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by cschneid 3y ago
$1.2 million seems so low of a dollar amount, for an multi year effort. Isn't that just like... 1 engineer's salary? $150k/year, 1.5x multiplier to account for benefits and other expenses of hiring somebody.
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by cschneid 3y ago
I was watching a bit of youtube this morning, and there was a wendy's ad. It ended with "All this for $5!" as the final pitch for whatever meal it was. If they do dynamic pricing, they'll cut themselves off from that kin
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by cschneid 3y ago
that is a different case. That was a payment on a real debt, just earlier than intended (and due to a mistake). The top comment was talking about money that wasn't even billed. They don't have any actual service or product it was
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by cschneid 3y ago
My dad was in a similar situation ~10 years ago. Stage 4 lung cancer, although a different underlying mutation (ALK). Prognosis was less than a year. But he got on some new-at-the-time inhibitor drugs (Crizotinib iirc) which eliminated (&qu
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by cschneid 3y ago
The best solution would probably be one of those micro "laptops" like a GPD Pocket. I think it has the ports needed... a few usbs really. My current setup is VNC from ipad to the rpi for ham radio stuff. It works well enough, with
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by cschneid 3y ago
Similarly, I saw some youtube videos just the other day talking about intel's (newish?) N100 chip. You can pick up a small mini pc for under $150 new, runs windows or linux, and is on-par speed-wise with the 8500 iirc. Plenty fast for
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by cschneid 3y ago
Chase gave me a stack of ¥2000 notes when I pre-obtained some cash in the States before a trip. That caused some confusion when I got there and tried to buy a suica card. And I didn't even realize what was going on until a local cowork
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by cschneid 3y ago
1. That worked after some tweaking. 2. I had to lower the context window size to get LM Studio to load it up. 3. LM Studio has two distinct checkboxes that both say "Apple Metal GPU". No idea if they do the same thing.... Thanks a
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by cschneid 3y ago
Data Point: I am currently having issues getting Mixtral Q4_K_M running in LMStudio on my 32gb M1 Max. I'm trying Q3 to see if it fits. I can have it run in on 'cpu' which is very slow, but offloading to the GPU runs out of m
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by cschneid 3y ago
That doesn't kill LG OLEDs thought, that results in a nearly black screensaver (just a small slow "firework" effect). Wastes a touch more energy than turning the tv into sleep mode (since nothing actually turns off anymore),
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by cschneid 3y ago
as far as I can tell, it only executes the trace when asked. It's not an APM like newrelic. Most likely the trace meaningfully slows down the individual request. When I was at ScoutAPM, we built a version of this that was stochastic in
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by cschneid 3y ago
Can I ask for a real example of it? I'm a senior dev, worked in software for ~18 years now. We work in a medium to large sized Rails codebase, with some idioms for things like logging and error handling that have been built over time.
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by cschneid 3y ago
I recently had a 6 month stint using hello fresh, and now cancelled. I find it's really useful to get out of a rut, and teach you some small tricks. This recent one has me: * Using much more citrus, juice & zest * Chickpeas + spice
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by cschneid 3y ago
When I worked at ScoutAPM, that list is basically the exact areas where we had issues supporting. We didn't do full-on tracing in the OpenTracing kind of way, but the agent was pretty similar, with spans (mostly automatically inserte
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by cschneid 3y ago
There's a common complaint I see across many local housing discussions, which goes something like: "We need affordable housing, but we shouldn't build to become <nearest metro>!" and of course the shorter "We&
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by cschneid 3y ago
I have a fun little addin board for my 7300 - https://www.radioanalog.com/ptrx-7300/ - Install was pretty straight forward, maybe 10 minutes. It taps the internal wiring to grab IQ output, suitable to then feed into a
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by cschneid 3y ago
Not sure on the fees part of that - cash handling itself is expensive, both for direct reasons, and anti-theft reasons. Anywhere from time spent counting drawers to full-on armored car service. All of that is expensive, and not present when
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by cschneid 3y ago
I've seen similar situations too. It seems that people see minor social transgressions like littering as a percentage of guilt. Already 20 pieces of junk on the ground, whatever, one more is 5% of the total. Nothing there, My thing wou
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by cschneid 3y ago
What's the current state of database access? Last I looked a while back Diesel was really cool, but didn't play nice w/ Async.
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by cschneid 3y ago
For shelves, he's using a track system from home depot that I was looking at for a different project - it has 16 and even 20" deep shelf options.
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by cschneid 3y ago
Fun video. I enjoy this angle of hacker news - where it really is somebody going unnecessarily deep into some tech. Not for practical use, but just because it's there.
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by cschneid 3y ago
Plus we have a demon horse at the airport. Really spices things up.
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by cschneid 3y ago
Some less than fully formed thoughts, but what I think: I'd say Colorado is (at least) 3 different states in a trenchcoat. 1. Cities mostly clustered together. The state is sort of weird geographically. Giant open plains to the east, a
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by cschneid 3y ago
I haven't tried it, but I believe you can even get them into bare zigbee mode, entirely disconnected from the Hue system. At which point, Home Assistant and similar systems can control them directly.
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by cschneid 3y ago
I'm on Fort Collins internet right now - branded 'Connexion'. I have 1 gigabit per second symmetric, for $70/mo. It's more stable & reliable than Comcast's was, and the time I had to call tech support, I ha
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by cschneid 3y ago
That's cool, thanks for the code pointer. I knew I was probably wrong in the strictest sense, especially with all the work that's gone into the various approaches to JIT and performance work in Ruby. I should go read some of the i
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by cschneid 3y ago
Sorta? Like you're right, there's not compiled machine code that does a jump. But Ruby's case statement has nice semantics to make clear code out of what could be a complex if/elsif/else chain. The use of the === fu
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by cschneid 3y ago
I moved us up from 2.4 to 2.7 last year trivially. Basically just changing the version base in our dockerfile. A few gems had to go up too, to support the kwargs changes. But like... 1 day of work. I'm looking to go to 3.x soon too, af
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by cschneid 3y ago
Not literally, but in style. They are clearly trees. But they exist in a large underground network of roots, and spawn trunks upwards over that large area, not unlike how many funguses do. Convergent evolution of an approach to life.
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by cschneid 3y ago
Cost of living is weird, since it ignores the fact that shopping on Amazon costs the same everywhere. I imagine it'd result in feeling like physical goods are incredibly cheap vs anything that requires local labor (restaurants, private

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