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etimberg

2,342 karma · joined September 17, 2013

https://github.com/etimberg https://everttimberg.io/

Maintainer of chart.js

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etimberg··on Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
My point is that the app does that for free even from a distance. It’s simply website access that costs even though it should have 0 more marginal cost
etimberg··on Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
Similar problems exist with the Nanit baby camera. It’s free to view the camera from the app but to view it from their website costs money.

That being said if you know how to run docker you can just proxy the video feed to vlc pretty easily but most parents don’t have the time for that

etimberg··on National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
Never had that experience while I was there, but about a year after I left the entire office I was in was closed and everyone laid off
etimberg··on National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
The code archaeology was probably the most fun part for me but I had so much free time to do that because my projects were mostly maintenance as well
etimberg··on National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
Some highlights that I remember include:

* One project where the CI took something like 48 hours

* Trying to apply waterfall hardware engineering processes to software development

* Mostly hiring devs fresh from university so there was a ton of group think due to a lack of new ideas

* Low salaries so most of the devs left once they got promoted beyond a junior level

etimberg··on National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
Not surprising. I worked at NI for my first job out of university and developing software there was so painful
etimberg··on Health industry company sues to prevent certificate revocation
One thing that i think is clear from the responses here is that it’s going to be a long time before software engineering is like other engineering disciplines.
etimberg··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
To me, the olympics are about determining who is best at a sport. It's not a technical problem like a car race where bending the rules with creative engineering is expected and encouraged.
etimberg··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
Why not just have the Olympic host supply the same bike model to every participant rather than having each rider bring their own bike?
etimberg··on Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
Similar problem for me. It seems like most folks near me do a lot of contesting which I have neither the time nor the interest to do.
etimberg··on Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits
Very cool project. Way back in the day I was on the team that built https://www.multisim.com/ so I've got some experience in EDA tool design.

A couple of things that I noticed at first:

1. Placing components is rather annoying. I tried to drag and drop but placing in the center of the view makes them hard to find 2. Automatic wire routing routed wires on top of symbols and component pins 3. Delete should be wired up to the delete key as well 4. By wiring pin to pin but overlapping wires it can appear that things are electrically connected when they're not if the routing places wires on top of each other

I liked how the delete cascades work. It usually takes a lot of patience to figure that logic out correctly

etimberg··on It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
I would; it's a lot easier to use and reason about. that being said, it feels like we've come full circle back to the early 00s with form posts for submitting changes rather than fetch/xhr
etimberg··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
IMO even the types are annoying because null is opt-out rather than opt-in
etimberg··on Ask HN: GitHub Actions Runners Timeouts
https://www.githubstatus.com/

> Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions > May 21, 2024 - 12:45 UTC

etimberg··on Palm OS and the devices that ran it
I remember buying a used Zire 72 off a friend in highschool. Was a great device; I think I still have it sitting in a box somewhere
etimberg··on Network visualization of 50k blogs and links
Same. Honestly a bit surprised, in a good way, thst my site made it. I didn’t think anyone read it
etimberg··on California Electricity Mix Live Dashboard
At a previous job I helped build a hyper local method of computing spot prices to enable lots of cool ideas. We could compute unbalanced prices on the distribution grid and had a pilot project where DERs were priced based on how the influenced the local distribution grid.

For example, placing solar downstream of a transformer nearly at capacity could allow for deferral of capital upgrades that would only be needed for a few hours a day.

etimberg··on Fisker's Ocean SUV investigated for doors that won't open
It's typical tech hubris to think that all these problems are so simple.
etimberg··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
Sounds like the EU needs to give Apple the Microsoft treatment and threaten to split it apart. Have the App store business be completely separate from everything else
etimberg··on A walk through Chicago Pedway (2017)
Toronto has one. https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-to...
etimberg··on 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
It still does. Close to $3000 a month where I am
etimberg··on Memory leak proof every C program
Early in my career I saw the aftermath of someone trying to deal with this problem. The solution they went with was to replace all allocations in the offending code with a custom allocator and then just throw the allocator away every so often
etimberg··on Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
Modern cars have no trouble starting down to -20C. My 10 year old car was parked outside all of last winter and never had trouble starting even on the coldest days
etimberg··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
Unfortunately for consumers repairability would harm efforts to treat cars like subscriptions so I doubt EV manufacturers care
etimberg··on Missing the Point of WebAssembly
> Canvas has some text APIs, but they are fairly rudimentary

That's an understatement for sure. `measureText` is not even close to feature parity with where windows apis were 25 years ago.

Or something like text underlines has to be done entirely manually.

etimberg··on My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
Are you measuring RMS voltage or just the instantaneous voltage?

An RMS voltage of 230V corresponds with a peak voltage of ~325V so reading of 260V could theoretically happen.

etimberg··on 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps
yeah, an update I think about 2 years ago created zoom levels where some highways appear disconnected because the connections stop rendering too early.
etimberg··on Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)
I dunno, I use Firefox on my laptop and it just feels so slow and clunky compared to Chromium based browsers. It's been like that for years and doesn't seem to get better
etimberg··on Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle
You're right, but I was more referring to this statement "This looks like the first instance of a successful ballistic missile interception in battle and not a test". The Ukrainians used a Patriot missile to shoot down at least one Russian ballistic missile in the spring. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-defence-systems-rep...
etimberg··on Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle
Hasn't this been happening in Ukraine for some time?
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