jwr

40 ms·

751.
by jwr 2y ago
My recommendation would be: don't make your work be part of your identity, unless it's your work (e.g. your business). The work you do for others is not who you are. Your employer is not your family, nor even your friend. It&#x2
752.
by jwr 2y ago
I transmit a lot over websockets. Large messages and large amounts of data. I don't think it makes sense to move bigger messages to HTTP requests while keeping the websockets — I heard that advice, but if I am to do that, I'd rath
753.
by jwr 2y ago
My SaaS has been using WebSockets for the last 9 years. I plan to stop using them and move to very simple HTTP-based polling. I found that scalability isn't a problem (it rarely is these days). The real problem is crappy network equipm
754.
by jwr 2y ago
Not a typo. Most monitors are too low. You should not have to bend your neck to look at your monitor. But some office setups have other issues, such as chairs that are too low, or desks that are too high, in which case your monitor might en
755.
by jwr 2y ago
I would disagree with 1.5m, but I do recommend checking how close you are to your monitor. Let's assume you have a reasonably sized office monitor (27" or so). Extend your arm with your hand as a fist, forward. If your screen is c
756.
by jwr 2y ago
I think about software reliability a lot and try to generalize failure causes (I have about 30 years of experience designing and building systems). While I do have a number of top bug-causing patterns, the above comment is spot-on: unnecess
757.
by jwr 2y ago
Congratulations! From someone who does mixed electronics+mechanical design: this is hard . There are moments of desperation where you realize that everything depends on everything else, and there is no way to achieve all of your design goa
758.
by jwr 2y ago
Mostly benefiting the fossil fuel industry. How are they going to power this? Gas is the only option that can be implemented within single years. And this is going to need a lot of power. Who cares about the planet, anyway.
759.
by jwr 2y ago
There definitely is neglect and a slippery slope. The new settings are half-baked and terrible. The OS pesters me constantly to update to the latest revision and I can't turn those messages off, not even close the notification without
760.
by jwr 2y ago
I should probably have a pre-defined disclaimer "signature" whenever I write about Mac OS, since I always get this response. I know Linux exists. In fact, I've been using it as my primary OS roughly from 1994 to 2006, and sin
761.
by jwr 2y ago
This article made me even more sad than I already was. I've just been reading about Bambu Lab (a leading 3d printer manufacturer, who introduced really good 3d printers a couple of years ago and really shook up the entire market) sel
762.
by jwr 2y ago
Oh, good to know! I didn't manage to find this one. But this one is $100 in the US, and $120 in some other places. Which is quite a bit of additional money to pay on top of your camera, which already has USB and should just provide a v
763.
by jwr 2y ago
> a $50 USB capture card and a $20 HDMI cable Are there any USB-connectable capture devices that can process 4K? Everything I see tries really hard to hide the fact that while they can input 4K, they can only produce 1920x1080.
764.
by jwr 2y ago
The thing is, nobody cares. As long as consumers keep making uneducated choices and companies keep copying one another, that's what we will be getting, and honestly, that's what we deserve. After all, people watch "reviews&qu
765.
by jwr 2y ago
I guess it depends on what you're looking for. I would also like to get everything FREE FREE FREE, but I've grown tired of using software and services whose goals are not aligned with mine. I don't want ads, progressive ensh*
766.
by jwr 2y ago
I agree with author's frustrations. So many things could be better if people cared and did the right thing. Japan is indeed slightly better in this regard: the work culture emphasizes doing your job as well as you possibly can, no matt
767.
by jwr 2y ago
Old Sonos hardware works great with Roon. I am very annoyed at the planned obsolescence that Sonos has been pushing for a while now. I stopped buying new Sonos hardware, I'm still using all my old hardware, just not with the terrible S
768.
by jwr 2y ago
I've been using a Bernoulli bandit for many years now. Like the original author, I am not quite sure why more people don't use it — for all practical purposes, if you have stuff to do, it is superior to simple A/B testing in
769.
by jwr 2y ago
> I can get by with putting staff "on call". (Pay the existing staff a bonus for out of hours etc.) There is a big difference between just winging something (and then hearing people complain on HN about how they have to work cr
770.
by jwr 2y ago
> SSO is an example of an "enterprise" feature with almost zero cost basis Certainly not. Having looked at SSO recently in my SaaS, both implementation and maintenance costs were very significant. The usual answer is "ju
771.
by jwr 2y ago
Yes, I think this is perpendicular to my comment. I stopped arguing about language superiority a long time ago, my comments were intended to reflect my own journey only.
772.
by jwr 2y ago
I'm puzzled as to why people rage about Twitter and Facebook going down the drain, and then switch to new services like Bluesky or Threads and try to convince everyone to do the same. I mean, why on earth would you expect anything diff
773.
by jwr 2y ago
Ok, that explains why babashka wasn't suitable. I still wonder, though, about the requirement to have an executable. I still remember many years of reading comp.lang.lisp, where the #1 complaint of newcomers was that "common lisp
774.
by jwr 2y ago
That is a very interesting journey — mine was exactly opposite, after many years with Common Lisp, I moved to Clojure and wouldn't even think of going back. I find it intriguing that the author would want to move in the other direction
775.
by jwr 2y ago
What is amazing for me is that these sales tactics actually work , because many people want to be sold to in this way. Do the direct approach with no bullsh*t, instant demo, meaningful trial period, easy onboarding, etc and lose those cust
776.
by jwr 2y ago
This. And to expand on the above: few people consider how much it actually costs to provide 12- or 4- hour support with a strict SLA. This pretty much means that the business needs to bear the full loaded cost of at least one additional emp
777.
by jwr 2y ago
It results in unreliable joints that will cause problems over time.
778.
by jwr 2y ago
Use a higher temperature and plenty of flux (I like flux pens), and you'll be fine. Leaded isn't actually a significant health risk for you, so you might as well go with that. It's not like you are going to breathe in lead. I
779.
by jwr 2y ago
That is certainly possible, I don't know yet. But what I have noticed is that it is only past 40 that I started doing things that matter, and I learned to recognize things that do not need doing or that should not be done. This goes ac
780.
by jwr 2y ago
These comments are spot-on as far as physical health is concerned. Make an effort and you'll significantly improve your quality of life. I'd say you don't necessarily need to run marathons or triathlons, though, and I'd

More ›