austinpena (u/austinpena)

austinpena commented on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix about.doordash.com/en-us/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

whatever1 · 2 months ago

You can still tip the shareholders. Like DoorDash did until it got caught.

austinpena · 2 months ago

Or Like Dave App or Chime.

Fun fact about Dave App's tipping. If you bring the value to zero you saw an animation of a kid's food being taken away from them.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/11/...

austinpena commented on Fly.io outage – resolved status.flyio.net... · Posted by u/punkpeye

qeternity · a year ago

I don't really understand the value prop of fly.io. They seem to have an impressive engineering team despite the outages, but is edge compute really something that 99.9% of devs need? There are tons of large companies that operate out of a single AWS region and those services are used by millions around the globe. It just strikes me as something that enables premature optimization right out of the box.

austinpena · a year ago

I have an SSR Astro project. Using Fly makes my project fast.

For dynamic data I use SWR.

I could use Cloudflare workers but it doesn’t play so nice with Astro.

I also have a “form submission service” where I receive a Post and send an email.

I need maximum uptime to avoid revenue loss.

It’s a go service so I deploy ~6 machines across the US to ensure I don’t drop any requests.

I haven’t had downtime in years.

austinpena commented on Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS · Posted by u/huntaub

austinpena · a year ago

Reminds me of https://www.lucidlink.com/ for video editors. I quite like the experience with them.

austinpena commented on M4 Mac mini's efficiency jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/marinesebastian

austinpena · a year ago

M4 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM is doing a "good enough" job of editing 6k raw footage in Premiere for my team. I'm surprised to say I'm content with the 16GB of ram so far.

Edit: This is in contrast to my M1 Macbook Air with 16GB of ram which would stutter a lot during color grading. So definitely feeling the improvement.

austinpena commented on Is AWS S3 having an outage? · Posted by u/GGO

austinpena · a year ago

Looks back up: https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-east-2

austinpena commented on Cloudflare Connectivity Issues in Eastern US and Central Europe cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/dgellow

madjam002 · a year ago

My Cloudflare Pages site has gone down completely, anyone else?

austinpena · a year ago

Mine are fine.

austinpena commented on Eradicating N+1s: The Two-Phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go brandur.org/two-phase-ren... · Posted by u/gmcabrita

austinpena · 2 years ago

I'm very grateful to this post for introducing me to sliceutils to create a map from a slice. I think that's a very elegant way to create nested models given a parent and child struct.

austinpena commented on Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection fingerprint.com/blog/bypa... · Posted by u/valventin

neilv · 2 years ago

> Fingerprinting is used to identify bad actors when they want to remain anonymous. For example, when they want to sign in to your account or use stolen credit card credentials. Fingerprinting can identify repeat bad actors, allowing you to prevent them from committing fraud. However, many people see it as a privacy violation and therefore don’t like it.

This doesn't seem to acknowledge the use of fingerprinting in intentional violation of the privacy of ordinary people, for marketing profiling and just selling them out because someone is willing to pay.

On https://demo.fingerprint.com/ , they do start to hint at non-anti-fraud purposes, but the use case seems to be full of poo. (Logins or cookies are the way to do this. Anything else is trying to circumvent privacy mechanisms. And if they don't distinguish users perfectly, they're doubly violating privacy by then leaking private information between people.)

> Personalization -- Improve user experience and boost sales by personalizing your website with Fingerprint device intelligence. Provide your visitors with their search history, interface customization, or a persistent shopping cart without having to rely on cookies or logins.

Popup warning on "https://demo.fingerprint.com/personalization":

> Heads up! -- Fingerprint Pro technology cannot be used to circumvent GDPR and other regulations and must fully comply with the laws in the jurisdiction. You should not implement personalization elements across incognito mode and normal mode because it violates the users expectations and will lead to a bad experience. -- This technical demo only uses incognito mode to demonstrate cookie expiration for non-technical folks.

Sounds a bit like a disingenuous bad actor doing CYA while demonstrating their capabilities, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

austinpena · 2 years ago

Their tool is priced too expensive to be used for marketing purposes in most cases.

austinpena commented on Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps observablehq.com/blog/obs... · Posted by u/tmcw

austinpena · 2 years ago

I'm curious where this fits in relative to streamlit which I use heavily