How would hydrogen fare for big (<-- keyword) trucks vs battery powered?
For ex. I read that you lose a ton of efficiency if you start hauling or carrying a heavy load.
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For ex. I read that you lose a ton of efficiency if you start hauling or carrying a heavy load.
_flushed into grim reality_
While the places I lived were nice, they were super boring and I felt so complacent. Not many people had any aspirations, it was so hard to find people to talk ideas with or hack on stuff. Colleagues were cool, but weren't really that into doing anything extra.
I'm looking forward to living in the bay area, especially so close to SF. From my few visits there thus far all I see are tons of office spaces with familiar company names, every cafe is busy with people on their laptops and some are coding, loads of meetups. I hope I can "launch" my career again being over here.
Every day once I close my work laptop, I do some me things and then get back on my personal laptop later to learn something new and build out some weird app idea. A few days ago I was curious about XMPP and comparing it to other protocols like Matrix, and managed to set up and deploy ejabberd, and then connected to it from a flutter app. For me it was a fun experience, figuring out the configuration options, setting up my debian box and nginx configs.. I wish I had a friend or few with whom I could just talk tech and stuff that interests me, and in turn be there for them.
That is my goal - find some good friends and either build something together or work at an early small startup.
If you're in SF and want to be friends, hit me up! My email is in my profile.
If there was a protocol for cab hailing, and anyone could roll it out for someone to connect to their network (like xmpp), and anyone could offer to become a driver or play another role like customer support, they earn their local currency and are a part of their local economy. The same protocol could be used in Norway and in Taiwan. There might be a gap that’s too hard to fill, and someone else could create another protocol that works in their local economy, maybe like a matrix protocol. They’re completely different but serve to solve the same problem of real time communication.
Then Elon’s super app could offer users a platform which tries to implement multiple protocols, or have a in app protocol marketplace which is the sub apps. Apps for buying shoes, or buying groceries, or hiring movers. Users could become consumers or agents, so they can both work for various protocols and spend their money on them. They would be vetted and backed by the super app.
It would be fully decentralized, except for the payment part. If you have everyone on your platform you don’t need to issue tokens and other bullshit. Just build something useful and they will come.
I am considering using ejabbered and wondering what your thoughts are on it today. Thanks
I have an old computer that I connected to my router, and I’m able to ssh into it and do stuff.
It’s an old intel quad core with 16gb ram, and has a 1TB SSD. More than capable enough to handle a bit of workload. It runs Ubuntu and I’m using it to run backends for apps as I develop them.
Focusing only on web stuff.. If you have a good grasp of design patterns and you can build out your system in a modular way, I think node is a great starting point.
I love starting with node because typescript is awesome, the performance is nice, the community support is tremendous, the scaling is easy, and finally it’s easy to move off it. If some part of the system starts becoming a bottleneck, just swap that piece out for something more suitable. One thing I like about this time right now is that most things are built just fine to be used in creating something new and useful products.
Although, I can offer an anecdote. I really enjoy playing truck simulators, namely American and European Truck Simulator. I had to drive a large box truck recently and I found it super easy - the high up position, looking at the mirrors to back up and parallel park perfectly, and the joy of the open road. Then I realized that truck drivers do this every day for weeks on end as a job. Really appreciate the folks who keep our economy moving.
In my case, I use postgres along with postGIS for some of my services. Could this allow me to have some parity where the client can have a 1:1 table but populated and kept up-to-date with their own data to cut down on making network requests?
Now I work on purely backend, mostly services for other services, infra stuff, and it’s honestly so boring and dull. I know it’s important work as well, but it’s just not my cup of tea.
Unfortunately it seems that building products doesn’t pay as well as doing this purely backend plumbing. And I want to work on products which people out in the fields or in some specific industry use to do their jobs better. When I was doing this, I felt like I was actually making peoples work experience (and probably sanity) better.
Anyway I am a self taught and I just learned using YouTube videos, official docs/readme, looking at peoples code on GitHub, and also building out my own silly ideas. Probably have a hundred directories of half+ baked projects.
Feel free to reply if you work on an interesting product (please no dashboards for monitoring cloud systems :sob: lol) and looking for a guy who loves to build great app experience. Also down to discuss ideas!
I swear that I hear them more often than I used to say 4 years ago (before COVID). It is kind of scary to think about these kinds of scenarios, like if something bad happens what the hell will I do if I happen to survive?
All I have are my parents who live far away, no kids or wife, not a lot of close friends here. I'm also moving pretty soon to near SF, which I hope isn't a target in such a war. I guess it is good that I've been working out. If I survive, I plan on staying alive as long as I can on my own. Damn I don't want to think about this because I don't want to die like that.
Maybe all my time sunk into playing solo DayZ back in the day and surviving against Russians, Chinese, and other players who I didn't understand working together will help, heh. FFS.
Toss 'em all over the city like Birds and let people zip around in 3-d space lol.
Why have such large vehicles? Think small, think big.
I use figma and fig jam every day. Prior to figma I used sketch and some other apps. They all were missing two key features: ease of use and collaboration.
Not needing a mac, and being able to design in the browser with your whole team was a game changer. Throw plug ins into the mix, and a solid community.
It works great and I hope it lasts a long time.
I believe we were taught cursive to build motor skills. My teachers always gave me good remarks for my neat handwriting, and I remember spending hours practicing both regular and cursive characters. Fill out the sheet, then my mom would erase it and I would do it again and again.
I was sort of hoping that cryptocurrency would cause a societal shift in the “value” of money. That is, it could have been used to solve some tough issues like elder care and mental health. Right now, a lot of PE companies are running these facilities on fumes and trying to get every penny they can off the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors. If “value” was shifted to something else, and not just exchanging for USD, I wonder if it could have been possible to start funding these sorts of activities based on societal good. Sorry if it sounds lame, but knowing some elderly and mentally challenged people in my life, I feel really bad when I think about how much they’ve been pushed aside and under the rug.
I’m not taking a break “break” but taking a couple months slow to figure out my new environment and work on myself a bit.
I wish you all the best, do something you’ve always wanted to do. Don’t pay attention to other people and what they think, I can tell you that I spent too much time doing that. You seem to be doing great for yourself, so go for it!
:)