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davmar

440 karma · joined July 27, 2011

founder: https://shopcats.com founder: https://trakstar.com (acquired) founder: https://scout.kids
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davmar··on After automation: Solo founding will be the default
thanks for the kind words, and i agree with your comment about PMF. i'm grateful to be off the treadmill this time.

a couple of additional insights i gained:

- don't start a new company at the same time you have a newborn baby. it's an impossible balance.

- raise a little more money than you think you need to extend your runway. i should have continued fundraising but was anxious to get to building.

davmar··on After automation: Solo founding will be the default
> With solo as the default, the main reason startups die will be loneliness

i'm a solo-founder whose business was likely included in his research and was dissolved this morning.

we ran out of runway while trying to find PMF. i think that's why most solo companies will die, not loneliness.

davmar··on Gemini 4 Argon
Agreed. I’ve been a big deepseek fan since 3.1, and they keep delivering great models at a great price.
davmar··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
The 2024 plan would have reduced annual CO₂ emissions by about 533 million metric tons by 2040. That's roughly equivalent to taking half of all U.S. passenger cars and light-duty trucks off the road.

With the rollback, that reduction will no longer occur. So, this is significant.

davmar··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
you're comparing years, not standards. i hope you're just foolish and not intentionally disingenuous.

"The 2024 standards required existing coal plants and new gas plants to capture 90 percent of carbon emissions or shut down by 2039, which would have reduced carbon pollution by an estimated 1.38 billion metric tons through 2047"

Before the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, the federal limits were much weaker—and for existing power plants, there was effectively no operative federal CO₂ limit at all.

davmar··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
Everybody loves the sponge
davmar··on Being ambitious and being a dad
hey hey don't interrupt the hustleporn
davmar··on SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]
i don't think so - the ascent looked good. i don't think they need to put the ship on another suborbital trajectory because the booster landing burn failed. also, i don't think this impacts prop transfer or ship catch - both are separate problems.
davmar··on Show HN: A continuity checker for novels, tested on the Holmes canon
Looks useful.

It'd be interesting if you put some of the bible in there and published any continuity errors. Would be great press, regardless.

davmar··on GPT‑Live
It changed because she came home to find her son treating his body like it was an amusement park
davmar··on GPT-5.5
i wonder if this is how engineers felt when the first electronic calculators came out and engineers stopped doing math by hand.

did we feel uneasy that a new generation of builders didn't have to solve equations by hand because a calculator could do them?

i'm not sure it's the same analogy but in some ways it holds.

davmar··on So where are all the AI apps?
succinct and accurate.
davmar··on Estrogen: A Trip Report
don't forget that socialization plays a role. boys are guided to certain activities in their youth, girls to others.
davmar··on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
>I love (Neo)Vim. Like I wrote earlier, it's been my primary editor for the past 15 years. What I don't love is all the configuration that goes into it before I can use it to start writing code.

this resonates with me. i've spent so much time configuring neovim in the terminal (kitty) and i've never had everything work 100% of the time. simple things just like seeing an entire typescript error are challenging to get working. those errors just continue on one line outside of the screen.

with LLM's the tradeoff tipped in the favor of cursor with the neovim extension.

> 2. It just works

so i switched to cursor last week from neovim in the terminal and this is how i feel. but, i'm not going to invest more time to check out Zed now that i just got cursor set up the way i like it.

but it's great to see all the progress in IDE's lately.

davmar··on Show HN: LLMpeg
i think this type of interaction is the future in lots of areas. i can imagine we replace API's completely with a single endpoint where you hit it up with a description of what you want back. like, hit up 'news.ycombinator.com/api' with "give me all the highest rated submissions over the past week about LLMs". a server side LLM translates that to SQL, executes the query, returns the results.

this approach is broadly applicable to lots of domains just like FFMpeg. very very cool to see things moving in this direction.

davmar··on New Architecture is here
how long ago was the last time you checked?

expo has solved the native dependencies issue, and it's a fantastic way to build an app.

this is one of the few hills i'm willing to die on. expo is great for the RN community.

also you can download my RN expo app here: www.shopcats.app.

davmar··on Details on Xiaomi EV
Volvo EX30 is looking interesting https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/ex30-electric/
davmar··on Microsoft open-sources ThreadX
"Every once in a while, a new open source initiative comes along which is truly an industry changing event" - the article

"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything" - steve jobs announcing the iPhone in 2007

davmar··on A look into the finances of SpaceX
evidence: amazon.com
davmar··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
brought peace?
davmar··on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects
dude, you're right, my mistake. i was thinking of how i travel through those places.
davmar··on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects
> The top 10 countries ... were Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos, Brazil, Argentina, Kuwait, Thailand, Indonesia and Portugal...

in many of those countries people drink bottled or purified (not surface) water.

davmar··on Solar Car Will Soon Hit Production
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e65d6b2e-4f27-43dc-b4b7-be43655...
davmar··on Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
Here's a Sri Lankan giving an in-depth analysis about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZ5oiUGqW4. I like this guy, think he's got good opinions.
davmar··on Show HN: Copy React code from any site
I don't disagree - write your own components in most cases.

Your original comment stated, as fact, "you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will."

You're right that suits do happen, and while there is a grain of truth in what you said, stating it the way you did is just too bold in my opinion. I highly doubt the individual developer would be sued. How would a company seeking damages know who made the git commit so they could target the developer?

The clarification in your reply about copying being willful, profitable and profit-damaging is where things start to make sense. And if you had said something along the lines of that, I wouldn't have replied and would have found myself in agreement.

davmar··on Show HN: Copy React code from any site
Two absurd claims: 1. Getting sued 2. Getting your work pulled off the internet

You say that you or your employer would be sued if you did this. Going through a legal battle over some copied HTML, CSS & JavaScript is expensive, distracting and time consuming. You'd first get a cease and desist letter. Who has the time or energy to sue over this?

Getting your work pulled off the internet against your will. How would that happen? Have you heard of the pirate bay? There's no off-switch because you used someones react component.

You might not like this tool or feel it facilitates behavior you consider unethical, and I get that, but these claims you made are absurd.

davmar··on TensorFlow Lite for Commodore 64
neato. what kind of chip you got in there, a dorito?
davmar··on I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim
oh this looks like what i need. thanks!
davmar··on I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim
i use neovim too and i prefer it over VSCode. the only major drawback is debugging and multi-file find/replace, so i do occasionally reach for VSCode.

as the author mentioned, LunarVim is a great project worth checking out. i'm using it now and recommend it.

davmar··on My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
my friends and i, on a group chat, always start today's wordle with the answer from yesterday.

that way, we can actually measure how we're doing against each other so it's a more fun competition.

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