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New comment by jdpedrie in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

jdpedrie — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:21:47 +0000

> The government mandates that cars get safer every year and fatalities are down 78% from the 1960s. Whenever government regulates things to benefit people, people tend to benefit.

On some metrics. On affordability, new cars are considerably more expensive. Whether that's a worthwhile tradeoff is beside the point. The GP's point is that there's no free lunch, and your example doesn't address that.

New comment by jdpedrie in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

jdpedrie — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:25:57 +0000

They did not. The rep told me to return it and buy another. :/

New comment by jdpedrie in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

jdpedrie — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:14:53 +0000

Funny, I just bought one of these last week. Agree with the article. Mine came with storage and Debian preinstalled. If you buy one from Amazon, keep an eye on price. I bought, then the next day the price dropped $150. Ordered another one and returned the expensive order.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

jdpedrie — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:28:35 +0000

> I can probably bring up a hundred topics that our AIs in EU in US refuse to approach for the very same reason.

So do it.

New comment by jdpedrie in "How to think about durable execution"

jdpedrie — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:44:44 +0000

Those sort of flaky or non-deterministic steps are written as activities, not as part of the deterministic workflow. The orchestrator will retry the non-deterministic activity until it gets a usable output (expected error, success), and record the activity output. If the workflow replays (i.e. worker crash), that recorded output of the activity will be returned instead of executing the activity again.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Mullvad Leta"

jdpedrie — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:21:04 +0000

Brave has a subscription tier that offers storage rights. But it's ~9x the cost of their normal Pro subscription. I have a hard time imagining that the cost works out in their favor (discounting the possibility of a special arrangement) with how long the query stream tail is in web search.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Libro: a command-line tool to track your books"

jdpedrie — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:58:36 +0000

Try a short story collection. Ten page chunks are easy to consume and you get to tell yourself you’re reading literature. It’s a good way to get back into reading on paper if you’ve been away and want to start small.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp"

jdpedrie — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:45:42 +0000

What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Plunk: The open source email platform"

jdpedrie — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:27:44 +0000

Because if you send marketing emails through SMTP, your delivery rate will be approximately 0.00%, or if you're leveraging a third party SMTP, they will ban you.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Welcome to Ladybird"

jdpedrie — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:23:43 +0000

"No 'default search deals'" doesn't sound like projecting, it sounds like a direct shot.

New comment by jdpedrie in "De-googling, so far"

jdpedrie — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:00:50 +0000

Fastmail lets you use custom domains for email and offers DNS and simple hosting.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280141-Ho...

Not affiliated, just a longtime customer and fastmail enjoyer.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?"

jdpedrie — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:56:07 +0000

Sounds to me like what you meant to say is that your criteria for determining whether someone's profession is "serious" is whether they use metric or not.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?"

jdpedrie — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:59:40 +0000

Every carpenter I’ve met uses sixteenths of an inch, and every metal worker uses thousandths.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

jdpedrie — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:23:13 +0000

Is there a list anywhere of trustworthy sites for product reviews? The article mentioned Tech Gear Lab, and though I haven't heard of House Fresh, that seems reasonable? Consumer Reports of course, but are there others?

New comment by jdpedrie in "My PHP Problems"

jdpedrie — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:58:34 +0000

On the other hand, vanilla PHP effectively "hides" HTTP from the programmer. I taught myself PHP in middle school and high school as my first programming experience, and had no concept of a thing called "HTTP" for a very very long time. I knew the pieces of it that PHP gave me. I knew what $_POST, $_GET, $_SERVER, $_HEADER, set/getcookie(), were and how to manipulate them, and I knew the rules (setting a header after "echo" made it complain), but I didn't understand how that all hung together as a thing outside PHP called HTTP.

When I did learn about HTTP, it was very easy, since I already knew it without knowing I knew it, so maybe that's in favor of your point, but there's much to be said for the actual understanding that I didn't have at first. When I started interviewing people for PHP entry-level jobs, asking about HTTP was one of the ways I gauged how well applicants understood their work at a conceptual level.

New comment by jdpedrie in "ClickHouse Materialized Views for Fast Aggregation and Queries"

jdpedrie — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:28:52 +0000

Shown in the article but not called out specifically, I recommend avoiding implicit tables entirely when using clickhouse materialized views. We use clickhouse for similar purposes, and there are several cases where views are listening to tables populated by another view. So [table] "events" -> [view] "mv_events_to_view1" -> [table] "view1" -> [view] "mv_view1_to_view2" -> [table] "view2". If you use implicit tables, the 2nd view will never receive data.

This document provides a ton of great information if you're doing anything with materialized views in clickhouse: https://den-crane.github.io/Everything_you_should_know_about...

New comment by jdpedrie in "Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather"

jdpedrie — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:24:56 +0000

The differences are a) you don't lose notable range in cold weather (and your car continues to reliably tell you your remaining range), and b) there's always another gas station a block down.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Why decades of progress in cars' fuel efficiency is ending"

jdpedrie — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:43:31 +0000

Surely another reason is that automakers have shifted R&D investment from ICE to EV drive trains?

New comment by jdpedrie in "Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024"

jdpedrie — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:41:31 +0000

> Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/

Wow, the fake notifications on the landing page are really something lol.

New comment by jdpedrie in "Welcome to the ad-free internet"

jdpedrie — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:24:35 +0000

I'm interested in running Invidious on my NAS. The docs make it seem relatively resource-intensive. Any experience with that?