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New comment by plasticsoprano in "Sublime Text Build 4213"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:38:12 +0000

Curiosity is killing my cat here. How are we supposed to know when your freshman year of college was? Was it a year ago, 8?

New comment by plasticsoprano in "State of the Map 2026"

plasticsoprano — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:45:24 +0000

Well, when you visit it https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/23.765/-87.100 there's no naming of that area at all. At least when looked at from a US IP. And when you search "Gulf of America" it returns "Gulf of Mexico". So take from that what you will.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

plasticsoprano — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:05:33 +0000

Had a problem this week helping a customer troubleshoot some SAML interactions. They couldn't install SAML Tracer in their environment and I got tired of digging through HAR files and manually decoding SAML assertions and the like so I made https://hartosaml.com/.

Just drop in your HAR file and get immediate insights into the SAML related events.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:01:30 +0000

Hey, you did more validation than the guy I was responding to! Kudos.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:46:50 +0000

Sure. I bet the Military Times also used the IRCG as a source. https://www.militarytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/08/04/...

Probably Reuters too https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-...

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Claude Sonnet 5"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:07:26 +0000

Which quant do you use? I have a similar setup and the speed is atrocious at 4-bit.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Notes on DeepSeek"

plasticsoprano — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:17:53 +0000

"Success leaves clues"

You gotta start somewhere and you can start at page 1 or page 10 and that time, energy and cost you saved starting 9 pages later can be put into making whatever it is you're building better than the original.

The US, and every other country, is full of derivatives or straight up copies. No one is getting super mad at the generic cheerios at the grocery store. It's hypocrisy.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:26:31 +0000

E2E is supported for specific types of folders available only to teams but the admin has to enable it and that folder has to be used. You can't apply it team wide to all users. It's a very poor implementation.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:48:39 +0000

You'll probably make a profit by selling them today. I bought a M1 Max Studio with 64 GB last year off FB Marketplace for $1000 and today I'm seeing numerous 32 GB M1 Maxes for $1200-1500.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:18:31 +0000

So why not license the shape then? They could do a royalty with those deemed of quality and deny a license to those that are of lower quality and then sue them if they don't use the design. This would allow them to manage quality with lower reputational harm.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

plasticsoprano — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40:41 +0000

Remember, most fire stations will give you a tour, let you sit in the truck, etc, if you just pop in. They love to show off.

Source: My father was a 35 year veteran of the fire department in a large city.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Chuck Norris has died"

plasticsoprano — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:55:52 +0000

Except is was said by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall upon Theodore Roosevelt’s death and co-opted as a Chuck Norris joke.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Clockwise acquired by Salesforce"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:20:13 +0000

speaking of, Dropbox bought a similar product a couple of years ago https://reclaim.ai/

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

plasticsoprano — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:09:28 +0000

I tried this out about 2 months ago when setting up a new server. I wanted something simpler and less resource heavy as webmin but it was just too simple. Adding questionable, half baked add-ons to get various functions to work just didn't give me the flexibility of webmin.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:12:10 +0000

no account needed -> https://www.threads.com/@qa_test_hq/post/DUkC_zjiGQh/media

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:25:28 +0000

I have made a dedicated api application and I have adjusted the tps flags. I’ve scanned the forums a few times but I’ve yet to inquire there.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:24:17 +0000

Interesting. I’ve been through 4 large transfers to Dropbox in the last 3 years and never once has it honored that header.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:16:06 +0000

This has been my problem. Not necessarily that the rate limits are low, many can be gotten around by using multiple users to do the work since the limits are per user, but how rclone handles those rate limits when they hit them. The exponential back off will end up making hours and days long delays that will screw a migration.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

plasticsoprano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:01:26 +0000

How do you deal with how poorly rclone handles rate limits? It doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header and just adds an exponential back off that, in my migrations, has resulted in a pause of days.

I've adjusted threads and the various other controls rclone offers but I still feel like I'm not see it's true potential because the second it hits a rate limit I can all but guarantee that job will have to be restarted with new settings.

New comment by plasticsoprano in "Tell HN: iCloud with Advanced Data Protection doesn't delete your files"

plasticsoprano — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:20:52 +0000

I mean, you didn’t give it enough time. All of these cloud storage platforms are databases at their core. When you delete the file you’re updating the database entry, the data (and the record of it) is still there until their purge process runs, which could be days or weeks.

If it’s still there at a month I’d be surprised and be checking terms of service to see what they commit to.