This looks interesting, might try using the app for a while. Quick suggestion: allow marking days that are excluded from breaking streaks, e.g. weekends.
Readit NewsWubdidu commented on Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day shortreps.com... · Posted by u/melvinzammit
Wubdidu commented on IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/stargrave
In Germany all bigger DSL providers still disconnect you once a day and issue new IPs.
Bad for at home hosting, good for privacy.
Is that so? At least Telekom doesn't do that for IPv4 anymore. They do have a 24h dynamic prefix for IPv6 though (which feels very weird, considering they stopped doing that for IPv4)
Wubdidu commented on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing digitalocean.com/blog/new... · Posted by u/lode
Interesting (or maybe not?) that the App Platform and Spaces pricing hasn't changed. I've been migrating as many projects as possible over to App Platform + Managed DB + Spaces recently. Although it's been frustrating due to their documentation being lacking, I've found it great for simple projects and static websites once you get your head around it. It's certainly more expensive than running plain Droplets, but the convenience is worth it. Their costs must be better covered on the App Platform over Droplets.
App Platform is a great concept, but we hit a dealbreaking road block when trying to migrate some Python apps with job queues. Their runtime (gVisor) doesn't support semaphore locks, which is used by Pythons multiprocessing and in turn used by most job runners (we discovered it with django-q, but I think most, if not all of them including Celery, rely on this, see link below).
The build times for Dockerfiles are also atricious… our build failed after 40 minutes by running out of memory and the multi-stage Dockerfile really wasn't anything special. We would have just used the images hosted on Github Container Registry, but App Platform only supports a limited range of Docker registries too. Note: the images build in 3 minutes on Github Actions.
As far as I can see it is also not possible to add any block storage too. While I mostly work on projects that use object storage anyway, SOME things just need persistent block storage. Which is annoying, since DigitalOcean HAS block storage… just not for App Platform.
I really wanted to use it, but man they make it hard.
https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/issues/522#issuecomment-1...
We live in a big city in Germany with two kids and earlier this year bought the Tern GSD mentioned in the article with two children seats. We don't own a car. This thing gets so much mileage it was definitely worth the money. Before, we frequently rented a car from a car sharing service when we had really bad weather or needed to drive a longer distance - we now pretty much NEVER rent a car anymore. The bike is absolutely lovely, feels very safe and is a joy to ride. It was a painfully expensive purchase, but very worth it.
When the kids get bigger we can exchange one of the seats with something comparable to a motorcycle back seat - a cushion and handlebars below the saddle - for the bigger kid. When they both grow out of it we can replace both seats with a chest or rack and have a very capable cargo bike. The whole bike is designed to not be much longer than a regular bike, so you can do pretty much everything you would usually be able to do, like putting it in a bike rack in the local trains and such. It also is built to be parked vertically due to support bars at the back tire (which, to be fair, doesn't work if you have two children seats, but still… nice feature).
I love it.
Wubdidu commented on OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released openwrt.org/releases/21.0... · Posted by u/stock_toaster
I’ve been thinking about doing a Raspberry Pi CM4 with OpenWrt. Jeff Geerling recently did a post about two of the IO boards for it: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/two-tiny-dual-gigabit...
Would anybody recommend that sort of setup over a Mikrotik Hex or Ubiquiti Edgerouter X?
Probably depends on how complex your setup will be. We are running a normal 1GB Pi4 with OpenWRT (trunk until now) for quite a while on a 1gbit down/500mbit up fibre uplink with SQM against bufferbloat. Unifi switches handle all VLAN related work, fibre uplink is on VLAN 7 mandated by the carrier, so PPPoE works with only one LAN port on the Pi4. Wifi is also unifi hardware.
Thanks to full duplex, clients are able to use the fibre uplink without slowdown. VPN is managed by a separate system, though we had some successful experiments with WireGuard. Both a colleague and I are running the exact same setup at home (with fibre uplink and VDSL).
It's a very capable and power efficient setup. I'd definitely go with a CM4+dual NIC board today.
Wubdidu commented on Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? erik-engheim.medium.com/w... · Posted by u/socialdemocrat
Virtualization and Docker are both well on their way. You can download working VM systems both very simple to the complex with QEmu. A Docker engineer announced on Twitter that he had a early (pre-alpha) version of Docker working on the M1.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/success-virtualize-wind...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ubuntu-linux-virtualize...
Docker is still super early in development, see the most recent update here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/142#issuecomment-73...
I wouldn't expect official stable support to be available very soon. Even then, even if most of the official Docker image library will have ARM support, a ton of community images will need to be ported – all of this will take quite some time.
I’m tempted by a desktop but I worry about noise. Typically power components == big cooling reqs == big fans == big noise. There are specialized vendors who guarantee quiet but obviously they cost more.
Big fans are a good thing because they move much more air with much less RPM. If you care about noise, buy components with low power requirements and low heat output and slam a ridiculously overpowered cooling solution on it. I recently tried a workstation radeon GPU with one very small fan that would be essentially silent if it were in a case. Something like a recent i3 or i5 would mean so low heat output that high end coolers from Noctua would probably work somewhere around the lowest RPM with correctly configured fan curves. That, combined with the possibility of putting the case below the desk instead of right next to yourself like a laptop sounds much more silent as my macbook pro. An efficiently cooled i5 should be much more powerful than the frequently thermally throttled ultrabook/mobile CPUs. Those components are usually the cheaper ones too.
Granted, my high end gaming machine can get a bit noisier compared to my macbook, but even then the kind of noise is more pleasant than the relatively high pitched wind coming out of the MBP. The 3900X and the GPU do generate a ton of great though, so the focus is not on noise and heat output like in your case.
There's a BBC documentary on this that's now around 25 years old, called Earth Story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Story). It describes not only what we know, but how we know it. As documentaries go, it's rather in-depth but easily digestible.
Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds really interesting based on some YouTube comments. Just ordered it used from the UK, first time I'll be watching an actual DVD since... years. I think I do have a DVD drive somewhere in storage.
Wubdidu commented on Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs blogs.nvidia.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mkaic
As always, wait for the benchmarks before deciding to buy (or return). My guess is the performance improvements are the biggest for raytracing, which I personally don't care for. And let's not forget the huge power draw, requiring a new power connector and a 3 slot cooler.
8N manufacturing process is presumably Samsung, which will probably be beat by TSMC 7nm.
I'm holding out for RDNA2.
Hardware Unboxed tested an RTX 3080 and it seems like the performance improvements are not just in ray tracing: https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA
It looks pretty impressive.
Regarding the new power connector: All the partner cards showcased by Gamers Nexus have the regular two or three 8-pin connectors and the FE cards seem to include an adapter. Nvidia states that a 750W power supply is required, so depending on the CPU even a 650W should be fine.
Don't feel sorry for me, I've used vibe coding to create many things, and I still know how to program, so I'll live if it goes away.
Its gotten so bad I'm actively trying to avoid talking about this in circles like Hacker News because people get so heavily and aggressively discredited and ridiculed as if they have no idea what they are doing or are a shill for big AI companies.
I know what I'm doing and actively try to help friends and co-workers use LLMs in a sustainable way, understanding their limitations and the dangers of letting them loose without staying in the loop. Its sad that I can't talk about this without fear of being attacked, especially in communities like Hacker News that I previously valued as being very professional and open, compared to other modern social media.