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by RowanH 3y ago
> https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/482/ > Vanderbilt University's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion used ChatGPT to write an email addressing student body about the 2023 Michigan State Universit
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by RowanH 3y ago
Who remembers SQL in Delphi UI :)
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by RowanH 3y ago
If it wasn't for a good portion of tech leads FAANG aspirational goals I bet a lot more companies would be on monoliths. It's simply staggering the productivity and cost differences (up to of course a certain point) being on monol
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by RowanH 4y ago
Oh hi thanks for doing this ! So I actually had dug out my one (Galaxy NX GN-120) that we had a few clients use the other day for my startup and did a little video of it here : https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpUPz0zJ-4
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by RowanH 4y ago
Thanks - unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'm not sure... I've done too many long hauls to know that you just can't rely on Wifi. (I'm in New Zealand) It's gotten way better but murphys law... the one time you'
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Ask HN: 24/7 Managed Service/monitoring, other small SaaS what do you do?
3 points by RowanH 4y ago|2 comments
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by RowanH 4y ago
This is the thing that scares the most about hitching my wagon to cloudflare, the pricing is 'too reasonable' for what you get, one day when you're putting through a tonne of traffic and reliant on their services you get the
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by RowanH 4y ago
Thanks - appreciate the reply ! Will keep you guys in mind in the future. Translating it into real terms, at an early (early) stage bootstrapped, $2500USD/month = $48'000NZD per annum which is about 1/3 of a good full stack s
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by RowanH 4y ago
Thanks for the response. A bit too spendy for an early stage (bootstrapped!) product. For comparison Linode charges $100USD/month per VPS.
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by RowanH 4y ago
Yeah I remember from back in the day. The Linode offering (assuming it works) gives some degree of confidence if a key person or two are out of action, you still can get back online if it's something not app related. And it's almo
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by RowanH 4y ago
Ask HN: I was just about to sign up to their Managed service offering (basically they monitor the VPS's and if a monitored URL goes down they do initial trouble shooting for the basics to bring things back online before they contact yo
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by RowanH 4y ago
> NZ today is a tough place to stay alive. This might be a low effort reply, but a bunch of us manage too :) In all seriousness every country has it's own unique things that locals are very much familiar with and outsiders it's
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by RowanH 4y ago
The economy is anything but strong. Housing skyrocketed across 20/21/22 in particular, and now coming back down with a thump, combined with big cost of living hikes things are looking grim for your average salaried worker (especia
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by RowanH 4y ago
It maybe slightly different in NZ as we are on variable rates, or fixed terms for upto 5 years or so that changes things. But we are now in correction period. Prices sky rocketed as money was printed, now the shine has worn off and the fund
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by RowanH 4y ago
Reasonably regularly do long haul, and spent a number years in Canada doing NA flights. There is absolutely no surprise to this subject line :) Just flew Singapore and it's level of service, even in cattle class, is top notch. You&#x27
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by RowanH 4y ago
Different at different times of your life. I'm mid 40's. Have done some work for myself, largely career for other people culminating in c-suite roles. Now using all that knowledge running on my own startup (and loving it...) which
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by RowanH 4y ago
I've now got quite a few phones on my desk (6 right now) plus all the other historical ones. It's surprising to see the differences, quirks, and little gems. My main phone has now become an 13 Pro Max, it's solid, reliable an
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by RowanH 4y ago
Use cases may be low, but when you find "the one" it's just nothing short of epic. For me it was my Sim Rig... needed a 3d printer to make the carrier blocks for the actuators, which then triggered a whole rabbit hole of desi
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by RowanH 4y ago
Good link thinks. Have to say we're moving to pgSearch after implementing SOLR alongside a PG/Rails backend. Makes the stack simpler, less components to worry about (less headaches for gem versioning dependencies with SOLR). Lot t
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by RowanH 4y ago
As we'd say, no worries mate! One little blog is probably the least of the s*tstorm you guys just had to deal with :)
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by RowanH 4y ago
Ditto - I'm sitting here, wtf I'm not running Nginx on my blog, but I'm getting an Nginx response, hit IP directly....oooh.... right that doesn't make sense it's working fine. Cloudflare can't be down, that&#x2
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by RowanH 5y ago
Who on earth would take industrial CNC servos, wire 9 of them up to a hunk of metal, sit in it (at a non-zero risk of something electrically going wrong) and get thrown around on race car sims. Spending way too much mental energy than is he
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by RowanH 5y ago
8GB ram eh... multiple VM's running, VS Code, few browser windows (many tabs), Cypress, make sure spotify is going. I'm sitting at 22gb right now... and that's before firing up Android studio. Replicating prod environments wi
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by RowanH 5y ago
Well I'm sure there's always opposite stories - but mine is I just get tickets answered whenever which is important as I've often ticked at some ungodly hour in the US (being overseas). You get human responses and even when
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by RowanH 5y ago
I've used Linode for 10+ years with a handful of long running projects. Support in the rare occasion (until 1 slow ticket recently) has always been absolutely amazing - real humans. If Josh is reading this your name has come up on a fe
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by RowanH 5y ago
Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the
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by RowanH 5y ago
I have to agree. I'm a OG Rails dev looking and constantly compare the productivity of old school SSR sites compared to current complex SPA frameworks. People how tie themselves in knots, the UI interactions are tricky to get right, mo
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by RowanH 7y ago
.... actually for a more global perspective, they have been operating in New Zealand. Visiting Christchurch which is a fairly compact flat small city Lime's were the best thing ever to get around on. Living in Auckland, I haven't
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by RowanH 7y ago
Wait till you cross the ditch to New Zealand, our materials costs are through the roof...
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by RowanH 7y ago
Generally speaking we have taxes included in our pricing (often forgotten when doing conversions) and because small market we often get "taken for a ride" as there's limited volume. Not many people actually use the CGA, but i

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