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New comment by jlogsdon in "A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)"

jlogsdon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:06:13 +0000

Yes

New comment by jlogsdon in "BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users"

jlogsdon — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:26:13 +0000

Important to note that AWS doesn’t control spot prices: it’s a market where you bid on what you’re willing to pay. Customers control the cost through their bids.

edit; and prices tend to surge at end of quarter, regardless of provider. I’ve seen that for years at AWS and it’s only increased year over year.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Volta"

jlogsdon — Mon, 03 May 2021 12:39:07 +0000

asdf is a pluggable version manager for many languages and tools, not just one language.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Factorio 1.1 is getting close"

jlogsdon — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:27:05 +0000

Resource patches get richer the further you go out always in vanilla, not just rail world. Richness is a function of distance from your spawn point.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology"

jlogsdon — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:11:02 +0000

It's even on their official sites demo video! As shared in another comment https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

New comment by jlogsdon in "Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology"

jlogsdon — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:09:07 +0000

There are plenty of video interviews where Musk himself shows using auto pilot with his hands off the wheel.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Show HN: A Let's Encrypt Certificates Manager for Kubernetes"

jlogsdon — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:10:57 +0000

What's the benefit of this over using cert-manager?

New comment by jlogsdon in "VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits"

jlogsdon — Sat, 25 May 2019 04:56:28 +0000

I am using a free tier instance in GCP and using tinc to accomplish exactly this. It's not "click and play" but setting it up is simple. If I ever outgrow the f1-micro its easy enough to add another node with a public IP.

It has the added benefit of being a full-on VPN, though I don't generally use it for regular internet browsing.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Node.js Logging Made Right"

jlogsdon — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:52:12 +0000

Specifically in the area of high CPU load tasks. NodeJS is perfectly fine for heavily async tasks, especially calling out to external services. When you have CPU intensive tasks the lack of control over the event loop (task list) can be painful.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Node.js Logging Made Right"

jlogsdon — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:05:32 +0000

It's not 100x as stated by the OP, but I wouldn't use it (async_hooks) in situations where performance is actually a concern. I wouldn't use node there either, but that's besides the point.

async_hooks are 100% usable in production right now, we use it at my current gig for tracing and its had minimal impact on the services using it.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks"

jlogsdon — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:38:50 +0000

From their Privacy Policy (https://www.gurn.io/privacy-policy/):

  4. We may collect the following Data, which includes personal Data, from you:
    ....
    l. A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on the Website,
       and the site you exit to (automatically collected);

New comment by jlogsdon in "Show HN: JinjaSQL – Generate SQL Queries using a Jinja Template"

jlogsdon — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:45:24 +0000

This library doesn't run SQL, its only a template engine that gives you back a parameterized query and parameter array back. It's up to you to actually use them with an adapter, which means you can use prepared statements.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Node v4.0.0"

jlogsdon — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:09:48 +0000

IndexedDB is standardized for IndexedDB, which is not at all designed for use on a backend.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Tighter Control Over Your Referrers"

jlogsdon — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:24:00 +0000

Not only that, it doesn't break anything at all. Referer is a completely optional header, and all this does is introduce a tag for controlling that. I hope more browsers pick this up soon!

And also let me enforce my own setting.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Some simple steps to scale a Ruby app"

jlogsdon — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:17:54 +0000

WebRick is only meant for development mode, not production.

Another choice (which we use) is Unicorn[1], though I have become a huge fan of Puma lately.

[1] http://unicorn.bogomips.org/

New comment by jlogsdon in "Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event"

jlogsdon — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:05:46 +0000

Now I hear live translation along side the speaker. Awesome.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Show HN: Virtual File System in PHP"

jlogsdon — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:59:25 +0000

You can use PHP built-in functions. Check out the readme. The API is shown alongside using functions like file_put_contents and require.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet"

jlogsdon — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:52:47 +0000

It's all possible with HTTP statuses according to a link[1] posted above.

[1] https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...

New comment by jlogsdon in "Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains"

jlogsdon — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:06:32 +0000

Thanks, what I searched for didn't really bring anything up.

New comment by jlogsdon in "Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains"

jlogsdon — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:53:57 +0000

> unlike, say, CloudFlare

Care to elaborate?