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I buy the original Millenniata 'stone' DVDs from eBay[1]. They are only 4.7 gb though, not 25/100gb blue rays that verbatim sells.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/261878887064

I take meetings out of the Kaminsky room multiple times a week. Thanks for starting the dojo, it's truly a wonderful place.

Bending Spoons seems to be doing fine

4k, <5%

Tangential. If you're interested in the history of airlines and the intense power struggles, I highly recommend the book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines Into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

Could you please share a list of your favorites in San Jose/Bay Area?

In San Francisco I love having pho in Chinatown. Golden Star Vietnamese Restaurant, Sai's Vietnamese, and Golden Flower are the ones I like the most.

I daily drive a PopOS (22) on my laptop, it simplifies dealing with Nvidia drivers.

I recently upgraded to the 24.x version that runs Cosmic DE. While I loved the visuals and design, the whole OS was buggy. The GitHub issues about memory leaks I faced related to cosmic have been open for a while.

> Finnish startup Donut Lab claims it’s made a solid-state battery breakthrough. Whether you believe it or not, the technology does appear to be more than just hype.

I thought eBay doesn't allow you to cancel a bid you placed.

> Did DO at least provide the DaemonSet from an official source, or was it literally "here's a random GitHub link"?

quoting verbatim from their email:

> For long-term remediation, our team has also created a DaemonSet that runs this flush command on all nodes automatically. You can find it at the link: https://github.com/okamidash/ARP-DOKS-FIX

Claude code has a /context command.

As the sibling comment already mentioned, k8s is not much more complexity once you're past the learning curve. I used to host with ec2 + scripts earlier. K8s actually solves a lot of problems that you will have to solve yourself anyway.

I've read a few horror stories, but I always thought it wouldn't happen to me :)

> It's not my problem, I opened a ticket, now I'm going to get lunch, hope it's back up soon.

That's a good way of thinking about it.

At our scale I doubt if we can get any cloud provider to write custom contracts. But if I had negotiating power, I completely agree.

We were on AWS for a while. The complexity was way higher than what our team could manage. DOKS is simpler, and this is the first major issue we've hit in many months.

I loved watching "It's quieter in the twilight", a documentary about how a dedicated team of engineers (mostly retired) are fighting to keep the Voyager mission alive.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

> The screen, which has been dubbed retinal e-paper, has a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch. "This breakthrough paves the way for the creation of virtual worlds that are visually indistinguishable from reality," says a Chalmers news release about the breakthrough.

https://newatlas.com/materials/retina-e-paper/

The book Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken really opened my eyes about UPF. I highly recommend it. Here is a video of him delivering a lecture at the royal institution about the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oOoYnCfJs

I don't think adding kombu to dashi would count as UPF according to the book's definition.

While DuckDB is excellent, I've found the spatial extension still has some rough edges compared to more mature solutions like PostGIS.

1. The latitude/longitude ordering for points differs from PostGIS and most standard geospatial libraries, which creates friction due to muscle memory.

2. Anecdotal: spatial joins haven't matched PostGIS performance for similar operations, though this may vary by use case and data size.

3. The spatial extension has a backlog of long-standing GitHub issues.

I found iroshizuku inks faster drying than the other brands I've tried. Paper matters a lot too, I've experimented with many and finally settled on Rhodia.

I agree :)

My daily driver is a Pilot Vanishing Point. It's a fountain pen with a form factor of a clickable ball point pen.

Home Assistant has an open source smart speaker: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

It's still in preview.

California almost had such a system. NPR's Planet money did a great episode on this called Tax Hero: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

Description below is from the podcast episode page:

> Back in 2005, a group in California decided we could make filing taxes dramatically simpler in the US as well. Lots of Americans could receive tax forms in the mail that were pre-filled out by the government. All they'd need to do is check for errors and send the forms back in.

> Joseph Bankman, a law professor at Stanford, thought this was such a no-brainer, that he offered to test out the idea with some California taxpayers. It turned out to be a huge success. Other states thought about using the plan. Even California's governor at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger, supported it.

> Bankman thought getting ReadyReturn through the California legislature would be smooth sailing. He was wrong.

I just copy the terminal output, no MCP. The context relevant to most emails is in a CLAUDE.md file.

Yup, Claude Code is the real deal. It's a massive force multiplier for me. I run a small SaaS startup. I've gotten more done in the last month than the previous 3 months or more combined. Not just code, but also emails, proposals, planning, legal etc. I feel like working in slo-mo when Claude is down (which unfortunately happens every couple of days). I believe that tools like Claude code will help smaller companies disproportionately.

Veritasium made a video on this topic a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w

I tried using powder as well, but the dishes weren't coming out as clean. I will give powder another shot when my current liquid runs out

For me, moving away from pods to a dishwasher liquid (cascade 3x from Costco) made the most difference. I add some liquid in the prewash and some in the main compartment. I had to figure out the right amount to add in each via trial and error. I don't pre rinse or run the hot water beforehand, my dishes come out clean.

I read this article the last time it was on HN. I found it an absolute joy to read.

This piece provides an excellent introduction to Silicon Valley's origins. Despite living in the area for sometime, I learned so much about the history of Silicon Valley, how Noyce and his colleagues at Shockley, then Fairchild, and finally Intel established both the technical foundation and cultural ethos of the Valley.

The venture capital aspects were particularly interesting - seeing how Arthur Rock helped the "traitorous eight" secure funding from Fairchild. I think the Fairchild employees were essentially the original "PayPal Mafia" - spinning off to create over fifty semiconductor companies (according to Wolfe) and spreading both technical knowledge and management philosophy throughout the region.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in Silicon Valley history, semiconductor development, or American business culture. Wolfe turns what could be dry technical history into a compelling story about innovation, ambition, and the cultural forces behind a technological revolution.

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