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dbosch

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ruby // rails // coffee // linux // movies
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dbosch··on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
I was asking myself the exact same question. No idea
dbosch··on Ask HN: How do you store your (LLM) prompts?
Do you re-arrange them with folders or tags? Do you manage to keep them organized ?
dbosch··on Ask HN: How do you store your (LLM) prompts?
Interesting. But what about non-code prompts?
dbosch··on Ruby might be faster than you think
I'm with you on this claim :)

But, for the sake of truth: - AirBnB migrated from Rails to a micro-services architecture (which I think, they regretted doing too early - I read that somewhere I believe) - Stripe never used Rails: they use Ruby (and Sinatra for the Web part - i.e. dashboard).

But it's true that Github and Shopify both use and scaled Rails monoliths. There are showing the way :)

dbosch··on Charlie Chaplin: official website
It looks like a "classic" Ruby on Rails + Bootstrap setup
dbosch··on Chronophoto
Great game ! Thanks for sharing.

Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year, after we tried to guess the date.

dbosch··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
Age of Empires but in the browser.

No install. Only web technology. Easy multi-player Possibility to do Massive Multiplayer (100s) or just 2 or 3 Either blitz game (couple of hours max) or persistent

dbosch··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Less than half baked, Kong (temp name) is the Goodread for movies.

During lockdown, I decided to watch more movies, including classics. I noticed my friends were doing the same and I wanted to know what they were watching, and which film they were interested in...

Very early. Lots of buggy features. Sorry.

http://www.getkong.xyz

dbosch··on Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
any plans to bring back the code execution as an API?
dbosch··on Where can I find Viaweb interface screenshots?
I've been to the wayback machine. But I couldn't have a look at the interface in itself. only the homepage. thanks for the other link
dbosch··on Ask HN: Moving to Tokyo as a software engineer
check out the '500 startups' meetup: https://500startups.jp/bilinguals-gaijins-in-startups/ plenty of startups of their portfolio looking for engineers

you can also have a look at this guy blog: http://www.tokyodev.com/ lots of tips on how to work as a gaijin engineer in japan

dbosch··on Ask HN: Moving to Tokyo as a software engineer
I don't know your citizenship. But if you are from an eligible country (france, UK, Germany...) you are still eligible for a Working Holiday visa. It's a 1 year visa, quite easy to get. Unfortunately, the US citizens are not allowed to obtain this visa.

I lived in Tokyo for a year, and it's actually quite easy to get a job as a computer engineer there. Several of my friend came with a tourist visa (or Working Holiday visa) and managed to get a visa sponsorship from companies who wanted to hire them. I'm not saying it's super easy, but it is doable. And believe me, there is a shortage of web / mobile engineer in Tokyo.

Finally, don't worry too much about the gap year. Just go there and you'll find something. Go to events and meetups and you ll find plenty of people to talk to. You'll find a lot of opportunities that way.

Wish you the best

dbosch··on Kenichi Yamamoto has died
Thanks for the detailed explanation !
dbosch··on The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
A danish director made a film on the topic: he follows a Rent-A-Friend business boss who hides what he is doing for a living to his own family Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242460/
dbosch··on Ask HN: Where's a great place to travel if you want to just code?
Honestly, rent a house in the countryside, a remote place, but with fiber broadband. That's the perfect setup. Go in France countryside, like in the middle of the country (but i guess any country side in any country will do). No distraction. Perfect.
dbosch··on SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies
You're right. I should have edited my comment properly. I sincerely apologize. My point was to indicate that they are non startup companies, privately held, that are wayyy more valuable than SpaceX or Uber. Sorry about this.
dbosch··on SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies
"World's most valuable privately held companies". Sounds weird, no?

What about Vitol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitol), Saudi Aramco, Koch Industries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries) ... etc ?

dbosch··on Radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi are not rising
No that I'm aware of. Can you try?
dbosch··on Radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi are not rising
Yes. It is. But Safecast highlights the fact that we don't know if it's rising. Cause Tepco just measured something that has never been measured before.
dbosch··on Radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi are not rising
Yes. It really is a great project. If you want to participate in any way, please feel free to contact them. They are always looking for people to help.
dbosch··on OSVehicle: The First open source mass market car platform (with Renault)
Awesome. Glad to see that Renault is actually catching up, and are now open to things like open source, and all...
dbosch··on Astronauts enter China's space station [video]
I do hear you, buddy. I'm french, and I do say "Astronaut" when I speaking about space. I'm just stating that in newspaper (not always), they say "spationaut". It's just how it's supposed to be said. But not everyone is following this. And it's ok. I was just highlighting the fact that there is a different name for people going to space regarding the country they are from. That's all.

But yeah, the american word it has probably won in the popular culture and in the day-to-day language.

Sorry. I didn't want to sound like Mr. know it all.

dbosch··on Astronauts enter China's space station [video]
Actually, the Russian call their space people "Cosmonauts". "Astronaut" has been chosen by NASA, while the USSR chose "Cosmonaut". But you're right regarding the chinese. They are not called Taikonaut in their own country. But neither "astronaut". link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut Check the terminology section.

I just wanted to highligth that only NASA (or English speaker world) call their astronaut "astronaut". In europe, we call them spationauts. And in russia, they call them "cosmonauts".

dbosch··on Astronauts enter China's space station [video]
they are not "astronauts", but taïkonauts. The chinese term for going into space. Astronauts are for US. Cosmonauts for Russians. and Spationauts for Europeans.