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lddemi··on "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Until you have to hire one :)
lddemi··on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
Curious what is your go to 4k monitor?
lddemi··on Ask HN: What will your kids be proud of 10 years?
As a father of three kids, I think you might be overthinking it a little bit. Your kids probably won’t care.
lddemi··on Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Likely meta employee?
lddemi··on Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments
lddemi··on South Korea to give $490 allowance to reclusive youths to help them leave house
Living in a medium-sized city can easily provide this type of lifestyle if you want it.
lddemi··on Show HN: Rocketry – Statement-based scheduling framework for Python
> NOTE: Red Engine has been renamed as Rocketry
lddemi··on Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN
Fun demo but who is this really for? Is there a requirement for these devices anywhere aside from corporate security?
lddemi··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
all tech cos are down 50% from a year ago
lddemi··on American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
your air travel could be significantly optimized with TSA Precheck ($20year) and Clear ($120/year) to effectively eliminate security headaches
lddemi··on Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
glad you are seeing such awesome performance with gevent+envoy! which part of our experience do you think is suspect?
lddemi··on Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
1. HAProxy does support request buffering https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/2.2/configuration.htm...

2. our load balancer buffers requests as well

lddemi··on Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
Author here. We do and did use autoscaling heavily but at a certain scale we just ran out of headroom on the smaller instance types we were using. Jumping to a much larger instance types meant that we will likely never run into those headroom issues again, plus solves other problems like faster spin up, better sidecar connection pooling and allows for a much higher hit rate on per instance caching.
lddemi··on Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]
"rechargeable bike light" on aliexpress (hell even amazon) yields several significantly below $20 options.
lddemi··on Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?
So far have been very happy :)

Still waiting on native VS Code but rosetta works fine.

Recently after several big apps like Chrome, iTerm and Slack updated to native binaries everything has been _very_ smooth.

I use docker heavily with zero issues - arm64 or amd64.

lddemi··on New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery
presume he used a physical button (vol+ on iphones)
lddemi··on Apple announces Apple Card credit card
usually yes. never hurts to try anyway!
lddemi··on How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley
pretty fast and loose with the numbers there, don't you think? 6k rent/mortgage + 3k living expenses sounds flat out glamorous.
lddemi··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
They could have begun the battery replacement plan/prices in the new year.
lddemi··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
The news could have slowed upgrades to iPhone 8/X ahead of the holidays if buyers thought adding a battery could speed up their device.
lddemi··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Coincidence that they waited till after Christmas to release this?
lddemi··on Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
Imagine something like a modern first class cabin with the concept of 180 degree flat bed-seats.
lddemi··on Deis v1.0 – Production Ready
Awesome experience. It's simple to launch in any AWS environment with their CloudFormation template. We're using it to replace the way we deploy micro services. It's made my life as an ops guy much easier - I truly believe it's the future.