mehdix's comments

On: Keep Android Open

[mehdix]

Writing this in GrapheneOS where Google Play and Services run just like another app in a sandbox. Moreover, there is a network access permission that allows you to block any app from accessing the network, which is surprisingly the reason why Google does not approve GrapheneOS as compatible to let it pass hardware attestation test (if enforced).

On: Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

[mehdix]

Malicious actors would always find them. Hiding information just creates a false sense of safety among public, which benefits politicians mostly.

On: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

[mehdix]

Can't you simply make a PR against the other PR's branch?

[hellcow → mehdix]

Yes, but the UI isn’t great for it. When you make a change in a base branch and push all the branches ahead of it, GitHub litters the UI with “force push” activity, even when no one has even started reviewing the PRs yet. This creates tons of visual noise in the PRs to sift through.

On: My website is ugly because I made it

[mehdix]

> It’s an itch – a feeling that something is really important, and you need to do something about it, and nobody else can possibly do it except you.

Might be difficult to believe, but I strongly believe there are things that no one else on this planet would do except one of us.

On: Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?

[mehdix]

To add to what others have said, I would ask every person in my team what's the most important think I need to know.

[sowbug → mehdix]

Also ask the name of someone I need to meet. This helps find the load-bearing people who are sometimes invisible on the org chart.

On: Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll

[mehdix]

I'm running my website with Jekyll for around a decade. Interestingly I use sqlite for comments submitted to the server (cgi-bin, mind you) and populate the pages during build. Your plugin is a perfect match for my usecase. Will definitely consider it. Nice work!

On: Bluesky Is Booming in Japan

[mehdix]

Filter this page [1] for newly created profiles and see how it grows in realtime.

https://firesky.tv/

[nixpulvis → mehdix]

What the hell am I looking at here!? This surely can't be ALL the messages right!? That would be amazing.

Someone want to do the math on bitrates?

[sundaeofshock → nixpulvis]

Seems reasonable to me. If only 10% of the user base posts just twice a day, we are talking about 4.2 million posts in a single day or about 48 posts/second.

On: 418 I’m a teapot

[mehdix]

Well, I recently used it in a small PostgREST-subset query builder I wrote in case the query builder received an input more complicated that what it could handle. I found 418 a natural response in this case. In retrospect a 5xx (edit: or better 422) error is more appropriate, however.

On: Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction

[mehdix]

FWIW, one python project I'm working on uses an obscure Framework, and ORM. I was contemplating to convert it to FastAPI+Pydantic, however the amount of effort needed was no different than rewriting the whole project.

On: AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point

[mehdix]

This was literally among the best comments I've read today and I couldn't stop laughing out loud.