It seems like he is just trying to make a point with his moving around about being "annoying" - which is what he is talking about.
He appears to be making that point for the entirety of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i-ys9faa74
Readit Newslicyeus commented on Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed 247wallst.com/investing/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
licyeus commented on State Terror, American Style paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
The article features a prominent screenshot of a post from Stephen Miller. I cannot find that post on his account https://x.com/stephenm. Is this a quirk of X being difficult to navigate?
Search "from:stephenm insurrection": https://x.com/StephenM/status/1974647432299327904
licyeus commented on Fastmail breaks UI in production twitter.com/licyeus/statu... · Posted by u/blux
There are a few different threads on this and now that things are in a stable place I'm going to cross post this to all of them!
The larger context is that we're making a major change to how we create IDs for email and mailboxes over the JMAP protocol. The old IDs are a UUID for mailboxId and the first 25 chars of the sha1 of the message for the emailId, prefixed by an 'M'. The new IDs are the createdmodseq for the mailbox prefixed by a 'P' (these are pretty short for most users) and a reverse counter of nanoseconds of the message internaldate (delivery time) for the emailId. This gives good storage density for offline and good data locality in databases for the email listings.
You can see all the code for that in a handful of merge requests in the public cyrus-imapd repository on github at https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/
Over the past few weeks, I've been helping out with the last bits of code modification, largely the changes on https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/5539 if you're interested.
This morning we rolled out a build which we'd tested extensively on our staging and staff servers, but missed that for older v19 mailboxes which hadn't been upgraded to v20, the code to check if messages belonged in a thread incorrectly marked them all as missing.
This made MOST emails appear missing for most customers, clearly a very bad situation.
We immediately rolled back, but in the hurry missed that an unrelated change to correct subject matching for some languages (Japanese users had reported the issue, but possibly others as well) had changed the thread version, so new threads then had failed reads (making some, though many fewer, messages appear blank in the UI). There were about 50 million attempts to read those values over 15,000 users, because our UI was keeping on retrying thinking it was just a temporary synchronisation issue because the previous request told it there was a Thread to fetch data for. Ouch. https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/5527 contains those changes.
Anyway, since the only difference between the old and new records was normalisation of subjects, I wrote a tiny patch to let the old code read the newer records and just deployed that, which made all the emails re-appear for everyone again. This is the one bit of code from all this which isn't in a public repo, but it's two lines of: if (version == 2) version = 1;
Meanwhile, the real bug is fixed https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/5553 And a test has been written to prove it: https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/5554
But we'll wait until Monday to upgrade again, when we have fresh eyes available to watch that it's OK.
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P.S. this is almost entirely unrelated to the UI changes. The underlying reason we're doing these changes IS related to UI changes, it's there to make offline mode use storage more efficiently on your device because the IDs are smaller and provide better data locality, but the timing is purely coincidental. The Cyrus changes have been done almost exclusively by the team in the USA and the UI changes by the team in Australia, and our deploy timelines were not synchronised.
Thanks for the transparency + analysis.
I've been a happy Fastmail customer for 11+ years and will continue to be so. Everyone wrote that their experience with FM support has been good, but I've been even luckier: until today I never needed support. One bug per decade is a great record.
licyeus commented on Fastmail breaks UI in production twitter.com/licyeus/statu... · Posted by u/blux
I don't understand the urge to do public shaming instead of first reaching out to support. And the OP is so rude.
I am the OP.
I admit my second message was terse, but the correct social media response for a critical outage is "we're looking into it". Not "if you want support, go here".
Like I said, I do not have time to hunt for whatever support channels exist and file a ticket. I pay $50 a year so they can deliver a working product, including triaging their own issues.
licyeus commented on Argentina's economy is growing beyond expectations semafor.com/article/07/19... · Posted by u/cwwc
Since the beginning of 2024, official exchange rate of Argentina peso to USD is relatively flat compared to the declining rate before Milei was elected. To me, this indicates that inflation is slowly stablizing. But I know there is also "unofficial" exchange rate people use in Argentina. Does anyone know how the unofficial exchange rate?
