HTTP Status codes

#itnuts HN

  • HTTP 404 “Not Found”
  • HTTP 418 “I’m a teapot”
  • HTTP 503 “Service Unavailable”

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc…

May 27, 2023

switching tech job for barista-ing

#itnuts

news.ycombinator.com/item

Food business has a very tight margin, so is difficult to maintain as a side project to learn on.

People with experience in business are more successful than tech startuppers in this.

There is more discussion there. I liked the analogy of switching tech job for manual labour to: camping vs being homeless.

May 24, 2023

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic…

#scitisfaction

A novel exercise is described for resistance training of the lower esophageal sphincter. Resistance is provided by gravity as food is swallowed and pushed up an incline into the stomach. The incline is established by kneeling with the head bowed lower than the stomach. After several months of daily repetitions, symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux ceased and the exercise was discontinued without relapse. 

May 24, 2023

Proper timelines for caramelizing onions

#scitisfaction

https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-cook-onions-why-recipe-writers-lie-and-lie-about-how-long-they-take-to-caramelize.html

It is of order of 30-50 minutes!

UPD: 691 comments on HN!

May 23, 2023

Explain movie titles with emojies to ChatGPT

#artinstinctive

https://puzzlemoji.com/

This was my try with “The Wolf of Wall Street” 🎉

May 21, 2023

Memory consumption of 1M concurrent tasks)

#itnuts HN

https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/

TL;DR Rust tokio is the most efficient, while Go scaled linearly and Python just crashed.

May 21, 2023

MicroBlogs kick-off

#itnuts

I end up using combination of micro.blog for blogging (both micro and macroblogs) and IFTTT for cross-posting to Telegram.

It costs <10$ monthly with only 5 minutes delay for cross-posts.

The source blog is here: blog.vindex10.me

May 21, 2023