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VectorLock··on Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?
Unethical Life Pro Tip: Get your 2nd remote job in a different geographical region (Europe vs US) so your meetings don't overlap.
VectorLock··on System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool
I was interested in the concept but after looking at the source code and the architecture I think I agree with the "not sure that this is a good approach" conclusion.
VectorLock··on System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool
Was this something you had planned to announce prior to the whole Terraform kerfuffle and it is just unfortunate timing, or was this precipitated by that event in any way?
VectorLock··on The OpenTF Manifesto
I've heard some people discuss that the contribution agreement that Hashicorp makes people sign gives them the right to change the license for existing contributions, but I'm not a lawyer so I really couldn't say for certain either way.
VectorLock··on The OpenTF Manifesto
I don't think you can just "fork it." Hashicorp already owns all that code because they make contributors sign it away to them.
VectorLock··on The OpenTF Manifesto
AWS has had a Terraform competitor for a long time; CloudFormation. I'm not sure how much they contribute to Terraform, some I think, but most of the AWS provider for Terraform to my knowledge is developed and owned by Hashicorp. If AWS just stopped contributing to Terraform development, I think it would have effectively zero difference.
VectorLock··on Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
Thanks for sharing this, really cool how they can piggy back on the Apple "Find My" network.
VectorLock··on Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
$300 to not have to unplug your dryer to plugin your EV charger.
VectorLock··on Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts
Most "Data Scientists" I've encountered are pretty much doing basic software engineering ETL projects.
VectorLock··on 20 Years of Vim
I had a subtle bit of wistfulness every time I fired up vim for the first time every morning this week.
VectorLock··on Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module
Wow this is pretty neat and surprisingly affordable. Looks like it'd be great for making digital gauges for a car.
VectorLock··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
Can you not use ChatGPT as well?

I think you'll find if you do try to push Google Search too far, its not quite "limitless" either.

VectorLock··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
If your website appears on the search results of Google and they show ads next to it, aren't you entitled to that revenue too?
VectorLock··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
>openai is worth $29,000,000.00

You might have missed a few zeros.

VectorLock··on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
This is kind cool. Closer than the Reflex thing to what I think would be cool. I wonder if anybody has made any kind of Python/Django system that lets you just write the front-end stuff in React but handles all the state synchronization stuff between React and your Python server.
VectorLock··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
The pull out fridge doesn't even seem that great, I just think of shit sliding off the back or you push them in and then you push everything off the front.
VectorLock··on Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law
I do, yes. It'd also be nice to know things like state of charge/how much gas I got, whats the car temperature now - tell me when it reaches X, look at my car's cameras. There are plenty of compelling use-cases.
VectorLock··on Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law
"Authorized parts" and "Authorized repair centers only" would be allow them to extract massive profits while providing no consumer benefit. That then incentivizes them to create even more fragile, unreliable vehicles.
VectorLock··on Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law
There is no simple and secure technical reason car makers can't do this, they just want to fight it because they make tons of money off making fragile cars, charging exorbitant fees at their dealers service department and for parts, and they see MA's Right to Repair bill as a threat to their revenue stream and how much they can extract from customers while providing no value back to them.
VectorLock··on Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law
Because people want things like remote start, remote climate control, etc. that they can control from phone apps.
VectorLock··on Apple Vision Pro developer kit
They couldn't care less about being the ones developing games, but they DO care very much about being the ones driving productivity apps which opens a whole corporate world for them to control.
VectorLock··on Apple Vision Pro developer kit
You don't need a $3000+ AR headset to play videos.
VectorLock··on Apple Vision Pro developer kit
It sounds crass, but this really would be the make-or-break use-case just like it was for the VHS and DVD formats.
VectorLock··on Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi
>Hybrids are strictly worse than electrics in every measure except range, and most customers do not need the range they claim to need.

Thats the benefit of a plug-in Hybrid. Most people don't need to drive much on a day to day basis and the smaller battery can handle that fine. For longer driving you have the ICE engine. The ICE engine can weigh as much or less than a comparatively "long range" battery.

VectorLock··on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America
But they're very closely related. A complex item is going to have a more complex manufacturing process than a simple item. Have you ever seen how big an aircraft factory is?
VectorLock··on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America
Daytona floor jacks, good stuff. Icon tools pretty much one step below Mac/Snap on. Cable Porter, Warrior, etc. brand well its cheap and disposable. Pittsburg - well you're buying brass brushes so you use em once and throw em in the fuckit bucket. The names they give stuff do a good job indicating what the quality is.
VectorLock··on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America
Yeah he had funny delivery but the COVID conspiracy shit just made me think "is this guy actually saying anything useful or is he just saying it in a funny way?" Was pretty clear it was just the latter.
VectorLock··on America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America
>Here's a video from Beta, a wrench manufacturer in Italy.

>It took Airbus 21 years before they made a good airplane. It took Tesla 15 years from start to significant production volume.

Extrapolating from complexity it would only take a few months at worse to make a factory producting drop forged box end wrenches.

VectorLock··on Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch
Yeah there are people who are talking about blah blah blah cloud complexity and how on-prem is some panacea. What they're really getting at is "why go through all this trouble to setup autoscaling groups and load balancers when I'm perfectly fine running things on a single Pentium II whitebox sitting in my closet?" It doesn't seem to occur to them that although that might work _for them_ the whole reason we go through this labor is we need MORE than that.
VectorLock··on Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch
Chef and Puppet are configuration management systems, not really Infrastructure as Code.
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