charles dot hn at bityard dot net
- bityardI've done some of this but would like to do more. Are you hiring?
- I love this so much. It's like the El Reg editors got turned loose on HN headlines.
- It's not page rendering issues, usually, since Firefox and Chrome pretty much support all the same things.
What you run into the most is the website saying, hey, it looks like you are not using a browser we have tested against, so we are not going to let you log in. Please come back when you have Chrome, edge, or Safari.
- Growing up, the Sega Channel was something I desperately wanted as a kid. Unfortunately, I did not have a Genesis, we did not have cable TV, and our parents would have balked at spending $40/month (adjusted for inflation) on a service to keep us from going outside to play.
- Kudos to the author(s) for advertising the project as open source while also actually being open source. Rare to see these days.
Largely this seems to be Yet Another LLM UI, but I'm curious what the extensions are good for? Doesn't every AI provider already have their own VS Code extension or editor? I have access to Windsurf at work for example, what does this extension do that Windsurf doesn't already?
- It's not exactly 3d printing but Bad Obsession Motorsports took a small mill, stuck a hot end into the tool holder, fed solder instead of filament into it, and "printed" traces onto a blank PC board.
I thought it was pretty clever but they admit it was tricky to make work at all, let alone get good results.
- Yep, but this comes with a tradeoff: all of your services now have a valid key/cert for your whole domain, significantly increasing the blast radius if one service is compromised.
- Are you trying to imply that someone would actually lie in an advertisement or marketing campaign?
- I guess the author doesn't hang out on Reddit much. A lot of the tech hobbyist subs I used to enjoy are now nothing but a flood of self-promotional marketing posts for vibe coded apps.
- I'm using https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/ for this purpose, but this is interesting.
One bug I noticed is that if you open a new console and enter a statement that doesn't print anything (`import sys`, `foo = 1`), it doesn't show up unless you either scroll up or enter another line.
- And Emerson has for a LONG time been just an American brand on the cheapest Chinese electronics your money can buy.
The whole article is pretty terrible.
- Maybe that's how it should work, but it's not how it actually works.
The culture makes the company. Everyone on the lower rungs of the org chart knows this, because it's what they live and breathe every day. A positive, supportive workplace culture with clear goals and relative autonomy is a thing of beauty. You routinely find people doing more work than they really have to because they believe in the mission, or their peers, or the work is just fun. People join the company (and stay) because they WANT to not because they have to.
Past a certain company size, upper management NEVER sees this. They are always looking outward: strategy, customers, marketing, competition. Never in. They've been trained to give great motivational speeches that instill a sense of company pride and motivation for about 30 seconds. After that, employee morale is HR's job.
I have worked in a company that got acquired while it was profitable. The culture change was slow but dramatic. We went from a fun, dynamic culture with lots of teamwork and supportive management, to one step or two above Office Space. As far as the acquiring company was concerned, everything we were doing didn't matter, even if it worked. We had to conform to their systems and processes, or find new jobs. Most of us eventually did the latter.
Somehow Red Hat seems to be a notable exception. Although IBM owns Red Hat, they seem to have mostly left it alone instead of absorbing it. The name "IBM" doesn't even appear on redhat.com. Because I'm an outsider, I can't say whether IBM meddled in Red Hat's HR or management, but I would guess not.
- I used to follow a few personal finance and FIRE subs. Pretty much all of them had surprising number of creative writing exercises too:
"I just inherited $10 million from a dead relative I never knew, what should I do?"
Or:
"I sold my online business for $37 million, is this enough to retire on?"
These daydreamers always create fresh throwaway accounts and usually never come back to answer clarifying questions. If they do, their answers are vague and unhelpful.
- > while most cars nowadays have zinc coating and more plastic and are still mostly fine after 15 years.
In your part of the world, maybe. I live in the middle of the salt belt in the US and we get about 10 years out of most cars. That's when you start seeing rust holes in the fenders around the wheels, when most of the frame has flaked away and the floor pans become involuntary structural elements.
If you're a car nut who spends extra time and money on preventive maintenance and rustproofing, you can get a few more years. But the rust comes for your car at some point anyway.
Car manufacturers know how to make the frames and bodies last longer, this is not an unsolvable manufacturing and design challenge. It's just that nobody is getting a raise for going to their boss and saying, "I know how to make the company sell slightly fewer cars..."
- They meant banning alcohol altogether. A.k.a. prohibition.
- And the naming conflicts with NVidia's AIStore (https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore). The two products are extremely similar. I don't know which came first, but Minio is going to want to do another pivot very soon if they want to survive. I doubt they have the resources to stand up to NVidia's army of extremely well-paid IP lawyers.
- Garage is a popular alternative to Minio. https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
I hadn't heard of RustFS and it looks interesting, although I nearly clicked away based on the sheer volume of marketing wank on their main page. The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs
- I don't see a contributor licensing agreement (CLA), so you may be right.
(I personally choose not to contribute to projects with CLAs, I don't want my contributions to become closed-source in the future.)