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by etimberg 2y ago
Agreed. There are a ton of edge cases and auto instrumentation basically doesn't work. I love Honeycomb but the setup for DataDog is 100x easier
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by etimberg 2y ago
I have experience using this back when I worked for a startup that did distribution grid optimization. The specs are unfortunately useless in practice because while the terminology is standardized the actual use of each object and how to re
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by etimberg 2y ago
My point is that the app does that for free even from a distance. It’s simply website access that costs even though it should have 0 more marginal cost
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by etimberg 2y ago
Similar problems exist with the Nanit baby camera. It’s free to view the camera from the app but to view it from their website costs money. That being said if you know how to run docker you can just proxy the video feed to vlc pretty easily
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by etimberg 2y ago
Never had that experience while I was there, but about a year after I left the entire office I was in was closed and everyone laid off
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by etimberg 2y ago
The code archaeology was probably the most fun part for me but I had so much free time to do that because my projects were mostly maintenance as well
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by etimberg 2y ago
Some highlights that I remember include: * One project where the CI took something like 48 hours * Trying to apply waterfall hardware engineering processes to software development * Mostly hiring devs fresh from university so there was a to
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by etimberg 2y ago
Not surprising. I worked at NI for my first job out of university and developing software there was so painful
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by etimberg 2y ago
One thing that i think is clear from the responses here is that it’s going to be a long time before software engineering is like other engineering disciplines.
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by etimberg 2y ago
To me, the olympics are about determining who is best at a sport. It's not a technical problem like a car race where bending the rules with creative engineering is expected and encouraged.
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by etimberg 2y ago
Why not just have the Olympic host supply the same bike model to every participant rather than having each rider bring their own bike?
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by etimberg 2y ago
Similar problem for me. It seems like most folks near me do a lot of contesting which I have neither the time nor the interest to do.
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by etimberg 2y ago
Very cool project. Way back in the day I was on the team that built https://www.multisim.com/ so I've got some experience in EDA tool design. A couple of things that I noticed at first: 1. Placing components is rather
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by etimberg 2y ago
I would; it's a lot easier to use and reason about. that being said, it feels like we've come full circle back to the early 00s with form posts for submitting changes rather than fetch/xhr
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Boeing plane investigated after 'Dutch roll'(bbc.com)
3 points by etimberg 2y ago|1 comments
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by etimberg 2y ago
IMO even the types are annoying because null is opt-out rather than opt-in
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by etimberg 2y ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/ > Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions > May 21, 2024 - 12:45 UTC
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by etimberg 2y ago
I remember buying a used Zire 72 off a friend in highschool. Was a great device; I think I still have it sitting in a box somewhere
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by etimberg 2y ago
Same. Honestly a bit surprised, in a good way, thst my site made it. I didn’t think anyone read it
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by etimberg 2y ago
At a previous job I helped build a hyper local method of computing spot prices to enable lots of cool ideas. We could compute unbalanced prices on the distribution grid and had a pilot project where DERs were priced based on how the influen
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Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet(bbc.com)
4 points by etimberg 2y ago|0 comments
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by etimberg 3y ago
It's typical tech hubris to think that all these problems are so simple.
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by etimberg 3y ago
Sounds like the EU needs to give Apple the Microsoft treatment and threaten to split it apart. Have the App store business be completely separate from everything else
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by etimberg 3y ago
Toronto has one. https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-to...
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by etimberg 3y ago
It still does. Close to $3000 a month where I am
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Asbestos in drinking water: An overlooked health risk?(bbc.com)
21 points by etimberg 3y ago|6 comments
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by etimberg 3y ago
Early in my career I saw the aftermath of someone trying to deal with this problem. The solution they went with was to replace all allocations in the offending code with a custom allocator and then just throw the allocator away every so oft
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by etimberg 3y ago
Modern cars have no trouble starting down to -20C. My 10 year old car was parked outside all of last winter and never had trouble starting even on the coldest days
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by etimberg 3y ago
Unfortunately for consumers repairability would harm efforts to treat cars like subscriptions so I doubt EV manufacturers care
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by etimberg 3y ago
> Canvas has some text APIs, but they are fairly rudimentary That's an understatement for sure. `measureText` is not even close to feature parity with where windows apis were 25 years ago. Or something like text underlines has to be

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