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taf2··on Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?
Twilio still is rock solid IMO. The issue is when sprint and T-Mobile merged as well as the backlash from the carriers dealing stir shaken. They rushed to create the campaign registry. It’s effectively made many normal sms use cases nearly impossible. What’s happened is the industry is being bogged down in regulations self imposed and directed by the feds
taf2··on Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)
The bad IMO originated from double click
taf2··on Dell lays off 12,500 people
I kind of wish they did both... percentages are more helpful in understanding the impact (in this case to the company). But you're right in the case of layoffs a count is more meaningful... although i'd argue whether it's 1 or more the impact to the individual is the same and usually very negative.
taf2··on Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
Now to compile with wasm so we can use it in a browser
taf2··on Large Enough
sonate 3.5 thinks 2
taf2··on How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
I don’t see why they need to have a worker and a shared worker .. couldn’t they run the sqlite in the sharedworker directly?
taf2··on Codestral Mamba
How does this work in vim?
taf2··on Daylight eInk Computer
Originally a 100 and they did give a sense for pricing
taf2··on Ask HN: Should I study machine learning or software engineering?
I’m confused why it’s a choice… machine learning is like a sub set or computer science… you definitely should have a strong foundation in computer science and maybe as a masters degree focus on a specific area like machine learning. I’d argue for a bachelor’s degree you have to get the basics and then get a masters in something specific like machine learning.
taf2··on Why Alaska Rivers Are Turning an Eerie Orange
We have iron in our water in Maryland too
taf2··on Ask HN: What indoor CO2 monitor do you recommend?
I had fun with this one

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5187

I used a tiny pico and display to make a little clock/sensor

taf2··on Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
That would be cool - maybe a simple 20/20 vision would be a great next step after hearing
taf2··on Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)
This the main reason I insist on curb - we need reliable http timeouts
taf2··on Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
I’ve always told myself- no matter how smart my idea is , if no one else understands it it could be as if it didn’t exist.
taf2··on Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?
Very spicy
taf2··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
I heard a big reason Google invested so much into chrome was to reduce streaming costs. VP8 I heard saved billions in bandwidth costs…
taf2··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Yes this is great so much easier to work with
taf2··on A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
That is really impressive animation, now I'd love to see this animation updated to include how the Vaccine works
taf2··on A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
Even better use esp long range and have a receiver device outside maybe powered via solar… connected to cell network… this way no additional networks exposed internally…
taf2··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
We definitely did block or at least make them less available, as I recall prior to the invasion RT was commonly on when walking into a hotel room or in Youtube recommendation lists. Post invasion in US I never see it in any hotels or recommended on Youtube... was it censored or maybe just wildly boycotted, not sure... but seems appropriate as a response to me
taf2··on Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
Dear Internet user, third party cookies are also used be embedded web applications in services such as salesforce. Cookies are not only used for tracking, but also as an example, secure session allowing the bank to secure your login and also the person on the phone when call in helping you via their login. There are decades worth of applications created that likely will not be fixed…
taf2··on The man who killed Google Search?
ChatGPT is much better…
taf2··on The man who killed Google Search?
I append GitHub:) and then I switch back to chatgpt
taf2··on A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
Could this be used as kind of connection proxy to allow for more clients to a single pool of database servers?
taf2··on Ask HN: What are your favorite APIs you have worked with this year?
Browser APIs are actually pretty great. From good old DOM API like querySelector to BroadcastChannel and even navigator.locks - all super useful and there’s more…
taf2··on Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it?
It can be totally worth it. If you put your all into it
taf2··on Ask HN: How did you build feature flags?
Redis sets or hash’s work well
taf2··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
See https://mdta.maryland.gov/Toll_Facilities/FSK.html
taf2··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
It took 5 years to build in the 1970s. It took 5 seconds to destroy
taf2··on Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019
I agree with most of this but I think we do recognize and every year we get smarter about how we handle it… I think it’s just very hard to see how we improve over a few years time scale… I remember in 1986 or 1987 my dad took us to his office I think it was cricket software in Pennsylvania and in the front of the very shiny new office was an extremely polluted stream. It was a bright red/orange color. I recall my dad telling us to avoid playing in the water and explaining that it was not supposed to be that color… years later and while much of the area that was farm land in PA is now homes and neighborhoods- I don’t believe such a stream exists…. That said plastic is still very hard thing to reduce in our environment already we see many more bio degradable examples of packaging being used and a lot of research into which plastics are harmful and ways to help reduce or mitigate the impacts… back in the 80s if it was known it was not talked about… progress is slow but if you care very deeply about it you should IMO go into research or engineering to do something positive about it. Understand why we use it and find good alternatives
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