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by jwr 3y ago
I get plenty of spam through Gmail, and there is no easy way to report it, it also doesn't seem like they are the least bit interested in tackling the problem. I wish they took a closer look at themselves and also applied these kinds
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by jwr 3y ago
The article didn't mention erasure coding (fountain/raptor codes) and I'm wondering if the significance of this result applies to their usability or not.
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by jwr 3y ago
No, except in random comments on HN sometimes. Perhaps indeed I should write it all up.
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by jwr 3y ago
Solo bootstrapper here (8 years now). All good advice, to which I would add: don't build B2C, only B2B. And any subscription plan should be above $50/month.
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by jwr 3y ago
Scandit customer here. Their stuff works well. The only drawbacks are reliance on npm and frequently changing APIs.
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by jwr 3y ago
Data point: my MacBook Pro 16" with the M3 Max (64GB) runs 34b model inference about as fast (or slightly faster) as ChatGPT runs GPT-4. I am now running phind-codellama:34b-v2-q8_0 through ollama and the experience is very good. All t
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by jwr 3y ago
Really happy to see that! One thing I'm always worried about when I develop one-offs myself is what happens if I'm not there to service/update/maintain the thing. For some apps (like family photo archives) this matters a
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by jwr 3y ago
Well, Jepsen has a reputation for finding problems in pretty much every database they test and has become a sort of a benchmark by now. Many people (including myself) won't consider a distributed database if it hasn't been put thr
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by jwr 3y ago
So, is it Jepsen-tested?
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by jwr 3y ago
Fantastic words of encouragement! It's always better to do nothing and criticize from the sidelines, right? My first thought when I looked at this project was the words of one Linus Torvalds more than 30 years ago (and yes, I remember
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by jwr 3y ago
I've been using SpamAssassin since, well, forever, in internet terms. My recent facepalm moment was when I noticed that E-mails from the Playdate developer forum (Playdate is a really cool tiny gaming console) land in my spam folder, b
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by jwr 3y ago
Well, I'm really attached to my emacs-mac binaries, which get a lot of details right — but the "ape" approach worked fine, thanks!
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by jwr 3y ago
I get the same vfork message on Apple Silicon (M3), even though I can run the llamafile from the command line. And I can't find an "assimilate" binary for my machine.
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> returning completely unrelated products like an umbrella in a search for laundry detergent in the top 3 results Actually… Consider this: the goal for the E-commerce site is to make more money. If showing unrelated products in search re
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by jwr 3y ago
I can explain this. About 15 years ago or so, together with a friend, we started a company whose goal was to offer a working product search for E-commerce. Faceting was just one aspect of the problem, a much more pressing issue for non-Engl
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by jwr 3y ago
I would gladly pay this price as a monthly subscription , if only I could get a maintained CSS library that lets me build applications on a level similar to Semantic UI, with the ability to customize or theme components. I don't want
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It can kind-of be monetized, but Google isn't just about monetization, it's about control. That's why we get stuff like AMP or more and more limiting version of Chrome pushed down our throats. RSS is way too open and difficul
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RSS is not aligned with Google's business goals.
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I don't think there is a framework out there that does what I need it to do, but I'd be happy to learn — which ones did you specifically have in mind?
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by jwr 3y ago
> A pain for these users, but they have at least two workable solutions. Using Android or installing Signal Desktop somewhere. (yes, caveat, you need to do that before losing your phone) "These users" don't even have a des
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by jwr 3y ago
I think you are confirming my point. "without consideration for practical requirements" I can tell you that my daughter cared about this. She cried for a long time when her phone just suddenly died (while charging, no reason, tota
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It does not on iOS, and the webpage you linked to specifically states that.
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That solution won't let me encrypt my backups, I think. Incidentally, Signal is another example of an impractical solution being pushed without consideration for practical requirements. Signal will LOSE ALL YOUR DATA if your phone (iOS
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by jwr 3y ago
On a somewhat related note: GnuPG gets plenty of hate from the crypto crowd for being "obsolete" and insecure. I would humbly propose that before you go telling everyone to stop using gpg, implement something that works, builds, a
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by jwr 3y ago
Oh, that's a great list — see, that's why we disagree on the utility of "web frameworks". My app does not use a routing component at all, and none of the existing solutions fit my use case. I also don't have an ORM
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by jwr 3y ago
From the point of view of a solo developer maintaining a large app over many years: I would not want to deal with static type checking and I would not find it useful, except for simpler subsets of my code. I do use spec, and I've used
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by jwr 3y ago
I barely even care about the JVM. I'm happy because it is an impressive feat of engineering, representing tens of years of huge investment into development, compiling my code to levels of performance that poorer VMs cannot reach. But J
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I am not sure what a web framework is, to be honest. The choices for many parts of a web application are really domain-specific and I'm not sure a single "framework" would work for everyone. As far as web-related components g
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by jwr 3y ago
As a heavy user of Clojure (my SaaS is written in Clojure/ClojureScript) for 10 years or so, I would fully agree with what Kyle wrote. In addition, things that I found very valuable: * most of my domain code is in cljc files, so these
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