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Working on getting "side projects" to "stuff other people use" :-) reach me at benj (dot) calderon (at) gmail (dot) com
Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to make a mock for an app so and so that does such and such and has three columns with a blah blah blah and it has made some impressive results in html/css for me
Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!
Thanks for the explanation!
Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?
Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s
A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well worth the wait!
It seems to be that a project like KDE might be in a very good position to make a very competitive distro simply because they are starting from the point of the user experience, the UI if you will. Think M$ windows, it IS GUI, and fully focused on how the user would use it (I'm thinking the days of XP and Win 7).
A KDE distro might be less encumbered with "X11 vs Wayland" or "flatpak vs <insert package manager name here>" discussions and can fully focus on the user experience that KDE/Plasma desktop brings!
I'm looking forward to take this for a spin!
It seems that it was only about time… it just feels like the pace of enshittification with big tech being able to get away with anything is crazy!
I’m hoping that projects like Precursor can take off because we’ve buried ourselves in such mountain of complexity that seems like only a billion/trillion dollar big tech company can make an OS.
But then again, some body called BS on browsers and we might have a good option soon in Ladybug!
I particularly agree with you.
Sublime is not open source and it has a very devout paying client base.
To me the dirty thing is to make something “open source” because developers absolutely love that, to then take an arguably “not open source” path of $42 mil in VC funding.
There’s something dissonant there.
I’m curious how this will turn out. Reminds me of the node.js fork IO.js and how that shifted the way node was being developed.
If there’s a group of people painfully aware of telemetry and AI being pushed everywhere is devs…
Maybe hot take…
I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14!
That flexibility must be found in something non-traditional!
I’m no prodigy at all whatsoever but school was mostly dull and filled with teenager drama! Nobody knew what Linux was, cared about music production or anything interesting! The talk was which boy/girl whatever
…the company's AI coding agent deleted a code base and lied about its data.
Well, lying about it certainly human-like behavior, human-like AGI must be just around the corner!
/s
But really, full access to a production database? How many good engineer’s advice you need to ignore to do that? Who was consulted before running the experiment?
Or was it just a “if you say so boss…” kind of thing?
If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result…
Hehe
I think there’s an element of fear in the self-taught engineer? I am self taught and even after over a decade of experience impostor syndrome is still going strong!
At the same time I’ve been surprised by graduates when they come across something and say “I didn’t see that in school”, like, what!? I thought the job was mostly learning on the go!
How is this different than other ip or dns ad blockers?
I see that it all comes down to a blacklist of urls. Wouldn’t eBPF just make things more complicated?
I’ve been finding this tool so useful to transfer files between devices in my local network. Linux to iOS, macOS to Windows, all with no friction. Love it!
This is such an interesting experiment! Somebody else already mentioned Borges, but yeah!
Not exactly the same but reminds me of one time I did an experiment with rational number attempting to see which patterns emerged… 111? 112? 113? etc.
Nice! Thanks for sharing :-)
Another book added to my To-Read list
That is impressive, specially the drone surviving! I expect something along the lines of disposable drones, which would like still be cost effective at saving 100-200b yen a year! It’ll be fascinating seeing this deployed!
This sounds interesting! I find journaling very tedious but I think is my ADHD brain that doesn’t wanna do anything too annoying. I’m not sure how from audio journaling Id get stats like MAE and MFE, apart from general win ratio and accuracy percentage… but I’m sure different stuff works for different people
I used keep a running list of things I wanted to talk about, wether technical, cultural, help talking to other teams, etc.
I also always asked how did I look from his point of view. It was very important for to know how my performance was perceived, since it’s easy for there to be a discrepancy between how I see my performance vs how it is perceived.
He was also very friendly and shared career advice and whatnot. I truly truly believe that having a dedicated eng manager can be a big factor of a 1x vs a 10x. I know that during that time with my manager I was a 10x and when he moved to another department my performance lowered, where it was motivation, lack of resources/feedback, or a combination or a bunch of other factors, having a good manager can make or brake a role in a company!
I think as a counter point, Michael Ossmann, the creator of HackRF One has worked really hard to make it a lot more accessible.
In one of my favorite YT videos ever he talk about how he design RF PCB. The point of it is kind of like, the field of RF and SDR is incredibly deep and complicated, but at the same time, most filters/mixers/amplifiers and everything else needed for making an SDR are ICs that one can buy from Digikey and put them together (or likely have assembled).
