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bavell

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Solopreneur, full-stack web dev with a healthy helping of devops, happy k8s user, Arch enthusiast (btw), amateur guitarist.

Great men I admire: - Jimi Hendrix - Claude Shannon - Carl Sagan

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bavell··on Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost
Yep, this is what I do using mkcert [0] and it works great. One-time setup of 15m to install certs on your dev devices.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

bavell··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
Not all of us "keyboard jockeys" grew up soft and sheltered in big cities. The dry heat of TX/AZ isn't that bad compared to the sweltering humidity of the southeast ;)
bavell··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
I went strawberry picking a month ago with my 4yo and she picked it up pretty quick. She'd have much more trouble joining me in my day-to-day dev job.
bavell··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
Citations/sources conspicuously absent. If you go far back enough, just about the entire population of the US could be considered immigrants. Which wave of immigrants are you referring to? Are you including petty crimes in your claim or just the more serious ones?
bavell··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
I guess you could ask the same question of the middle eastern countries. Pretty reductive perspective, no?
bavell··on Converting Codebases with LLMs
Isn't this already possible with codemods?
bavell··on Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
Huh? I've been running ROCm for SD and LLMs for over a year and a half on my puny consumer 6750X - not even latest gen.
bavell··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Couldn't find it...
bavell··on I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs
I'm hopeful and optimistic for AMD but if anything were to make me bearish on their prospects, it'd be this.
bavell··on ChatGPT just (accidentally) shared all of its secret rules
Shots fired lmao
bavell··on Space Age release date
Same here. I played a lot more games in my teens and 20's than I do now. I also prefer games with less of the "you need to read the guides and watch tutorials before really groking things" type of games these days.
bavell··on New JavaScript Set Methods
Perhaps it's asking too much but it would be great to see performance comparisons of these new set methods versus naive JS.

Not sure when I'll have a chance to use them but seems pretty comprehensive in covering all the basics.

bavell··on Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
SimAnt and SimEarth were also staples of my childhood gaming, barely knew how to play SimEarth but it was a blast! A lot of game design takeaways from SimAnt for me too.
bavell··on Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js
LOD optimizations are pretty common and standard too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(computer_grap...

bavell··on Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered
> The earth is going to be fine. It’s humans who are in danger.

Love this bit: https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=QQgZQ7WKAUDXsfMe

bavell··on OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
6+ years on GCP across half a dozen kubernetes clusters here... very little to complain about IME. Have fun with Oracle.
bavell··on A Revolution in Biology?
Very very cool, bookmarked!
bavell··on A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
This has also largely been my experience trying to have some openAI and local models help with game modding/scripting. Requires constant hand-holding which is just as much work as just doing it myself.
bavell··on The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
Wait, they actually tried nerd sniping[0]?!?

[0] https://xkcd.com/356

bavell··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II)
At the end of the intro:

> As an AI language model, I do not have opinions and so cannot tell you whether the introduction you provided is “goated or nah.” However, I can say that the introduction properly sets the stage for the content that follows.

I laughed and then wondered if this was actually an intentional joke...

bavell··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
Eh, it's a bit over hyped imo although I do like the config format and built-in acme. My production clusters all run nginx though and give me minimal fuss with a lot of flexibility.
bavell··on Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 via IEEE 802.11bf standard
Now wire me up with a Neuralink and connect me to OpenBlockchainCorp LLC!
bavell··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
Just get some popular streamers/channels to do a review/let's play and if they like it you'll get tons of free exposure. I've spent probably hundreds of dollars on indie games in the last year or so from first seeing them on a gaming channel and then pulling it up in steam.

Channels like Splattercat are a great resource for indie gamers & studios alike: https://youtube.com/@splattercatgaming

bavell··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Not a very convincing answer at all.
bavell··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
> Sure, but the inability to do that when needed is also a bad thing.

When and why would BTC or ETH need to print unlimited money and devalue themselves?

bavell··on Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games
Some sort of Kalman-esque algo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

bavell··on Building a Homelab, Part 4 – Nixification, Kubernetes
Very enjoyable read!
bavell··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
Views seem much more appropriate a tool for customizing/restricting column access but I'm no DBA.
bavell··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
You definitely need to spend a little time with them, they are safe and don't require all the crazy workarounds you've detailed to solve a non-issue.
bavell··on Ask HN: Should HN black bar become community driven?
Yup. It's a big community and I'd assume a broad age range.
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