Hacker News: caiusdurling

New comment by caiusdurling in "Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI"

caiusdurling — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:29:46 +0000

> Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes.

Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:

New comment by caiusdurling in "HTML_slice: Enable Ruby classes the ability to generate reusable pieces of HTML"

caiusdurling — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:41:46 +0000

Looks similar to https://www.phlex.fun/ at first glance

New comment by caiusdurling in "Furilabs Linux Phone"

caiusdurling — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:46:12 +0000

Took me ages to connect the fact the phone was flipping around at hyper-speed on the webpage because I had the cursor over it whilst scrolling down. Had to move to the right side of the page to then scroll down.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks"

caiusdurling — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:47:35 +0000

I believe they've somewhat fixed this, it prompts you on first-run whether you want to accept analytics or not. Makes it quite explicit if you want to opt-in or opt-out.

The docs have been updated too, https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics states

> Homebrew gathers anonymous analytics using InfluxDB. You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew. Analytics are not enabled until after this notice is shown, to ensure that you can opt out without ever sending analytics data.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin"

caiusdurling — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:45:15 +0000

Extremely well, even supports passing arguments (`--HEAD`) through and integrates with services for casks too, so it can restart things like postgresql when homebrew updates it.

Having nix-darwin uninstall brews not declared in the flake makes me stay honest about keeping my configuration up to date as well, if I've just `brew install x` to try something it'll get removed next time I apply my config. Needs adding to the flake to keep it installed persistently, which in turn means my config tends to be up to date.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Systemd by Example (2021)"

caiusdurling — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:04:12 +0000

Some cron implementations do, it's not portable.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Man ‘forced to drive electric car into police van’ in Scotland after brakes fail"

caiusdurling — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:15:06 +0000

I think the MG4 has a brake by wire system, although those are supposed to have a failsafe built in but if it's not electro-hydraulic there might not be a mechanical link between the pedal and the callipers. Handbrake will be electric too, so activation depends on enough of the car brain functioning.

Keyless ignition usually has an override for a running car too, in a ford pushing the button three times within a few seconds turns the combustion engine off. Wonder if that's the same in electric cars, otherwise the only way I can think to kill it is isolate the batteries, same as emergency services would do in an accident.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

caiusdurling — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:40:35 +0000

https://caiustheory.com/

New comment by caiusdurling in "Sourcegraph is no longer open source"

caiusdurling — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:19:32 +0000

"no longer" suggests it was, but now isn't, which appears to match reality?

New comment by caiusdurling in "Sourcegraph is no longer open source"

caiusdurling — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:16:43 +0000

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu... appears to be a comment from someone in the project laying out why they've changed.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls"

caiusdurling — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:10:05 +0000

They likely have work issued mobile phones, I know my local force does that.

Edit: reading the judgement shows the phones were issued by the force:

> While it is acknowledged that the App was downloaded onto officially provided encrypted mobile devices, evidence was provided during the investigation to indicate that copies of call recordings had been manually transferred onto removable media

New comment by caiusdurling in "Why I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

caiusdurling — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:12:31 +0000

There's also issuance via DNS which took most of the complexity out of it for me. (Especially as the first time I went to deploy LetsEncrypt I had something like four web servers behind a LoadBalancer without the LB terminating TLS.)

I think the tooling has improved somewhat since too, although I didn't look too closely.

New comment by caiusdurling in "The Modern World"

caiusdurling — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:38:14 +0000

The old world still works in those situations, but we have a better experience when the new world hasn’t experienced a fundamental failure.

Seems like a reasonable trade off to me.

New comment by caiusdurling in "Using a "proper" camera as a webcam"

caiusdurling — Tue, 17 May 2022 18:01:52 +0000

I've got a lego stand built from a few bricks holding an iPhone 7 in landscape above my screen. The lens is maybe 18mm above the top of the display pixels.