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just_mc··on The Fatal Flaw of 911
This is the correct answer.
just_mc··on U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues
US Treasuries happen to be a significant part of many peoples retirement savings. So I think your hot take is pretty uninformed.
just_mc··on India's surprise baby bust
> A lot of the decrease is also correlated with access to birth control which drastically reduced accidental pregnancies which were a decent amount of the fertility rate

This was my first intuition.

just_mc··on SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
Its interesting, especially the size for edge applications. That being said, for something thats been worked on for two weeks by one person, you are going to have to bring a LOT of data and architectural explanation to convince folks this is better than DuckDB in any way. For example, where are the TPC and LDBC benchmarks?
just_mc··on List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents
Dive is a very nice tool. I've been using it for years.
just_mc··on Mirror-bridge – Making Python bindings frictionless
This looks very exciting. I have a NodeJS binding I've been contemplating using SWIG. This appears to be much more straight forward. Looking forward to trying it out.
just_mc··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
I guess you aren't married. Lol.
just_mc··on C++ implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols
Robust and mature SIP stacks which are still maintained are a rarity these days. I was pleasantly surprised recently to learn just how well this very mature library is being maintained. It seems like a great deal of effort has been invested to keep both the code and feature set relevant and up to date. Kudos to the maintainer.

Most other open source SIP stacks available either don't have the feature depth and breadth required for a serious SIP project: are only usable from a specific programming language, have been long abandoned, or have impermissive licenses.

just_mc··on Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
You have to consider the tail latencies of the system responding plus the network in between. The p99 is typically much higher than the average. Also, may have to account for GC as was mentioned in the article. 500ms gets used up pretty fast.
just_mc··on Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
Check out SWIM and its extensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIM_Protocol https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00788
just_mc··on Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?
We are using Lit and MobX for a very complex real time communication and collaboration application. It is very simple and we have not had any issues with performance or flexibility.
just_mc··on Being blocked from contributing to lodash
I see a lot of folks complain about not getting help on OSS projects; I also see a lot of people turning a blind eye to people trying to help (however naively it may be). It's an intesting dichotomy.
just_mc··on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Check out Harvester: https://harvesterhci.io/
just_mc··on Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
What you've done is awesome. Ignore the haters and build your mosquito scope.
just_mc··on The Deno Standard Library
Had no idea they were targeting the browser environment with the Deno standard lib. I've been thinking about how cool that would be for a while.
just_mc··on The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
100%. Very insightful.

Follow the money.

I used to be a huge news junky. After a while I realized it's all designed as entertainment to drive ad revenue. Gave it up and I've been happier ever since.

just_mc··on Use context-free grammars instead of parser combinators and PEG
Well said.
just_mc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
Ryzyliant | Remote (US) or Onsite (Birmingham, AL) | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | https://ryzyliant.com

Our mission is to save lives by streamlining the 911 emergency response workflow.

Ryzyliant provides solutions for 911 Call Centers (PSAPs) in the United States. Existing PSAP solutions in the US are generally comprised of very poorly integrated systems from several different vendors all of which must be used in parallel to complete the emergency dispatch process. Imagine having your IDE on one computer, your email client on another and your browser on yet another and there is an emergency in progress; this is the work environment of dispatch operators in the US. Our mission at Ryzyliant is to provide a unified and streamlined tool that is designed to facilitate the end to end workflow of the dispatch operator, speeding dispatch operations and reducing errors.

We are using leading edge local-first browser applications to provide the benefits of the cloud with the stand-alone survivability of traditional on-premise solutions.

We are seeking one or more Senior Developers who have some or all of the following skills:

  - Advanced TypeScript
  - Design patterns and best practices for TypeScript/JavaScript
  - Object-Oriented Design
  - Automated testing (Vitest)
Specific skill which are nice to have:

  - Communications Technologies (WebRTC, SIP, RTC, WebAudio)
  - Web Mapping / GIS
  - Progressive Web Applications and/or Web Workers
  - Browser Local Persistence (eg. IndexedDB, Origin Private File System)
Ryzyliant offers the following benefits:

  - Flextime and Remote work
  - Early-Stage Equity
  - Two Weeks Vacation
Find more details in the link below.

