US General class here. I got into it recently mainly to play with digital modes on HF for emergency comms and also because it’s an interesting and unexplored field for me.
There’s precedent for Georgian dissidents fleeing to Ukraine. Saakashvili was living in Ukraine for a while before he returned and is AFAIK still in prison in Georgia. I fled to Georgia when the invasion started and…
If you really believe that you’d be better off somewhere else, and you’re a US citizen in decent financial shape, you are absolutely not trapped in the USA. I’ve in Europe for 7 years now, not to escape any particular…
The move that I’m fighting in my company now is hiring bargain basement Indian outsourced heads who are very obviously vibe coding slop. It’s a raw deal for us since we’re paying extra for a meat wrapper around an LLM…
I’ve experienced this as well. If management is not competent they can’t tell (or don’t want to hear) when a “star” performer is actually a very expensive wrapper around a $20/mo cursor subscription. Unlike the author…
Not the parent, but I take it by going to any pharmacy in Ukraine and asking for it. Prescription not required. In my case it’s part of a treatment protocol for insulin resistance but the pharmacist doesn’t ask and I…
You regurgitated Russian propaganda about Russian-speaking people in Ukraine which is clearly not based on your own experience and I provided a counterpoint based on actually living in Ukraine. If you think I have…
In almost every restaurant and cafe that I frequent in Ukraine, each table has a unique QR code that links to a site with both the menu and an option to pay the bill. The pay option shows the current itemized bill with…
I too am impressed by Cloudflare Workers’ potential. However Workers supports WASM so you don’t necessarily have to switch to JavaScript to use it. I wrote some Rust code that I run in Cloudflare Functions, which is a…
Yes, 1000x this! School for me was a gladiator academy. Useful for producing gladiators I suppose but at the expense of any genuine intellectual curiosity or love of learning. Thankfully I had an informal opportunity to…
When reading BigTech career ladders like this one, I immediately fall into the trap of projecting myself onto the ladder, and getting upset when the level I've chosen for myself is described as something that sounds far…
That’s a long story. Mostly just a series of unexpected turns and a search for meaning in my professional life. As for why I stayed, it’s hard to believe but even today, modulo the air raids, my life in Kyiv is just…
It is true that war can rage in a country and people not on the frontline can live reasonably normal lives. I returned to Kyiv in August of last year, and lived for over a year during some of the worst air attacks on…
I have personally obtained two Starlink dishes in Ukraine. One I preordered more than a year before the war, which was fast tracked by SpaceX shortly after the war started. This was a lifesaver in the early days when…
At my company we’ve written all of our Lambda functions in Rust. It’s a perfect fit with the constraints in Lambda. We did customize the runtime somewhat for our needs but that wasn’t all that complicated.
My company maintains an out-of-tree kernel module for changed block tracking. It requires a full-time Linux driver developer to keep it compiling and working on new kernels. Our module is GPL FWIW but I doubt it would…
I remember reading this quote in the original print magazine when I was a teenager living in rural Nebraska. For some reason a Safeway in the nearest town had a decent selection of magazines including Dr Dobbs Journal…
I have a residential Starlink terminal in Ukraine, service costs $60/mo. I assume this higher fee is for a higher tier of service suitable for military use where reliability is mission critical.
That’s been our experience as well. Auth0 seemed like a great deal and we were happy to have such a sensitive component handled by a dedicated third party, but their sales team aggressively pursues us as soon as we go…
.308 is probably referring to 7.62 NATO. If so there do exist level IV rifle plates that can also protect against a single impact from 7.62 NATO ball. HESCO make some and I’m sure others do as well. But they’re not…
Wow that brings back fond memories of my youth. That thread spawned numerous memes across the gun forums I frequented at the time. I remember reading this on ar15.com but that could be the mists of time obscuring my…
I got this too for my Starlink unit in Ukraine. Dropped to $60 from $100. A welcome change although I for some reason assumed it was specifically for Ukraine. Looks like it’s in a number of markets.
We use localstack for as much of our integration tests as we can, and have multiple paid licenses. When we started using it I was skeptical that it could reliably mimic all the AWS services we use, and I was right.…
Another NewsBlur user here, ever since Google killed off Google Reader. All of my news and regular content consumption, including HN, is via RSS. If a site doesn’t have a well behaved RSS feed then I won’t be able to…
I had this problem myself when using tmux (how to switch sessions quickly and easily). I ended up writing a shell script [1] to use fzf to display a list not only of sessions, but the windows within each session. Which…
US General class here. I got into it recently mainly to play with digital modes on HF for emergency comms and also because it’s an interesting and unexplored field for me.
