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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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It looks flat to me since July of last year. Regardless, when you extrapolate that curve, when do you estimate hitting 100%?
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I'm fine with 16 but they should have only used the bytes as they were needed, at least for 5 and 6 byte addresses, so those who desire short addresses could buy them.
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Being essentially impossible to memorize is one of the worst attributes of IPv6. I memorize and manually type IPv4 addresses all the time and it's super useful.
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Adoption has been flat under 50% for a year now.
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As sad as it makes me to admit, I don't think IPv6 is ever going to happen without government intervention. Adoption is flat at under 50% over the past year. IPv6 doesn't benefit big tech. S…
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You can pipe through a TransformStream that counts how many bytes you've uploaded, right?
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> Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that I disagree with the premise here. I think t…
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Nice. Is this terminal-first or terminal-only?
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I don't think the better software part is playing out
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I'm not sure these problems are solvable once a company gets big enough and incentives completely take over. It's like the hands are trying to sew a parachute while the legs are sprinting to…
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You may be interested in my list here: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling In particular I believe OpenZiti has a similar focus on embedding the tunnel in the apps.…
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Is your project public?
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That didn't take long: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648627
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Bad example; he'd rather be with his horses
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Reminds me of: https://www.brandons.me/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-... …
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It depends on the airline, but sometimes I can put my laptop in weird positions that aren't half bad. The main technique is fully opening the screen, balancing the laptop on its lower edge, and u…
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This
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I thought this was an AoE2 eco joke for a second
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Your NAT traversal article is amazing, but sadly the long tail (ha) means any production quality solution has to have relays, which is a huge complexity jump for people who just want to run some p2p a…
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See also https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
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I've only had it once, but inflight Starlink is a game changer. I was able to play a ranked AoE2 game over the Pacific Ocean.
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Yep. As sad as it is for p2p, NAT handles most uses cases for users, and SNI routing (or creative hacks like OP) handles most use cases for providers. I was surprised how low IPv4 prices have gotten. …
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I think ralphing is for purely vibe coded stuff, where you're literally never looking at the code and only asking for changes to the final output. If I'm reviewing all the code, so far I…
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See "Programming as Theory Building": https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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cargo check is faster; it's not fast
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A big downside with rust is the compile times. Being in a tight AI loop just wasn't part of the design of any existing programming languages. As languages designed for (and probably written by) A…
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A TUI library with hot reload would be pretty cool
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I've found agents effective using GUI apps with nothing but the ability to take screenshots and send mouse and keyboard commands. I imagine they'd work even better with a TUI, even if it…