fernandotakai's comments

On: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: ...

[fernandotakai]

same. happy this is not another _why situation.

On: A forged Apple employee badge

[fernandotakai]

in my case, writing with a pen for long periods of time makes my hand cramp/hurt real bad (i still write on my journal daily but it's not pleasant).

(i don't have a typewriter, but i prefer to type anything because of this).

On: DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on And...

[fernandotakai]

they do advertise, but they try to keep traditional (instead of influencers) https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-a...

On: US Senate passes TikTok divestment-or-ban bill

[fernandotakai]

you realize this has happened before right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindr#Divesture_and_public_li...

On: Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app sto...

[fernandotakai]

i would recommend reading on censorship inside china https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

they literally block any discussion on things like... you know, democracy movements.

On: Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Datab...

[fernandotakai]

you should try phoenix channels https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

they scale really really easily for millions of users.

On: Go's Error Handling Is Perfect

[fernandotakai]

same. in fact, with python3.11, stacktraces are absolutely amazing.

in his python example, it shows exactly where the error is (down to pointing the function), and the error is quite explicit.

On: See a Fish? Ring the Bell

[fernandotakai]

ultrech is really nice. we (my family and i) are thinking about moving to either there or hague in a few years (we are currently in ams, but we are not staying since property values are way too high).

[CalRobert → fernandotakai]

My family tried to move to Utrecht, but ended up in Hilversum. And Hilversum is the nicest place I've ever lived for day to day life! But every time I visit Utrecht I think "if only....".

We also looked at Houten because letting my kids bike safely is a huge deal (and one Hilversum is only mediocre for) but Houten does seem quite boring...

On: BootLogo: Logo language in 508 bytes of x86 machin...

[fernandotakai]

ah same!

i learned logo in my native language (ptbr) when i was in middle school. it absolutely blew my mind that i could "automatically" draw things.

first thing i did when i got home was ask my dad for it -- it took him to find the proper floppy (he borrowed from a friend that was a CS teacher!).

fun fact: we didn't call it logo, we called it "the little turtle game".

On: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

[fernandotakai]

those plasma views when starship was coming into atmosphere were absolutely mind blowing.

it makes a lot of sense to use starlink for this, but it never ever crossed my mind.

[kkoyung → fernandotakai]

Having those plasma views in livestream. It is incredible.

[schnitzelstoat → kkoyung]

Yeah, in HD. It's sci-fi stuff.

[yreg → schnitzelstoat]

Just like the first belly flop video.

The thirty seconds from 1:00 are unreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6ppby3JC8

[huhtenberg → yreg]

Plasma blocks all EM radiation. That's why livestreaming plasma views is so incredible, not just because views themselves are nice.

[schnitzelstoat → yreg]

That's incredible.

[chinathrow → schnitzelstoat]

As of today, it's the new normal!

[mrandish → chinathrow]

The new norminal!

[chasd00 → kkoyung]

yeah that was really cool, it looked like an artist rendition of what it could look like hah. I'm looking forward to high-res photos of those views.

[tempaway444641 → fernandotakai]

video: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354

Note the camera moves because its also on a flap

[ordu → fernandotakai]

The booster puncturing spheres of clouds on a way back was awesome also.

[danw1979 → ordu]

That was my highlight of the test: live video of the biggest rocket booster hitting the ocean at 1000km/h.

[mrandish → fernandotakai]

Indeed! I just want to thank SpaceX for giving me yet another "This looks like insane Hollywood special effects but it's real" moment.