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cssanchez··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
I’ve read some threads either here or on Reddit from mechanics saying it was the 2.0 engine (I think the CVT versions) that crapped out like this and they used that engine in a ton of models. Anecdotal, but mine is an old 2013 Kia with a 1.6 engine with DCT like all their turbos / top of line models and I’ve had no mechanical issues at all yet, but I’m looking to buy soon and I won’t consider their 2.0s out of caution.
cssanchez··on Introduction to Data-Centric AI
This is amazing! Leaving a comment to remember to come back to it later.
cssanchez··on The Adoption of Rust in Business
I agree with you. I’m learning Rust as a Python-only (bit of Typescript) mostly data-analyst experience and Rust has been challenging, but I’m slowly getting it thanks in part to its new popularity and variety of tutorials.

That said I don’t get what you meant by knowing about the stack vs heap in Rust. I’m not from C++ land so maybe this flew over my head, could you elaborate?

cssanchez··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
This sounds great and very much needed! If you need a contributor, I’m interested (currently looking for a good project to get into).
cssanchez··on Show HN: DevClad – A social-workspace platform for developers
Just tried it and even though I hit save on step 2, nothing happened and it deleted everything when I went back to step 1… Hope you can figure it out.
cssanchez··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Applied!
cssanchez··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2022)
Data Analyst / Backend Python Dev || Remote - US timezone (EST preferred)

Open to Full-time, Part-time or Contractor positions as long as I'm working with data.

Location: Puerto Rico (U.S. citizen, no visa needed)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Pandas, Flask), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, Salesforce, AWS

Résumé/CV: please email me for resume/details

Email: contactme @ my_hn_username.com

I have 5 years of experience working with Python overall, 3 of those in freelance, last 2 years in full-time team lead position in small companies. Looking to keep growing in a more established company in my current stack or use Rust, Ruby or Go for my next venture.

cssanchez··on Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
You should consider Puerto Rico. The entire island has a small town feel, but the west coast is mostly what you describe. There's also great weather and tax benefits.
cssanchez··on Ask HN: Software Engineering for Social Good?
Because I don't work for nonprofits, they are regular companies that do social good. Some are officially registered as B corps or Public Benefit Corporations, but some aren't officially registered, they just have it as part of their mantra and core product. I've been in a telehealth startup, an interpreting&translation startup, and now in a health tech startup linking nonprofits and vulnerable communities.

As to how I found them? Pure luck... It's been fun, challenging and there's no greater feeling at the end of the day. Interpreting in particular was such an eye opener, I could talk about it for hours.

cssanchez··on Ask HN: Software Engineering for Social Good?
I've always worked in a social good type of company. I love knowing my work directly contributes to improving society, and in fact I've made it my slogan in my resume. Currently I work for a startup that helps people find help from non profit orgs. I wouldn't say I gave up anything to work in this space, except that it's not a bleeding edge space with the latest in tech. Instead we have to work with non-technical people that run non profits, government agencies, insurance companies, etc.

To give you an idea, I met with a "head of IT" that sent over private info over unsecured email and they didn't know what SFTP is or any best practice of encryption... So our devs wrote a mini portal for him to authenticate and upload his info, because FFS.

cssanchez··on Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Do you use a cloud host like Github for Fossil?
cssanchez··on RabbitMQ 3.11 Feature Preview: Super Streams
I've read of RABBITMQ so much, but yet I don't understand what does it actually do? I know it is a 'message broker' but I don't understand what that means. To me it sounds it's a backend for messaging that's easy to integrate with any user account module?
cssanchez··on “EVs aren't the only answer”: Toyota scientist on the future of cars
Hydrogen is not considered a viable fuel alternative for the masses due to the high risk of explosion among many other factors. I wish people would stop mentioning it in these discussions. https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage-chall...
cssanchez··on Everything that makes working with databases easier
My issue with these awesome lists is that a lot of entries are out of date and may not even run anymore. The first entry, AnyMaestro's website has a news section last updated in 2016 (and it looks dated af), so why would I trust that tool with my DB credentials?
cssanchez··on Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams
I think it's a bit weird to compare yourself to Postman rather than Metabase which is in your space. However Metabase is fully about visualization instead of editing data directly, which is extremely dangerous on a tool like this.

How focused are you on providing top notch visualizations such as maps with pins using OSM or custom GeoJSON maps, and other more dynamic type of data vis?

cssanchez··on Ask HN: Why aren’t autonomous cars using signals?
OP you have a good point that I've thought about often. However, instead of digital communication, what cars lack is optical information about themselves projected on the rear and front corners with speed, acceleration, and other metrics. This is easy to retrofit on 'dumb' cars with cheap LEDs, it will provide value to human drivers (as long as the format is standardized, intuitive and easy to read), and it's also valuable for camera-based AI driving, which all forms of driverless cars use.

To me, this is something I wish every car would have, so I could tell at a glance if someone is accelerating/braking and their current speed.

cssanchez··on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
Think pads are nice for the many reasons in other comments. However, the track pad and nibble-mouse on it are unusable in my opinion. For a laptop, it requires an external mouse to function, so if high mobility is a factor, I would look elsewhere.

My basic $600 acer laptop from 2017 has better trackpad than my ThinkPad from work and was expandable enough to cover my needs with a quick Ram and SSD upgrade and it has a really good, large track pad still working to this day.

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