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by _xnmw 3y ago
Reminded me of something I have been thinking about lately: a centralization-cost curve. The engineering problems that go into building things of a certain scale eventually become more expensive than simply breaking up the problem into smal
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by _xnmw 3y ago
I've been struggling with the Postgres vs. SQLite decision lately, especially since my app runs on a single server (and will likely continue that way for a long time) but the real reason I am still leaning towards Postgres is for the e
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Just for gaming or for work too?
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by _xnmw 3y ago
I am actually travelling to the US just to get this. I live in Europe too.
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Ask HN: Did you pre-order an Apple Vision Pro?
16 points by _xnmw 3y ago|9 comments
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by _xnmw 3y ago
There is a workaround. Apparently you can get one single laptop display but then you can use visionOS apps on the side. That is good enough for me.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
I was thinking the same, but from what I understand, you can only create one virtual display with a Mac. How are you planning to replace 5 monitors?
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Now all we need is for Amazon to come out with a "government-as-a-service" product for your budding nation state.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
> This didn’t exactly come as a surprise to us, as for the entirety of Kagi’s life so far we have actually used the cheapest, single-core database available to us on GCP! Wow, love that you guys are keeping it lean. Have you considered s
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by _xnmw 3y ago
As a simple soloprenuer full stack dev who's never worked on an application serving more than a few thousand users, I can understand and relate to all of the problems written about here (some very compelling arguments), found myself no
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by _xnmw 3y ago
In the spirit of a good offence is the best defence, etc., I wonder if there are any other ways to defend my website.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
War with Iran would be apocalyptic to proportions hard to imagine. For one, they could destroy oil infrastructure, and that would be far more destructive to world economies than the current blockading of the strait. That would also mean the
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by _xnmw 3y ago
So fail at another trillion dollar forever war?
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Lots of people wondering why we haven't wiped the pirates off the map yet. First of all, Saudi has been trying to do that for years (with US support) and failing. I think it shows how much leverage the Houthis have, and how much cheap
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by _xnmw 3y ago
I don't think it matters what the US decides to do here. It's a lost cause either way. If the last failed war in Afghanistan (and Vietnam) taught us anything, it's that native bootstrapped insurgency is impossible to stop, as
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by _xnmw 3y ago
And what guarantee can anyone give that this coalition is going to be any more successful than the last one was in Afghanistan?
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Wondering if 2024 will go down in history as the official start to WW3.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
So you're saying this is a fait accompli. Like many great innovations in tech, break the law because the law is silly; remember when Uber and AirBnB were illegal in most major cities and achieved market dominance anyway? I say, good ri
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by _xnmw 3y ago
The AI-powered rules thing is revolutionary. I can't even begin to imagine what it can do, but I'd rather it didn't just do it automatically, but rather put it into a queue for me to approve. I'd love an AI assistant to
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by _xnmw 3y ago
This is more important than it seems: without a common canon of things in a collective consciousness, you have nothing to talk about.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Best part was in the footnotes. > There was a time when average Americans could get together and, in one afternoon, build an entire barn. > Yes! A barn! Can you imagine average Americans doing that today? Not a chance! > They’d spe
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by _xnmw 3y ago
These are on almost every road in Ukraine, manned and stationed. Can’t speak to its effectiveness, but wouldn’t want to be without any.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Legitimate question: how do I get myself some IPv4 address space, and then how do I use it with my AWS, Hetzner, etc.?
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by _xnmw 3y ago
For the sake of not giving Microsoft and a few other tech giants immense power over the world, I really do hope the cost and efficiency of LLMs improve dramatically, until we can get GPT-4-equivalent models trained on a few graphics cards a
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Not nearly as convenient. Do you use Interac to pay for a $1.50 coffee regularly straight from your phone? Send money to a friend without needing to exchange emails/phone/passwords? Be completely fee-less no matter what bank you u
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by _xnmw 3y ago
This looks fantastic, I've been wanting to build something like this myself, due to the sheer lack of alternatives. Other purported "airtable clones" often lack filtering and grouping, the essence of Airtable.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Why does every macOS app need to run from the menubar? I already have about a dozen tiny icons there, and it is so difficult to squint and find something when I don't even know what it's supposed to look like. It is so much easier
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Seems like a semantic argument. Sure it might not be a cartel in the precise definition of the word meaning competitors colluding, but call it a gang if you like.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
In my view, Great Man Theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy with survival bias. Those who believe it are the most likely to take insane risks, and therefore most likely to end up at the head of some great movement, or die trying. All those g
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by _xnmw 3y ago
My question: why was my application denied (twice)? I'd love to get more detailed feedback.

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