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New comment by martinp in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

martinp — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:19:52 +0000

I put my personal site behind Cloudflare last year specifically to combat AI bots. It's very effective, but I hate that the web has devolved to a state where using a service like Cloudflare is practically no longer optional.

New comment by martinp in "Refined Hacker News"

martinp — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:49:34 +0000

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader is great for this. Adds dark mode to any site.

New comment by martinp in "Debian 11"

martinp — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 16:55:23 +0000

OpenJDK 17 is in Debian 11 as well [0]. A decision was made to include it before its official release since the release is so close (September). An updated package will be available when it's released.

From the release notes [1]:

Debian bullseye comes with an early access version of OpenJDK 17 (the next expected OpenJDK LTS version after OpenJDK 11), to avoid the rather tedious bootstrap process. The plan is for OpenJDK 17 to receive an update in bullseye to the final upstream release announced for October 2021, followed by security updates on a best effort basis, but users should not expect to see updates for every quarterly upstream security update.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/openjdk-17

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...

New comment by martinp in "Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000)"

martinp — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:06:21 +0000

Records were introduced in Java 14 [1]. An immutable DTO, with minimal boilerplate, that still behaves a class. Example:

record Point(int x, int y) {}

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java

New comment by martinp in "Emacs 27.1"

martinp — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:56:08 +0000

There are multiple LSP clients though, there's lsp-mode [1] and eglot [2].

After trying out both, I prefer Eglot, mainly because I find it faster and less intrusive than lsp-mode. It also composes better with built-in packages, such as flymake . I use gopls and pyls as language servers.

1. https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode

2. https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot

New comment by martinp in "Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems"

martinp — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:22:35 +0000

Syncthing is a great piece of software. I configured it on three of my machines in March and I've had zero issues since. In fact, it has worked so well that I don't even think about it.

One of the machines even runs an old version found in Debian stable repos, but there has been no issues syncing with machines running newer versions.

Only downside for me is that there's no iOS client.

Introducing TensorFlow support in Vespa

martinp — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:49:40 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.vespa.ai/post/171861434281/introducing-tensorflow-support

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584032

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by martinp in "Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara"

martinp — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:43:56 +0000

Norwegian here. 20 days a year is the legal minimum, while 25 days is the norm. I get 30 days a year while working for an American company, which is a bit ironic.

New comment by martinp in "macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”"

martinp — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:51:47 +0000

Not surprised by these bugs any more.

The sheer amount of bugs in High Sierra is ridiculous, with the exception of the root password bug, I've personally experienced the following bugs with my Thunderbolt display:

* In 10.13 or 10.13.1 the built-in web camera was broken. The video would freeze after a few seconds when attempting to use the camera in FaceTime. This was fixed in 10.13.2.

* In 10.13.2 USB audio devices connected to the TB display no longer work properly. After playing audio through the device (USB DAC in my case) for 30-60 seconds, some sort of interference/electrical noise appears for 5-10 seconds every minute or so. I assume this has something to with "Improves compatibility with certain third-party USB audio devices." from the 10.13.2 release notes.

New comment by martinp in "macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password"

martinp — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:24:22 +0000

This support article explains how to disable the root user: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012

New comment by martinp in "Apple losing its supply chain mojo is a major threat"

martinp — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:32:50 +0000

And this is likely the reason for the reportedly low sales of the 8. I was surprised when they announced both at the fall event as it seemed obvious the X would cannibalize sales of the 8.

The iPhone is already a expensive premium phone, why bother with incremental changes of the 8 when the cool and shiny X is right around the corner.

It's also strange to me how they offer two new phones with different feature sets. Usually when Apple introduces a new device with a controversial change (e.g. USB-C only on the 2016 MacBook Pro), they don't offer a updated device without that change. It can be perceived as a lack of faith in the new product.

New comment by martinp in "Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine"

martinp — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:26:16 +0000

Outside of general purpose libraries that are found in most software projects it's not based on any existing software. It's built from the ground up by Oath, and the companies that preceded it: Yahoo, FAST, Overture since early-mid 2000s.

This article has some more details about the history: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/26/yahoo-open-sources-vespa-for...

Disclamer: I work on the Vespa team in Trondheim, Norway.

New comment by martinp in "Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine"

martinp — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:54:05 +0000

The serving and admin/config layers are Java, while the content cluster is C++. Please see the architecture diagram on http://vespa.ai/.

New comment by martinp in "Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine"

martinp — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:39:56 +0000

Maybe this can be merged with the discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339851

Open Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Big Data Processing and Serving Engine

martinp — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:02:03 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.vespa.ai/post/165763618906/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoos-big-data-processing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339851

Points: 66

# Comments: 5

New comment by martinp in "Java for beginners"

martinp — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:30:51 +0000

Bad example. You can do this in Java 8: java.nio.file.Files.readAllLines(path) which returns List.

New comment by martinp in "Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures"

martinp — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:50:03 +0000

Uber remains illegal in Norway as all taxi drivers need a permit granted by the government. The subject is under heavy debate though.

New comment by martinp in "They Used To Last 50 Years"

martinp — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:12:19 +0000

Another anecdote: My sister took over my apartment late 2014. Some time in 2015, the dishwasher (Miele) stopped working. She called support to see if it could be repaired. When she provided them with the serial number she was told that the dishwasher was in fact manufactured in 1994.

It had lasted through 21 years of regular use, by multiple owners.

New comment by martinp in "Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List"

martinp — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:17:05 +0000

Pretty much the same ones are missing on Norwegian Netflix as well.

New comment by martinp in "MacOS Sierra"

martinp — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:17:02 +0000

Ars Technica has written a detailed review [0], there's some things on the networking side related to IPv6 and ECN, but that's pretty much it. APFS preview is interesting, but not really stable/usable yet from what I understand.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-...