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choffee··on Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?
No. Unless your business is hosting databases for people your time can be better spent delivering real business value. Draw yourself a Wardley Map of the services in your product and you will see the place you should be spending time on is delivering features that the customer values not building copies of commodity services.
choffee··on Thirty Tesla crashes linked to assisted driving system under investigation in US
Does this come more from the manufacturers influencing the laws to keep control of the after market spares rather than a concern directly for your safety. I suppose one advantage of the quick OTA updates is that once there is a weakness found in the system it can be fixed in all cars rather than waiting for a recall or extending driver training.
choffee··on FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
I think this would end up sitting the draw next to my camera. For me phones are "good enough" for music given I'm mostly listening on the go so there are many more factors that influence the sound.

The best audio player is the one you have in your hand right now. (to butcher the quote) And that for me, just like my camera, is the phone that is always there.

Having said that Music, like coffee, or keyboards is a very personal thing that people connect with and so I can see the appeal of the focused device. It's similar to the e-book reader I suppose where there are not the distractions of a full connected phone. Just you and the music.

choffee··on Amsterdam Tries "Doughnut Economics", An Economic Theory to Save the Environment
This seems like are much more sustainable and honest model. So much of the costs of modern capitalism are hidden and picked up outside of the companies pushing for constant growth. The focus on growth an profit neglects the point of life. Modern work tends towards exploitation for a lot of jobs. Switching focus back to concentrate on the whole picture makes sense to me and I hope they can overcome the greed that drives our current systems.
choffee··on LocalCDN – an extension that emulates CDN to improve your online privacy
The "Yes you can" expands when you click on the arrow next to it. No obvious though. ( Might be new? )
choffee··on Universal Paperclips
Well that wasted more than a few hours. :)
choffee··on How to escape from an erupting volcano
Of course you would just follow Pierce Brosnan's instructions and "Stay Calm" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWkNT5A3wIk
choffee··on Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
Just for reference, the clients are all still ruby based. It's only the web servers for the puppet masters ( the parsing code is still jRuby ) and puppetdb that are written in clojure that runs on the JVM.
choffee··on 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)
I wonder how it would compare in terms of cost with doing it via the api-gateway. It would depend on how your app and user base scales and what the sockets are being used for I suppose.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...

choffee··on Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
1Gb of RAM. What a shame. I wonder if there will be a 3+ any time soon. If these had 4Gb RAM they might be a serious bit of kit.
choffee··on Storing information forever in drops of water [video]
Homoeopathic data storage?
choffee··on Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience
Do they have a html5 version of that flash video?
choffee··on Dynamic Software Updating: Linux 4.0 and Beyond
I think I would prefer to see the applications be more fault tolerant so that rebooting for a kernel upgrade was no problem as outages are expected. If your software demands 100% kernel uptime then you are just waiting for a failure.
choffee··on Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look
Can you use a Rust library easily from all the current C code?
choffee··on Clampdown on cold call companies unveiled by government
Is it election time already?
choffee··on Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan
Is this going to be tricky for distributions or will they just have to keep a 1.4 version of Go around just to build modern versions of Go?
choffee··on Micro Python store is now open and taking pre-orders
It's a micro version of python so that it can run on embedded devices, this is just a demo board. You can play with the code on your local machine. Differences from CPython are here: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences
choffee··on Introducing the Internet.org App
Is there somewhere to complain about the domain name being an .org as this seems to be the opposite of the internet. Why don't they just give people 200Mb of free data if they really want to promote the internet. A better site name might be corpnet.com lockinnet.com.
choffee··on Why GNOME 3.x sucks: A potentially hazardous bug is marked wont-fix
I think that shows why Gnome 3 is good. They won't add another knob if that needs tweaking. Somebody needs to fix the actual problem. Sounds to me like there is an issue with the settings of some sound cards. If you sound card can make your amp cut out a 6% then I don't think that is a software problem. Like Network manager before it I think a lot of the sound problems point back to drivers or hardware not reporting back correctly. This probably needs to be tackled there.
choffee··on Google is building password-free locking and unlocking into Chrome OS
Soon they will have an almost perfect copy of the SunRay system...
choffee··on Write less
Start with a simple statement and follow up with the detail.

If you read a good newspaper article you will see it starts off with a paragraph containing most of the detail of the story and then expands on it later allowing the user to skim.

Blog readers, like newspaper readers, are viewing a number of stories and reading some of them just to get the gist and others to get the detail. So the headline is there to grab their attention and then the first paragraph has to give enough detail that they can go away with most of the details and move on. You can then expand later in the page for those that want a greater detail. It's quite a skill and one that journalist and editors work hard at.

choffee··on Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?
Which is why you find yourself here?
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