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by jwr 2y ago
Thing is, many of those niche companies are single-founder businesses, where founders do not want to hire employees. Many reasons, not necessarily financial: in my case, I just got tired of dealing with people and their issues and decided I
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by jwr 2y ago
>$300k ARR is definitely doable with a B2B product and it lets you live comfortably in most places in the world without worrying about money. I think >$1M ARR is hard, you need an exceptional niche (high margin, low support load, easy
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by jwr 2y ago
Now compare the longevity and sustainability of this software product to VC-funded startups, which are more like blips on the radar before they disappear by going bankrupt or getting acquired. Having multiple people in a company does not gu
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by jwr 2y ago
Why in the world would anyone EVER want to stick user-supplied data into YAML to be interpreted? (setting aside the very relevant question of why would anyone ever want to use YAML at all)
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by jwr 2y ago
I revisited this discussion after 3h and now I'm even more terrified, because most (if not all) replies totally miss the point. Again: no computer system should ever interpret anything in the "last name" field. It should alwa
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by jwr 2y ago
This is terrifying, because it implies that so many computer systems interpret user-supplied data as what should be out-of-band values. No computer system should ever interpret what is in the "last name" field, it should be a sequ
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by jwr 2y ago
I started buying Macs with more memory, no regrets. An M4 Max with 64GB (in a laptop, no less!) runs most small models comfortably (but get 96GB or more if you really intend to use 70B models regularly). And when I'm not running LLMs,
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by jwr 2y ago
> Next you’ll tell me you don’t have snow days well, actually… :-)
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by jwr 2y ago
> if the spec as a whole is bad, all layers of the spec are bad, This discussion is intriguing. I wonder how many people commenting on "the spec" have actually read any part of "the spec" in question (I have). And sin
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by jwr 2y ago
Also, LukHash. He keeps the C64 music spirit alive.
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by jwr 2y ago
That kind of generalizing isn't helpful and isn't true, either. I am sorry you didn't have a "Bluetooth anything" that worked reliably. I did. In fact, everything that I own that uses Bluetooth works very well. Ther
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by jwr 2y ago
As an anectdotal data point, I live in Poland (Warsaw) and I can't remember the last time I had a power interruption at my home. I don't use UPSs at all, and my NAS gets years of uptime, unless I decide to reboot it. This gets muc
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by jwr 2y ago
> And most of that misses the goal of why you write software for a business. You write software for a company so someone will give them money for it or so the company can save money Hmm. I run a solo-founder SaaS business. I write softwa
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by jwr 2y ago
Yes, in fact I live in Japan right now. Warsaw (especially the center) is quite close. Certainly much closer than most cities in western Europe.
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by jwr 2y ago
Central European here (Poland). The bizarre and amazing thing is the change that's been happening in the region over the last 20 years or so: the large cities have become very clean. So, what you wrote stands true for smaller places, b
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by jwr 2y ago
I wish I could do this locally. I don't feel comfortable uploading all of my private documents to Google.
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by jwr 2y ago
What's worse, and what people gloss over, is that you have to sync your contacts to Facebook/Meta in order to use WhatsApp. That's a lot of very private information that tells them a lot about you. There is a reason why Faceb
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by jwr 2y ago
That's not new, and it isn't even the only city doing this, Warsaw has been doing it for a long time now: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wild-life-excerpt-wate...
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by jwr 2y ago
I still remember going crazy about bzip (the first one) and re-compressing all my data with it. And then I remember discovering, several years later, that bzip (the first one) is an obsolete format that is now difficult to even decompress.
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by jwr 2y ago
Red flags: no "pricing" page, I wasn't able to find a price at all. Database doesn't seem to be open. Perhaps I got the wrong impression, but I do not want to get locked into yet another product that will disappear in a
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by jwr 2y ago
Since you insist, I actually downloaded kitty again and tried it. And I confirmed that I disagree with "it's not as good as kitty". Within minutes I ran into a problem: tried to select a theme using 'kitten themes',
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by jwr 2y ago
Ghostty actually has a built-in drop-down terminal.
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by jwr 2y ago
> it's not as good as kitty I can answer that from a very pragmatic point of view. I was able to download ghostty and get it to run the way I expected in about 5 minutes. Everything was smooth, intuitive, and the defaults were very
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by jwr 2y ago
> moment.js has been obsolete for years. I've considered it as a sign of an unmaintained code for at least ~5 years by now. What's wrong with continuing to use moment.js in an application where it works well?
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by jwr 2y ago
"cross-platform" is interesting. I've been using Keyboard Maestro on MacOS (highly recommended, it does a lot of useful stuff) and this, in combination with UHK keyboards ( https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com ) and
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by jwr 2y ago
This is very cool and I intend to check on it from time to time. I use Clojure (and ClojureScript) all the time, and while performance on the JVM has never been an issue for me (the JVM is an impressive piece of engineering), I'm alway
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by jwr 2y ago
This is such great news! The best news of my day. She is standing in a brightly lit room and smiling! This is so much better than her condition before. Keeping my fingers crossed for a quick recovery!
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by jwr 2y ago
That is actually a really good suggestion! Thank you, I did not know about this project, and it is quite close to what I'm looking for. Perhaps I won't have to write all of the software myself!
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by jwr 2y ago
> except possibly of `multiple files as part of the same "image"` That's actually a fundamental requirement.
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by jwr 2y ago
There is a related problem, which I hit while scanning family archives going back slightly more than 100 years. There is no good photo archival software. If you now rushed to click "reply" to say that yes, of course there is, righ

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