rciorba's comments

rciorba | 16 days ago | on: What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

I mean, the "one-queue per consumer" they eventually ended up with, is basically an inbox that the sequential process reads from.

rciorba | 6 months ago | on: Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

Fair enough, this is a sign of clear progress for Eastern Europe.

rciorba | 6 months ago | on: Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

> And the migration exists in the other direction, you'll be amazed by how many French dentists are studying in Romania.

Those people don't really plan to stay in Romania. They intend to get their degrees then move back to Western Europe. Hell, most of my former high-school colleagues who became doctors or dentists, emigrated to Western Europe.

rciorba | 6 months ago | on: A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

In Germany you can sometimes find it at Turkish grocery stores. I grew up eating it every autumn. It's still common in my part of Romania.

rciorba | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Firefox has such a small slice of the browser market, that I doubt Google will bother.

rciorba | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

Just tried it for German. The cards gave me the word without their article. Because grammatical gender is so important and impacts so many aspects (adjectives, case markers, etc), you really should learn the word with the article, otherwise you'll be in a world of pain later.

rciorba | 1 year ago | on: The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

The seasonality is not an exception. It's not a case of "just this once". It's a well understood thing of "every year, before the tax deadline we have crunch-time, so don't plan on going on holiday in that time". The repeated, unplanned, "just this once" exceptions are a whole different thing.

rciorba | 1 year ago | on: Transforming of Communist-era apartment blocks that dominate Eastern Europe

I have lived in several commie block apartments over the 30 some years I lived in Romania, and in every single one every radiator had a manual valve I could use to regulate temperature.

rciorba | 2 years ago | on: Neat Parallel Output in Python

Having the workers acquire the lock and update the terminal themselves seems like it would cause lock contention.

An alternative would be to have only the main process do the updating and have the workers message it about progress, using a queue.

rciorba | 2 years ago | on: 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached

if you choose to share data with Bob, you have to accept the consequences of Bob being sloppy with your data

rciorba | 2 years ago | on: COP28: Countries launch declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050

CANDU reactors use un-enriched Uranium. Technology exists, and has been in use for half a century.

rciorba | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your choice for the classic web app stack?

It really depends on the use-case. Async Python is nice for IO-heavy APIs If CPU-heavy workloads are likely, I'd probably look into using go.

In terms of FE, it really depends on the skill-set in the team. I went for Vue over React when we had to have a bunch of backenders whip up a FE simply because it's more opinionated and we didn't want to have to make as many choices when getting started. Also, just rendering HTML on the server side can still get you a long way

For the DB, again, it depends on your use case and what your data-model looks like, but I think a relational DB like postgres is a safe choice 99% of the time. You might need to couple it with something else on occasion (I've reached for elasticsearch more times than I can count)

rciorba | 3 years ago | on: Uber's Still Not Profitable

And even before apps became common-place, in Europe it was common to call a dispatch and ask for a cab at an address.

rciorba | 3 years ago | on: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

I've ordered from such a place in Munich. The novelty factor made it entertaining to watch and at some point I could identify my order being prepared. Not sure how many people you could deceive before you start to get called out, if the feed was of a different kitchen

rciorba | 4 years ago | on: The new dot com bubble is online advertising (2019)

that deal is (was?) only available in few parts of the world, sadly

rciorba | 4 years ago | on: uBlock Origin review

Brilliant!

rciorba | 4 years ago | on: OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads

I just add intermediary way-points for long routes. Works well enough.

rciorba | 5 years ago | on: Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

Even just using an ad-blocker will prevent this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

rciorba | 5 years ago | on: Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

The FB pixel is how FB gets to know about conversions. If your company runs FB adds, FB encourages you to let them know about which users converted to paying customers so it can improve the targeting of your ad campaign. And if you offer a free trial and the upgrade to paying customer happens inside the user dashboard, presto-bingo Marketing now needs you to install the FB pixel there.

It's disappointing that this is what the internet has become, and I'm happy to see issues like this brought forward. I can see value in feeding back conversion events to an ad network, but the "just let us run code on your page" style of integration needs to stop. Give developers some API to explicitly send such an event, if they really need to.

rciorba | 5 years ago | on: Review broken products instead of new ones

> Boots. I can afford the boots I can afford today and I like them. But I am sure that 10 years from now I’ll be able to afford better ones.

If you can get 10 years out of a pair of boots it means they were good. I've had a pair of Caterpillar boots break after 2 years. I'm happy to see a review site with a strong focus on long term ownership.