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collinc777··on Show HN: Stacklane – GitHub App for Stacked PR Clarity
I use graphite for stacked pr management. Any good reason to make the switch to stacklane?
collinc777··on Ask HN: How do you deal with feature flag cleanup?
That approach makes sense. I guess when it comes to feature flag removal, actually removing the flag isn't that painful and is relatively easy. What's hard is actually remembering to cleanup the code.

Curious, when does your team decide to extend the date?

collinc777··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
You’re conflating risk and frequency
collinc777··on Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks
Congrats on the launch! This is pretty similar to a project i'm working on that turns articles into podcasts. https://a-to-p.vercel.app. Feel free to give it a try.

I'd love to chat about how you generate your audiobooks if you're open to sharing. Good luck with everything!

collinc777··on S3 Express Is All You Need
Will this improve running sqlite on s3?
collinc777··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
Every EV fleet i've talked to placed the range at <= 100 mi.
collinc777··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
The range of these larger vehicles is currently ~100 mi. Most operators charge them once a day.
collinc777··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
Backup generators, pre stocked fuel, and manual pumps are all cheap ways to provide redundancy.

Providing redundancy for EV fleet vehicles is much more expensive.

It all relies on the cost of the battery going down.

collinc777··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
I'm from Texas. A hurricane here and a cold winter there and you start to realize that this infra isn't ironclad.
collinc777··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
I'm very interested in what infrastructure needs to be put in place to make EV fleet vehicles a reality.

Imagine you have a fleet of EV emergency vehicles. How do make sure they're operable in the event of a far too common electrical outtage?

You'd need EV lots, outfitted with chargers, and serious battery backup to make that happen.

We're pretty far away from that infrastructure existing. As much as I'd like to see ev fleet vehicles on the road, a too rapid, forced transition to ev's for fleet vehicles scares me.

collinc777··on Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
Here we have a tool that can materially improve blind people’s lives and instead of making it accessible you want to deny them access until the product reaches a quality bar that is impossible to reach.

That’s wrong and immoral. The world is full of risk. As individuals we choose to accept some risks and move on with our lives. I think it’s appropriate that blind people are given the same opportunity

collinc777··on Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
Are you suggesting they don’t release it until they can prove no hallucination?
collinc777··on Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence
Love this! I’m an fp-ts and xstate fan and am happy to see them in this usecase. My intuition tells me that state machines with llm directed function calling is going to be a huge unlock. One thing I’m curious about is narrowing the scope of accessible functions based on a state machine that is designed to match the business domain. This might involve machine to machine communication which I know XState supports
collinc777··on US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone
In the US, having an Android is one of the biggest social status negative signals I can think of.

I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.

I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.

collinc777··on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
Apex is nightmare fuel
collinc777··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
Culturally, the separation of athletics and education is going to be extremely difficult to accomplish.

Although not everyone is a fan, Football is the cornerstone of American culture.

collinc777··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
The ranking systems are likely flawed and measure things outside of merit, or measure merit in a non-holistic way.
collinc777··on Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
At what point does bundling become competitive vs non-competitive?

It does seem like Microsoft can crush any Saas startup by including a "good enough" competitive product in their bundle.

collinc777··on Copy is all you need
Generally the repository he was working in, but really it was any application that he had open on his machine. He would remember where words, or portion of words that he needed were, go to them, and copy and paste what he needed.

Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that. He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.

collinc777··on Copy is all you need
Typically in the code repository with other files that shared a similar pattern context that he was working with.

Sometimes he would need a portion of a word and he would remember that it was in an email he had open, and he would alt+tab and grab the portion of the word from the email, then alt+tab back to the editor and paste the word portion in.

He would go to extreme lengths to not have to move his hands to the home row on the keyboard.

collinc777··on Copy is all you need
Slight tangent:

I once worked with a programmer who, the vast majority of time, would only input text into a text editor via copy and paste.

Think anti-vim. His fingers were locked on mouse and crtl+c/v. It was incredible to watch and his programming speed was very impressive.

collinc777··on Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
Microsoft is getting their butts kicked on exclusives from Sony. Nothing wrong with them buying their way to better exclusives
collinc777··on Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
Is this hyper-competitive or anti-competetive?

The objective of business is to win, but if a business is too dominant, then they have the ability to extort customers.

I don't see how customer extortion is born out of this. It's fair and in the spirit of a healthy ecosystem.

collinc777··on Hacking LangChain for fun and profit
There's a pretty steep learning curve to langchain. I recommend avoiding it if you don't need higher level of abstractions.
collinc777··on ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets
This sounds like partitions in DynamoDB
collinc777··on Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787
Sometimes it doesn't have the warning and I think it should be mandatory. Any passenger can go and play with the wheel and wreck havoc.
collinc777··on Healing of acute ACL tear on MRI following non-surgical bracing protocol [pdf]
Surgery is invasive and recovery is rough. Not sure what the data says but I would’ve liked this option
collinc777··on Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP
Does this make it easy to switch cloud providers? One of the huge benefits I see here for startups is being able to continuously use free cloud credits
collinc777··on Ask HN: How Airtable / Notion's Database is implemented?
There are some open source competitors to Airtable and Notion that can provide good insight. Check out https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
collinc777··on Show HN: Valmi.io Open Source Reverse-ETL Engine
Did you get permission from airbyte?
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