quechimba

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by quechimba 3y ago
Mosquito coils are very efficient for keeping mosquitoes away. I use them in the rainforest where there's a lot of mosquitoes. I light a coil before I go to bed, they last 8 hours. Mosquito nets are also efficient to keep them out.
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by quechimba 3y ago
They have seen these beings in villages near Iquitos too. They call them pelacaras, face peelers. Someone I know saw 4 beings flying about one meter above the ground outside her house last week. Would illegal miners even have access to jetp
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by quechimba 3y ago
Mayu Live[1] has components, it works kinda like React. I have been thinking about making rdom[2] work with Rails but I got a memory leak to fix first. It's possible to do all this in Ruby though. 1. https://github.com/
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by quechimba 3y ago
My laptop died due to high humidity in the Amazon rainforest and I had some work to do, so I bought a USB keyboard and installed zsh, tmux, vim, ruby, node and postgres in Termux and worked on my phone. The screen is too small but I could g
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by quechimba 3y ago
I have used Sorbet in my web framework. The method signatures can be tedious to type out sometimes, but it helps a lot when refactoring code. I feel more confident that my changes will work. It's not as flexible as TypeScript, but it&#
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by quechimba 3y ago
method_missing is great if you're wrapping an object class Wrapper < BasicObject def initialize(obj) @obj = obj end def method_missing(name, *, **, &) ::Kernel.puts "Calling #{name}&
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by quechimba 3y ago
I'm sure there is demand, it's just too remote to be practical. They did get a fiber connection to the closest city a few years ago which made 4G faster. One million people live in the region and there are more places like that in
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by quechimba 3y ago
In the village where my brother lives there are no wires. There is a 4G tower but it runs on solar panels and the connection isn't very stable on cloudy days. I spoke to a person who works at a company in that area that uses Starlink.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I switched from Pragmata Pro to Iosevka Term Curly Slab a few years ago and I'm really happy with it. It's easy to read and I can fit a lot of code on one screen.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I wouldn't recommend anyone to smoke DMT or changa, it's way too strong and it's difficult to make sense out of the experience afterwards. Ayahuasca is an amazing medicine. If you decide to do it, do it in the Peruvian Amazon
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by quechimba 3y ago
Regular coke is probably my biggest source of aspartame now that they changed the recipe to contain 30% less sugar compensated by aspartame and acesulfame-k. I bought a Sprite a while ago and it tasted different so I checked and it doesn&#x
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by quechimba 3y ago
Yeah, I used the command line sync. It was great. I was running my development environment on a virtual machine in the cloud and I could edit all the files locally so I had no lag. Worked really well.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I've burned out a few times. Every time was different. First time was the worst. It took me about one and a half years until I could work again. Long-term stress is dangerous. Toxic workplaces are dangerous. It's not worth it.
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by quechimba 3y ago
This is really good. I used this a few years ago when my laptop had died and I had to get some work done. Bought an USB keyboard, installed vim, zsh, tmux, ruby, node and postgres in Termux on my phone. Small screen but worked pretty well.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I communicate with my dentist on WhatsApp. They send me appointment reminders the night before and I have to confirm.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I'm paying and I find it worth it because YT Music is included so I could cancel my Spotify subscription.
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by quechimba 3y ago
Ruby is really good at concurrency now with non-blocking fibers. https://github.com/socketry/async makes it really easy to use.
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by quechimba 3y ago
This man survived 26 years alone in the jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole The kids are indigenous and knew how to find food. Kids from the city would probably not be able to survive this long...
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by quechimba 3y ago
Wow, this is amazing! I wouldn't survive even one week alone in the jungle. I hope they will recover soon.
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by quechimba 3y ago
Yep. And nowadays you can deploy apps really close to users so latency is really low. If you have <100ms you don't really notice the latency.
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by quechimba 3y ago
Nice! I believe this is a really good approach for making web apps. Best part is probably that you save time by not having to implement some sort of JSON API for your frontend to communicate with your backend. I've been working on a si
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by quechimba 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I really enjoyed reading both
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by quechimba 3y ago
SSE is pretty good but I have never been able to see the messages in firefox devtools, and doesn't work with binary data. HTTP/2 streams are just as easy to implement, and work both ways and support binary data.
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Show HN: Mayu Live, a reactive web framework written in Ruby(github.com)
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by quechimba 3y ago
I read somewhere that a DC to AC inverter wastes 5-15% of the energy. I guess what is needed to run lights would be a solar panel, a battery and an MPPT controller.
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by quechimba 3y ago
Most houses don't have generators. Maybe I should have been more clear.
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by quechimba 3y ago
I'll try to find out how people could afford buying generators. Solar shouldn't be much more expensive but I can't find any prices online.
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by quechimba 3y ago
That's half the monthly minimum wage, most people here make even less, and everyone has at least a few kids to feed. Also everything is more expensive because it's so remote. There are no roads so everything has to be brought here
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by quechimba 3y ago
Many families in the nearby village run generators at night. They can't afford solar panels so they pay 5 soles for gasoline just to have lights on when it gets dark. If they could afford solar they could have lights on every night for
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by quechimba 3y ago
I've been working on a React-inspired framework in Ruby [1,2]. It only requires a few kilobytes of JavaScript, and only includes the relevant stylesheets for each page. Works pretty well and I guess I'm in a rural area (about 90 m

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