Hacker News: scurvy

New comment by scurvy in "Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes"

scurvy — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:44:35 +0000

Anyone know of something like the ratgdo, but for motorized swing gates (like DoorKing)? I'd love to check the status as well as actuate open/close, but some of the "upgrade" quotes I've seen are $5k USD. It seems like I should be able to get this thing integrated with either WiFi or Z-wave...

New comment by scurvy in "Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses"

scurvy — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:58:41 +0000

RIPE Atlas is an amazing project. I remember getting 3 probes at a NANOG and telling my coworkers about it. They couldn't believe that it was a free project, and that I didn't have to pay anything for the probes. Great stuff from RIPE, for free! (Anchors cost dough but probes were free)

New comment by scurvy in "Make enterprise features open source"

scurvy — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:39:32 +0000

I've yet to make it out of the lab. The failover solutions seem to be A-B rather than A-B-DR. That is, you can have a primary and a replica (probably in the same DC/AZ), but you can't do a primary, a replica, and another replica in another datacenter that can function on its own (in a DR capacity).

Citus uses physical replication for worker and coordinator nodes, and things start getting complicated when you're trying to monitor the status of all the replicas. With vanilla PostgreSQL, you don't have this issue. I'm guessing that they solve this in Azure with block-device primitives at the storage level or something along those lines? It's probably not insurmountable to do it yourself, but we're not yet at the grip-n-rip enterprise offering.

New comment by scurvy in "IPv4 Waiting List"

scurvy — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:53:35 +0000

Depending on OS, you might need to actually put the interface name in there? As you can have fe80::1 on multiple interfaces...it being link-local. Maybe browsers are holding it back?

New comment by scurvy in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

scurvy — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:39:02 +0000

Backup on site and store tertiary copies in a cloud. Storing all backups in AWS wouldn't meet a lot of compliance requirements. Even multiple AZs in AWS would not pass muster as there are single points of failure (API, auth, etc).

New comment by scurvy in "IPv4 Waiting List"

scurvy — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:37:43 +0000

fe80::1 on link-local is/should almost always be configured as your gateway route. Works very well in corporate setups, too.

New comment by scurvy in "Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work"

scurvy — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:51:36 +0000

The larger tech companies give everyone an office. Microsoft started the trend back in the 80's.

New comment by scurvy in "As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds"

scurvy — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:22:48 +0000

There's often a large disconnect between teacher's union leadership and membership. Probably not unlike most union compositions in the US.

New comment by scurvy in "De Cecco reveals why there is a bucatini shortage in America"

scurvy — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:17:53 +0000

"Laws shmaws" is not a great defense.

New comment by scurvy in "De Cecco reveals why there is a bucatini shortage in America"

scurvy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:04:08 +0000

"Why was iron low?" "We don't know." "It's better now?" "Yes we fixed it!"

If they don't know what's wrong, how did they know what to fix? This is still fishy to me. Also, shame on the author for using the term "ratted out" when this company was selling a substandard product to Americans.

New comment by scurvy in "Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement"

scurvy — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:58:31 +0000

They could hedge with futures contracts in a more liquid, reliable manner.

New comment by scurvy in "Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement"

scurvy — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:00:41 +0000

It sounds like PayPal isn't actually buying Bitcoin, but instead created their own proxy bookkeeping instrument. Speculation, but that's what it sounds like to me if you can't have Bitcoin's utility and only its store/speculation.

New comment by scurvy in "Diego Maradona has died"

scurvy — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 03:17:59 +0000

He was like 102 in cocaine years.

New comment by scurvy in "Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case"

scurvy — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:31:05 +0000

She was mayor of San Francisco at the time.

New comment by scurvy in "Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case"

scurvy — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:16:09 +0000

My point was to show that she had a legitimate need, then let the permit lapse when she no longer had a need. She didn't have one for an abuse of power.

I wasn't debating the merits of the CA shall issue policy.

In other words, don't pick a fight where there isn't one.

New comment by scurvy in "Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case"

scurvy — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:06:30 +0000

She had one because the anarcho hippie terrorist groups of SF targeted her and shot up her home several times. When the group was arrested/disbanded, she let her permit lapse.

While I agree it sucks that some rich and powerful people seem to live by a different set of rules, it's not like she had a permit just for kicks.

New comment by scurvy in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

scurvy — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:25:38 +0000

I hope that they can handle all those deletes on their spinning hard drives. Append-only is easy, since you're never deleting and there's no chance for fragmentation. Once you get deletes, you're going to get fragmentation and performance goes to hell.

New comment by scurvy in "Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F"

scurvy — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:13:50 +0000

Yep, soft wood prices are up 20-25% right now.

New comment by scurvy in "Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection"

scurvy — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:19:41 +0000

Yet long-lived connections (processes) suffer tremendously on Postgresql servers with high cores (> 100) and a decent amount of memory (> 256GB). Connection pooling is good, but you gotta recycle those connections on a regular basis.

New comment by scurvy in "French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs"

scurvy — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:52:54 +0000

Integrate it into KeePass or 1Password. I'm sure Yahoo will pay a billi for that.