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New comment by dcurtis in "Thoughts on thinking"

dcurtis — Sat, 17 May 2025 02:07:36 +0000

History rhymes. It’s funny that my problem back then was jamming fully formed thoughts into tweets, and now my problem is developing seeds of ideas into fully formed thoughts.

New comment by dcurtis in "4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [video]"

dcurtis — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 04:41:57 +0000

In the live stream version of this video, he does strap it directly on top of the HAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlrCFJZlnI

New comment by dcurtis in "Ask HN: What Happened to Svbtle?"

dcurtis — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:03:47 +0000

Simply, and without too many details: the load balancer failed to work properly when one server in the cluster stopped responding, causing a cascade of errors which successively crashed all of the other servers (including, interestingly, the RDS database server -- which even Amazon was unable to explain).

New comment by dcurtis in "Ask HN: What Happened to Svbtle?"

dcurtis — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:20:09 +0000

It’ll be back later today. Sorry for the downtime!

New comment by dcurtis in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

dcurtis — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:12:04 +0000

This is incorrect. (Author of that article.)

New comment by dcurtis in "Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts"

dcurtis — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:02:15 +0000

Shortly after publishing, I received a phone call from "Apple, Inc.". When I tried to answer, the call dropped. Then my Apple ID account was suddenly unlocked and I got an email from someone saying they are going to try to call again tomorrow.

New comment by dcurtis in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

dcurtis — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:54:58 +0000

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention. I plan to write more about what exactly happened when my accounts are re-activated.

But to clear a couple of things up:

1. I've since learned that the reason this happened could be due to an unusual confluence of events including Apple Card, autopay, and the online Apple Store.

2. The disabling of iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts, and they have a team dedicated to handling these account de-activation issues. (I think this is absurd, which is why I am drawing attention to it.)

New comment by dcurtis in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

dcurtis — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:31:55 +0000

Nope -- iCloud was not past due. It is an Apple Card policy.

New comment by dcurtis in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

dcurtis — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:19:25 +0000

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention; I'll write up some more details shortly.

New comment by dcurtis in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

dcurtis — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:10:49 +0000

Actually, Sign in with Apple is one of the only things that still works.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Fall of Silicon Valley"

dcurtis — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:08:00 +0000

As the author of The Best, I am quite surprised and confused by Rhinehart's suggestion that the piece marks the "death" of Silicon Valley. He does not seem to understand me or what I was saying at all.

Also, "my ilk" are the very people he praises, including Paul Graham and YC founders pre-2012. I'm tempted to write a rebuttal, because while I agree that there was a marked change in the startup community around that time, I think it happened for reasons very different from the ones Rhinehart outlines in his piece.

(For reference: https://dcurt.is/the-best )

New comment by dcurtis in "Ask HN: Is Svbtle Dead?"

dcurtis — Wed, 16 May 2018 18:04:25 +0000

First maintenance, then fixing bugs, and finally new features.

New comment by dcurtis in "Ask HN: Is Svbtle Dead?"

dcurtis — Wed, 16 May 2018 13:57:07 +0000

Nope.

Working on it right now, in fact.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:51:13 +0000

It's not a marketing gimmick--it's a promise. It's how I want my own blog to be treated.

We announced this publicly so that you now know: if you write on Svbtle, your content is vastly more likely to survive for a long time than if you used your own server (probably) or if you used another publishing startup.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:45:03 +0000

Garry and I have the same goals and motivations (and we are good friends).

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:43:37 +0000

Because it's going to take months to work out the specifics and I wanted to make the promise now.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:33:59 +0000

Good idea--we'll add that.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:32:46 +0000

No, we want to do it ourselves.

Only in the case of something horribly catastrophic would we resort to using an external service like Archive.org--but unlike other startups, we would work very closely with them to archive all data. And perhaps even give them the domain name.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:27:36 +0000

Actually, we do save all user data right now and don't plan to change that--but it's hard to promise to keep that stuff forever.

New comment by dcurtis in "The Svbtle Promise"

dcurtis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:26:19 +0000

As I mentioned elsewhere, there are certain things that can be done to keep the service running for at least your lifetime--I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying customers. We will make that public when it's finished.