Hacker News: neilpa

New comment by neilpa in "Zod 4"

neilpa — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:39:32 +0000

We're currently evaluating both Zod and ArkType as a replacement for earlier JSON schema validations. The thing I can't get over with Zod is the syntax is _so_ different from defining TS types.

Are there reasons to go with Zod over ArkType?

New comment by neilpa in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

neilpa — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:15:13 +0000

This was the de-facto practice for courses at U of M and I loved it. Although it appears they may have ended that practice in 2018

https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-updating-start-...

New comment by neilpa in "SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale"

neilpa — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:31:09 +0000

Randomly noticed your post is dated in the future - December 16, 2025

New comment by neilpa in "TextAnalysisTool.NET"

neilpa — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:13:26 +0000

This looks like the app I wanted ages ago when I tried to find a TextAnalysisTool.net replacement for OSX.

https://superuser.com/questions/706761/textanalysistool-net-...

New comment by neilpa in "The original birders gave photography a run for its money"

neilpa — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:22:43 +0000

Not for much longer

https://americanornithology.org/american-ornithological-soci...

New comment by neilpa in "India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android"

neilpa — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:02:07 +0000

> We wouldn't want to ban Sony MP3 players from including an app that plays music, right?

Maybe? There was that time Sony decided to install a rootkit when you played a CD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

New comment by neilpa in "Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions"

neilpa — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:57:45 +0000

I have a literal pile of bricks in my backyard. I thought this was going to be an app that I could scan them with and tell me how to build a pizza oven.

New comment by neilpa in "Critical SIP Bypass Vulnerabilities in macOS PackageKit.framework"

neilpa — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:42:55 +0000

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

New comment by neilpa in "uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results"

neilpa — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:45:33 +0000

My w3schools workaround is appending `mdn` to any search for something related to web standards

New comment by neilpa in "Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light"

neilpa — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:12:12 +0000

I’m assuming PGA is Programmable Gain Amplifier? It wasn’t immediately obvious from a web search.

New comment by neilpa in "I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data"

neilpa — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:03:02 +0000

Unfortunately development has stalled out

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/README.md#sta...

> Nobody is working on this right now. You shouldn't rely on it unless you're willing to take over development yourself.

New comment by neilpa in "Nippon Colors"

neilpa — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:36:23 +0000

They cite what looks like this book in the footer

https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Colors-Japan-Japanese/dp/...

Although it references a 2007 edition.

New comment by neilpa in "Setting up Git identities"

neilpa — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:33:48 +0000

You can extend this trick further by specifying the User in your SSH config to make for even shorter URLs.

  Host gh-me
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

  Host gh-work
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work

Then all you need is a `git clone gh-me:org/repo` or `git clone gh-work:work/repo`. I've been using this for sometime and it's not too hard to remember. Although when I don't it's easy enough to fix the origin url by editing `.git/config`.

New comment by neilpa in "Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot"

neilpa — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:13:13 +0000

Does anyone have a link to the actual NTSB documents linked in the article?

> https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20200211.as...

Looks like the ntsb.gov site is currently down and they haven't been indexed on archive.org yet.