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pjot··on How capacity planners credibly estimate application performance
We played MITs Beer Distribution game[0] in grad school. Great example of the bullwhip effect[1]

[0]: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/teaching-resources-library/mit-sloa...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

pjot··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
I wonder why Confluence doesn’t include popular features all the time.
pjot··on I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
MIT recreated this thought experiment to research the “morality” in autonomous vehicles.

https://www.moralmachine.net/

pjot··on Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform
I recently demoed an observability platform with another company, and one of my biggest gripes was that we weren’t able to “observe” the error before it actually made it to the open.

And that it took 2+ weeks to train their models with the table metadata - so time to value for my team was always “in two weeks”.

Glad to see y’all going against that trend!

pjot··on A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
During the summer when I was 16 I bought a pair of subwoofers and promptly installed them into my mom's Honda Accord.

To make it so that she could drive without bumping Delilah, I wired them to the defrost switch.

It wasn’t long into winter until I was forced to take them out.

pjot··on No CSS Club
58 bytes is all you need.

  main {
    max-width: 38rem;
    padding: 2rem;
    margin: auto;
  }
pjot··on Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
It was super confusing the first few times I heard it mentioned when I switched to a new company.

Now their name and logo are similar to apples shortcuts.app and news.app

pjot··on Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins
They’re keen to peanuts apparently!
pjot··on SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
I hope this trend continues, they really are getting good. From a business perspective too it makes sense. Now people can drink all day long
pjot··on Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins
A four year battle with birds

https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh

pjot··on The Pile: An 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling (2020)
The Pile was also referenced in a post today of some guys tweets about “leaked” gpt4 details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36675934

pjot··on Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

  pg_dump --schema-only --table=tablename databasename
pjot··on Firefox address bar
This is a feature in Chrome as well!

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426

pjot··on Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?
Same here. I use the favorite button a lot and that it is next to flag, I assume this is most likely what’s happened
pjot··on Gitlab.com is down
Agree - also sending a patch via email is definitely possible, but not at all practical. I’m not sure if I’ve ever come across anyone who’s gitops workflows include email
pjot··on Gitlab.com is down
Considering Gitlab employees use Gitlab to make changes to Gitlab, how will they fix Gitlab?
pjot··on Data-Oriented Design (2018)
What about SQLite?
pjot··on Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions
I’m curious what your workflow is like switching between copilot and gpt-4. I typically have an open window for each, though this can feel more cumbersome than necessary at times.
pjot··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Ack’d on twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256
pjot··on Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”
Interesting workaround!

Do you know if this works across shared drives too? Say one shares a 2tb plan with someone else; would both parties need the addition $10 “premier” plan to utilize 4tb?

On the other hand, I’d worry about this being getting patched and losing access. Seems like unintended behavior tbh

pjot··on Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”
My only gripe is their largest iCloud offering is 2TB - would love to see some expansion there.
pjot··on Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Product Analytics for B2B SaaS Companies
The july.so page says “taking you to the future” and redirects to june - wouldn’t that be the past? Have you registered may.so?

Great product though! Will be following y’all’s progress!

pjot··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
Make sure both your phone and computer have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.
pjot··on $900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI
To add, a billionaire consumes just as much milk as someone making 40k
pjot··on My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot
> correction: + much of OpenAI eng, plus years of their bleeding edge research

Pretty telling

pjot··on HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters
An over simplification:

Columnar stores are optimized for reads. Row stores are optimized for writes.

pjot··on Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in cyberattack
I’m currently going through process of freezing my credit. The real kicker here is all three bureaus freeze processing services are down… Imagine that
pjot··on Searchable and sortable H1B salary database
My employers data seems to be accurate. Great work, fast search too.

For the uninformed - what is the point of these sites? Do they serve as proxy for a more general wage database? I’m guessing there’s some disclosure law for h1b

pjot··on Notes on Vision Pro
Look again. Amazon is a tree, Apple is hub and spoke.
pjot··on Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)
QR codes have certain zones that scanners look for.

To determine orientation scanners look for “alignment markers”.

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