Don't blame them, they just asked their agentic AI to make a successful site for renting tools. A Show HN post, and engagement in the comment section is a required step.

But for insertion loss and amplifier gain it is "just" dB, it's the ratio of the input to the output. The amplifier has a gain of 35 dB means its output is 35 dB higher than the input. If the input is -30 dBm the output is +5 dBm, etc. The reference for an amplifier, or insertion loss is clear in context since you're talking about the gain / loss of a device, and isn't referenced to any fixed scale like db relative to 1 mW, SPL (A-weighted), or 1 volt.

On detailed spec sheets they list the gain of amplifiers as xxx dB.

I reach for a similar pattern a lot with postgres as I'm building up a system. Start with a think about the fields I know I want, and create the tables with them, and then store all the metadata I have lying around in a json column, then in 2 months when I realize what fields I actually need populate them from json, and then make my API keep them up to date, or make a view, or what ever.

I've found it really helpful to avoid the growing pains that come with "just shove it all in mongo", or "just put it on the file system", but not much cost.

My take away is that it's not a meaningful chart? Just in the first row musl looks bloated at 426k compared to dietlibc at 120k. Why were those colors chosen? It's arbitrary and up to the author of the chart.

The author of musl made a chart, that focused on the things they cared about and benchmarked them, and found that for the things they prioritized they were better than other standard library implementations (at least from counting green rows)? neat.

I mean I'm glad they made the library, that it's useful, and that it's meeting the goals they set out to solve, but what would the same chart created by the other library authors look like?

I think the parent was suggesting comparing and contrasting the glob dependency in rust, and npm. The one off isn't useful, but picking ten random, but heavily used packages probably is. The parent didn't really mention what the node version looked like though.

The npm glob package has 6 dependencies (those dependencies have 3+ dependencies, those sub dependencies have 6+ dependencies, ...)

As you point out the rust crate is from the official repo, so while it's not part of the standard library, it is maintained by the language maintenance organization.

Maybe that could make it a bad example, but the npm one is maintained by the inventor of npm, and describes him self as "I wrote npm and a pretty considerable portion of other node related JavaScript that you might use.", so I would say that makes it a great example because the people who I would expect care the most about the language are the package maintainers of these packages, and are (hopefully) implementing what they think are the best practices for the languages, and the eco-systems.

That's much more a statement about the search function on crates.io than it is the number of glob crates. I think if you have the standard glob crate as a dependency you show up in that search.

I "pre-ordered" one, and it has not yet arrived. I have given up on ever receiving my phone, and just consider it a lesson learned. If I receive it, that will be a happy occurrence. It should have arrived 4 months ago (at least that's what they said when I ordered it). They tell me it will arrive in the next month (depending on customs clearance times). They have said it will arrive in the next month multiple times. Those statements have all been inaccurate so far. Maybe it will show up one day.

Good to know. I hope it shows up.

Do you ever have trouble falling into past decisions, and over analyzing them, and doubling down on your anxiety?

I would love to get rid of my smart phone, but the problems I dwell on are very rarely present or future decisions, and realistically what is top of my mind anxiety be damned is useless energy, it's like running a wind turbine off the grid, and forcing it to spin as if it were a big fan instead of running the grid off wind turbines. The thoughts are more like did I disappoint that friend last weekend, or did I dissapoint that coworker at the Christmas party 6 months ago, or did I do <x> that definitely didn't create <y>, but did I do <x> that made <y> happen?

I use chess apps on my phone to at least put my brain off those thoughts entirely because I have a different problem to solve, and that is magnificent, and if If I didn't have that I don't know what I would do. I know there's something probably not quite right, but I'm wondering how much time you end up spending on problems that "can't be solved," and how much is time spent actually solving problems in your life. If that makes any sense.

What you are describing sounds precisely like your brain trying to do some emotional processing and you are shutting it down because you think it's not useful. If you are looking for the productive spin, then I would suggest trying some metathinking. Try to discover why your brain decides to bring this up to your attention. The specific story might seem banal, but uncovering the underlying pattern will teach you things about yourself that you might not be aware of yet, like what you are afraid in life.

Don’t worry about the past, what’s done is done. Learn from it to do better next time and move on. Most people won’t remember the thing you’re freaking out about because it was something minor in their lives.

I'm with you entirely, and that is how I interact with youtube.

My wife likes to cast youtube videos from her phone to the TV, so the experience is nearly the same to her on her phone as it is watching on TV. Maybe if she only used the PC interface she wouldn't mind, but she likes to search / scan / scroll youtube on her phone, and cast the bits she's going to actually watch.

She was very frustrated by having to find the video she wanted to watch on her phone on the PC using the some what finicky mouse touch pad to get the cursor to open the web browser, navigate to youtube, enter the title in the search box (possibly) scroll to find the video, and then a couple more steps getting it playing full screen.

I'm happy we have options to block ads that aren't uBlock Origin in firefox, even though that works great, and better than other options.

I mean I expect devices and apps to move to DoH, but they haven't yet, or at least not all of them. My experience generally on my phone at home (with DNS blocking) is better enough than my experience away from home that I'm glad I took the half a day or there about to set up a DNS blocking tool a couple years ago.

A couple years ago it was like night and day. Now it is still better than nothing, and in a year or two it might not be worth running.

It's definitely a moving target, but "we expect ... to move to DoH resolution" means that they haven't all moved yet, and a DNS based ad/telemetry/etc blocker still works today (for some apps / smart devices). If it works for some things today why would I turn it off because it might not work for a subset of those things tomorrow? Agreed the value proposition of setting one up is probably dropping, but I still prefer it to nothing.

Now that I think of it I should probably start logging how many DNS look ups "fail" because of the DNS blocking list, and monitor for changes. If it ever gets to less than one a day it's probably not worth the couple of W to power the RaspberryPI