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New comment by theandrewbailey in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

theandrewbailey — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:26:35 +0000

Here I was thinking that cURL's (non-existent) enterprise support contracts were a polite way to tell brain-dead paper pushers to GTFO: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/24/logj4-security-inquir...

New comment by theandrewbailey in "HP SSDs lose their performance after 7.5 years / integer overflow"

theandrewbailey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:32:12 +0000

I work at an e-waste recycling company. This may be relevant to me, thanks for sharing.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "How R you using agents?"

theandrewbailey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:36:37 +0000

Sorry, I misunderstood. Your green username suggests you're new here: Please spell out "are". R is a language: https://www.r-project.org/

I don't have any AI advice.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:40:41 +0000

Thanks for the response! I had a feeling that AMP came from some other part of Google not too concerned about open standards.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:37:31 +0000

> Javascript and modern CSS should be used to enhance the experience

When messing around with my blog's Javascript, this mantra is so thoroughly embedded into writing it, that I try to include "enhance" in function names where it makes sense. I might have to do likewise with my CSS.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:57:12 +0000

Surface Pro with Debian KDE here. I just dressed it up like Windows 7, because I need more Fruitiger Aero in my life.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "How R you using agents?"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:47:03 +0000

Are you asking how people are using agents with R?

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:30:10 +0000

> What are your philosophical thoughts on paying a subscription to get your work done?

There have always been costs associated with tools, whether in money or time. A lot of businesses have been paying SaaS subscriptions for decades, and support contracts for longer. I don't understand how AI would be any different.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "GTM Is a Creative Act"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:39:11 +0000

It's always been Google Tag Manager to me.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

theandrewbailey — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:40:48 +0000

> Ian Hickson (“Hixie” — WHATWG specification editor, CSS2.1 co-editor and Google’s W3C representative)

How long after this post did AMP come out? Three years?

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

theandrewbailey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:29:14 +0000

> It will be the first "Linux" with ads!

Ubuntu 12.10 had Amazon shopping results when you searched from the main menu.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Linear Cosine Palettes(2025)"

theandrewbailey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:44:51 +0000

> These pieces are created using the subdivision() system that I wrote about as part of the art from code workshop I gave a few years ago.

These look like CPU die photos, neat!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130561288@N04/albums/

New comment by theandrewbailey in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:04:41 +0000

I've seriously considered doing that. Since they're still under warranty for another year or two, I've decided not to... for the time being.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Every Byte Matters"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:40:20 +0000

(original poster here)

I was just throwing out an idea. I had no idea there were already implementations! Because, to my knowledge, conventional popular languages like C/C++/C#/Java/JS/Python don't do that, and automatically doing that (under certain conditions) feels like an easy performance win.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:13:29 +0000

> Quotes came back to about €200k for 48 x 96GB DDR5-5600 RDIMMs

I sell used RAM in trays of 50 sticks (I physically know how much that is, I've held that many). I've had some trays sell for a few thousand dollars. Six figures for just one tray is absurd, but I've never collected enough DDR5 to make a full tray.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:08:50 +0000

That assumption is correct.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:42:16 +0000

I've had them listed on FB Marketplace for months. In that time, I've sold four (3 to one guy, one to myself), and still have 20-ish more.

i5-13500E, 32GB DDR5, 512 GB NVMe, scratched and dinged a bit for $500 is practically a steal! Hardly anyone's biting or clicking, I don't get it...

New open box models (not scratched and dinged), if anyone's interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/188355326179

Edit: they're intended to be retail POS PCs, like cash registers. (The motherboard literally has a header for a cash drawer!) So unless you're a particular kind of retailer, you're not asking your distributor for them. If distributors aren't looking for them, our B2B buyers aren't buying them. If they were Elite/Prodesks, Optiplexes, or Thinkcenters, they'd probably be gone by now.

New comment by theandrewbailey in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:33:54 +0000

I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company. I've been collecting some DDR5-based systems for months, but with the prices, they're probably more than what most people are looking to spend on a technically second-hand computer (even if they are like new and still under warranty). I've priced them at about what the CPU + RAM + SSD would sell for separately, and I'm not willing to go much lower than that.

And if you're wondering, who's throwing out DDR5 systems? A local healthcare company. The boxes for some units are crushed and have water stains on them, and I imagine others don't meet their exacting requirements in some minor way (though they look and work OK to me, regardless of scratches and dings on the case).

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Every Byte Matters"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:40:07 +0000

Maybe someone can write an OO language where arrays of structs are automatically stored as structs of arrays.

mild /s

New comment by theandrewbailey in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

theandrewbailey — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:33:05 +0000

I wish it cost $10.

(Kinda goes against the original spirit of the reference)