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mrmrcoleman

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Chief Product Strategy Officer - netboxlabs.com
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mrmrcoleman··on English: A vs. An
Same in French, Dutch, and probably other languages for “he is doctor” or “I am doctor”
mrmrcoleman··on Dutch Train Map Simulator
The Monaco number is a little unintuitive - it has one line running through it, but the principality's tiny physical footprint makes it look railway dense on that chart
mrmrcoleman··on Building SQLite with a small swarm
Take a look at SQLite’s test coverage. It’s impressive: https://sqlite.org/testing.html

590x the application code

mrmrcoleman··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Working on NetBox Designs: https://netboxlabs.com/blog/netbox-designs-introducing-decla...

Infrastructure architects think in terms of building blocks in "high-level designs" and those building blocks are often socialised/expressed in Visio/Spreadsheets. Thinking in building blocks is now more necessary than ever because of the sheer size of the infra being designed/deployed.

This approach is problematic after the design phase because there's a lossy translation to where the low-level design lives, often referred to as the Source of Truth, like NetBox.

NetBox Designs allows users to express composable, versioned, and templatizable building blocks that can be rendered to low level designs. No lossy translations, and you can always check in the future "does my LLD still match my HLD and if not, where?"

mrmrcoleman··on Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
Spoken English can easily express that meaning without the additional words by putting the stress on either “thinks” or maybe “they”.

Granted this doesn’t address the claim of the original post.

mrmrcoleman··on Abstraction, not syntax
Curious - how do you version the config?
mrmrcoleman··on Updating Gov.uk’s crown
Not exactly.

Protestors were arrested for holding “Not my king” signs, so they later adopted blank signs as a symbol of free speech.

I think the football fans you’re referring to were supporters of Shamrock Rovers, a team from South Dublin.

The Republic of Ireland is a separate country, with no monarchy and no ties to the British monarchy since the formation of the Irish Free State in the early 1920’s.

There were however reports of Dundee United fans singing the same chant. Dundee is in Scotland which does share the Monarch, so that would support your point better.

mrmrcoleman··on NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network
You can peruse the demo instance here: https://netbox-demo.netboxlabs.com/

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mrmrcoleman··on Credit card debt collection
“Who knew about YouTube?” In 2016…
mrmrcoleman··on Silicon Valley Bank Tanked, Dragging Down 500 Israeli Startups
A more useful measure of potential impact might be number of startups per capita, or number of people employed by startups per capita. Not in front of laptop right but might have a go later if no one gets to it first.
mrmrcoleman··on Duolingo’s AI learns what you need to learn
Total anecdata but with a combination of Duolingo and a French wife I've learned conversational French much faster (3.5 years) than I learned conversational Dutch with Dutch friends and books (5+ years).

So I guess I agree that while Duolingo alone isn't enough to get good at a language I have been frequently amazed by how it "gets" where I'm at on my learning journey.

Especially recently I've started taking the occasional tests it provides and that seems to change my learning journey in a convincing way.

mrmrcoleman··on High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
I came here for the butter robot.
mrmrcoleman··on The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers
TL;DR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Bourgoin
mrmrcoleman··on Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free
Thanks!
mrmrcoleman··on Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free
Those videos are great! Where were you all located, physically? I'm trying to get some sense for the geographical limits of this sort of thing.
mrmrcoleman··on Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free
I read somewhere that musicians can only tolerate up to ~20ms latency to be able to perform together “live”.

The speed of light gives you ~186 miles per millisecond, which assuming you need to make a round trip in 20ms gives you an upper distance of ~1900 miles for live performance.

In reality however this will be much lower due to processing overhead, speed of light in fiber (~0.7e), and internet backbone topology.

Curious to know if the creators have done any tests, (or can show any demos) of the effective range this works at?

mrmrcoleman··on UK faces 'permanent' food shortages
This seems like it shouldn’t have made the front page
mrmrcoleman··on Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain
That explains it.
mrmrcoleman··on Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain
That wasn't my experience as a UK expat in the Netherlands. I was there for 11 years and I never heard a thing from HMRC.
mrmrcoleman··on Epic corporate jargon alternatives
Love it. If you need more inspiration I can highly recommend Darren Allen's Apocalypedia too: https://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/apocalypedia/
mrmrcoleman··on Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
Pre Uber the taxi drivers in Amsterdam were similarly as awful and I don’t remember the Dutch being exploited any time recently.
mrmrcoleman··on What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
"how are the discoverability and accessibility equations going to be solved?" - this is the whole challenge.

I referred to the WorksonARM project in the blog: https://www.worksonarm.com/

WorksOnARM solved this problem for ARM by making machines available through Equinix Metal's API for development and testing.

Hardware manufacturers can ship boxes to developers, give them access through an API like Equinix Metal's, or some other approach, but one way or another developers are going to need access.

mrmrcoleman··on What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
Thanks for the references sitkack
mrmrcoleman··on What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
Hey, thanks for the link! This post will be followed up with a series of articles that will go into more detail about the various technologies. I'll be sure to include PIM in my research.
mrmrcoleman··on SnowFS – a fast, scalable version control file storage for graphic files
This is great, well done. While at (now defunct) Dotscience we did a lot of work on Dotmesh which you might find interesting: https://github.com/dotmesh-io/dotmesh

I would also look at data science/ML as a potential use for the tool as there are real issues with using Git for training data.

Last point which is more of a tip: Show don’t tell. If you did some side by side workflow walkthroughs showing the difficulties with other tools it will make it easier for people to see that this problem is real (which it definitely is)

mrmrcoleman··on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
I've been using Monzo for 2 years and I have no complaints. The app is fantastic and they have integrations for international transfers, and business banking that just work.
mrmrcoleman··on Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
(2019)

Originally posted here: https://www.wired.com/story/how-blockchain-can-wrest-the-int...

mrmrcoleman··on Show HN: Serverless for Everyone Else – eBook
Thanks for the thorough answer Alex. I look forward to reading and hope this experiment works out.
mrmrcoleman··on Show HN: Serverless for Everyone Else – eBook
I've always been impressed by how much you focus on developer experience for your projects Alex. Bravo!

Could you say more about why you decided to make this and your experience using Gumroad?

mrmrcoleman··on Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
If the code has been optimized to the point of being illegible/difficult for others to maintain then, assuming you’d like to update that code at some point, you’ll need to pay for that too.
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