Hacker News: jamesdepp

New comment by jamesdepp in "Introducing Copilot+ PCs"

jamesdepp — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:51:11 +0000

Looks like they're relying on system fonts instead of serving them over the web. It uses Segoe UI (a Windows font) by default. I tried accessing the page via Fedora and iOS and neither load the font correctly.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Introducing Copilot+ PCs"

jamesdepp — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:48:09 +0000

I am honestly not excited about the "AI" tech here--I'm excited about the battery life improvements that will come from using ARM chips. Battery life was the reason I chose an M1 laptop over the alternatives. Hopefully we can get some more competition in the space with these new chips!

New comment by jamesdepp in "A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair"

jamesdepp — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:54:54 +0000

Priority Continuum Onyx by any chance? Those things are absolute beasts. Fantastic commuter bikes.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Testcontainers"

jamesdepp — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:54:54 +0000

Some tests might have side effects. Probably not a great idea to test the function “bill customer” on a prod deployment. That’s why containers for testing is great—it’s easy to spin up an environment that can be messed around with without consequences (even if things go wrong or your tests have side effects).

New comment by jamesdepp in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

jamesdepp — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:19:05 +0000

I recently rewrote a website/small backend API for a non-profit organization. I could've gone with a serverless architecture for our forms handling API and reduced spending to nearly the free tier, but I had no good way to protect against a scenario like this. There was just not good enough documentation about how to completely cut off spending in the scenario of an attack, and I wasn't comfortable leaving the organization open to a cost attack like this.

So we're using Github Pages for static hosting and a $5 box from OVH now. Unmetered bandwidth, plenty resources for our purposes. Cheap enough, and we will never, EVER, have to worry about an attack like this. Well worth it imo.

Imo, serverless is great for internal jobs where you can control spending. For public facing things, you have to be a lot more careful.

How the New York Times Decides Who Gets an Obituary

jamesdepp — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/article/new-york-times-obituary-process.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39405334

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesdepp in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

jamesdepp — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:20:02 +0000

I feel like this could be a part of a weird plan to trap Apple into an antitrust lawsuit about iMessage. Beeper's CEO has been claiming that the existence of Beeper Mini actually improves iPhone users' experiences. He could argue that Apple shutting off access is not meant to improve Apple users' experiences, but rather, to keep people off of Android.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings. I REALLY think that iMessage needs to be opened up, but this was not the way to do it. Really hoping the EU swoops in and saves the day here.

New comment by jamesdepp in "iMessage, explained"

jamesdepp — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:40:45 +0000

pypush, the open source project behind today’s developments in the iMessage reversing news, is licensed under MongoDB’s Server Side Public License and owned by Beeper (JJTech sold the rights to Beeper, per discord). Although this library is fantastic, I do think that the extremely copyleft license could have implications on where we see this used.

New comment by jamesdepp in "The Wait Until 8th pledge"

jamesdepp — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:11:04 +0000

I could get behind this, but only if my kids had open access to the internet via some other device. Phones are addicting and can be harmful (esp to younger teens), but it is crucial that young people have access to the resources the web can offer. It opens up opportunities and allows teens to find support resources when their family/school isn’t enough (LGBTQ+ kids in states like Florida come to mind).

The biggest reason I have found success in my career field is because I had such a head start on those I went to college with. I got into software development in middle school, and was in frequent communication with other people building software (who were significantly older than me). Most parents probably would have shut this down. My parents let this activity continue, and it turned into my career. The relationships I built then and the lessons I learned have been invaluable. This experience was only possible because I had unrestricted access to the web. My kids, once they are mature enough to handle that responsibility, will enjoy those same freedoms.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password"

jamesdepp — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:32:44 +0000

Agreed. If mobile operating systems allow password managers to support Passkeys, and password managers implement the functionality, then I will absolutely switch.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password"

jamesdepp — Thu, 04 May 2023 17:12:51 +0000

For every platform/ecosystem you are using (Chrome, Apple iCloud), you had to create a new passkey. For people using multiple different devices and platforms, this is a headache. I want to sign up once and be done with it.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password"

jamesdepp — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:48:34 +0000

Until there is a viable way to sync passkeys between all devices, all platforms, and all browsers, I will be happily sticking to my passwords. The security benefits provided by passkeys are not enough to offset the ecosystem lock-in that passkeys cause.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Germany begins powering down its last three nuclear plants"

jamesdepp — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:08:19 +0000

Right? Nuclear power is some of the cleanest energy we have. With research developments, strong safety regulations, and a plan for storing the waste it produces, nuclear is a much better option than continuing to rely on fossil fuels.

What poor timing, too. With the war in Ukraine going on, now is not the time to be increasing your independence on fossil fuels, even if temporarily.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Polish Army Uses Matrix"

jamesdepp — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:58:20 +0000

I hope that Matrix will be for IM what email has become. The ability to control your own data and use a client of your choice is incredibly valuable. Surely, there are costs and labor associated with running a Matrix homeserver for your organization, but for organizations that can support it, this is truly becoming a viable alternative to Slack.

New comment by jamesdepp in "Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix"

jamesdepp — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:48:36 +0000

I feel like this is a major design flaw in the package managers being used. If people have to squat package names to mitigate the chances of a dependency confusion attack, then the package manager/package repository needs to find a better solution.

I think this is something GoLang does a great job at. To use a package, you have to specify the exact URL of the repo. This mitigates the risk of dependency confusion since an attacker would need control over the domain to upload a conflicting package.

New comment by jamesdepp in "AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search"

jamesdepp — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:31:15 +0000

Personally, I think that the beauty of current LLMs are their ability to process and present information. Although current generation LLMs might not be best suited to making new discoveries or producing new (valuable) information, their ability to summarize and process information already out in the open is undeniably valuable.

New comment by jamesdepp in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

jamesdepp — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 07:16:49 +0000

As someone that is still in undergrad but will be entering the labor market in a few years, this entire process makes me incredibly anxious to think about. Reading what some people go through to find decent jobs has been a huge stressor throughout my undergrad career. I was lucky enough to secure a good internship this summer (which took months of searching and getting ghosted). I’m not excited to run the rat race again once I graduate—that’s for sure!

GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions

jamesdepp — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 06:01:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/github-replacing-software-code-terms-master-slave-2020-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23536329

Points: 6

# Comments: 9