Hacker News: mharig

New comment by mharig in "How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi"

mharig — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:07:43 +0000

I found that today "bare metal" is used equivalent to "non-cloud". I think this is pathetic.

New comment by mharig in "We are teen hackers from around the world who code together"

mharig — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:02:08 +0000

There is art in science, too.

New comment by mharig in "Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?"

mharig — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:03:52 +0000

Do not forget mobility.

New comment by mharig in "Ex-Mossad Agents Reveal How They Turned Hezbollah's Devices into Bombs"

mharig — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:16:01 +0000

Nobody is mentioning the elephant in the room: for sure many of the pagers where brought aboard commercial flights. So Israel seems to have an explosive that cannot be detected by the airport security, or they can confine usual explosives in a way that makes it undetectable by the standard means.

New comment by mharig in "Using SQLite as storage for web server static content"

mharig — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:55:48 +0000

sqlite-rsync is on the road.

New comment by mharig in "MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program"

mharig — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:23:47 +0000

For the non-GUI guys there is visidata.

https://www.visidata.org/

New comment by mharig in "A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs"

mharig — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:46:32 +0000

Thanks a lot. I had a suspicion about bring shadowbanned, but couldn't prove it.

New comment by mharig in "A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs"

mharig — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:01:29 +0000

The new solid electrolyte batteries have around 450 Wh/kg, the old liquid electrolyte ones around 270 Wh/kg. Or less for LFP.

New comment by mharig in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

mharig — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:40:49 +0000

> Can’t we just store some data on disk and read / write from it when we need to? (Spoiler: no.)

I disagree. SQLite does a good job in uniting the 2 worlds: complex SQL queries with excellent data consistency and simple file(s). Although SQLite is for sure not the one size fits all solution.

New comment by mharig in "Omm ("on-my-mind") – A keyboard-driven task manager for the command line"

mharig — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:42:37 +0000

Hint: TODO lists are just stripped down Kanban boards.

Maybe someone will find e.g. clikan more useful.

New comment by mharig in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

mharig — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:13:36 +0000

> and the mix is always better.

Mixing races or cultures is like mixing many colours: at the beginning you get interesting patterns, then a boring uniform brown.

New comment by mharig in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

mharig — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:23:47 +0000

Continental Europeans have very bad experiences with British tourists. I really like Brits, but just if they stay on their Islands. And I am quite sure I get support from around a 100 Million dead guys from India.

Turks are a very big community (I guess more than 20 Million counting all generations) in Germany with a lot of not well adapted folk.

In my 2500 souls german home village live people from more than 40 nations. I never heard negative comments about them from one of the natives. But the shithole you live in of course may vary.

New comment by mharig in "Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?"

mharig — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:50:18 +0000

We Butter the Bread with Butter

New comment by mharig in "Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?"

mharig — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:07:33 +0000

Search for a partner who kicks you in the ass.

And if your memory problems do not have genetic or other physiological causes, do physical exercises and try diets. If a keto-like diet does not work, try a carbo rich one.

New comment by mharig in "Timezone-naive datetimes are one of the most dangerous objects in Python"

mharig — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:50:39 +0000

I do not like that Python does not allow tz-naive time to be interpreted as UTC, which does not need a timezone. So you have to waste space by using a tz-aware format or you have to add the TZ +00 manually in some way.

New comment by mharig in "ZeroMQ: High-Performance Concurrency Framework"

mharig — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:59:19 +0000

If an app needs a DB anyway, has ZeroMQ then advantages over a DB based MQ, like PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY or SQLite with update_hook?

Did anybody compare throughput/latency for these approaches? Edit: ... for the basic zmq patterns PUB/SUB, REQ/REP, Client/Server

New comment by mharig in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"

mharig — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:47:16 +0000

My 2 €cents from a limited and outdated experience with visual programming tools:

1. Screens have limited size and resolution, and the limits get hit rather fast. The problem can be pushed away by zooming, by maybe an order of magnitude, but for a long living project growing in size and complexity, it will not be enough.

2. In text, near everything is just a grep (fzf,...) away. With the power of regex, if needed. Do the no-code folks nowadays implement a equally powerful search functionality? I had very bad experience with this.

3. Debugging: although the limited possibilities of plugging graphical items together is like an enhanced strict type safety, I'm sure that errors somehow happen. How is the debugging implemented in the visual tools?

4. To store/restore the visual model, the tool developer needs to develop a binary/textual/SQL/... representation and unique source of truth for it. I think the step from that to a good textual DSL is smaller than to a GUI. And the user can more or less effortless use all the powerful tools already developed for shells, IDEs, editors, ....

So in my opinion most of the visual programming things are wasted time and wasted effort.

New comment by mharig in "Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?"

mharig — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:10:25 +0000

In my body, a Benzodiazepine cessation causes a drop of the blood pressure to around 70/30 for a few days. Kept me in bed.

New comment by mharig in "The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram"

mharig — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:01:03 +0000

Just talking about the types:

I found them more helpful than the Big Five. But there is definitively missing "Type 0: Ape: I follow".

And I do not think that a person fits just one type. They are more, like the Big Five, traits with a spectrum.

New comment by mharig in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

mharig — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:07:40 +0000

I made a CLI password manager with Python.

It uses PBKDF2HMAC and Fernet to encrypt a SQLite DB.