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by harlanji 6y ago
Since the pandemic I’ve been effectively off grid in the city. Kind of interesting Recently Verizon cut me off (despite their promise not to) and their agents don’t seem to understand the concept of my not having enough power to call them a
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by harlanji 6y ago
Anyone else get boxed in by Waymos throughout their daily routine? I’m a former software engineer now homeless in SF, and man do I feel like a Truman with these things sometimes. God willing, I’ll document the formations I’ve seen and see i
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by harlanji 6y ago
I make a new playlist each year. I seed it with some stuff, and it’s locked in place at the end of the year. Same Spotify handle as HN. Add a song here and there, perfect the flow, make sure it shuffles.
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by harlanji 6y ago
I worked on a chat app where we designed in some limitations that emulated the feel of an older era. Maybe the next MySpace will be kinda slow. SD Cards, PO Boxes, eventual consistency, widely adopted formats? Oh my.
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by harlanji 6y ago
I always have to throw in the homeless angle, but when people expect me to be able to produce out of the back of a Honda Civic with a ghetto rigged 15A/120W circuit + 30W solar and no tint and priviously no license or insurance (anxiet
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by harlanji 6y ago
Very true. I unwisely chose an employer and my life has been increasingly harsh and lately scary, and the snowball of problems grows and rolls down the hill. OpenTable, don’t work or them.
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by harlanji 6y ago
There’s a model of software based around shipping events around, and subscriptions between systems. The purposes of separation are at least a couple important, perhaps you know. Each has a DB, often embedded, that is suitable and materializ
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by harlanji 6y ago
I’ve been living in my car in SF for about 915 days, on less than $18k/yr take home. I’m so poor that I can barely get hired to a minimum wage job (“but you have a car,” “but you have an iPhone”). Everything I have is left over from a
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by harlanji 6y ago
Tires last about 60k+ miles or 4-8yrs, and cars last about 200k+ miles. Tires lose about 1/2 inch of a 22 inch or so diameter on about a 10 inch wide tire before they go bad.
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by harlanji 6y ago
I’m glad others out there see it this way. I made a minor mistake, and a former employer and manager used it to make me totally unable to work again by blowing it up as much as possible. It’ll blow back on them eventually, but in the meanti
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by harlanji 6y ago
I see some open source authors having success with Patreon. I’ve been trying off and on since 2017, I think what I’ve lacked is production quality and consistent updates. Getting crowd funding is a job ontop of just developping, no doubt.
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by harlanji 6y ago
Having worked with a few container systems, and ported apps between them, I’d say Docker based images with 12 factor app patterns make porting very strait forward. It was a great intro to container systems, my first I think. K8s was last fo
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by harlanji 6y ago
I have gotten pretty comfortable fixing stuff myself. I almost want to stock replacement everything for my ‘16 SE. I don’t break it much, and I’ve got some razor’s edge stories. Super cheap, come with all the tools. Done screen w/ full
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by harlanji 6y ago
What I’m saying is that the statement “and they apologized” is true and very significant. It’s extremely uncommon to get that much. Picturing a job interview scenario. People are all emotion and that fragment does the job. Not picturing IRC
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by harlanji 6y ago
Awesome, maybe the best thing I’ve seen since EDN. I might have to adopt this if EDN is too hard for my audience. Looks like converting to native Clojure data right after reading and back before display/storage should be easy enough. A
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by harlanji 6y ago
At very least the action is something to point to, and maintain reputation. Almost 5 years ago a hostile employer did this to me and since then most of my huge former network built over 15+ years have stopped associating with me and are sta
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by harlanji 6y ago
I literally just got my app going on a tethered RasPi this morning (via SSH + screen). Now I need to do this as a target? No rest for the wicked. Thanks.
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by harlanji 6y ago
This nails my annoyance with going from low-middle income with generations old stuff to $200k/yr rich and with a sense for getting stuff that will last (relative value), to homeless where people want to throw cheap garbage at me. Silve
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by harlanji 6y ago
I keep forgetting about Fiverr. There’s a way to dip toes in. Could make a .com landing page that pushes interested parties to the Fiverr job page.
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by harlanji 6y ago
Slightly higher compression engines, perhaps <2L high RPM, like sub-compacts or maybe motorcycles. I’ve had rentals, don’t recall. Hyundai?
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by harlanji 6y ago
Closes the market to external power banks. Perhaps add a bit to detect the type of power supply.
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by harlanji 6y ago
Nice. Here’s a fun demo that I just recorded from that site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ji9xvlIE50
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by harlanji 6y ago
Any concrete recommendations for building a SaaS or consultancy around a stack of open source tech with a given theme (anyone)? I whole heartedly agree, but then feel like a snake oil salesman without showing what it actually does as part o
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by harlanji 6y ago
I’ve no way to upgrade iOS beyond 11 and miss the stock software and more. Video editing currently not possible with stock app, nor SoundCloud. No OTA upgrade nor iTunes, until I have clean cheap power and strong Internet access. Used to ge
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by harlanji 6y ago
Imagine water is the seat of memory and each time one showers they are blasted with the collective memories absorbed from everywhere that the water has been. Same idea would extend to fresh air, nature and anywhere that there’s immersion in
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by harlanji 6y ago
I ran a 24x7 live stream at 720p on a pi3, that I also downsampled to 360 and 240 concurrently with hardware via ffmpeg compiled with omx support via nginx-rtmp to HLS. The origin stream was from a hardware HDMI capture out of the pi that I
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by harlanji 6y ago
It’s mind boggling how much can happen in 100ms. That’s 6,000 protobuf kafka messages consumed in clojure, deserialized, serialized, sent and acknowledged in 2015 aws. Upgrading a task caused fraction of million message backlogs at times, q
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by harlanji 6y ago
Couldn’t read the full article, paywall. But I’m homeless and have 2 years of receipts. Cash is all I need, $750/2wk. Almost saved enough to get housing twice but faced setbacks. As an educated professional, there is no expression for
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by harlanji 6y ago
Print to PDF and convert to web page? I’d be interested to know if the JPGs move through that one untouched.
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by harlanji 6y ago
I just recorded a voice memo this morning with an inspired idea related to this. Water in a box, pee into the box, poop into compost bags, collect and restock weekly. I’ve done manual labor digging trenches, working with construction, all t

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