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I’m running a cheap VPS on hetzner. Wanted to bump up my plan but they are out of capacity for some of their plans. Demand is brutal.

Fair point. We are working on releasing this in the App Store where there won’t be a need to enter credit card details - billing will go through Apple and cancelling subscriptions is easier. Happy to provide a promo code for a one month free trial without a card if you email us at hello@quantral.com.

Helping my wife ship https://quantral.com - a platform to monitor X and Reddit for financial chatter and score companies and authors. We discovered lots of stocks early in this AI cycle from X. There’s lots of noise, so we built a platform to more easily monitor the social sentiment for our investment purposes, but now we are trying to spin out a fully fledged consumer product.

Reminds me of https://github.com/jtolio/gls which implement a "thread local storage" in golang

This brings so many memories. I remember how badly I wanted an GeForce 6800 Sadly, I was never able to justify spending this much money on a GPU. Still holds true, even today.

A Roman sarcophagus was found on a beach in Bulgaria last year [1]. It was used as a bar and had holes drilled for LED lighting.

[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/12/beach-bar-sarc...

Until very recently, at the company I work for, we were running one of the largest (if not the largest) replica set cluster in terms of number of documents stored (~20B) and data size ~11TB. The database held up nicely in the past 10 years since the very first inception of the product. We had to do some optimizations over the years, but those are expected with any database. Since Mongo Atlas has a hard limit on the maximum disk size of 14TB we explored multiple migration options - sharding Mongo or moving to Postgres/TimescaleDB or another time series database. During the evaluation of alternative database we couldn't find one which supported our use case, that's highly available, could scale horizontally and that's easily maintainable (e.g. upgrades on Mongo Atlas require no manual intervention and there's no downtime even when going to the next major version). We had to work around numerous bugs that we encountered during sharding that were specific to our workloads, but the migration was seamless and required ~1h of downtime (mainly required to fine-tune database parameters). We've had very few issues with it over the years. I think Mongo is a mature technology and it makes sense depending on the type of data you're storing. I know at least few other healthcare companies that are using it for storing life-critical data even at a larger scale.

You should take everything he says with a grain of salt. He’s defunding research on transgenic mice, not transgender.

Correctly ingesting and visualizing data that's captured by different devices while also accounting for travel across timezones, is a real challenge. [1] is our guide how we do this for diabetes data generated by CGMs and insulin pumps.

[1] https://tidepool.stoplight.io/docs/tidepool-api/branches/mas...

Yes, zinc helped a lot in when the skin was severely inflamed and oozing. After that period passed, I discontinued it as well, because the drier the skin is, the easier it cracks.

iPhones record videos with variable frame rate, which makes them unsuitable for syncing the video with a separate recorded audio track (e.g. when recording guitars). The video and audio would ever so slightly go our of sync. I wish there was a way to use fixed frame rate when recording.

I have a severe form of allergic dermatitis that I've been trying to get under control for close to 10 years now. At one point to it so bad I couldn't take a shower without being in excruciating pain, I couldn't sleep, I could barely go through the day. The problem with all of the existing treatments, including the latest generation of monoclonal antibodies and JAK inhibitors is that they downregulate your immune system and they make you more sensitive to allergens if you discontinue the treatment. The only thing that made me better over time was stopping all drugs (including topical ones). It got worse for close to a year, but in 2-3 years my skin "healed". I'm still allergic and do get rashes occasionally, but I'm way less sensitive now.

Scala has type inference [1]

[1] https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/type-inference.html

Wavelets are used for pattern recognition in many iris recognition systems. First, the position of the iris in the input image is determined, then any eyelash and eyelid occlusions are removed and the iris is extracted by converting it to a polar coordinated image. The resulting image signal is convolved with wavelets of different shapes and sizes. The resulting signal is encoded using phase demodulation to produce an IrisCode. Two iris codes can be checked for a match by computing their hamming distance. [1] is the paper which describes the original system invented by Daugman. [2] is an open source implementation of that method.

[1] https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~az/lectures/est/iris.pdf [2] http://iris.giannaros.org/

Rego, the language used in Open Policy Agent, is based on and extends Datalog. It's gaining a lot of traction in the past couple of years for evaluating authorization policies.

I wouldn't call it healthier due to the risk of avalanches and in my experience it's not negligible. It requires some complex skills of being able to both judge the terrain and act fast if something happens. And even then, accidents happen. How many people die annually on the slopes of ski resorts and how many die in avalanches while skiing?

Every time I open vim by accident, I have to restart my computer.

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My best code is the one that I didn’t write

My best code is the one that I didn’t write.

I had the exact same feeling when we started having daily standups about 4 years ago for a green field project. Now that most of the original developers are no longer in the company I feel glad that I actually paid attention. It turns out that I have a very good knowledge about how and what every micro-service in our stack does. What's discussed in those standups might not be relevant for day-to-day work, but on a higher level it can help developers understand the architecture of a complex system better.

Recently I switched to Ardour for recording guitars on Linux - it has great VST support, allows syncing music with videos, and has automation built-in. Even Amplitube works through LinVst.

I was also blown away by their pricing - you can pay as little as $1 for the full version, which is what I did, but after seeing how well it works, I did a donation to match the recommended price of $45.

Almost 2 years ago I saw a comment on HN from a guy who quit smoking after reading Alan Carr's "The Easy Way". As a person who was heavily addicted, often smoking more than a pack a day, struggling to quit for good, I decided to read the book. It did wonders - for almost 2 years I haven't smoked and I don't miss it. It also helped friends to whom I recommended the book. I wanted to drop a comment here in case I can inspire others to give it a try.

The header that inspired Evan Spiegel

I handle those at both DB and application layer. Integrity is ensured by the database, proper error messages and logging is handled at the application layer.

If I understand correctly, Flutter embedders use a low level rendering API that renders the UI similar to how a game is rendered - skipping native widgets altogether. This makes me wonder what's the battery consumption? Is it similar to electron?

I've wanted to like ORMs but they always get in the away as requirements start to get more complex. On the other hand, I like writing in plain SQL, but that's often hard to comprehend by other people - you cannot just glance through to know what's happening under hood.

I find Ecto to be the perfect balance of expressiveness, flexibility and clarity. In fact it's the single reason to have picked up Elixir.

Is there an upside of arbitration for employees? From what I read it's mostly for the benefit of the company. How is it even legal to forcefully take away the right of settling matters in court?

Decoupling doesn't have anything to do with managing infrastructure. It means that the front end and the backend are communicating through an api, not a DB. This way you are not obliged to use the front end rendering of you don't want to. It's a special case of a headless CMS.

Effective or not, forced updates give me a headache every time I have to use Windows. At this point I avoid it as much as I can, because I'm stuck in this very weird vicious circle where updates fail for whatever reason and then they have to be rolled back. I cannot finish a what would be a simple 5 minute task, but I'm forced to stare at my unusable computer for 1 hour. What a waste of time!