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New comment by newaccoutnas in "Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output"

newaccoutnas — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:06:43 +0000

There's also json_build_object for building a JSON object and then you can use json_agg inside that.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs"

newaccoutnas — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:04:52 +0000

Especially if you're paying for one of the better services, like Andrews and Arnold etc. They have caps listed on their broadband pages. There have been regular stories where customers have been sent letters about their bandwidth usage even though they're on 'unlimited' plans. The ISPs generally refer to clauses in ToS, which (imho) doesn't mean anything can be 'unlimited'.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs"

newaccoutnas — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:36:20 +0000

A couple of petabytes in a month? A 1Gbit connection does about 75 Terabytes a week so unless you have a truly exceptional connection, that seems excessive

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:49:42 +0000

With respect, if nobody finds the issues in the upstream dependencies and works to make them compatible with Python 3, they won't be supported. That would be a shame for this project and others that use the same upstreams.

I'd have hard time finding support for some Ruby 1.8 upstream dependencies for recent projects, so I don't agree with you.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:33:46 +0000

Nail on the head

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:33:10 +0000

Yes, of course, but it became quite difficult to track when there was fire fighting across several fires

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:31:35 +0000

This is great. I notice it's Python 2, could this be ported to Python 3 easily or some inherent issue in upstream deps?

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:11:43 +0000

I worked (briefly) at a place that requested updates in 15 min intervals... on a spreadsheet. No thanks!

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:52:18 +0000

Agreed, it's morphed into something a lot more evil than stopping bots. The amount of heuristics it now collects in v3 is quite something. Check for your score yourself https://recaptcha-demo.appspot.com/recaptcha-v3-request-scor...

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:01:47 +0000

Sure but getting on the electoral register (to my knowledge) requires no ID either. I think this is a big part as to why postal voting fraud happens.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:00:23 +0000

PINS for the ATM are but my online banking has a number more

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem"

newaccoutnas — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:36:26 +0000

We don't need ID in the UK, just turn up.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:54:33 +0000

I take your point but you can't also discount the air quality in cities being quite a big factor as to becoming less dependent on cars. LEV's (Low Emission Vehicles) are taxed less, for example (although the infrastructure is still lacking, perhaps CAV's (Connected Autonomous Vehicles) may one day solve that as parking could be placed further away and there may be more of a 'sharing' system in place, such that you don't really own a car, just dial one up like an Uber)

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:45:49 +0000

I'm not sure that's the case, otherwise why would community driven projects like https://b4rn.org.uk/ exist if BT was serving low-value customers properly? In reality they're the company that doesn't see the value in investment there, completely counter to what the pubic purse was supposed to be supporting.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:18:59 +0000

REPL != Syslog TCP. They're different things. It's not TCP that was the issue but the implementation of syslog on top.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:30:07 +0000

Don't know where you grew up but for some this will have definitely increased the temperature over the years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:45:02 +0000

There's RELP[1] but if you can don't use syslog's protocol. You could use something like the beat protocol (if using ELK stack) or just a plain old message queue. Things like logstash (and fluentd etc) can have multiple input/output targets.

You'd have something like filebeat or fluentd reading the logs locally and then shipping via that protocol to a central system where they'd be ingested. For application logging, definitely use structured data (like JSON, for example) over log-lines. It's easier to parse in the long-run.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Event_Logging_Protoco...

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:51:18 +0000

Interesting TCP is recommended with pain old Syslog. I've seen that take out systems due to not being able to dequeue. There are better protocols that you can use for reliable delivery

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:48:39 +0000

I would not discount government 'incentives' to BT. Hundreds of millions have come the public purse for contracts that were supposedly put up for public tender. BT got about 95% of them.

edit: there are other issues in the UK, like fibre tax, that makes the situation even more difficult for competition.

New comment by newaccoutnas in "Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices"

newaccoutnas — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:31:49 +0000

Isn't that just Service Discovery? https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv...