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siamese_puff··on Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade
This sounds awesome. Can anyone comment on the plethora of negative articles seemingly trying to balance out this positive news with the cargo ship fire in China 2 days ago? Orchestrated media manipulation or coincidence? Not a conspiracy theorist just curious
siamese_puff··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
Mind me asking general location and how much savings? Wouldn’t mind doing similar at some point
siamese_puff··on The three thousand year journey of colchicine
After seeing multiple doctors in the USA (where I no longer live thankfully) for a chronic mouth ulcer problem an allergist prescribed me colchicine which seemed to cure them. These ulcers lasted over 15 years and colchicine seemed to be the only thing to eradicate them.

Insurance wouldn’t cover the cost and colchicine cost me $500 a month for a bottle. In the UK I can pay 10 pounds. Crazy drug and crazy price for something 3000 years old

siamese_puff··on How big is carpooling market?
We should spend more time and energy improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and stop the growth of urban sprawl which makes you incorrectly think you need to solve this problem. A great book on this topic - Carmageddon
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Moving to London from California
Life is short and it seemed fun
siamese_puff··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
I understood exactly what you meant and that is an awesome experience
siamese_puff··on Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture
Sad story
siamese_puff··on Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?
None and the problem I see is we have too many tools
siamese_puff··on Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
This comment kind of nails it. I don’t have any social media at all and often my friends tell me I live under a rock for not knowing the latest meme. The decision is trivial, I just don’t have social media (except Hackernews which does waste a disgusting amount of time).

Anyways - people gravitate toward the simple and assume the difficult is impossible. I’m training for a marathon with some friends and some are already making excuses to do as much as possible that _does not_ involve running (weight lifting, biking). I think humans just do the easy thing and complain about their situation because it’s.. well easy.

siamese_puff··on Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs?
Cloudflare Workers AI
siamese_puff··on Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker
Very cool. I’ve been playing in this space as well and built a window switcher with labels on macOS with Tauri.

It’s a fun tool!

siamese_puff··on Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds
100% agree with this. Every kid in the 2000s pirated Adobe software. It was almost a badge of honor to have every Adobe icon on your desktop.

These kids learned the Adobe suite and probably became professionals as a result, then purchasing the software legally for their entire company. Piracy isn’t bad, in fact, it probably makes these companies money in many cases.

siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing
Good book. Can be a bit dry here and there, but fascinating
siamese_puff··on Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker
Looks nice. May I ask what you wrote it in? What renders the GUI?
siamese_puff··on Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
There is also the ability to run things like Playwright on the edge a la Cloudflare Workers. You can fallback to rendering JS required sites through that and do clientside imagemagick WASM shenanigans on the client once the worker returns direct links to all the images.
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Is it worth upgrading to the new M4 Mac from an M1?
Definitely not
siamese_puff··on We're forking Flutter
Sure and 1 guy built flappy birds played by tens of millions. The complexity is a completely different ball game IMO.
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
If you define “bigness” of my house as being more value than living next to all my friends in a very walkable city with tons of things to do at any time I want where I don’t need to ever drive my car then sure.

Personally, I’ll take my $500k condo in my very amazing city that is 1000sq ft over a 3500sq ft empty house that is 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.

siamese_puff··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
No offense, but this statement seems like an ignorant lack of understanding around the issues with the growing problems around urban sprawl and the issues it causes environmentally or otherwise. No one is going to take your countryside home from you, but it’s worth educating yourself on the issues.
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
My partner and I discuss this a lot and I hate that no one in the US realizes how detrimental urban sprawl is.

How did you learn to understand non-profit organization work like this?

siamese_puff··on Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol
Very cool and nice work!
siamese_puff··on Why do 'gate lice' line up early for a flight? Psychologists explain
I’ve always wondered this logic myself. I feel like a small book could be published around human psychology and air travel things.
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Are rockstar programmers more likely not to have a college degree?
In my 10 years of this career all of the rockstar programmers I’ve worked with have had a college degree. Not saying there is a correlation, but I’ve only worked with a very small handful of absolute wizards.
siamese_puff··on Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol
Can you elaborate when I'd use this over the native HTTP support? https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/http
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: What's the best documentary you've watched this year?
The narrators voice is annoying clickbait shit.

If you like this, check out The Alpinist. Literally the best movie I’ve ever seen. Also, felt like it was on par with Alex Honnolds climbing movie

siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Crappy website design seems more trustworthy?
Define “trust banks”
siamese_puff··on OpenAI Billing Issues - Overcharged Me 14x, No Response – What to Do?
That sucks, will cancel my account
siamese_puff··on Show HN: Typing Guru – A Hobby Project to Improve Typing Skills
I always hate the “don’t view on phone” deterrent where I legit can’t even read about this product. Now I will never see or use this product as a result.

I suggest you at least provide a demo to mobile users or a landing page.

siamese_puff··on Hacker Typer
God damn that is funny
siamese_puff··on Ask HN: Next.js and Python Backend?
Don’t listen to the lovers of Next saying you need both.

Bundle the client and serve it from Python. Use Python for APIs that you call from the client. You can bundle a server and client bundle optimally, do SSR within Python and hydrate the client with the client bundle.

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