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Apofis commented on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers   nytimes.com/2025/07/01/te... · Posted by u/stephendause
sct202 · 5 months ago
My data served by Cloudflare has increased to 100gb /month compared to <20gb like 2 years ago, and they're all fairly static hobby sites. Actual people traffic is down by like half in the same time frame, so I imagine a lot of this is probably cost savings for Cloudflare to reduce resource usage.
Apofis · 5 months ago
Makes total sense, bandwidth on this scale is expensive.
Apofis commented on Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation   engineering.fb.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/bundie
Apofis · 6 months ago
Kotlin is awesome, good on Meta.
Apofis commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad   daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma
somenameforme · 6 months ago
Apple is basically a smartphone company at this point, and smartphone sales are plummeting. And I think they're plummeting for the same reason desktop sales plummeted. We went from a time where a new PC was a bit dated in 3 months and obsolete in 2 years, to modern times where a desktop from a decade ago is good for pretty much everything, even including high end gaming if you started with a high end card.

The exact same thing's happening to phones. I have a 6 year old phone that was cheap when it was new, and it still runs 100% of what I use my phone for, and most people use their phones for, perfectly. Tech hardware as a recurring business model only works when there's perceived significant improvements between generations. Trying to sell a few more pixels, or a fraction of a cm thinner case or whatever just isn't worth it for most people.

So, as typical with corporations in this spot, they start flailing to try to maintain revenue, let alone growth. Microsoft became a 'cloud' company paired with a side gig of spyware marketed as an OS. It'll be interesting to see what Apple transforms into.

Apofis · 6 months ago
I still have my iPhone 12 Pro that I preordered and got in release day and it still does everything I can ask of it, though the latest Call of Duty runs a bit slow, which is making me want to upgrade. Them not releasing a smart Siri that answers to more than just basic prompts is really hurting them and I can see why investors sued them. There's no reason for me to have to use ChatGPT on an iPhone, I should be able to talk to Siri like she's an actual personal assistant and not just an easier way to check the weather and set a timer.
Apofis commented on Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president   reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/perihelions
cjbgkagh · 9 months ago
I think in such situations it can be withheld but not withdrawn, it's pretty common for universities to hold back credentials until debts are paid. But once it's been given I think the only scenario which it can be withdrawn is if it was given under fraudulent circumstances. Like a newspaper retraction, it can only be retracted if the original statement was found to be false.

The perpetrator should be sued for damages which is the normal thing to happen. Withdrawing properly received credentials opens the door to yet another extra-judicial punishment and we already have too many of those.

(EDIT) I've since googled around a bit and am surprised that there does seem to be a degree of discretion available to the university to revoke degrees that I was unaware of. I had always considered degrees to be like an affidavit, a statement of a fact as the institution understands it. There are plenty of horrible people who have done heinous things and I've never heard of their degrees being taken away. Perhaps one difference here is that the behavior under question was during their undergrad.

Apofis · 9 months ago
Well they can't force you to regurgitate the knowledge you got there or remove it from your resume, so big deal.
Apofis commented on DiceDB   dicedb.io/... · Posted by u/rainhacker
arpitbbhayani · 9 months ago
Arpit here.

DiceDB is an in-memory database that is also reactive. So, instead of polling the database for changes, the database pushes the resultset if you subscribe to it.

We have a similar set of commands as Redis, but are not Redis-compliant.

Apofis · 9 months ago
Question, how does DiceDB differ from Redis pub/sub? https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/interact/pubsub/
Apofis commented on Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform   cnbc.com/2025/03/08/how-f... · Posted by u/owendarko
sampton · 9 months ago
Thousands of engineers grinding leetcode so they can work on a Craigslist clone.
Apofis · 9 months ago
Great compensation though!
Apofis commented on Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust   github.com/metacraft-labs... · Posted by u/alehander42
bramhaag · 9 months ago
https://undo.io/ supports Java
Apofis · 9 months ago
You don't see software going for $8000 frequently! Wow!
Apofis commented on Mistral OCR   mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman
Asraelite · 9 months ago
I never thought I'd see the day where technology finally advanced far enough that we can edit a PDF.
Apofis · 9 months ago
Foxit PDF exists...
Apofis commented on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it   science.org/doi/full/10.1... · Posted by u/nabla9
ferguess_k · 9 months ago
Yeah it was really a surprise to me when I realized that my energy declined to the point that I couldn't work on my side projects for the down days. Then I counted how many days I have for the rest of my life (up to 75) and this dreaded me a lot.

And it got worse after my son was born a few years ago. I would count the number of weeks available, not the days, because there has been whole weeks that I couldn't do anything. After all those are two full-time jobs.

As for your CS education, I'd recommend getting into some side projects and explore from there. If you go to a school, it's going to take too many courses.

Apofis · 9 months ago
Exercise goes a long way to keep up energy levels after work.
Apofis commented on Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust   github.com/metacraft-labs... · Posted by u/alehander42
Apofis · 9 months ago
Any chance of something like this being available for Java/Kotlin on JVM?

u/Apofis

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