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a Hardware startup: https://WhereIsMyCow.com

working on a budget gps tracker for cows made for north america. https://whereismycow.com

I had such a good time on my Commodore 64

each LLM has its own personality and preferences. I choose different LLM to answer different needs. Claude is good to create a website from scratch, but if I ask it to fix one specific thing, it goes and modify something else too. GPT-5 has more of this. it is harder to control. it even answers me using incomplete sentences, and once used slang. It may be because i use slang and incomplete sentences. But yeah, it is not clear to me when i will go to GPT5 instead of others

most new software runs in the cloud. you only need the browser for many tasks. I even code in the cloud. for many people, why pay for something you dont need.

seems his problem is mainly marketing and finding product market fit. I suffer from the same syndrome

what is the difference of running the same code 5 times in parallel or running the same code 5 times sequentially?

there are new reportsin humans that intermittent fasting doubles your rate of heart disease. I am curious to know if it decreases mortality at same time.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-time-restricted-eatin...

I think that what is important is to give time for your body everyday to recover from the food intake (which can be an inflammatory insult) and give it time to repair. Maybe some people may reach ketosis in 8h, which is an injury itself. It is like the need to sleep and the need to rest after exercise or the need for vacation after long work days. Every insult needs to be compensated for and repaired.

Also the idea of having to eat 3 meals a day, does not exist in nature or in our past history. This developed with industrilization when hard working men needed energy at work. But it is clear that evolution never needed to limit excessive food intake. It mainly dealt with famines and low food intake. We never aquired the necessary breaks to stop eating. we need to keep this in our thoughts daily to actively stop ourselves from eating till our death

I got a Xiaomi GT3 watch for less than 40$ including shipping. it has blood pressure measuring. How accurate? I dont know. I have a normal BP, and it always shows me normal values. Whe I try it on my son or wife's wrist, it always measures a lower BP.

Anyways, I stopped looking at it, and I only use it for the looks and to show me notifications.

JLCPCB.

I got my pcb sample, 5 pcbs + assembly (had to make sure all components are in their library) How many days ? including shipping 6 days from order to delivery!!! cost ~250$ They are unbeatable!!

I suffer the same problem. It is all about conserving mental energy. The way I see it, each person has 2 different mental power gears. A high power one, that drains you and makes you excited at same time. You need this for planning and thinking big or learning about a new tool. And a Low power gear that allows you to fix bugs and create a small feature for a known tool. We mostly use this low power gear in our daily life, in meetings, while driving or preparing coffee. The high power gear is used sparingly, when we can't sleep at night because of an idea, when we try to learn something new. it is exciting, but draining and painful at the same time. We want to do it again only after forgetting the pain.

I think proscratination is because we use a high power gear too frequently, we are exhausted mentally, and it is too painful. so we say let's do it later. But what if you have a small task that does not need a lot of thinking to do? something not painful? Well this is easy. I can do it. The trick is, it needs to be easy. you should not waste 1 hour to set up your environment to be able to start. it has to be easy.

So to advance on a project, I need to make sure I always have low energy, easy tasks ready for me when i am not in my mental capacity to use my high power thinking.

It is as if I am 2 persons. a developer and an intern. you need to make sure there is enough easy tasks for the intern to work on. You have to accept this about youreself

Dont waste days planning and creating issues for youreself. This is too draining. you need to write the big plan only and make sure you have few tasks ready. not all of them defined from day 0. do a big planning every 2 to 3 weeks (looks similar to a sprint)

It is all about conserving your mental energy

nothing if you are turkish

Image recognition software could read a trauma xray to find a broken bone years ago. But this was not used by hospitals. The problem is that the medical profession is not ready to give control as the losses for doctors is too high. I am sure that chat GPT will be used in poor countries that lacks doctors, and it will then spread to rich countries when it prooves its accuracy and reliability.

How many services were saved by HA? The cost of HA is loss of performance and increased complexity in addition to monetary cost. If your application is not highly critical, I am not sure you are benefiting from HA. Is hackernews HA? nope

Douglas Tallamy is my new hero

It seems that trees interlock their roots to prevent them from falling. So make sure trees are not lonely. Trees then would have to break to fall. And here you can trim the long branches to decrease the weight.

I have an idea, how about we feed cattle green grass and make sure they poop in the fields. This way, we dont need to transport food to them and we dont need to have poop lagoons. That is a revolutionary idea many can't accept

Usually we mainly run jobs on nfs or similar disks. I/O time would be more significant. Would be nice to run thoses tests on aws

I was having burnout, the team I was in was not as challenging. Simple features took me weeks to finish. It got so difficult for me to turn on the laptop in the morning. Internally I asked to be moved to another team, but it did not improve.

What did I do?? I did not take vacations or time out. I just changed companies, and made sure the job has variety, and a lot of customers, and asked for a good raise. All the symptoms disappeared after 1 day. Like magic.

I feel I am more respected and more critical in their team. If there are no customers, and they pay you a little, you feel worthless, and treated as a second class dev. Start looking outside, you may find a good opportunity

I saw a reporter claiming they are being arrested for their own protection

I left SAP 1 year ago, they just try to add every option to their software and keep maintaining 25 years old applications that are still used by some companies. This is why their software is super bloated and a small and simple task takes so many steps to achieve.

Now they are migrating to the cloud, and loosing customers as they push them off their on prem s0lutions

Clayton Christensen has some nice youtubes about disruptive innovation where he predicts the death of SAP

Graduates are underpaid by society. The reason is either there are too many graduates, or graduate work is futile and not needed

I already have it in my visual studio code. I do like it. Will it stop working for me now?

CF SRE team need to rethink their published SLA of 100%. This is not reasonable. https://www.cloudflare.com/business-sla/

cloudflare has a 100% SLA. This needs revision https://www.cloudflare.com/business-sla/

Leetcode is not good training for FAANG?

I see it as a game. The startup environment is level 1 of the game. you learn about VMs and how to start them. At BigCo, this is level 5 or 10. Nothing is easy, to start a VM you have to make sure your system is compliant, the ip is restricted from some countries, the linux version is LTS and bla bla bla

To keep your sanity, make sure to have a personal side project where you can do things fast

I'm working in a dysfunctional team for several months now, every one wants to solve problems his way. Waiting for my contract to finish to hit the door. Bought a farm lately where I spend my free time and money. This brings me back to sanity every week-end. Nature heals, you just need to visit her often.

I'm not sure we live on the same planet. In my previous job, my manager recruited a guy who was allowed to learn kubernetes on the job for 4 months (paid full time). Literraly this guy used to come to work and start completing exercises to learn only. That was his main task!!

I live in a wetland and import 60-70% of fruits and vegetables from California. This is not sustainable