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New comment by darrylb42 in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

darrylb42 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:47:23 +0000

I had one food delivery driver call me while standing in the middle of the street. Seemed like he was afraid to approach and knock or ring. So strange.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map"

darrylb42 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:05:36 +0000

Are they doing an edition a every couple of years now? I think I have the 4th edition rules, but haven't painted or played in like 12 years. I do have some of my nicely painted models on display in a cabinet. I mostly stopped buying models when GamesWorkshop stopping letting the UK stores sell online as their models were really cheap compared to what they sold them for in Canada.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow"

darrylb42 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:17:00 +0000

I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

darrylb42 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:52:30 +0000

BC stopped emission testing 10ish years ago because new cars almost never fail so there wasn't much value continuing the program.

New comment by darrylb42 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

darrylb42 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:42:41 +0000

I added a new head unit to my 13 year old Santa Fe, it is like a new car now, wireless Android Auto. Connects quick, bigger nicer screen. Should allow me to keep the car for another 10 years assuming I don't blow up another engine, only the first one is free.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

darrylb42 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:28:27 +0000

Just having a good photographer is amazing. When my friend was selling their place I was amazed and how good the house looked in the listing. How big it looked, when I know it was not big. This was before AI filters were available. So not a new issue but certainly made worse and cheaper to do.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"

darrylb42 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:47:32 +0000

And time. I have archived some of my collection, but it does take a lot of time to rip the disks, test that they worked correctly. Then years later find out you did something wrong and there is no sound anymore, or you just got stereo and the surround mix is broken.

Streaming is so easy, don't need to find a disk. Load it, watch all the ads and warnings.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

darrylb42 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:44:20 +0000

Slack is similar Shift enter in normal text. Enter in a code block, shift enter sends in a code block.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

darrylb42 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:18:10 +0000

Looks like an April 1st article, but there is no date on it.

New comment by darrylb42 in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

darrylb42 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:55:38 +0000

New planes don't have screens, they may have free wifi to watch stuff on your device. Of the 6 planes I have been on in the last two weeks only one had screens. Just back from vacation :)

New comment by darrylb42 in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

darrylb42 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:48:38 +0000

On recent WestJet flights they announced that you can't use a power bank if there is seat power available, all the flights had seat power except the smallest plane (Dash 8) and that flight was only 18 minutes. They also didn't want any batter powered devices in the overhead compartments.

On the 737s there were only two plugs per 3 seats so not everyone could be plugged in.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

darrylb42 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:54:58 +0000

Unlike google glass they don't look weird. Unless you know what to look for you will probably just think they are ray bans.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

darrylb42 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:09:43 +0000

Though they should be on in store wifi. The big steel box store is a faraday cage that doesn't let the internet in.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

darrylb42 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:55:58 +0000

I guessed this was coming after you couldn't cast to a device that was logged into a different account. Would be a nice experience to be able to cast Paw patrol from one of the kids accounts instead of cluttering the in-laws view history with kids shows.

New comment by darrylb42 in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

darrylb42 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:13:09 +0000

Just until they are shutdown to put in pickleball for retirees.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

darrylb42 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:35:46 +0000

With rates of drivers hitting overpasses mediocre is a high target here.

New comment by darrylb42 in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

darrylb42 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:52:50 +0000

Content creators still have their embedded ads. You just avoid all the non-skippable you tube ads

New comment by darrylb42 in "The Promised LAN"

darrylb42 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:57:02 +0000

I had a lanboy? case that came with a carry strap. The case was also mostly aluminum so it was pretty light. Not many people had laptops back then. Managers at work maybe had one. Most people had a proper desktop.

New comment by darrylb42 in "My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF"

darrylb42 — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:55:25 +0000

This does not appear to be support by SOAP or WCF. From the SOAP specification:

"Bindings MAY provide for streaming when processing messages. That is, SOAP nodes MAY begin processing a received SOAP message as soon as the necessary information is available. SOAP processing is specified in terms of SOAP message infosets (see 5. SOAP Message Construct). Although streaming SOAP receivers will acquire such XML infosets incrementally, SOAP processing MUST yield results identical to those that would have been achieved if the entire SOAP envelope were available prior to the start of processing. For example, as provided in 2.6 Processing SOAP Messages, identification of targeted SOAP header blocks, and checking of all mustUnderstand attributes is to be done before successful processing can proceed. Depending on the representation used for the XML infoset, and the order in which it is transmitted, this rule might limit the degree to which streaming can be achieved."

https://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/

The critical note is the output for streamed, or buffered must the the same so it does not look like infinite streams can be supported.

I also played with your sample application to see if there was any indication of the connection dropping.

I had an interesting result switching to the NetTcp binding. On the client it is unable to exit until the max size of the incoming message is hit. The server continues running as there are no sent message quotas.

New comment by darrylb42 in "Ask HN: What kind of tech podcasts do you enjoy?"

darrylb42 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Behind the tech with Kevin Scott - Interesting conversations generally at a high level.

Maintainable - How to maintain software. Sometimes practical advise.

The Pragmatic Engineer - This one is pretty new

Dev Interrupted - I am subscribed but skip sometimes.

Stack Overflow - Has become an ad. I have listened since the original we are building a question answer site pod cast.