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by alberth 3y ago
> ” Timing on Apple M1 Macbook Pro” Given that its become increasingly more common for CPUs to have both Performance & Efficency cores … how do benchmarks ensure they are only being run on the P-cores?
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by alberth 3y ago
SQLite being 11th seems extremely low on the chart. Then again, the methodology isnt measuring what you’d expect. Like usage. https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition
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by alberth 3y ago
How does Neovim do release numbering?
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by alberth 3y ago
Mozilla seems to be in a lose-lose situation with HN crowd. When they attempt to diversify their revenue with VPN, email tokenization, etc, (things not tied to Google revenue) … HN crowd ridicules them for not being focused on gaining brows
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by alberth 3y ago
Oxide Computer uses it, I think https://oxide.computer/
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by alberth 3y ago
On iPhone, it's more than just the grey background that gets the noise. The noise is being applied to everything on the screen (like buttons, sliders, etc). It might be more readable if the noise was only on the background grey. Just
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by alberth 3y ago
Is there any comparison to be made between Plan 9 and Fuchsia (Google's OS)? https://fuchsia.dev This might be orthogonal but doesn't Go Lang (another Google creation) have roots in Plan 9.
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by alberth 3y ago
YC has a long history with Calendar apps. See Kiko. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kiko
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by alberth 3y ago
It dramatically reduces readability for me. Not a fan, even though it might look “nice”. (As viewed on an iPhone)
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by alberth 3y ago
CHANGED
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by alberth 3y ago
I thought Litestar was the recommendation these days over FastAPI. Is it not? https://litestar.dev/
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by alberth 3y ago
I go the other extreme and do below as commit messages. https://keepachangelog.com Makes creating change logs super easy & clear. Which is prefacing each commit with either: ADDED for new features. CHANGED for changes
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by alberth 3y ago
> ”After Netscape internet technologies went through a dark age without innovation until Chrome” No innovation came pre-Chrome? Like KHTML (or WebKit) … or Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox?
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by alberth 3y ago
Same.
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by alberth 3y ago
It’ll be like AI. Where it’ll be under active development for 50+ years, without any major application. Then “ChatGPT” will come along and be the big unlock for its area.
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by alberth 3y ago
> ”Note the subtle shift” It’s not subtle. It’s overt & being externally communicated. Wall Street this past year began crushing non-profitable companies. The pendulum has swung back from the years where growth was all that mattere
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by alberth 3y ago
It’s the same reason why Nintendo does so well relative to PS/XBox. It doesn’t have to be all about high-end graphics. Plot, game play, fun is what’s most important for a large segment of gamers.
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by alberth 3y ago
Interesting Pricing strategy (for Incident.io) Plan A: $16 (month/user) Plan B: $10,000+ Call Us Plan C: Call Us Those are some of the steepest price cliffs I’ve ever come across. https://incident.io/pricing#plan-compar
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by alberth 3y ago
0 favorites for me. Been on HN 12-years.
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by alberth 3y ago
People seem to constantly confuse biometrics. As your post implies, it should be a username … not a password.
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by alberth 3y ago
Small correction, wasn’t nginx in base from 5.1-5.4 https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/services/webserver/nginx/#:~... .
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by alberth 3y ago
This is hugely dependent upon company size. CTO skills needed for a 10-person company is radically different than a 10,000-person company.
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by alberth 3y ago
Thanks for your insights as always. Related to (b), any thoughts on Rustler? My understanding it’s used extensively at Discord to eliminate Erlang/OTP performance bottlenecks. https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
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by alberth 3y ago
> ”So you have a situation where a person creates a work, a large rights owner buys it up, and then they get to milk all the benefits while preventing the public from having their rightful free access.” The root of your argument seems
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by alberth 3y ago
iCloud is free (up to 5GB). That seems fair. https://www.apple.com/icloud/#:~:text=Is%20there%20a%20free%... . Which mobile platform provides unlimited/better for no cost?
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by alberth 3y ago
@toast0, would you still use Erlang/OTP today? If so, for what kind of apps. If not anymore, what would you use instead.
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by alberth 3y ago
iCloud. Dropbox is a close 2nd, but won’t do everything you described (like download folder) - but iCloud will.
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by alberth 3y ago
Source: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ Is it normal for Non-Profits to not the include Income Statement in their financials? Because Mozilla doesn’t. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozi
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by alberth 3y ago
Wasn’t Amazon.com a massive C web app for a surprisingly long time.
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by alberth 3y ago
I never understood why httpd is included in the base of OpenBSD, by an OS that strips all non-essential code out for sake of security.

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