Don't worry, this will help us consume the new truth easier.
Readit Newsxer0x commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
I saw this come up on /r/aws a few days back.
This response seemed illuminating:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1lxfblk/comment/n2qww9...
> Looking at (this section)[https://will-o.co/gf4St6hrhY.png], it seems like you're trying to queue up an asyncronous task and then return a response. But when a Lambda handler returns a response, that's the end of execution. You can't return an HTTP response and then do more work after that in the same execution; it's just not a capability of the platform. This is documented behavior: "Your function runs until the handler returns a response, exits, or times out". After you return the object with the message, execution will immediately stop even if other tasks had been queued up.
There is a "post-invocation phase" for tidying up. It's not long, and it's enough for things like Datadog's metrics plugin to send off some numbers. Yet it will fail, if you have too many metrics. It's fuzzy.
Claude's increasing euphoria as a conversation goes can mislead me. I'll be exploring trade offs, and I'll introduce some novel ideas. Claude will use such enthusiasm that it will convince me that we're onto something. I'll be excited, and feed the idea back to a new conversation with Claude. It'll remind me that the idea makes risky trade offs, and would be better solved by with a simple solution. Try it out.
xer0x commented on Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26 macrumors.com/2025/06/04/... · Posted by u/danso
Half expected to see this on Daring fireball
xer0x commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Im a Canadian and go to the US for work fairly regularly. Something I didn’t realize is that the laws are different in preclearance areas.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-19.32/FullText.ht...
For example, you are allowed to withdraw your application to enter the US and leave the preclearance area. Additionally you are bound by different laws for search and siezure.
At this point I am only going to the US through preclearance areas because you are still on Canadian soil and bound by Canadian laws. That doesn’t necessarily mean that USBP won’t break those laws, but the Canadian courts get to decide if laws were broken instead of the US courts.
One thing I have not found a straight answer on yet is if USBP can compel you to unlock your electronic devices in a preclearance area. My current strategy is if I am asked to do that in preclearance I will withdraw my application to enter because Im not letting anyone access to my phone.
Thank you for mentioning this!
I am still stunned how eager they were to ignore this problem.
xer0x commented on Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) neocomputer.org/projects/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
The author doesn't mention it, but many people who never played E.T. read articles in videogame magazines about this game was amongst the things that killed the videogame industry in the 80s. (Oh, see dang's post for tons of related links)
What took them so long?
Wow, I can't believe this! That looks awesome!
I read this as first QUIC CDN, and thought that can't be true. Dug a little deeper and learned that Media over QUIC is it's own thing. Looks pretty cool.