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by dlevine 2y ago
There are a bunch of comments about how this is the default experience now. It's only the default experience if you buy the ads-free version. Since I don't want to pay extra to disable the ads, the trick I figured out is to buy th
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by dlevine 2y ago
I really enjoyed Factfulness by Hans Rosling et al. Potentially a bit dated now, but A New Kind of Science by Wolfram was pretty eye opening.
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by dlevine 2y ago
The use case I'm working with right now is eCommerce. Landing pages need to be served as quickly as possible to score highly on various page speed SEO metrics. I have seen a number of server-side implementations that need to have most
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by dlevine 2y ago
The first time you server a page with a SSR-framework, it will be slow, and subsequently it will be fast when it is served from cache. What I have seen is that, depending on the number of pages and frequency that each page is accessed, it m
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by dlevine 2y ago
In some ways, React on the server is worse than PHP. Server-side rendering of client-side code adds a ton of complexity, and can even introduce performance issues that must be worked around before the app can be launched (e.g. needing to pr
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by dlevine 2y ago
I have been screwing around with ESP01s lately (based on the ESP8266, which is the predecessor to the ESP32). It’s amazing how much power you get in a <$5 microcontroller, plus WiFi.
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by dlevine 2y ago
Looks like a good start! I'm sure you are already working on this, but it would be nice to be able to filter my search by various criteria (e.g. Beds/Baths/Price/Square Footage). Since you guys are an AI company, this co
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by dlevine 2y ago
I have watched way too much Steztix Fix on YouTube - it’s kind of addicting to watch people fix things). On that channel,he manages to fix all sorts of things with commodity tools, including a cheap microscope, hot air rework station, and s
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by dlevine 2y ago
I paid ~$100 for my Hakko FX888D, and have had had that for almost 10 years. Looking on the Internet, the price hasn't gone up much. Not sure whether this (for $250 including the power supply) is a class above that. The repairability i
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by dlevine 2y ago
I lived through that time (was in high school and college). It was pretty neat to read about the Internet and web browsers in Newsweek, but we didn’t have it at home for a few years. Then it was just a 28.8 dial up connection that dropped r
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by dlevine 2y ago
I know multiple people who did 15+ years at Google or other big tech cos, and got let go despite having consistently good performance reviews. Those companies figured they could be replaced with younger and much cheaper people (or not repla
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by dlevine 2y ago
The other outcomes are a redesign and more configurability plus a bunch of new features. It wasn't really an apples to apples comparison. The non-iFrame version was more of a 1.1, where the new thing we are building is a 2.0. Based on
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by dlevine 2y ago
We ended up using a reverse proxy since we wanted each product page to have a separate URL. Basically /shop/* would resolve to our React app, which rendered the correct page based on the URL. You could configure this pretty easily
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by dlevine 2y ago
I work for a company that enables businesses to drop eCommerce into their websites. When I started, this was done via a script that embedded an iFrame. This wasn't great for SEO, and some competitors started popping up with SEO-optimiz
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by dlevine 2y ago
After 20+ years in tech, the only time I have ever seen a developer fired for making a mistake was when he leaked credentials because he used one of our repos as the base for an interview project at another company (on a day when he was all
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by dlevine 2y ago
It has been a decade or so since I read The Singularity is Near. From what I remember, Kurzweil said that technologies will increase exponentially once they become linked to the exponential increase in computing power. Now that Moore's
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by dlevine 2y ago
The variant with the 8-core GPU is most likely also a binned version of the 10-core GPU variant. It's a lot easier to enable/disable cores than to produce different silicon for minor spec differences. It may be that Apple's y
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by dlevine 2y ago
I have been curious about this for a while, particularly in relation to the increasing cost of training LLMs. I was recently talking to a friend who works on the AI team for one of the large tech companies, and I asked him this directly. He
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by dlevine 2y ago
I fairly recently used Shadow DOM for a project. We built a widget that was embedded in a web page, and that page could be arbitrarily styled. The outside page was typically a Wordpress theme, which in most cases did all kind of nasty thing
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by dlevine 3y ago
These are the most expensive job markets and the company is trying to reduce labor costs.
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by dlevine 3y ago
A relative of mine works for a large tech company. Her manager has 2 open reqs on the team. However, he has been told that he can’t hire anyone in California or New York. This is not to say that there are no qualified candidates elsewhere,
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by dlevine 3y ago
There was a good article on this in the New Yorker a while back: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-f... It's sad that the drug didn't work (and I had a cousin recently
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by dlevine 3y ago
I upgraded my 10 year old PC to Ryzen 5000 a couple of years back, and have never really looked back. Sure, it wasn't that long until 7000 supplanted it, but my PC is still just fine, and will likely be for the next 7 years or so (the
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by dlevine 3y ago
Not mentioned in the article (but present in the original source) is that non-plugin hybrids have 26% fewer problems than ICE cars - I wonder why this is.
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by dlevine 3y ago
Additionally, even if we could remove carbon from the system scale, it's not like everything would magically reset to where it was. We are seeing changes (e.g. extinctions) that aren't really undoable. With that said, I'm sur
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by dlevine 3y ago
Back when I was in college, people would go dumpster diving for the really old analog oscilloscopes with the green tubes. They would hook them up to their stereos in spectrum analyzer mode. We would use the ones like this to actually do wor
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by dlevine 3y ago
I went to buy lunch today, and the shop was like "we are only taking cash right now." I didn't have any cash, so I went to a different place across the street. That place was only taking cash because their Square machine was
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by dlevine 3y ago
Imperial College has a pretty good course on Linear Algebra for Machine Learning on Coursera. It's part of their Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization. Deep Learning also has a course that appears to be similar. The specializ
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by dlevine 3y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | US - Remote-only Technologies: Wordpress/PHP/React I work for an e-Commerce company that powers a significant percentage of the online cannabis shopping in the US. We have a Wordpress plugin that makes it easy
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by dlevine 3y ago
At my first job out of university, we were deploying applications on Solaris servers. I had been using emacs as a text editor, and these servers only had vim installed. I mentioned installing emacs to my manager, and he said that learning v

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