mstaoru

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by mstaoru 2y ago
Background tasks look well thought out, looking forward to try that. Despite being somewhat out of fashion, Python and Django continue to serve more down to earth software development well after so many years. I picked it up around 2007 (re
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by mstaoru 2y ago
We have a couple of 4U8N Supermicro "fat twins" hooked to a Miktrotik CRS17 (10 GbE). Each node has 6 drive bays – to simplify things, we have installed similar capacity drives and use ZFS raidz2. 7 nodes out of 8 are production,
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Second this. It is not very convenient to self-host and configure the clients for self-hosted version, but after an initial period of "press the three dots next to the number... yes... now switch to tab xxx" it works well enough.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Lived in China 2009-2022, when I arrived they were just starting to experience the boom - and forced China-style adoption (aka "all gas scooters are banned starting from tomorrow" out of blue) - of electric scooters. At that time
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I used Das Keyboard (Ultimate) and Filco Ninja before, but recently I discovered Asus ROG RX switches ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZwDqL5f4x8 ) and fell in love. The keyboard I'm typing on now is ROG Strix Scope RX
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I'm also 40 with 20+ years in software. 4 interviews out of 5 recently tried to do come leetcoding, but after a brief conversation about it 2 of them were reasonable and we worked with existing code instead. 2 did not and I walked out,
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Absolutely useless so far, the code is either completely wrong or subtly broken in a way that takes much more time to fix than it would take to write it from scratch. I limit my usage to asking about some obscure APIs for the libs I do not
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Any computer, even an Android phone, can be used as a server. The issue is MTBF and maintenance in numbers. ECC might be not that important if your workload is not critical and you have a correct reboot policy. Lack of BMC like IPMI is mu
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I couldn't ride a bike until, ugh, maybe 21? Once I discovered the joy of it, I never let it go and still biking every day for almost 20 years. When I lived in China, it was very easy to bike. China's infrastructure is new and it
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Interestingly, in "my" flagged posts ( https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=mstaoru ) I see one post (from 2017) by another user which has no upvotes.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I would help WikiHouse ( https://www.wikihouse.cc/ ) project. It is a DIY-able CNC-machined plywood- or OSB-based house. I would like to make it more parametric and smart. My pet project these days is "nothing to WikiHou
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by mstaoru 2y ago
JWTs are rather convenient for API access, especially for APIs that are hit at high req/s rate, as they allow to decouple auth check and actual request processing. In more complicated cases you can use JWT subject for some simple prefl
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Startup founders often decide their own salaries. With a limited capital, it makes sense to invest it into hiring the best talent and doing the best marketing, paying yourself a minimum viable amount to survive. If the startup works out, th
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I'm using a 40" 5K Lenovo P40w-20, it's a 21:9 (5120x2160) IPS panel with 75 Hz refresh rate. The problem with 2 monitors is that for me it inevitably falls into a "primary" and "one I occasionally glance at&qu
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Missing https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/moni... :)
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I went to my older sister's informatics class when I was 6, at 7 my parents got me a half-broken (no persistent memory) BK-0011M (a Soviet PDP-11-compatible BASIC computer), and at that point I knew what I was going to do.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
If you like FFX and FF7, try Xenogears - it's a huge, albeit somewhat unfinished game from Squaresoft's "golden age". Sprawling story laced with biblical elements, Nietzsche, Mecha, martial arts, future, past... Wonderfu
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by mstaoru 3y ago
V60 + Porlex + paper filters + some nice light roasted coffee? Should be $50-ish. Be warned, this is rabbit hole. In the same vein, a simple pin cha set (porcelain gaiwan with a few tiny cups) and some Fenghuang Dancong "Duck poop&quot
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by mstaoru 3y ago
3D printers which can fix everything at your home. Hand gesture computer control (Leap Motion). Flash. Wework. Peloton. Google Plus. Google Wave. Google Reader. Google...
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by mstaoru 3y ago
fn tail<'a>(s: &'a [u8]) -> &'a [u8] { &s[1..] } ... fn main() -> Result<(), std::str::Utf8Error> { let s = std::str::from_utf8(&[240, 159, 141, 137])?;
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by mstaoru 4y ago
I don't know, but it would be interesting to see someone recreate the whole underlying backend complexity from ground up using AI only, and run a simple Twitter clone. I mean server firmware, BIOS, bootloader, OS, kernel, networking st
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by mstaoru 4y ago
Hard to tell, but here's my typical day... I work from home. Wake up at 8am, row for a bit on a machine, shower, make a coffee, and get to work around 8:45. At 9am we have a short daily standup call, which is a bit of a nuisance but ok
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by mstaoru 4y ago
I'm also always struggling with a correct way to formulate this number. Most reports will cite IEA report which says something like "construction and operation of buildings are responsible for 38% of global emissions" (note &
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by mstaoru 4y ago
I work in an IoT startup that is upgrading commercial HVAC to support smarter energy management. It's shockingly easy to save 10-20, sometimes up to 50% energy just by scheduling and occupancy-based control. All these huge, empty, cold
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by mstaoru 4y ago
I lived in China since 2008 (Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai), left Sep '22. The way the pandemic was handled in Shanghai was absolutely dehumanizing, and it became the last drop after which we just decided to GTFO and ne
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by mstaoru 4y ago
Most MQTT brokers are not great at storing data. The pattern that works the best for me in solving the "edge delivery" use case is a lightweight clustered MQTT broker (e.g. VerneMQ) with a little Lua script inside to push everyt
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by mstaoru 4y ago
Yes, Sennheiser Momentum 4. It's rather comfortable, and once you remove it, the unbelievable low HUM of electrical appliances deafens you for a moment. IMHO Sennheiser's sound signature is much more natural than Sony XM's. I
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by mstaoru 4y ago
Bokeh is physics, for smaller objects it's easier to reach some DoF even with f/4-6. On the 1st example the bokeh is, subjectively, very far from the SLR level, displaying a lot of onion rings and generally busy texture. For portr
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by mstaoru 4y ago
One word - bokeh. You can get a Fuji X-E4 + XC 35mm f/2 for ~US$1000 new, and I'm yet to see a phone camera that can shoot something like this https://img.photographyblog.com/reviews/fujifilm_xc_35mm_f2/.
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by mstaoru 4y ago
17" MSI Titan GT77 12U with 4x Samsung 980 Pro 2T, 128G RAM, running Manjaro w/ kernel 6.0 now, with btrfs. The raw power and throughput are unmatched, e.g. I run the script from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

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