ryandvm

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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yes, killing sleeping people is immoral.
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NASA to launch SLS in 2 months(arstechnica.com)
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by ryandvm 4y ago
After the last decade, I now believe the "everyone is winging it all the time" theory more than ever. I used to think people in power really had their shit together (CEOs, judges, doctors, politicians, etc.) but it turns out that
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but my guess is there is probably little overlap in the Venn diagram of people paying for porn subscriptions and people capable of managing a crypto wallet.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
True, but in my app's case each webhook ends up making a few dozen Slack API calls. In any case the free tier will definitely allow you to handle enough traffic to figure out if you've got a viable business model, which I guess is
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by ryandvm 4y ago
It depends on how efficient the dev is. For comparison, I've been running a paid Slack app (a few $K per year) that manages to run entirely within the free tier on Google Cloud Platform.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I've heard they have a generous foot gun billing policy and thankfully I've never had to find out, but we shouldn't be that grateful, because ultimately the cloud providers do this in their own rather dishonorable self inte
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by ryandvm 4y ago
My Kubernetes nightmare is that all kinds of organizations will end up cargo-culting it as required tooling when the reality is that it's massive overkill for most deployment scenarios. Oh wait...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Android live wallpaper that shows weather radar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.ra... Not useless but at this point I'm just slowly losing money on it. I find weather data fascinati
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I'd also imagine that people using Julia in 2022 are doing so because they wanted to use Julia. They're probably senior and they have a lot of flexibility in tooling selection. Whereas I know A LOT of people using Python and Jav
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by ryandvm 4y ago
You have any legitimate studies on this or are you just regurgitating 70 year old "reefer madness" propaganda?
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by ryandvm 4y ago
No reason other than that it uses public domain imagery from the US National Weather Service. It could certainly have been expanded to use other countries' radar data if I had the resources.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I made about $5K selling a live wallpaper that showed local weather radar. I originally just made it for myself, but then decided to release it on the app store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ap
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Don't encourage them. There is no Web3 and if there ever is, it's not fucking blockchain apps. What these hucksters call Web3 is the digital equivalent of essential oils. Blockchain apps have no real productive use beyond selling
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I had the exact same thought after listening to a recent podcast. He's not insightful, his questions are uninteresting, and his conclusions are banal. He seems like a slightly smarter, but less charismatic version of Joe Rogan. As othe
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I feel like Brave came pretty close with the Basic Attention Token, but not many web sites enrolled. Hell, last time I checked HN wasn't even set up on it (why not? what's the down side?).
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by ryandvm 4y ago
HN cracks me up. We are largely a demographic of people that make money from selling our IP and yet for some reason many of us are pretty brazen about our efforts to circumvent payment for others' IP. I'll admit that I incognito m
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Same exact experience. I recently tried my hand at rewriting one of my old Java Android projects in Kotlin. Maybe it's just my brain getting older, but I found Kotlin development experience to be far less enjoyable than I was anticipat
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> Consciousness is the subjective experience of "being like something" I absolutely detest that definition of consciousness. It just moves the fuzziness from the word "consciousness" to the phrase "being like som
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Sounds like we're deciding the Turing Test isn't good enough and we don't really have any alternatives. I'll admit that makes me a little squeamish going forward...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I dunno. It's quite clear that while he may never be president again, there's absolutely no way he's going to A) end up in jail or B) lose a significant amount of his wealth. That's exactly the "coming out on top&qu
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Love the Fermilab series of videos. Here's the one that covers the Twin Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgvajuvSpF4
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I don't know what Tesla pay is like, but man, you really have to be guzzling the Kool-Aid to stay employed there. Crunching crazy hours, having some asshole guilt you for PTO, working for the world's unfunniest meme Lord, etc. Som
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> expect 30 to 40 percent attrition every year Christ. If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I decided to go the other way and ignore all the potential confounders and just cargo-cult the hell out of all of this stuff. I'm bound to hit a few of the actual factors. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go drink my coffee and g
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by ryandvm 4y ago
"Comparison is the thief of joy" -- Teddy Roosevelt (maybe)
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by ryandvm 4y ago
This so much. Every single Musk adventure seems to requires massive federal subsidies and/or investment to stay afloat. Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company - it's questionable whether any of them would exist if they were competing in a
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I would have a hard time taking "pretend to work somewhere else" seriously from my boss if he was a Twitter meme lord who seems to spend most of his cycles flinging poo in the shittersphere.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
The corollary of course is that if you don't currently have hard, huge, complex scalability problems, well, you do now...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Precisely. How do you keep crazy people from having guns when the only suitable definition of crazy is somebody that has done something terrible (which obviously is too late).

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