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by jwr 3y ago
Today I run my own single-founder SaaS business, but a long, long time ago I used to do consulting and I did recruiting as well. Regardless of whether you think it's fair, if a consultant/recruiter has three CVs in front of her, s
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by jwr 3y ago
Worth mentioning: Newegg is another company that doesn't blink and goes after patent trolls with a vengeance, at least they used to: https://www.newegg.com/insider/newegg-vs-patent-trolls-when-...
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by jwr 3y ago
> an inventor should be able to try and get profit from their invention Well then, let the inventor try and get profit from their invention. An idea is never enough: it's the execution that matters, so let the inventor go forth and
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by jwr 3y ago
Incidentally, I am building my own lighting controllers, largely because everything that is out there on the market sucks. Most importantly, I didn't want any "online accounts" for managing my devices, I didn't want to &
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by jwr 3y ago
This is such an impressive engineering achievement. As someone who designs electronics and builds mechanical devices, I find this project spectacularly impressive!
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by jwr 3y ago
I don't mind the notch (I understand the reason it's there and it's a compromise), but it boggles my mind that Apple decided to just place the icons under the notch, where they aren't visible. This is a clear example of
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by jwr 3y ago
One sometimes gets to a second take on that: you don't want to make machines that kill people, until invaders from another country ride into your country (or a country of your friends/neighbors) and start killing, raping and tortu
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by jwr 3y ago
> the two have nothing in common Well, in my case at least, what they have in common is that I can choose to run my business on one or the other. So it's not about intuition, but rather facts in my case: I avoid spending a significa
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by jwr 3y ago
I do that. In fact I've been doing it for years, because every time I do the math, AWS is unreasonably expensive and my solo-founder SaaS would much rather keep the extra money. I think there is an unreasonable fear of "doing the
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by jwr 3y ago
HP calculators will only display the number of digits you specify and there is an RND function which will round the number to that number of digits. While it doesn't fulfill the criteria of "managing significant digits" (you
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by jwr 3y ago
On an M3 MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM, I can comfortably run 34B models like phind-codellama:34b-v2-q8_0. Unfortunately, having tried this and a bunch of other models, they are all toys compared to GPT-4.
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by jwr 3y ago
Yes, I should have been more precise (this is HN after all): tmux does everything I need. I don't use things like floating panes, nor do I intend to.
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by jwr 3y ago
I checked out Zellij a while ago, because it looked all shiny, but then realized that tmux (that I've been using for years) does everything that zellij does, except it is more widespread (runs on remote systems which are not the most r
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by jwr 3y ago
Why would that be astonishing? It's routine (EU).
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by jwr 3y ago
Alas, our spatial computing journey seems to have taken many steps back. Our OSs treat icons on our desktops as theirs to do with as they please, rather than ours to keep where we want them. Window positions are forgotten, new windows are
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by jwr 3y ago
It's more of a database-building toolkit than a storage engine. What you get is a distributed KV store with a strict serializable consistency model (see https://jepsen.io/consistency ) and very interesting versionstamp
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by jwr 3y ago
I think Aphyr helped a lot by creating this useful resource: https://jepsen.io/consistency which presents a clear classification of consistency models. I am not sure if talking about anything else in the context of distribu
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by jwr 3y ago
Healthy reminder that a pretty website and warm fuzzies all over do not make a distributed database actually work. I witnessed RethinkDB losing to MongoDB in spite of being significantly better. I am now worried that FoundationDB isn't
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by jwr 3y ago
Yes, I meant the one by Karen Berman. It's a fantastic book, very accessible, and worth reading for anyone interested in business.
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by jwr 3y ago
I highly recommend reading the excellent book "Financial Intelligence" if anyone wants to actually interpret these numbers. Having read the book, the section "Change in Useful Lives of Our Server and Network Equipment" i
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by jwr 3y ago
If only there was a way to magically pass extended modifier keys to Emacs over a terminal… It's the only thing stopping me from using Emacs remotely over a terminal: I really do need my Super modifier. Hyper I can live without, but bei
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by jwr 3y ago
Excellent piece of software, and relatively simple to use with gpg encryption. I've been using it for many years. My only complaint is that, like a lot of software written in Python, it has no regard for traditional UNIX behavior (keep
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by jwr 3y ago
My automated translations do have context and aren't bad at all. Not perfect, but not crappy either.
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by jwr 3y ago
Yes, definitely! I have been self-hosting everything for years now, and I'm very happy. Even a three-machine bare-metal cluster has impressive computing power and is difficult to grow out of. I can't envision growing out of a five
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by jwr 3y ago
Which one should I support in my (automatically translated) SaaS?
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by jwr 3y ago
> there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system Having written an interface to FoundationDB in preparation to moving my app over to it, I couldn't disagree more. Even "has proper indexes" is not some
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by jwr 3y ago
Snowflake is the big well-known user, but it seems there are many smaller production users as well. I'm planning to migrate to it. It's quite simply the best distributed database out there today.
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by jwr 3y ago
> except for extreme long range trips I'm writing this comment having just driven about 2000km-long trip with an EV :-) In cold climate (-5C). It's not my first long trip, either. My key observations (some were surprising to me
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by jwr 3y ago
So much wrong information in the comments here (or, rather, lack of information, because most comments are ill-informed). See for example https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-... for a good debunking
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by jwr 3y ago
> Google is pretty accurate in figuring out transactional versus marketing. They don't tell their heuristics, but you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers? Yes, I definitely think that. Th

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