Hacker News: dtjohnnymonkey

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:25:31 +0000

I could totally get into “Ops Thriller” genre of novels like this.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Fluid Glass"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:09:52 +0000

I would love to turn this into a screensaver of rain falling onto a window.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

dtjohnnymonkey — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:25:06 +0000

AQ2 was such a fun mod. It's been a while since I played, but if I recall you could some real John-Woo style moves as if you are in an action movie.

The article says that Le created it though:

    Two years later he created Action Quake 2, a fast-paced game inspired by “Die Hard”

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning"

dtjohnnymonkey — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:07:41 +0000

I think that it’s probably doable in DEVONthink. There are flows to automatically OCR and to organize files into folders based on content.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Animated Factorization (2012)"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:55:46 +0000

After some time I find myself waiting for highly composite numbers rather than primes.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Turner, Bird, Eratosthenes: An eternal burning thread"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 07:04:39 +0000

Came here to see if I was just imagining things. Thanks for confirming!

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 22:26:34 +0000

I have a .in domain email address and there have been occasions where it is rejected by some email address validation logic.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died"

dtjohnnymonkey — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:39:53 +0000

If I'm running a command in the background, and want to be notified when it's done, I usually run it like

  cmd; say 'files done'

I wish I could use his voice though! These were sounds of my childhood.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)"

dtjohnnymonkey — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 05:24:56 +0000

I remember taking a PL class in undergrad, learning Prolog as one of a handful of languages. During that section my brain started to want to "bind" variables to things as I was going about my day, it was very weird.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "A new JSON data type for ClickHouse"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:59:38 +0000

Where is your data coming from? I’m curious what prevents you from inserting the data into Clickhouse without Kafka.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "A new JSON data type for ClickHouse"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:58:36 +0000

ClickHouse does need ZK but they have their own implementation.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "The Lego Great Ball Contraption"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:20:11 +0000

There was one at BrickCon in Bellevue, WA last week! It’s my favorite part of the show. Always reminds me of queueing theory and distributed systems.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly"

dtjohnnymonkey — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:39:23 +0000

To mitigate this case you could limit capacity in terms of concurrency instead of request rate. Basically it would be like a fairly-acquired semaphore.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

dtjohnnymonkey — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:26:12 +0000

I felt this keenly when my children were very young. At times I only had one arm/hand free because I was holding a child in the other. Or I could only read poorly in the dark because I didn’t want to turn on the lights and disturb the kids.

Since then I always see accessibility thinking as a universal benefit, not just for the “abled”.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "The problem with OpenTelemetry"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:37:17 +0000

> That means what we actually want is a way to say “hey OpenTelemetry SDK, give us all the current spans in the buffer”.

Isn’t this exactly what the SpanExporter API is for? This is in the Go SDK, I suppose it may not be available in other SDKs.

I have used this API to convert OTel spans into log messages as we currently don’t have a distributed tracing vendor.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Show HN: Slipshow – A presentation tool not based on slides"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:38:21 +0000

When I was in college they would use a transparency projector, but instead of transparency pages, there would be a roll with a crank that you would turn to advanced the roll. You would get the same effect as slipshow.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)"

dtjohnnymonkey — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:24:02 +0000

I am responsible for a MapReduce-based system built about 13 years ago and it is the bane of my team’s existence right now. It was the hotness in its day, but did not age well at all. We are working on a replacement using ClickHouse.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?"

dtjohnnymonkey — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:36:31 +0000

choir.io , I had hooked it up to our raw event stream so I could “feel by audio” how our systems were running.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "The race to replace Redis"

dtjohnnymonkey — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:10:58 +0000

I always wanted to try Pelikan Cache, but it’s hard to take a risk when there is Redis. Maybe now it’s more palatable.

New comment by dtjohnnymonkey in "Fig is sunsetting"

dtjohnnymonkey — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:06:28 +0000

Autocomplete of S3 buckets.

E.g

aws s3 ls s3://

Also brief documentation of any arguments or flags for the command you are typing.