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edsonmedina··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
In all honesty: my sanity
edsonmedina··on How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
conclusion: inconclusive
edsonmedina··on Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report
The title doubles as a nice insult.
edsonmedina··on Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
Oh, not TLA+?
edsonmedina··on Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
no-comment
edsonmedina··on How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
The images are still huge for the quality. There's a lot of gains to be had with proper compression here.
edsonmedina··on Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting
Tin foil edition
edsonmedina··on Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs
If a diagram is too complex, shouldn't you just add more abstractions? That would simplify the refactoring too.
edsonmedina··on [dead]
Article from June.
edsonmedina··on How and why I stopped buying new laptops
You call 283kb optimized?

In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.

edsonmedina··on How and why I stopped buying new laptops
For a low-tech solar powered website, it does require a lot of loading (>500Kb for the homepage, >350kb just for this article).

You should optimize your images. This would probably drastically reduce your electricity use per unique visitor.

Nice article by the way. I love the frugality.

edsonmedina··on Ask HN: Best resources for learning about commercial “IDE grade” parsers
Have you looked into any open-source language servers?
edsonmedina··on Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
Doesn't the added efficiency in plowing mean more carbon release from the soil (thus offseting any gains from not using diesel)?
edsonmedina··on Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
No
edsonmedina··on Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar
I've read stories of whales attacking boats before, and theories about they being bothered by the boat's sonar.
edsonmedina··on Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window
Sounds like the Shrek Donkey method. "Are we there yet"?
edsonmedina··on T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
Social-media political bots about to get harder to detect.
edsonmedina··on Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall
"according to the Daily Mail".

The tabloid.

edsonmedina··on Go + Services = One Goliath Project
Making them work with strong types would require generics which would introduce a lot of complexity to the language though. It's being debated for years.

It's pretty trivial to write your own custom map/filter/reduce though.

edsonmedina··on Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
Indiehackers would disagree (https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1)
edsonmedina··on Ask HN: What skill should I learn over Christmas/winter vacation?
Poker, with family and friends.
edsonmedina··on 'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of human urine
Imagine the smell of that :)
edsonmedina··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
500k EUR (roughly 575k USD)
edsonmedina··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
You can also get a Golden Visa if you buy property in an urban rehabilitation area (or any property with more than 30 years) for 350k.

If you don't need a golden visa, you can buy a very decent flat in the outskirts (within 30 mins - 1 hour commute) for less than half of that.

edsonmedina··on GDPR will transform big data to beg data :)
A big win for privacy but a big loss for science.