Hacker News: elsurudo

New comment by elsurudo in "Choosing the Right Audit Trail Approach in Ruby"

elsurudo — Thu, 02 May 2024 16:47:05 +0000

Another option not mentioned here is event sourcing (or just using events in general to track changes)

New comment by elsurudo in "Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi"

elsurudo — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:09:50 +0000

Sour cream, especially with Ruskie.

New comment by elsurudo in "How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS"

elsurudo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:15:06 +0000

May I ask what issues you have with QNAP or Synology?

New comment by elsurudo in "Apple passwords deserve an app"

elsurudo — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:22:14 +0000

I use Keychain Access app, but admittedly the UX there is terrible. I wish it was nicer, and also integrated with browsers other than Safari.

New comment by elsurudo in "The Odd Story of Factory-Downgraded 486s (2020)"

elsurudo — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:17:17 +0000

My first (childhood) computer was a 486 (DX I think?). Pentiums were already out, even PIIs maybe. The LEDs on the front (remember those?) said "100", but I was always suspicious of these, because my computer seemed a _lot_ slower (at playing games – what else) than my friend's 133MHz... But his was a Pentium(!), so I never got to the bottom of it.

For the record I needed to downscale Doom to about a 1/2 window (running in DOS) to have it run at a decent framerate. Can't have been 100MHz, right? Does anyone here have a comparable benchmark of a "true" 100MHz 486 I can compare with?

Thus began my fascination with computers. Booting up DOS in some low-memory mode in order to squeeze every CPU cycle out of that thing. Working within constraints taught me a lot.

I didn't have internet at the time, but this thing had a 14.4k modem that I tried to get running. When the modem was in use, the mouse froze (and vice-versa). They were on the same IRQ interrupt jumper I think. I ended up frying the motherboard trying to fix this issue. I didn't have a computer for a while, but after lots of pleading and my parents seeing that I was serious about this, they eventually got me a Pentium 2 (450MHz or so!). But alas, it had a Voodoo Banshee video card (which had notoriously-bad drivers which often simply hard crashed). Alas, working within another constraint...

New comment by elsurudo in "Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter"

elsurudo — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:06:15 +0000

You can read about it on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

New comment by elsurudo in "Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter"

elsurudo — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:05:13 +0000

He personally knows Elon and they've had dealings in the past. I bet if he recommends someone and that person is needed, that person will be hired.

New comment by elsurudo in "Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter"

elsurudo — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:04:05 +0000

I mean, I know he's a bit of an odd character and a showman, but do you actually think he's that "out of his depth" that he's desperately trying to crib other people's code? He's accomplished some pretty impressive things in a pretty short career – for now I would take him at face value re: asking for code as a clever recruiting strategy.

New comment by elsurudo in "VHS: CLI home video recorder"

elsurudo — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:04:32 +0000

For what it's worth, I enjoyed the nice cassette logo :)

New comment by elsurudo in "The Slotted Counter Pattern"

elsurudo — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:39:14 +0000

Makes sense, but I can't help but feel it's a solution at the wrong abstraction level. It's a shame the DB can't figure this out for you.

New comment by elsurudo in "Heroku 22 Stack"

elsurudo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:49:38 +0000

I've been using it in prod for almost 10 years now, almost without issues. Personally I'm still a very happy customer. FWIW, it's a low-traffic app, so cost isn't an issue. I'm happy to pay Heroku a bit more for the developer ergonomics over running my own server – it has saved me a ton of time.

Luckily I was not affected by the recent "issues", since I'm not using the Github integration.

New comment by elsurudo in "AWS SNS vs. SQS – Main Differences"

elsurudo — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:02:58 +0000

That's true, but I wouldn't say that fits the definition of 1:N messaging. Just as the name says, it's a queue.

New comment by elsurudo in "AWS SNS vs. SQS – Main Differences"

elsurudo — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:05:04 +0000

Yes, but only one of them will receive the message.

New comment by elsurudo in "Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions"

elsurudo — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:47:28 +0000

With those countries’ and populations’ permission… I wonder why that is?

New comment by elsurudo in "I closed a lot of browser tabs"

elsurudo — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:13:30 +0000

I do the same thing, especially the "not reading later" part. but it's a kind of hack that works for me.

By posting this, you just prompted me to do my routine of "evaluate, add, close".

Problem is some of the short-term ones that I "really want to read" – well, I'm not closing those. So it's a partial solution.

New comment by elsurudo in "Elixir GenServer Explained"

elsurudo — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:11:23 +0000

You got downvoted, but I agree. "Gen" is very typically used as a shorthand for "generate", whereas I've _only_ seen it used as a shorthand for "generic" in the Erlang/Elixir world.

New comment by elsurudo in "NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap"

elsurudo — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 07:09:43 +0000

> If you see them in person, you can see how the different brush strokes overlap and theoretically signify different things.

You had me until this bit

New comment by elsurudo in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

elsurudo — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:33:38 +0000

I used this when buying an apartment. Judging the lighting at different times of the day.

New comment by elsurudo in "U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources"

elsurudo — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:17:32 +0000

But on the other hand if a majority of us feel this way and the free market doesn’t seem to be doing the job, then that is the job of government and regulation - that is our voice.

New comment by elsurudo in "Terry Fox"

elsurudo — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:25:36 +0000

We were taught about him in Canadian elementary school (it feels like every school year). I guess I assumed he was known just in Canada for this reason, but didn't realize he even had reach outside of Canada.