So, not denying how deep SDR can be, but it can also be accessible with enough effort!
This hits home. I wish there was a way to gauge “retrospect” before actually suffering from it. I’m now usually quite weary of “we’ve had to get yet another loan of 60 mil, after 6 years in business because we don’t know how to make a profitable business” also known as a series C or whatever.
Thanks! I think the limitation is in my knowledge and not in the article or schematics!
I have a rtl-sdr and I’ve played with gnu radio, but the signals that I had to explore were very limited! Apart from few remotes for fans and stuff around the house I only had fm radio and little more.
What I find very interesting from this is the possibility of taking a Si5351A breakout board, configuring it with I2C (I can do that), modulate it with something like audio and a mixer (I can code that… maybe) and plug that directly, likely through and attenuator, to gnu radio!
It would certainly be a lot easier to get a sdr transmitter, but I wasn’t aware of the possibility of modulating a Si5351A with a “simple” signal like 48kHz audio!
I loved the article! Even though I only understood about 1/3 of the technical details, I was honestly quite amazed at how “simple” was producing RF! The guy is using “sound” at 48kHz to produce the signals needed and then a Si5351A (signal generator for up to 200MHz or so controlled via I2C) to produce RF. I’m not sure, or don’t understand yet how the RF is being modulated, but conceptually is understandable! DSP is a field I want to dig deeper into, specifically DSP as it pertains RF.
It tripped me up too initially, but they added a nice workaround to it so one doesn't need to disable the deleting cookies completely.
On the pages where you want to stay logged in like in HN, click the lock icon left of the URL and toggle "LibreWolf: Always store cookies/data for this site" and that's it.
There's certainly something refreshing about knowing exactly for which sites I'm storing cookies (so far kagi, HN, gmail, YT...)
Wow, thanks for sharing this!! I have experience a bit of the same, although I don't have a group of traders making fun of me, the challenge sometimes comes from having to believe in myself, and also from how family sees it, i.e. going from a high salary "secure" tech job to attempting to accomplish something by myself...
I also find curious the human part of wishing to be believed. The numbers in trading are completely ridiculous given that the ceiling is very high for a skilled trader, and thus most people bundle it together with Vegas the hundreds of thousands of dollars in a gambling game or horse race.
I keep forgetting my own complete unbelief until I experienced a trade with triple digit returns... that makes no sense but I did it (the trick is to not return that to the market and to know that those are exceptions and slow and steady wins the race!).
The irony is that many people here in HN (this is y combinator after all) attempting entrepreneurial pursuits with the hope of making a living and a big payout on acquisition and whatnot... in spite of knowing the statistics of how rare it is for that to happen.
At any rate, thanks a ton for sharing that, it is very encouraging! I've seen people do it, that post is one example, and I have the wild believe that I can do it too! I'm expecting nothing but blood, sweat, and tears, but it's worth it for me :-)
Ok
If you have done the work, why not put it live?
I’m probably biased but I prefer futures, even for forex, just because is only one market vs all the extra markets a big spreads in forex, 6E for euro dollar or M6E for even smaller positions/capital/risk.
There also the element that there are a lot of things you don’t learn until you run a system live
I think a way that you can think about it is from a risk perspective. One rule passed down among traders is to not risk more than 2% you account size in any single trade. For a $50k account that would be $1k. Now let’s say that your system gives you 2 times your risk (2R) with a 60% win rate, and let’s say that in average you make 10 trades a month… you can run those numbers and see if they make sense for you.
There’s usually an inverse correlation between win-rate and accuracy. If you increase your risk you can be right more often but your rewards are smaller. Alternatively you can be more “selective” with tighter stops and thus lower risk and is likely that you’ll be wrong more often but that the winner will be bigger…
I believe that you can have the skills to build a system that can detect patterns from historical data, but notice how, for example, from the previous calculations the problem of trading is less of a “technical” problem and more of a market, risk management, money management, statistical kind of problem.
Then there’s the emotional part of, you still have the power to stop your system… if it has had 4 or 6 losses in a row… are you still keeping it up? Loosing is inevitable in trading, but how much loosing can you handle? Have the market conditions changed? How do you measure that?
Good luck!