I visited in May. When I left, at blue dollar rates, 1 USD = ~1040 Argentinine pesos; today, 1 USD = 1415 pesos. Ie, 35% inflation in 2.5 months. [1]
And every month, the government claims unbelievably low inflation: 4.2% in May, 4.6% in June.
licyeus commented on Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery new.nsf.gov/science-matte... · Posted by u/Petiver
Did anyone here do the eye surgery where they make a cut and slide in a permanent contact lens? My eyes are too bad for lasering, but this method would apparently still work. The doc tried to sell it to me as the better method irrespective of how bad your eyes are, since it is reversible (you can remove the lens).
I had EVO ICL done ~10 months ago. My contact prescription was -7.25 left / -6.75 right with thin corneas so I wasn't a great candidate for LASIK. Weighed costs of ICL vs PRK and opted for the former (mostly recovery time concerns + as you mention ICL can be removed). Dollar cost was ~9.2k USD, so it was significantly higher than other options.
Recovery was very quick. I was 20/40 a few hours after surgery and 20/15 the following day (could have worked at computer, but took the day off). Pretty intense dry eyes initially, but eye drops helped and this improved over next couple months.
10 months later, vision is still great (though I expect my eyes to continue their normal progression). Halo-ing effects at night are stronger than I expected (believe they're related to pupil size + hole in center of lens), but I've mostly learned to ignore it (I also now prefer not to drive at night). Minor dry eyes but might try NAC supplement as suggested elsewhere in discussion.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat (hated dealing with contacts on camping trips) but wish I'd been more informed of halo-ing risks.
licyeus commented on What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers lenfestinstitute.org/solu... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I started to subscribe to The Economist online and when I got to the payment info thought to check how hard it would be to cancel, and it turns out there's no online way to cancel, you have to talk to customer service rep. I read a number of reports about the process and some were absolutely livid about getting the runaround trying to cancel.
I contacted support to check if this had changed and not only did they confirm that there is no way to cancel online, I was told that this is actually for my benefit! This was conveyed with a lot of corporate-speak trying rationalize the decision (or just confuse me).
An organization being greedy is one thing, but I really don't appreciate being gaslit about it. It's too bad because I like their work, but I won't support these kinds of business practices.
Canceling The Economist was the worst experience of any periodical, by far. You were right not to continue.
Recently canceled and (from transcript) it took 18+ minutes chatting with an online rep. They made sure I knew all the various benefits (newsletters, podcasts, etc), offered me multiple price discounts, and insisted that I try a slimmed down experience ("Espresso") for a month before truly canceling. I'll never consider re-subscribing.
licyeus commented on For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/wslh
I'm having the same problem. I found this command on a random site[1] which improves it a bit:
play -n -n --combine merge synth '24:00:00' brownnoise band -n 750 750 tremolo 50 1
If you come up with anything please let us know.
[1] https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=3145
[2] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
I've settled on this over the years:
play -c 2 --null synth brownnoise reverb bass 6 treble -3
dark mode?
I use stylish to apply my own (quick and easy) dark mode to hckr news:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body { background-color: #444; color: #ccc; }
.entries a:hover { background-color: #666; }
.c00 { color: #ccc; }
a:link, .c00 a:link { color: #ddd; }
textarea { background-color: #555; color: #ddd; }
.pagetop { color: #ddd; }
.pagetop a { color: #eee !important; }
#hnmain > tbody:first-child > tr:first-child td { background-color: #630; }
}licyeus commented on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
CCs are still free or nearly free in almost every state. In CA, 50% of CC students pay 0 while the rest pay around $550 per semester which is nearly free.
California CC tuition is not representative of the rest of the country.
In-state tuition for a full-time (15 credits) student at Salt Lake Community College is currently ~2100 per semester. At Denver Community College, ~3000 per semester.
That seems "nearly free" from our perspective in the tech industry, but when I was a young adult making $13/hr it was a challenge.