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Years ago, my boss thought he was being clever and set our server’s DNS to the root nameservers. We kept getting sporadic timeouts on requests. That took a while to track down… I think I got a pizza out of the deal.

Nah it’s easy to quit vim:

ctrl-z, bg, killall vim

;-)

"If our ship travels 20,000 light years in 40 years (from the perspective of those on the ship) then that would take a "real" 20,000 years from the perspective of those on Earth"

This part just breaks my brain. I've been reading about this stuff for decades, and it just does not compute. It's also a little funny because there's basically zero incentive for the folks on earth to send astronauts away at near-light speed, as they'd never realize the benefits of the mission.

Neurotone.ai || Software Engineer || Fully Remote || Full-time || neurotone.com

Neurotone is developing an AI powered auditory training system to assist people with hearing disabilities get the most out of their hearing aids. We are utilizing the clinically proven LACE methodology to facilitate the best outcome for every patient, and we are partnered with a number of thought leaders in the audiology community to ensure we are delivering the most effective solution on the market.

We are looking for experienced mobile developers (Expo/React Native) as well as backend developers with a strong knowledge using Postgres (Supabase) for role based authentication, queuing, RLS, and as an API gateway (PostgREST).

We are extremely passionate about technology, and our entire core team is composed of industry veterans with successful exits in previous ventures. This is a proven product with existing revenue that we are excited to take to the next level, more importantly, this system can provide a dramatic improvement the quality of life for people suffering with auditory disabilities.

Please contact travis AT neurotone.com if interested. Thanks!

It’s a gimmick. There is no point other than marketing.

Happy new year from Amsterdam. Thanks to everyone for the good times all these years!

Used QModem as a young teen, and it was my gateway to connecting with people in my community via a very cheap laptop that only had a floppy drive (no HD). This experience shaped my future and my trajectory in tech, thanks to your dad.

I initially imagined a script that would send an email generated by an LLM that you could reply to in the target language. Basically, an LLM pen pal that will email you regularly. Seems like a fun idea.

People do run in the United States (tons of people). It is not a crime.

Do whatever you want. Life is short, and even if you are making the wrong decision, you will learn a lot from the experience. The saying, “don’t go counting other people’s money” comes to mind here. If the OP is young (probably is if recently graduated), they have more opportunity (time) to rebound from the experience if it turns out to be the wrong path. Make your financial mistakes when young if you’re going to make them.

I did it this way for about 20 years and recently moved to VSCode with its integrated terminal. It makes me feel pretty lazy and like I’m “cheating”, but there are some productivity benefits (LSP), and I’m less of a purist than I used to be. I maintained a blog about vim for 3-4 years, so I was pretty committed to that workflow back in the day.

Then focus on brokering deals with the zillions of independent artists out there. I worked at Grooveshark (a long time ago), and this was a big part of our strategy, and it showed a lot of potential.

If they are paying musicians to create what is essentially “filler” and using this filler to lower their per song streaming costs, they’re simultaneously denying real artists, producing real music, an opportunity to appear in the stream. For listeners that care, this represents a reduction in the quality of their content, and aligns the platform towards pure profit, as opposed to being an ecosystem where working artists can try and carve out a living.

More directly, I have never encountered a bug with any of these apps, aside from Linux kernel panics due to buggy drivers, which was almost always with long tail hardware back in the 90s.

Sure, using all the aforementioned tools for over a decade without any bugs that prevented me from completing a task.

It makes me really appreciate tools that DO work. Things like: the Linux kernel, Vim, PostgreSQL, the Golang compiler, etc. Interestingly, the aforementioned tools come from different ecosystems, and levels of financial backing, but all of them have been reliable tools for me for many years, all are complex, and yes... they all have bugs, but of acceptable severity and manageability.

What do you recommend?

Yup, everyone thought they had “big data” for a moment in the industry, and it turns out, they all just read the same trendy blog posts. I made the mistake of “clustering” at my previous company, and it introduced so much unnecessary complexity. If you are really worried about future proofing, just design a schema where the main entities are denormalized and use UUID for your primary keys. If you need to shard later, it will be much easier. Although, again, it’s likely that you will never need to.

So much this… if you get enough sleep, exercise, hydration, and proper nutrition, everything works so much better.

All nighters are usually the result of poorly set expectations or poor planning. Give yourself some grace and set reasonable expectations for yourself. You just sound burned out, not old. At your age, you need to give yourself some time to figure out, and recover, from whatever is going on in your life, not blame the passage of time.

This looks cool. I would like to see a video showing how it makes brewed coffee. I’m currently using a moccamaster (for convenience), but it has far too much plastic. Pour over is a pain in the ass. I’m curious if you plan on shipping to Europe (where I live).

I wonder what the smallest assembly implementation would look like to provide the minimal graphics API necessary.

I’d imagine it will remain a reasonable choice for quite some time since it’s just a bunch of primitive operations.

I'll use it... for a hobby project! :-D

Same.

Didn’t know… awesome!

I think a lot of people would reject any dynamically typed language at this stage.

Elm was a pretty noble attempt—all things considered.

I would rather have a messy commit history with all of the value that an audit trail brings va a clean history that purges said context.

Neurotone.ai || Fully Remote || Full-time || neurotone.com

Neurotone is revolutionizing auditory training with AI, helping people with hearing disabilities maximize their hearing aids. We're a passionate team of technologists and industry veterans with a proven product that improves lives.

Open Roles:

- Interactive QA Specialist: Collaborate with product, engineering, and support teams to test and refine our app. Requires manual testing experience, attention to detail, and empathy for end-users.

- Software Engineer (Backend Focus): Optimize backend systems, write PL/pgSQL functions, manage Postgres (e.g., Supabase), and develop queuing systems (Deno). Must have expertise in databases and scalable architectures.

Note: Candidates must be in time zones no further west than EST; Western Europe is fine.

If interested, contact travis AT neurotone.com. Join us in making a difference!