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New comment by truekonrads in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

truekonrads — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:04:30 +0000

Vegetarian for 10+ years. Love the odd impossible burger, otherwise I don’t miss meat or fish at all - the thought doesn’t enter my mind

New comment by truekonrads in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

truekonrads — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:31:48 +0000

Why eat meat at all is the big question? Impossible and Beyond satisfy the taste and craving without the nastiness.

New comment by truekonrads in "Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex"

truekonrads — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:15:31 +0000

My few rules are: 1) What's the entropy? This helps with encrypted/compressed. You probably need to overcome this? 2) What's the context? Apps are developed in context and context suggests formats. Is it C? Then expect structs. Does it need to go over the wire? Expect run-length encodings. Python/JS - JSON/pickle. 3) There are broadly speaking only a few ways you can read data back into memory: fixed layout, run-length encoding, terminators. A great case-study is ASN.1, once you've built an ASN.1 parser by hand no file format will ever daunt you.

New comment by truekonrads in "The Indo-European Family Tree"

truekonrads — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:17:48 +0000

Cool viz. However it’s hilarious to classify living, spoken languages as “proto” - Latvian and Latgalian. It’s like: “despite there being 2M speakers you guys don’t quite qualify as proper Baltic”.

New comment by truekonrads in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

truekonrads — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:19:31 +0000

Surface devices last 6 months in tropical climate like Singapore and then something breaks.

New comment by truekonrads in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

truekonrads — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:35:53 +0000

MarkMonitor

New comment by truekonrads in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

truekonrads — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:21:05 +0000

What were the issues behind "APIM down"?

New comment by truekonrads in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

truekonrads — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:30:55 +0000

Cool debugging, but… 1) if you have very spiky loads (on the hour) and you can distribute them a little it’s obvious that this is will be good thing. 2) they had the answer all along in their telemetry Sometimes wisdom beats effort

New comment by truekonrads in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

truekonrads — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:06:17 +0000

The problem seems the sales model rather than the dongle:

1) a hardware and software solution implies that hardware will stop working at some point. Customers should understand it 2) you could sell them a new dongle every time support contract ends which is what I’ve experienced with Xways as an example. Even if you’re air gapped once a year usage data upload and new dongle seems fine. 3) why should users receive free upgrades and bug fixes? No software is bug free.

Finally there are several brand protection shops that fight fakes and work well with Shopee, Lazada, Facebook etc. It’s not five dollars but they will take these down effectively

New comment by truekonrads in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

truekonrads — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:30:28 +0000

You can start a business in Estonia in 2-3 days and get e-residency there. Sample incorporation business (no affiliation): https://enty.io/en/incorporate-estonia

Go Estonia!

New comment by truekonrads in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

truekonrads — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:55:46 +0000

Technical Boy's vape is here: https://giphy.com/gifs/americangods-vape-american-gods-26BGN...

New comment by truekonrads in "Uncrossy"

truekonrads — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:55:29 +0000

Cute. Lots of "-ed" matching tho

New comment by truekonrads in "Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor"

truekonrads — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:58:36 +0000

Are you blocked by anti-bot measures for purposes of demo?

New comment by truekonrads in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

truekonrads — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:10:35 +0000

This is not how the overwhelming majority of chickens live - they live in high intensity farm operations in horrible conditions

New comment by truekonrads in "Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph"

truekonrads — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:11:33 +0000

I love AMP, it delivers great results. I like that it’s opinionated in how it should be used and for example tells me that I need to hand off context.

I love that I am not welded to one model and someone smart has evaluated what’s best fit for what. It’s a bit a shame they lost Steve Yegge as their brand ambassador. A respected and practicing coder is big endorsement.

To anyone on the fence - give it a go.

New comment by truekonrads in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

truekonrads — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:52:34 +0000

I absolutely love the sadservers. Can’t wait for windows version.

New comment by truekonrads in "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"

truekonrads — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:52:50 +0000

The writer Viktor Pelevin in 2001 wrote a sci-fi story "The Air Defence (Zenith) Codes of Al-Efesbi" where an abandoned FSB agent would write on the ground in large text paradoxical sentences which would send AI enabled drones into a computational loop thereby crashing them.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82...

New comment by truekonrads in ".NET 10"

truekonrads — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:55:09 +0000

It’s all about the libraries in the end.

New comment by truekonrads in "The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)"

truekonrads — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:16:14 +0000

In systems thinking there’s the concept of “stocks” or “buffers”. Meaning that change of inputs into the systems first affect stocks/buffers before the outputs.

New comment by truekonrads in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

truekonrads — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:36:25 +0000

Deliver via sendgrid*, receive directly is probably the only viable path for self hosted systems.

Where sendgrid=any major player, could be Mimecast, proofpoint or anyone else who will forward outgoing email.