etimberg

2,342 karma · joined September 17, 2013

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

Maintainer of chart.js

etimberg··on How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

What kind of job was this for? because interviewing neighbours is something that sounds like part of a top secret clearance not a private company background check

etimberg··on Millions of Homes Still Being Kept Vacant as Housing Costs Surge, Report Finds

Good! I'm in toronto and the real estate market is insane even after interest rate hikes

etimberg··on SpaceX wins first Pentagon contract for Starshield

Maybe this is the way they can nationalize spacex once Musk does his next stupid thing

etimberg··on Counting License Plates

Ah ok, wasn't sure if the numbers incremented first or the letters

etimberg··on Counting License Plates

Is the number randomly generated? If not, then I think the probability is wrong since there are many series of numbers that have never been issued

etimberg··on Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)

At some point the price of the bill is dominated by the fixed transmission costs which won't go away as long as there is a power grid.

etimberg··on Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

I recently switched to apple maps. The biggest reason for me is that the audible directions are a lot more useful. Instead of "turn left in 200 meters" I get something like "At the next light, turn left".

That reduces the cognitive load immensely and i find i'm not trying to look at the map as much

etimberg··on Underwater ears everywhere

The book Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell goes in depth on the theory that K-129 sank while on some kind of mission to launch a nuclear weapon.

etimberg··on Engineers should focus on writing

This is part of the reason why "engineer" is a protected title in many places.

etimberg··on FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes

Yeah, at a past job I had to build out a way to run launchdarkly in FastAPI and it was very unpleasant. Launchdarkly only ships a sync python client so we ended up having to run it in another process to avoid blocking all requests

etimberg··on LEGO Building Instructions

Same! Just found the instructions for a set I remember getting as a kid. https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/...

I think the lego itself is still somewhere at my parents place, but the instructions were lost long ago

etimberg··on How Lee Valley built a cult-like following

I have a butter measuring tool from them that is metal with the measurements engraved in. Beats anything plastic and it will last a lifetime

etimberg··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

I have a few random posts at https://everttimberg.io/blog/

etimberg··on Ask HN: Is the internet as we knew it, dead?

Yeah, I think the next big thing will be value engineering and that's going to be a big shift for those not used to leaner budgets

etimberg··on Github.com is down

You're not the only one. Getting an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT in my browser

etimberg··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

Same for me

etimberg··on Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040

Conversion of office property to residential also requires a lot of capital which seems forgotten by a lot of the folks championing this kind of conversion. It's not as simple as building some interior walls and calling it a day

etimberg··on Google Album Archive will no longer be available

Are the quarter's financial results looking that bad?

etimberg··on Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse

Yeah, I've definitely seen odd things in Django ASGI. Had at least one instance where it looked like it leaked data between requests but couldn't get a clear enough reproduce. Switching back to WSGI worked fine though

etimberg··on Tell HN: Messages from Another Azure Customer Are Appearing in My Queue

if you know the company sending them look for a security@ email and see if you can notify them

etimberg··on Atomic Tourism

I remember driving by the Bomarc site as a kid to visit my grandparents. There was also the remains of a Pinetree Line station further north that you could see from the highway. It's gone now, but I always wanted to see inside

etimberg··on Software bugs that cause real-world harm

Surprised the Patriot missile failure during the Gulf War wasn't mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...

etimberg··on Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles

The author should look at how EDA (electronic design automation) tools are built. They have many of the same challenges but they also have a lot of solutions

etimberg··on VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, source says

I wouldn't say tesla's software practices should be emulated. Pushing random updates to prod OTA is terrible practice and look at the number of times cars have rebooted while driving

etimberg··on Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting

For fun I tried asking chatgpt to create a simple using an opensource project I maintain. The generated answer was sort of correct but not correct enough to copy and paste. It missed including a plugin, used a version of the project that doesn't exist yet, and generated data that wasn't valid datetimes.

etimberg··on Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

Is this their tumblr moment?

etimberg··on Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

Likely going to go away for a long while

etimberg··on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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

"Willy nilly is an idiom that means "haphazardly" or "spontaneously"."

etimberg··on Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web

Yeah, these kinds of tools aren't cheap. I know really high end stuff can be > $100,000 per seat per year

etimberg··on Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web

As /u/compumike mentioned the core spice algorithm is an LU decomposition and solve of a large matrix. Not sure what a good resource these days would be; it's been many years since I worked on this.

The JS experience wasn't great. We used emscripten and the tooling barely worked for the simulator core. The rest of the app wasn't bad, but we used polymer / webcomponents which was a big mistake IMO

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