Hacker News: envolt

New comment by envolt in "Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys"

envolt — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:10:46 +0000

I've seen too many JWT tokens that it is very natural at this point

New comment by envolt in "The average college student today"

envolt — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:53:52 +0000

I keep hearing from friends and seniors that Gen Z doesn't take accountability for their work, and the sentiments the author has shared in this article are dot to dot relatable. I really don't care that they lack grammar and prefer short words (no cap fr fr), low attention span is just irritating and hard to deal with.

New comment by envolt in "The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released"

envolt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:13:15 +0000

n00b/serious question - What's the point of these ports?

New comment by envolt in "SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue"

envolt — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:46:59 +0000

Outbox Pattern is just that. Put a connecter (e.g Golden Gate for Oracle DB or Debezium) and get it done.

Keeps things simple and reliable.

The only drawback we saw was that there will be few second of latency as system scale; if that doesn't matter

New comment by envolt in "India to shift to USB C as common charging port for all smart devices"

envolt — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:11:39 +0000

> One of India’s concerns is that once EU makes the shift, obsolete phones and equipment could be dumped in India, a second official said.

India always have been a huge market for slightly old models; which are more affordable. Anyone who wants an iPhone can't afford the latest because of the price tag.

New comment by envolt in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

envolt — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:29:37 +0000

Never read a better summary before -

> These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments which take advantage of people who are suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality. Few to no legitimate use-cases for this technology have been found; instead it is mostly used for fraudulent “get rich quick” schemes and to facilitate criminal activity, such as ransomware, illicit trade, and sanctions evasion. These projects often encourage large-scale energy waste and electronics waste, which contributes to the declining health of Earth’s environment. The presence of these projects on SourceHut exposes new victims to these scams and is harmful to the reputation of SourceHut and its community.

I'm going to send this to everyone who I know is involved in crypto/blockchain.

New comment by envolt in "Zoomquilt (2004)"

envolt — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:46:28 +0000

My normal screen looks weird (opposite to zoomquilt; everything is zooming out from the edges).

Is that normal?

New comment by envolt in "Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program"

envolt — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:43:03 +0000

I like how tax brackets are in India.

250k-500k - 5% 500k-1000k - 20% 1000k- ∞ - 30% (figures in INR)

the brackets varies every FY, but are same more or less.

It doesn't discriminate with border cases.

New comment by envolt in "To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills"

envolt — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:50:35 +0000

I joined a new company recently (during pandemic; July). The onboarding was not so smooth. I was constantly following up here and there to get things done (e.g access to tools with IT), more importantly to get to the part with whom do I need to follow up and how to follow up; figuring this out was another follow up.

I created an onboarding guide last week (for my team) which was a very small thing for me (created a document on confluence in an hour). But the amount of response I got was overwhelming (IMO bit too much compared to how i expected to be yet-another-document).

New comment by envolt in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

envolt — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:25:03 +0000

>In the case where the claim is ambiguous, we will err on the side of the developer, and leave up the repository unless there is clear evidence of illegal circumvention.

New comment by envolt in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

envolt — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:36:38 +0000

Initially I noticed this behaviour on my work laptop (where I've joined recently); where I was able to get the app working as soon as I used to switch my location to Home (non-VPN/Proxy). I though it has something to do with work configuration.

For past few days I'm also experiencing the similar behaviour on my personal laptop.

New comment by envolt in "Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion"

envolt — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:48:11 +0000

Does it work offline?

New comment by envolt in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

envolt — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:05:06 +0000

The iPhone has a very smooth process of upgrading the phone. You turn on the new iPhone next to your old one, it prompts and voila. It's like upgrading hardware of your current phone.

I'm unsure if we're at a point where these things are even feasible. e.g I have configured my MBP a lot, the .zsh file, home directory and endless configuration.

I would not be surprised if they ditch the kernal completely, and make everything an App (much like chromebook)

New comment by envolt in "Send Payments in India with WhatsApp"

envolt — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:21:04 +0000

So far, they are only covering P2P cases. Not payments to vendor/shop/businesses, which requires scanning a QR code.

New comment by envolt in "IBM is splitting itself into two public companies"

envolt — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:03:39 +0000

Remind me of the Andrew's Intel story, when they decided to stop focusing on memory and moved entirely to building micro-processor, which worked out pretty-pretty well for them.

Looks like it's best of both word situation for IBM.

New comment by envolt in "They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]"

envolt — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:57:58 +0000

This also blew on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/iyddro/youtube_term...

New comment by envolt in "iOS 14 is available today"

envolt — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:23:15 +0000

Seems more like a bug

New comment by envolt in "iOS 14 is available today"

envolt — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:18:33 +0000

Took them a pandemic worth of phone usage to realize how irritating this was. When lockdown/WFH started, my company was using Google Meet, and everytime there is an incoming call it used to go full screen completely blocking for whatever purpose I was using the phone (or what ever I was hearing or saying). Though Zoom integrates with Call feature (not sure what's the technical term for it), whenever there is an incoming call between a zoom call it used to go in waiting.

New comment by envolt in "iOS 14 is available today"

envolt — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:13:57 +0000

I had screentime widget on my home page. I doubt if it's even 5 minute. I had to tap and open the screentime to force update it every time. This was in Beta though, I hope this will work fine in normal update.

Literature on Exception Handling

envolt — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 07:32:55 +0000

Article URL: http://wiki.c2.com/?ExceptionPatterns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418320

Points: 2

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