bahador's comments

On: Apple Container 0.9.0

[bahador]

> A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

apple.github.io/container/documentation/

On: Browser-in-Browser

[bahador]

I may be missing the point of this, other than maybe being able to bypassing some network filtering. At first I was excited, thinking perhaps it's browser based and that it somehow bypassed CORS. But upon further inspection, it's piping everything through their domain. I have no idea whether or not they're trustworthy. I would not be submitting any credentials with this.

On: Show HN: How much is 13B euros?

[bahador]

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/980/

[IggleSniggle → bahador]

I love this one:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

[tamimio → IggleSniggle]

Unbelievable, my finger is tired from scrolling I would have to send it to my laptop to continue, how come people are not revolting against that!??

[bilekas → IggleSniggle]

Wow... "Every pixel you scroll is $5 million"

[roblh → bahador]

I was hoping for “a million vs. a billion” but this one is definitely more relevant.

On: The ribosome lowers the entropic penalty of protein folding

[bahador]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world

On: Show HN: Show HN: Dzero – The fastest globally distributed SQLite database

[bahador]

How do you get past the d1 storage limits[0]?

Maximum database size 10 GB (Workers Paid) Maximum storage per account 250 GB (Workers Paid)

- [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits/

[yoeven → bahador]

Not yet fully, but the goal is to eventually introduce Horizontal/Vertical sharding with multiple DBs that work together

On: Show HN: DBOS – Transactional Serverless for TypeScript Apps

[bahador]

I browsed the documentation and saw no references to provisioning database compute/memory resources. Is the persistence serverless, autoscaling, and scale to zero?

[achanda358 → bahador]

https://docs.dbos.dev/getting-started/quickstart-cloud#provi...

[bahador → achanda358]

Yes but it says nothing about cpu/ram and/or memory/storage/io optimized hardware, cost per hour, or anything like that. Does it scale to zero? Does it autoscale? Will it throttle with spikes in load?

[KraftyOne → bahador]

Thanks for the good question! Our free tier offers fixed resources per application (under the hood, a Firecracker microVM with 512 MB of RAM and 1 vCPU) that scale to zero when not in use. For paid users, we'll offer autoscaling per application--we'll share more details on that soon.

On: Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks [video]

[bahador]

I found this one helpful too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ

On: Lidar Reveals 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden Beneath Guatemalan Rain Forest

[bahador]

i think ted is overrated but i saw this recently: https://youtu.be/B6rIUxHZ9f4

On: Help HN: Another HN as a Google CS Proxy Request

[bahador]

just a desperate bump

On: My Experience as a SWE Intern at Goldman Sachs

[bahador]

Asking hners to enable JavaScript is dangerous. Many here are anti JavaScript.

[reincarnate0x14 → bahador]

It's less "anti Javascript" and more against "it's a great idea to base the entire web around loading completely unverifiable and uncontrolled executable code from anywhere in the universe."

Javascript is a reasonably nice language for what it does, and if it was all still mostly inline or browser managed packages or whatever the modern ecosystem would likely be significantly less of a user-hostile dumpster fire.

[1vuio0pswjnm7 → bahador]

Like millions of others, this site looks great in a text-only browser that has no Javascript support.^1 If automatically running other peoples' Javascript or some other "feature" of a popular browser^2 is preventing someone from viewing the text, and the only way to avoid this annoyance is to disable the feature, then the problem is not necessary the feature, but how the feature is being used. People who disable or avoid the feature are not necessary anti-[feature]. They are trying to avoid the effects of how that feature is being used by web developers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

2. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave, Firefox and so on.

[Cybergenik → bahador]

my bad, it's a Gatsby site. Need JS :/

[bahador → Cybergenik]

You did nothing wrong. No need to apologize.

[fake-name → bahador]

Using a site generation framework that requires JS to render static text is doing something wrong.

[kyawzazaw → fake-name]

It is a student making an easy blog. Chill out.

[exdsq → kyawzazaw]

Exactly right

[bahador → fake-name]

This is what I meant by "dangerous".

Static sites can do more than render text. Even collapsing comments on HN doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.

[Arnavion → bahador]

Rendering the primary text content and being able to collapse comments are not on the same level of functionality.

(Though for this particular website, I can see the text just fine with JS disabled in firefox, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work for CaliforniaKarl.)

[FabHK → bahador]

> Even collapsing comments on HN doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.

But everything else pretty much does. HN is nice in that one can read it (and comment) without JS.

[erik_seaberg → fake-name]

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/rendering-options/se... says they support HTML, though some of their own docs like https://www.gatsbyjs.com/pricing/ and https://www.gatsbyjs.com/dashboard/signup are broken.

[skeeter2020 → fake-name]

you get to vote with your eyes and attention; if you truly want to advance your position come up with a better approach to convincing the rest of us.

If your comment was a drive-by sniping that made you feel good and has by now left your attention, mission accomplished.

[jaclaz → Cybergenik]

I read your post in QTweb, Javascript disabled, just fine, so it must be something else.

[FabHK → Cybergenik]

Site renders fine for me in Safari on MacOS with JS disabled.