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justmarc

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Opinionated just like the other guy

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justmarc··on Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker
Consider flutter, it may make your life a lot easier if you want to further develop this into something more substantial.
justmarc··on Transparent Electronics
Much better! thank you, but that's see through PCBs.

What I'm really looking for see through electronic components :)

justmarc··on Transparent Electronics
Very nice! But I came to see see through electronics, not cases.
justmarc··on Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack
Donate it. What use is it sitting in storage forever, unused?
justmarc··on Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack
A great writeup and a really nice set of improvements to this otherwise pretty basic device.

That said, it absolutely boggles the mind that an HDMI output for this thing would be taken care of by an RPi, that is many orders of magnitude more powerful, and power efficient than the device at hand.

justmarc··on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
Amazing, beautiful work!
justmarc··on Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker
Nice! An Android version would also be appreciated :)
justmarc··on Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses
Said ads should be replaced with useful, educational content
justmarc··on Low-Level Optimization with Zig
Optimization matters, in a huge way. Its effects are compounded by time.
justmarc··on Series C and scale
I have a feeling we're getting into an "AI squeeze" soon. So many companies in this sphere are going to have to fight for their lives and or implode.
justmarc··on How to post when no one is reading
Excellent advice. I find that it even applies to software.

Thank you.

justmarc··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
Sadly you are absolutely right.
justmarc··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
How would products get known, let alone sold, without this?
justmarc··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
We can't expect the vast majority of regular users to have any of that skill.

What is this going to lead to? fascinating times.

justmarc··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
And suddenly this type of quality is becoming "normal" and acceptable now? Nobody really complains.

That is very worrying. Normally this would never fly, but nowadays it's kind of OK?

Why should false and or inaccurate results be accepted?

justmarc··on QModem 4.51 Source Code
I glanced at the code, and it shows that your father cared a lot for his work.

Countless people were touched by his work and remember it decades later.

Thank you for sharing this!

justmarc··on Migrating away from Rust
I have totally disagree here.

I don't even look at crate versions but the stuff works, very well. The resulting code is stable, robust and the crates save an inordinate amount of development time. It's like lego for high end, high performance code.

With Rust and the crates you can build actual, useful stuff very quickly. Hit a bug in a crate or have missing functionality? contribute.

Software is something that is almost always a work in progress and almost never perfect, and done. It's something you live with. Try any of this in C or C++.

justmarc··on ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
Clickhouse is a masterpiece of modern engineering with absolute attention to performance.
justmarc··on Tailscale has raised $160M
You could look all the details you need and more up on linkedin.
justmarc··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
These are very well built machines.

To keep them running for decades Linux or other open source operating systems are pretty much the only choice. Not only for performance (which is better) but also because Windows will phase old hardware support out, it's just what they've always done, and will always continue doing.

justmarc··on Moving away from US cloud services
Very well written and justified.

At the end almost everything in life is about interests. It's clearly in the best interests of one country, or union of countries, to do their thing and reduce reliance on others.

justmarc··on Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
justmarc··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Improving the security of their income stream :)
justmarc··on Writing a simple windows driver in Rust
Some 25 years ago I was tasked with writing a certain driver for Windows.

Being totally migrated to Linux by then I refused to use Windows for writing as well as building it, so I worked hard to build it with MSYS.

Long story short, I made it, and the driver worked great.

I think I had to write a patcher for the resulting PE (.sys) to get it to actually load.

Fun times.

justmarc··on Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
Liking it a lot so far. Keep it up!
justmarc··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
I remember you launching this! I even used it and it was one if not the best at the time!

Well deserved.

justmarc··on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
A huge congratulations to Bryan, a wonderful achievement and a remarkable result! Keep it up Bryan!

It's lovely to see HN so nice and friendly, keep it up guys!

justmarc··on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
Winston Churchill's words, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
justmarc··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
I bet this doesn't come from the kindness of car manufacturers, but through laws and regulations requiring that.

We probably don't have any of that with software, yet.

justmarc··on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
I agree. The only thing is that 250 employees can't be a million dollar company, as then each employee would be making $333 a month.
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