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New comment by thecatster in "Fluffy Clouds: Centralization and the Untouchable Nature of Cloud Computing"

thecatster — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:54:39 +0000

My thoughts in response to the Nov. 18 Cloudflare outage and the prior AWS outage.

Fluffy Clouds: Centralization and the Untouchable Nature of Cloud Computing

thecatster — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.daniilrose.com/blog/posts/fluffy-clouds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967916

Points: 1

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ChatGPT 4 Can Finally Browse the Internet Again

thecatster — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1707077710047216095?s=20

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37677751

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by thecatster in "SpaceVim 2.0"

thecatster — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:22:54 +0000

I was really hope for that to turn out well, but alas, but to Emacs or Neovim I go. I even paid for an Onivim2 license.

New comment by thecatster in "Crafting Interpreters: A Review"

thecatster — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:41:49 +0000

Right, exactly: when that much care is put into a resource, I truly feel that I enjoy it more, even if the material itself might seem dry at first. Those kinds of feeling books are truly special.

New comment by thecatster in "How safe is Zig?"

thecatster — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:40:24 +0000

Rust is definitely different (and calmer imho) on bare metal. That said (as much of a Rust fanboy I am), I also enjoy Zig.

New comment by thecatster in "Crafting Interpreters: A Review"

thecatster — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:21:49 +0000

It's not really CS, but alongside the books you have listed (I have most of those physically and as eBooks!) I absolutely adore "The Art of Electronics" as the Bible to electronics. It's definitely helped me out immensely.

New comment by thecatster in "Python Support for Regular Expressions"

thecatster — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:30:00 +0000

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435299

New comment by thecatster in "Library to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino"

thecatster — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:31:20 +0000

I honestly have a hard time seeing how you could confuse that, but maybe I'm biased because I've seen this terminology forever.

New comment by thecatster in "The Fall of Roam"

thecatster — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:12:14 +0000

Completely agreed. Plus the fact that all my notes are in plain text, (somewhat) editable on my phone/iPad, and easily searchable, switching to something else doesn't make sense to me yet.

New comment by thecatster in "I Used Linux-Based PinePhone Daily for a Year. Here’s What I Learned"

thecatster — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:17:38 +0000

I've had a much better (and arguably as safe) time running CalyxOS or Graphene on my Pixel.

It feels like the best of both worlds.

New comment by thecatster in "Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)"

thecatster — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:56:33 +0000

Finally out of beta! Good to see.

New comment by thecatster in "Ask HN: Is there a search engine that only returns non-commercial sites?"

thecatster — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:54:51 +0000

Kagi Search [1] has an optional filter for this. Sadly it's only in beta for now.

[1] https://kagi.com/

New comment by thecatster in "Learn by Wrapping"

thecatster — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:50:50 +0000

I fairly often do something like this. I have a simple CLI project that I write that hits a few web APIs and reads a file. It's fairly simple, but these are the kind of basic things I want to know in each language.

I then benchmark it and go and try to make it as idiomatic according to that languages style.

New comment by thecatster in "Sponsors-Only Repositories"

thecatster — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:48:27 +0000

This seems to go against the nature of open source, and almost feels wrong. I see how it enables monetisation (pay for my sponsor and you get both the app and source!) but I don't think I could justify using it.

New comment by thecatster in "MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software–for better or worse"

thecatster — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:32:49 +0000

Regardless of other projects like this, I've been looking for a fun project for my CM4. I think you just made my weekend!

New comment by thecatster in "Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix"

thecatster — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:01:11 +0000

I know there was a widespread issue of counterfeit copies of "The Art of Electronics" to the point where the book's official website has a large warning on the front page.

Luckily you can return stuff to Amazon, but makes me think, does that mean someone else will have to deal with purchasing that book?

New comment by thecatster in "Who Needs a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Chip? Maybe You"

thecatster — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:09:51 +0000

I already love a lot of things at Pimoroni, but that Tiny2040 looks great for experimenting with! The wireless pack also seems interesting, might experiment with that concept on a custom board.

New comment by thecatster in "Who Needs a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Chip? Maybe You"

thecatster — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:07:44 +0000

I honestly loving using it as well, hence the post. I have not always had the best time with the Parallax Propeller (was going to use it for a work project last week but ended up going a different route) but when I have played with it the experience was awesome.

The RP2040 usually just works for me, and the PIO is awesome. I've had a few cool automation projects at home that the RP2040 was the easiest thing to just get up and running with. In the past I would've gone with something in the STM family, but I'm very happy and impressed with the RP2040/Pi Pico.

Who Needs a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Chip? Maybe You

thecatster — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:07:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eejournal.com/article/who-needs-a-raspberry-pi-microcontroller-chip-maybe-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30059381

Points: 20

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