Apply Here: https://ryzyliant.com/careers/

Email: jobs at ryzyliant dot com

just_mc··on Swedish higher court rejects Tesla's appeal to release license plates
What happens when Tesla decides to have the cars go on strike? /lol
just_mc··on Quint: A specification language based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA)
This looks really nice. It's the first thing I have seen that appears to be approachable from a developer's perspective.
just_mc··on Garn, a TypeScript-based Nix front end
Great to see this. I've been interested in Nix for a long time, but have never been able to really commit to it for many of the reasons called out in the blog article. Garn seems like it could be a major improvement. Looking forward to trying it out.
just_mc··on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
For shared CPU VPS, the biggest problem is noisy neighbors. Running a test for a few minutes on a single machinge probably doesn't tell you much.

The machine on one provider might be experiencing more load than a similar machine at a different provider, biasing the results.

That being said, Vultr has been good for our purposes.

just_mc··on micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
Micro supports both Ctrl-C for 'copy' and Ctrl-Z for 'undo'.

For someone who started using computers in the mid/late nineties or later, it is super intuitive and I much prefer it over anything else.

just_mc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
Ryzyliant | Remote (US) or Onsite (Birmingham, AL) | Sr. TypeScript Developer | Full-time | https://ryzyliant.com

Our mission is to save lives by streamlining the emergency response workflow.

Ryzyliant provides solutions for Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) in the United States. Existing PSAP solutions in the US are generally comprised of very poorly integrated systems from several different vendors all of which must be used in parallel to complete the emergency dispatch process. Imagine having your IDE on one computer, you email client on another and your browser on yet another and there is an emergency in progress; this is the work environment of dispatch operators in the US. Our mission at Ryzyliant is to provide a unified and streamlined tool that is designed to facilitate the end to end workflow of the dispatch operator, speeding dispatch operations and reducing errors.

We are using leading edge local-first browser applications to provide the benefits of the cloud with the stand-alone survivability of traditional on-premise solutions.

We are seeking one or more Senior Developers who have some or all of the following skills:

* TypeScript / JavaScript

* Progressive Web Applications and/or Web Workers

* Web Components (eg. Lit)

* Browser Local Persistence (eg. IndexedDB, File Access PI)

* Web Assembly and/or Rust

* Web Mapping (eg. Mapbox-GL, OpenLayers, etc)

* WebRTC, Web Audio and related

* dWeb or P2P approaches and technologies

Find more details in the link below.

Apply Here: https://ryzyliant.com/careers/ Email: jobs at ryzyliant dot com

just_mc··on Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
We are using this and we have been very happy so far.
just_mc··on ArkType: TypeScript's 1:1 validator, optimized from editor to runtime
We are using Zod very heavily currently in a fairly complex set of models where Generics are needed and used heavily. Right now, we are having to perform quite a few 'tricks' with Zod to meet our needs. I am very excited to understand what is the plan with Generics in ArkType, what will be possible, what will the be the DX?
just_mc··on Geo-Assist – An in-memory spatial engine to store and query spatial data
Builder patterns are most useful in statically typed languages that don't have strong support for optional parameters.

In creating a Point, neither value is optional, so I would question the value versus the additional complexity in this case.

just_mc··on GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021)
+1 for Micro
just_mc··on AssemblyScript – Standards Objections
This is a pretty big deal if something as impactful as WASI is being run as shadily as described. Given my own personal experience with similar standards body politics and the details provided, I am (unfortunately) prone to believe it.
just_mc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Ryzyliant | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://ryzyliant.com

Ryzyliant provides solutions for Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) in the United States. Existing PSAP solutions in the US are generally comprised of very poorly integrated systems from several different vendors all of which must be used in parallel to complete the emergency dispatch process. Imagine having your IDE on one computer, you email client on another and your browser on yet another and there is an emergency in progress; this is the work environment of dispatch operators in the US. Our mission at Ryzyliant is to provide a unified and streamlined tool that is designed to facilitate the end to end workflow of the dispatch operator, speeding dispatch operations and reducing errors.

We are using leading edge local-first browser applications to provide the benefits of the cloud with the stand-alone survivability of traditional on-premise solutions.

Find more details in the link below.

Apply Here: https://ryzyliant.com/careers/

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