Hacker News: rodlette

New comment by rodlette in "GitHub is preparing for IPv6 support for Github.com"

rodlette — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:52:05 +0000

> The change had the unintended consequence of causing IPv4 addresses to start being passed as an IPv4-mapped IPv6-compatible address to our IP Allow List functionality.

Sounds like this bug: "Unable to reliably distinguish IPv4-mapped-IPv6 addresses from regular IPv4 addresses" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37921 .

Use https://pkg.go.dev/net/netip instead.

New comment by rodlette in "eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees"

rodlette — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:39:46 +0000

Disclaimer: I've worked in SRE.

My position is that early SRE solved the hard parts, before I was involved. Services and platforms became reliable. The field is mature. SREs still point to risks, but execs have called their bluff.

The takeaway is to make sure you are actually creating value. Maybe Twitter's SREs were not actually improving reliability much.

New comment by rodlette in "eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees"

rodlette — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:48:09 +0000

A fair conclusion.

SREs predicated Twitter would crumble when Twitter's SRE team was laid off. It had some hiccups, but seems stable now.

I suppose the next line of defence is that it takes a while for architecture to crumble.

Time will tell whether that's accurate, or a No True Scotsman.

New comment by rodlette in "Turing Complete is a game about computer science"

rodlette — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:49:19 +0000

There's a time and space for games, but I'll just note that for HN readers, following https://www.amazon.com.au/Digital-Design-Computer-Architectu... and building a RISC-V in Verilog is easily manageable.

New comment by rodlette in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

rodlette — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:29:45 +0000

I'll look into it. I think I acquired frugality from reading a few books that made me frugal.

I'd like other traits too.

New comment by rodlette in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

rodlette — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:28:31 +0000

Those are easy to see, but there are few people who clean their dishes for fun/leisure.

New comment by rodlette in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

rodlette — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:10:08 +0000

> This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”

Is this just basically willpower?

Or perhaps I should read the book to find out.

New comment by rodlette in "Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?"

rodlette — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:28:27 +0000

I find F-Droid is a good source for ad-free apps:

Solitaire: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Solitaire&lang=en

New comment by rodlette in "UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions"

rodlette — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:32:49 +0000

> And in relation to emissions in particular, just look at the way the present government fought [...]. That was in August 2023, and a leopard doesn't change its spots.

The article and topic aren't overtly political, no need to make it.

New comment by rodlette in "UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions"

rodlette — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:08:18 +0000

https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html calls this level of critique "DH1. Ad Hominem.".

> Of course he would say that. He's a senator.

> Of course [they] would say that. [They're Tory leaning].

New comment by rodlette in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

rodlette — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:04:42 +0000

Looks great, but my partner needs something more convenient.

It needs to be web based and work on desktop/mobile.

New comment by rodlette in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

rodlette — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:22:06 +0000

Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites.

Any better alternatives I should be considering?

New comment by rodlette in "Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the SciFi They Grew Up on Real"

rodlette — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:37:04 +0000

The meat of the article:

> the billionaires behind the steering wheel have mistaken cautionary tales and entertainments for a road map, and we’re trapped in the passenger seat. Let’s hope there isn’t a cliff in front of us.

I think the (well esteemed) author is overestimating the marginal impact of science fiction, and has mistaken correlation for causation.

Humans expanding their habitats is just plain old humanity doing its thing.

New comment by rodlette in "Evaluating new software forges"

rodlette — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:21:36 +0000

+1. I moved from Sourcehut when it announced IRS change of TOS. I realised I would prefer to support less discriminatory forges.

I also have no interest in crytocurrency.

New comment by rodlette in "High Scalability is up for sale"

rodlette — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:15:39 +0000

> Obviously, for that last several years, things have been quiet around here. This has always been a one programmer show, and for everything, there is a season. The season for me is changing.

2000s: web scalability was an emerging field.

2010s: web scalability was a maturing field.

Scalability feels mature now. Maybe we'll see shifts: CRDTs, global SQL DBs?

Growth/investment seems to be in AI.

New comment by rodlette in "Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3"

rodlette — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:48:20 +0000

I've not yet been interested in anything VR, but glad to see there's innovation and cheap entry points.

New comment by rodlette in "NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech"

rodlette — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:42:01 +0000

I know nothing about rockets but bits of project management: it's common to break down projects into smaller parts and derisk designs/implementations by testing each piece.

The refueling team might be ready to test, even though the "don't explode" team are still working on it.

New comment by rodlette in "Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo"

rodlette — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:49:59 +0000

vundo is a simpler implementation: it reuses Emacs's built-in undo/redo and just implements the tree visualisation part.

undo-tree is a reimplementation of Emacs's undo/redo, that supports a tree visualization.

* undo-tree LOC: 4700. https://gitlab.com/tsc25/undo-tree/-/blob/master/undo-tree.e...

* vundo LOC: 1350. https://github.com/casouri/vundo/blob/master/vundo.el

New comment by rodlette in "Firefox Keeps Getting Faster"

rodlette — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:36:36 +0000

Good to see the benefits of telemetry, which the FOSS is typically skeptical of: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10/down-and-to-the-right-fire... .

I'll make sure FF telemetry is enabled for me. I typically disable them because I don't trust vendors to not include something I consider sensitive.

New comment by rodlette in "A Schism in the OpenPGP World"

rodlette — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:48:01 +0000

> also a devastating weakness of the system for its most important intended application (exchanging messages between humans). PGP's key management system is literally the last thing you want in a messaging system.

Strong words, but why?