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by tluyben2 4y ago
Tried it over the past week. Even about the subjects that interest me, all the vids I could find were too shallow (as in old info, badly researched etc even for such a short video), sensationalist click bait, way too short etc. I filled in
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Things like Twitter and YouTube and many subreddits (don’t know about insta and TikTok as I don’t use these, but I guess they are similar) should be ignored if you value you sanity. So many times you encounter people who never tried anythin
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Robots are too expensive; that is to say; humans are (a lot) cheaper. If you want to buy a Spot robot to pick up garbage, you are out 70k for the base model, 100k+ with some plugins, they need to charge every hour so you need multiple and t
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Number 3; after that it was a relatively smooth ride. From industry experience came products I made that the industry want to buy and from that came co-founding companies.
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But there are libraries for this with wrappers; don’t think many people do this manually or are bothered by it.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Couldn't have said it better. If they would have e2e for all chats & groups I would live in this thing. It's much better than Slack etc for me, but I trust them even less than Slack. Matrix has, like Slack, sub conversations
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by tluyben2 4y ago
That is indeed what I meant; with very little effort and not having much knowledge about database internals, you can save a ton of money. It won’t be perfect that way, but goes a long way vs no indices at all. So that’s why ‘no reason’. Aka
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by tluyben2 4y ago
The sad thing is that I jumped to Matrix (with Element) and waited for the influx; 2 people moved. The rest either stayed on WhatsApp or moved to Telegram (to be fair, almost all my contacts, including my mother, actually did move to Telegr
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yep, same here; as a (well paid) hobby, I help smaller companies lower their software bills. When they use 'cloud hosting' instead of a vps or something, that's usually the first point where I can cut 80%+. It is crazy how ma
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by tluyben2 4y ago
As someone who worked on software from the 80s to today, I don't know about MS internally, but from the outside it definitely didn't feel like good intentions. It didn't help that interviews or articles with or about Gates o
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by tluyben2 4y ago
This is normal for almost all (all?) large corps; they don't have to tell you why the account was terminated/blocked so it could be anything; something you said online (about them / founders etc), something you paid they don&
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Only with books in certain cases, not the rest. The word Oaf triggers me though: you are calling people stupid who care less than you about physical goods or who are ‘clumsy’. That’s good for nothing in an adult discussion.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I would say, keep writing things with it on the side. Maybe it will click like it does for many. For me syntax in other languages is noisy and annoying, but I cannot write lisp full time. I am building my own (as you do) just to be able to
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Maybe for your account they registered the wrong number as well? I could’ve gone on using it if I hadn’t told them. But in NL this is an issue (hence I tried so hard); bank accounts to companies need to be closed asap when the company gets
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Well, my story didn’t end well, but at least they were nice and courteous. Maybe I just got lucky there but my experience with US support was random phone hang ups, infinite queues to ‘I will just fetch this info, moment sir’, people being
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by tluyben2 4y ago
The Dutch support is really very good. Before they had local support it was even worse. But the dutch support, as far as I have used them (quite a lot from begin ‘20 to begin ‘22 as I tried to convert my account), they were professional and
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by tluyben2 4y ago
PayPal is such a weird company. I was a loyal customer for 20 years until I wanted to convert my account from business to personal (I closed the business) and the site refused to do so. after months of calls with support, it became clear th
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Stop calling people oafs or ‘small child’. No need for personal attacks here. There can be many reasons for being clumsy; mental (stress/burnout), neural (Parkinson/stroke/spinal damage), physiological (rheumatism/tendo
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by tluyben2 4y ago
What nonsense. We were talking about physical books here; indeed when I went hiking in de olden days (not that many years ago), I would pack paperbacks in my backpack to read and they would not survive the trip well; it rains, the backback
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Was it tested, by chance, to run with Cockroachdb or Yugabytedb? We are migrating off non distributed solutions and the Postgres native solutions we tried just weren't easy to set up and use, while the two newcomers are. Any advise in
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Thanks, will try it soon.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Apple/Google get to decide themselves who stays and who doesn’t; one of them cannot remove TikTok because everyone will flock to the other side. And money; TikTok is one of the few apps that makes money, lot’s of it. I don’t know or u
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by tluyben2 4y ago
You can fake to be a morning person by setting your alarm early and go to bed 8 hours before that; maybe you are doing a good enough job and have a productive life. However, maybe you would’ve been far more productive if you would’ve just s
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I wake up 5 am, work until 11 am and that was the day besides maybe some meetings. It works well; 4 hours of quiet coding, 2 hours working together on code and then maybe 30-60 minutes in management meetings. I have tried different setups b
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Did you try dgraph? For our use cases it won over neo4j. Didn’t try redisgraph.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I had this experience early on (1998 around) when I accidentally stumbled on a rich client who was very religious and introduced us to his church where almost all men were rich business guys (only ceo's, investors and their families et
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Practically this is already the case in many countries; NL to my Revolut or PT accounts is seconds, vice versa too. It works well. But it is not guaranteed. Api would be good; I can imagine visa and mastercard are getting a little bit panic
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But Python/Ruby (and JS? Not sure how far they are with optimising that or what the comparison would be) are very slow compared to Haskell. So people are paying that price all the time without getting any benefits that Haskell (etc) ca
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by tluyben2 4y ago
You mean it’s all fine when you sit in your office using fiber and expensive VoIP gear? But how about when you are on the move? The ‘coal mine’ starts 2 meters outside the center of London and that’s not only for data.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But if other people are lazy, why would I entertain interruptions from them? I generally don’t do any work voice or video calls because, simply, they are an interruption. So they need to have an agenda and be scheduled. And indeed, I do no

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