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da02

2,789 karma · joined October 29, 2011

I'm so behind on work... I can't even write an awesome profile!

Until then watch this: https://vimeo.com/12598733 or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY&t=347s

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da02··on WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
Any thoughts on the latest seasons of Doctor Who?
da02··on WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
How did you all first learn about the original Numberwang? Netflix?
da02··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
What type of work was it? Customer service/tech support? Software development?
da02··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Any thoughts on the "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"?
da02··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
Did you buy it or show them a better way of doing it?
da02··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
What are some of your favorite tools or services that you adopted in the past few years?
da02··on What happened to TheNumbers.com
Do you have any active sites or social media with your recommendations?

(I never publish my recommendations because they seem to complicated for people. Like using 30 GB plan/$10/monthly from T-Mobile for data and then using Tello for $10 plan for voice/text. This would require a 2 esim/sim card phone. I am currently using a Moto G Power 2024 phone from eBay $90/new, which was better than the $200 slightly used Pixel 6a from Swappa. Most people would just save the hassle, get a Galaxy phone with a phone contract.)

da02··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Are these Chrome extensions? How did you learn to write them?
da02··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
Which models and tools do you use to write and validate code?
da02··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Other than the price increases, any issues with Hetzner? Any alternatives you would recommend?
da02··on The desperation of NYTimes
I just gave up on reading respectable news outlet like NY Times. I decided to just get it from "fringe" Youtube channels: Danny Haiphong, Dialogue Works with Nima, The Jimmy Dore Show. Recently, former CIA analyst, Larry Johnson, worked with Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali to vet a source saying Iran has 1 or 2 nuclear weapons. Let's see how long it will take the NY Times to avoid/deny/confirm that story.
da02··on Google Declaring War on the Web
> Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment where your access to information is limited to what Google’s synthetic text extruders deem relevant.

They mentioned AOL. Remember back when AOL bought Time Warner in a "merger of equals", but it really wasn't. Then this fear AOL will become your telephone company because AOL Instant Messenger was so popular? Then, MSFT won the browser wars and disbanded the IE team and came up with a whole .Net strategy to takeover the Web. Then came Firefox, Google, Web 2.0, etc. I remember Dave Winer writing how Google was making real stuff while Netscape was doing mostly hacks.

David is now Goliath. So I am all for Google taking over the Web. They will go bankrupt doing it. They couldn't even make Google+ a thing. What was that anyway? I lack a Ph.d to understand that thing.

A few startups there, a bunch of open e-commerce standards here, and bunch of market value gone after the AI bubble... Google (and many others) are going against Artists who can Code. Who knows what delights will come.

da02··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
What was the most stressful part of that job?
da02··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
How do you deal with the few minutes of downtime when you do kernel/OS/software upgrades?
da02··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
How does AMC stay in business after all these years?
da02··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
What would you buy if you were Apple and there were post-bubble/fire-sale prices on equipment and/or companies?
da02··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
What did you think of G+? I never understood it, but what would you have done now differently than Google with G+ (using your hindsight and battle scars)?
da02··on Do you even need a database?
Retail customers or B2B? What was stopping you from starting a similar business, but different product category?
da02··on Do you even need a database?
Sounds like a tough business. The profit margins must have been razor thin.
da02··on Do you even need a database?
What type of product or service were they selling?
da02··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
What was the home country of the acquiring company? UAE? Argentina?
da02··on Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
Did he come from an old-money wealthy family? How did he find the time and money to be an unofficial cultural archivist?
da02··on Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
Which brands do you usually recommend for desktop/laptop related accessories?
da02··on In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC
What are some novel processes or technologies you see becoming more important in the next 5-10 years?
da02··on Why Cloudflare rule order matters?
What is the most stressful part of your job? Crazy customers or CEOs?
da02··on Facebook is cooked
The first half of the last paragraph is a warning: Get schools to stop using Facebook. If they are showing that kind of content to a grown hetero-woman, I'd hate to wonder what they show to everyone else.

I never signed up to that site because I thought sooner or later Google or some startup would just clone it, lower the ad count, improve censorship, and run it at near break-even. Especially since you don't have to save every single post created for eternity.

da02··on Facebook is cooked
What do your social groups use nowadays?
da02··on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples
Seems like it should work. I do not have experience with that condition. A quick search online (patella tendonitis hyaluronic acid) yielded this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22526713/

So they are using hyaluronic acid injections for patella tendonitis. Taking hyaluronic acid orally would probably take longer for effects compared to injections. Most people would prefer the injections because they feel safer for a doctor to do all the work. I prefer the tablets. If you have the money, I guess go for the injections. I would use the H.A. tablets. (With a tall glass of water, and do not take at the same time as blood-thinning medication, like pain killers or drugs.)

da02··on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples
I had good results with hyaluronic acid for knee osteoarthritis. Sometimes they sell it as Type II Collagen. "Source Naturals Hyaluronic Joint Complex" was the best for my relatives/friends' knee problems. I take it a few times a month (with resveratrol) for smooth skin. I have been taking it since 2008 without any negative result.
da02··on The Dilbert Afterlife
Are you still in freelancing? Did you ever discover any companies or teams that worked well together?
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