Hacker News: jturpin

New comment by jturpin in "Raspberry Pi update removes the default user"

jturpin — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 04:34:44 +0000

This is what I do to bootstrap my Raspberry Pi's and its great.

New comment by jturpin in "Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative"

jturpin — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:58:02 +0000

Loki's fine if you are very cost sensitive and are comfortable with Prometheus, but it's not really a replacement for a text-search database like Elasticsearch. It also scales about the same, both being horizontally scalable (I'm not sure what Loki's sharding strategy is). Our ELK stack runs on 3 2cpu/8gb ram nodes totaling about $160 a month and can handle 50+ million of records or so (I haven't ran it to its absolute limit). This is a comfortable price to performance ratio for us and I imagine many other companies.

New comment by jturpin in "Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative"

jturpin — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:38:34 +0000

Elasticsearch has built in horizontal scaling abilities, unlike Postgres/other SQL databases. It also has integrations with cloud providers for peer discovery, or can use DNS. Once a new data node is detected and reachable, the masters will start sending it shards of data, distributing the load. This all happens without any user intervention. I can't really speak to cost, it is somewhat easy to blow up the memory usage in Elastic for sure, but I can't say its been more expensive than similarly sized Postgres clusters.

New comment by jturpin in "Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative"

jturpin — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:43:10 +0000

Elasticsearch is not a pain in the ass to scale, it is one of the easiest databases to scale. Kafka is medium, since they ditched Zookeeper.

New comment by jturpin in "Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market"

jturpin — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:49:29 +0000

Agreed, though solar tech has gotten a lot better and cheaper in the last 20 years, so it's not completely fair to compare. Power storage is still an issue, but this is getting better and better each year with the prices of lithium iron phosphate batteries coming way down.

New comment by jturpin in "Why is LinkedIn so cringe?"

jturpin — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 06:38:07 +0000

Exactly, everything needs to be written like friggin dramatic poetry.

New comment by jturpin in "Pay attention to WebAssembly"

jturpin — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:55:16 +0000

> I'm a bit irate with the usual flow of discussions about WebAssembly here on HN that take this claim for granted and regurgitate it incessantly.

It is still more honest to regurgitate the claim that Wasm is faster than JS than to try and argue that "JS is about 10x faster than wasm in simple linear regression."

New comment by jturpin in "Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, written in Rust and GTK4"

jturpin — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:57:48 +0000

The article doesn't give any statement from her about the use of her photos in computer science, is there another quote somewhere?

New comment by jturpin in "GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”"

jturpin — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:53:16 +0000

"Fortunately I accept 'interesting trades' as payment, wink wink!'

New comment by jturpin in "Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation"

jturpin — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:59:11 +0000

Yeah this is a turnoff for me. I get that I could compile it myself but since the authors clearly don't want that, I'd rather just put my money into tools I know will work.

New comment by jturpin in "Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful"

jturpin — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:03:23 +0000

Diet sodas to me taste awful, but lately I've been putting a single packet of Equal in my coffee with some vanilla and it tastes great. Lord knows I can cut out the sugar wherever possible.

New comment by jturpin in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

jturpin — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:34:40 +0000

I love Rust the language, and the community is generally good, but for whatever reason modern identity politics has always been looming around its key members. Maybe just because it spun out of Mozilla and the Brendan Eich debacle, who knows.

New comment by jturpin in "YouTube takes down independent court livestreams"

jturpin — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 22:03:31 +0000

Yeah it occurred to me that I glance down to see the likes and dislikes to see how credible some of the how-to videos I watch are. A lot of them are garbage or dangerous and that's reflected in the dislike count. Fortunately you can scrub through maybe the top 30 comments to see if there's anything off.

New comment by jturpin in "Restic – Backups Done Right"

jturpin — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:55:59 +0000

Restic is great, I use it to back up my Nextcloud data from my raspberry pi to two locations, a separate USB drive and a remote DigitalOcean space. Very easy to use and all encrypted. I wrote a blog post about it actually! https://compileandrun.com/2021-01-31-nextcloud-traefik-resti...

New comment by jturpin in "Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)"

jturpin — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 04:50:49 +0000

I think they are some weird line wrapping hint characters? If I paste it into Pop OS's text editor I can only see the dashes if I shrink the editor to cause word wrapping, and it will insert the dashes at the wrap. It seems like some UTF magic that I hate!

New comment by jturpin in "Willingness to look stupid"

jturpin — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:29:17 +0000

The fear of looking stupid cripples me in just about everything I do. Work, both professionally and personal projects, competitive videogames, even playing piano or guitar. Maybe I can take a hint from this post and embrace it rather than avoiding it.

I think this post might be triggering a lot of people who feel it might be criticizing them. It takes a lot of emotional energy to _look_ stupid in front of people, in ways that I would guess most people here (including myself) don't.

New comment by jturpin in "Web Browser Engineering"

jturpin — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:17:06 +0000

This is awesome. I've always wanted to know how the actual layout portion works (or at least, can work in a simple way). I think these kinds of resources are really valuable and people should be empowered to make bespoke-ish web renderers as the need arises.

New comment by jturpin in "China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization"

jturpin — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:56:42 +0000

Hollywood is highly critical of the USA. Pretty much every sentiment in a post 90's war movie is "The US also did some bad stuff that we should feel ashamed about."

New comment by jturpin in "Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag"

jturpin — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:18:06 +0000

I have just recently done the same thing, Pop OS with Steam, on my gaming PC. It works perfectly so far and I'm so thrilled - CS Go, Planet Coaster, and most recently Gas Station Simulator have been playing great for me. It gives me a lot of hope that the Steam deck is going to be a real game changer.

New comment by jturpin in "Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech"

jturpin — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:10:23 +0000

That's fair, I'll have to think about that.