There’s precedent for Georgian dissidents fleeing to Ukraine. Saakashvili was living in Ukraine for a while before he returned and is AFAIK still in prison in Georgia. I fled to Georgia when the invasion started and…
If you really believe that you’d be better off somewhere else, and you’re a US citizen in decent financial shape, you are absolutely not trapped in the USA. I’ve in Europe for 7 years now, not to escape any particular…
The move that I’m fighting in my company now is hiring bargain basement Indian outsourced heads who are very obviously vibe coding slop. It’s a raw deal for us since we’re paying extra for a meat wrapper around an LLM…
I’ve experienced this as well. If management is not competent they can’t tell (or don’t want to hear) when a “star” performer is actually a very expensive wrapper around a $20/mo cursor subscription. Unlike the author…
Not the parent, but I take it by going to any pharmacy in Ukraine and asking for it. Prescription not required. In my case it’s part of a treatment protocol for insulin resistance but the pharmacist doesn’t ask and I…
You regurgitated Russian propaganda about Russian-speaking people in Ukraine which is clearly not based on your own experience and I provided a counterpoint based on actually living in Ukraine. If you think I have…
In almost every restaurant and cafe that I frequent in Ukraine, each table has a unique QR code that links to a site with both the menu and an option to pay the bill. The pay option shows the current itemized bill with…
I too am impressed by Cloudflare Workers’ potential. However Workers supports WASM so you don’t necessarily have to switch to JavaScript to use it. I wrote some Rust code that I run in Cloudflare Functions, which is a…
Yes, 1000x this! School for me was a gladiator academy. Useful for producing gladiators I suppose but at the expense of any genuine intellectual curiosity or love of learning. Thankfully I had an informal opportunity to…
When reading BigTech career ladders like this one, I immediately fall into the trap of projecting myself onto the ladder, and getting upset when the level I've chosen for myself is described as something that sounds far…
That’s a long story. Mostly just a series of unexpected turns and a search for meaning in my professional life. As for why I stayed, it’s hard to believe but even today, modulo the air raids, my life in Kyiv is just…
It is true that war can rage in a country and people not on the frontline can live reasonably normal lives. I returned to Kyiv in August of last year, and lived for over a year during some of the worst air attacks on…
I have personally obtained two Starlink dishes in Ukraine. One I preordered more than a year before the war, which was fast tracked by SpaceX shortly after the war started. This was a lifesaver in the early days when…
At my company we’ve written all of our Lambda functions in Rust. It’s a perfect fit with the constraints in Lambda. We did customize the runtime somewhat for our needs but that wasn’t all that complicated.
My company maintains an out-of-tree kernel module for changed block tracking. It requires a full-time Linux driver developer to keep it compiling and working on new kernels. Our module is GPL FWIW but I doubt it would…
I remember reading this quote in the original print magazine when I was a teenager living in rural Nebraska. For some reason a Safeway in the nearest town had a decent selection of magazines including Dr Dobbs Journal…
I have a residential Starlink terminal in Ukraine, service costs $60/mo. I assume this higher fee is for a higher tier of service suitable for military use where reliability is mission critical.
That’s been our experience as well. Auth0 seemed like a great deal and we were happy to have such a sensitive component handled by a dedicated third party, but their sales team aggressively pursues us as soon as we go…
.308 is probably referring to 7.62 NATO. If so there do exist level IV rifle plates that can also protect against a single impact from 7.62 NATO ball. HESCO make some and I’m sure others do as well. But they’re not…
Wow that brings back fond memories of my youth. That thread spawned numerous memes across the gun forums I frequented at the time. I remember reading this on ar15.com but that could be the mists of time obscuring my…
I got this too for my Starlink unit in Ukraine. Dropped to $60 from $100. A welcome change although I for some reason assumed it was specifically for Ukraine. Looks like it’s in a number of markets.
We use localstack for as much of our integration tests as we can, and have multiple paid licenses. When we started using it I was skeptical that it could reliably mimic all the AWS services we use, and I was right.…
Another NewsBlur user here, ever since Google killed off Google Reader. All of my news and regular content consumption, including HN, is via RSS. If a site doesn’t have a well behaved RSS feed then I won’t be able to…
I had this problem myself when using tmux (how to switch sessions quickly and easily). I ended up writing a shell script [1] to use fzf to display a list not only of sessions, but the windows within each session. Which…