009 (https://matrix.yaml.info/), while 1.1 contains footguns like `country: fr` and `country: no` parsing issues.

Though I agree simple usage is good enough in practice, there are a lot of edge cases that can cause subtle bugs.

New comment by akvadrako in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

akvadrako — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:42:12 +0000

I had AppleCare when my keyboard failed. They blamed it on me because of an dent about 1mm wide I never noticed on the back corner.

So you just get screwed twice.

New comment by akvadrako in "Migrating to the EU"

akvadrako — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:43:49 +0000

Lack of records isn't the issue. You authorize mailbox's servers to send on behalf of your domain. Then they let anyone with a mailbox account set the from to your domain.

New comment by akvadrako in "Migrating to the EU"

akvadrako — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:18:18 +0000

I use mailbox for the past few years and I think it's the best option out there. But they have one major issue, which is that anyone can impersonate your domain:

https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...

New comment by akvadrako in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

akvadrako — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:31:04 +0000

Things like that existed in the category of accelerator cards. Xeon Phi (Knights) is one example, focused on core count. Some from HP have soldered on SSDs too. You also had blade servers which is more focused on that use case, though that's going out of style.

I don't think PCIe is really a good fit for general CPU tasks. You need big heatsinks and power and can't fit that much RAM on board.

New comment by akvadrako in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

akvadrako — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:06:36 +0000

Its easier to connect to existing sessions in your main browser.

New comment by akvadrako in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

akvadrako — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:39:04 +0000

I don't see how it's different. You could always describe what you want to a team lead or consultant and pay them to build it.

That's still the best way to turn a spec into a program and comes with all the downsides it entails.

New comment by akvadrako in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

akvadrako — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:42:52 +0000

I don't notice it at all, on my laptop or phone. Even when having one monitor 60 and one 120 next too it.

Only when looking at demo pages to show off high refresh rates can I tell.

Though what I do notice is replacing the mouse with a higher polling rate from 125Hz to 250Hz.

New comment by akvadrako in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

akvadrako — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:16:31 +0000

I don't know why you say that. I've measured Linux sleep power consumption for Lenovo and ASUS laptops over the past 10 years and S3 and si0x come pretty close.

New comment by akvadrako in "Sizing chaos"

akvadrako — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:36:35 +0000

I assume you are talking jean sizes, which might be related to inches in some historical sense, but now it's more abstract.

However dress pants, sports pants and everything that isn't pants is just as bad as for women.

New comment by akvadrako in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

akvadrako — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:42:52 +0000

Can't you avoid the OSD if you control it with DCC?

New comment by akvadrako in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

akvadrako — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:22:28 +0000

Seems they come with 200gbit ports so it takes 20 minutes to fill memory.

New comment by akvadrako in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

akvadrako — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:57:47 +0000

500 nits is not really good enough for laptop that you might use outside.

Luckily they are still improving and we now have Tandem OLED with about double that.

New comment by akvadrako in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

akvadrako — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:07:55 +0000

And if not mise, just a Makefile, shell scripts or custom docker images. Then you can run and develop them locally.

GitHub actions has some rough edges around caching, but all the packaging is totally unimportant and best avoided.

New comment by akvadrako in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

akvadrako — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:44:11 +0000

They are usually shaped to fit in exactly the space available to maximize capacity. Standard cell sizes wastes space.

Besides it's pretty easy to get custom battery pouches made.

New comment by akvadrako in "The HTTP Query Method"

akvadrako — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:07:33 +0000

Servers can support it but not browsers.

New comment by akvadrako in "Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor"

akvadrako — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:50:13 +0000

That doesn't match what I see. Shops don't issue an invoice until the product ships, well after payment.

New comment by akvadrako in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

akvadrako — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:33:09 +0000

Victoria metrics which has similar database design to clickhouse is good for metrics.

But it doesn't have a complete dashboard UI like Grafana.

New comment by akvadrako in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

akvadrako — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:01:30 +0000

I find it quite hard to follow PRs when there is a lot of rebasing. I don't really find separate non-time-based commits useful.

So I agree but unfortunately it's the norm and policy for some clients.

Git-absord by default doesn't squash the fixups though, it creates new ones with special tags for easy rebasing later.