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digger495··on Are we Trek yet? – A guide for how close we are to Star Trek technology
I don't really see the point of this until we have abundant, virtually free energy. (Which I think we never will, thanks to climate change and capitalism)
digger495··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
Elon can surely afford more than that in Redmond.
digger495··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
Limiting the amount of work in progress is, in my opinion, the single reason to focus on Kanban.

https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/wip-limits

Of course, most tools get this wrong, so it's not surprising that it's missing here.

digger495··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
WIP limits are the good stuff.
digger495··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
_incorrect_ stereotypes?

Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.

digger495··on Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution
Steve, le
digger495··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
I've applied to Temporal several times. I would be a good fit, but I have yet to even get a recruiter screening. What does one have to do to get a fair shake?
digger495··on Elastic Binary Trees (2011)
Worst Radiohead song ever
digger495··on Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
I prefer Bruno
digger495··on The Origins of Wokeness
> Thanks to Sam Altman [...] for reading drafts of this.

Ftfg.

digger495··on Proposal: JavaScript Structs
They should just go write golang, if this is what they want.
digger495··on Show HN: The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript
The devs are clearly biased.

Look, i have Oauth2 trauma, and hate ForgeRock, but that doesn't mean they don't have a place

digger495··on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
LLMs will always have some degree of inaccuracy.

FtFY.

digger495··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
The author's point about Elden Ring is especially on point..

Because not only do you need to be level 50, but you need to try and fail five times before you see any kind of success.

Failure is _inevitable_. Quitting is optional.

You have to learn from each mistake.

digger495··on JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
"fixed"

And won't be available in non-chromium browsers and LTS versions of Node until 2028.

digger495··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
People want an alternative to things like Temporal, and don't want to handle DAGs with Kafka Streams.
digger495··on Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools
This is a useless and insipid editorial. I don't want the problem redeclared. We know this. We want solutions.
digger495··on Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
I see what you did there
digger495··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
"MongoDB is web scale"
digger495··on Gen AI will increase demand for software engineers
GenAI is a pipe dream.
digger495··on Garbage collect your technical debt (2021)
This is one of the dumbest and most obvious journal articles I've ever read.
digger495··on As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
Also fun, in Oklahoma, most (2/3rds or so) of the certified professionals who do the fittings are employees of NSM or NuMotion.
digger495··on As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
They do not. I just was fitted for one. I asked "how much is this retail, out the door, cash?"

$24,000.

So if Medicare is paying $65k, something is seriously wrong.

digger495··on Parallel Snapshotting: make pg_dump and pg_restore multi-threaded per table
Because this is advertising :)
digger495··on Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay
If just one of them had improved ventilation, maybe some of us might have felt safe enough to give a shit.
digger495··on Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
They should shove it waaaaay up their butthole.
digger495··on Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died
His namesake museum is the best attraction in Oklahoma. Get up close and personal with a real Apollo control panel.
digger495··on Testcontainers
Pglite is not fully compatible and doesn't even support parameterized queries yet.
digger495··on Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API
MIDI on the ipad is super easy, barely an inconvenience. The main issue is if mobile Safari will work with it.

I'm happy to help test if you need a hand.

digger495··on Portal (2021)
And please do play it. It's excellent. I have the PC port somewhere.
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