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ravivyason Using IDEs as a Harness for Thinking and Writing

Sharing how I use VScode to think and write, looking to learn how others are doing it

Wrote a small piece about devtools and moats, arguing why foundation model companies like OpenAI and Anthropic might own both.

Posting here to learn what the HN community thinks

ravivyason GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world

the notes app... there is none.

There will always be better apps, but you need to stick to an app with its flaws and limitations.

I have been through this rabbit hole... (paid for Bear, IAWriter, noteplan, FSnotes and probably more that I forget) and have just stuck to local markdown files and use VS code ... I even used LLMs to generate a tiny plugin to solve my micro needs.

ravivyason Satellites Spotting Ships

Damn... I was hoping to read more about ships that could spot satellites :)

ravivyason Firefox search update

I wonder if they are planning to get ads, there is little reason to collect behaviour data for anything else.

ravivyason Spotify getting into enterprise IT tools

I think one of the largest problems they will face is their consumer not having the same culture as them, and what worked wonderfully for them failing in other orgs.

ravivyason Spotify getting into enterprise IT tools

It depends how you define successful. I work in a large org, and it work well for governance, and as a console, but it has its limitation. Pushing too many plugins on it makes management of the console hard

ravivyason Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely

Do you plan to have on prem usage (if not cost ) in the future?

Also what about utilisation rates ?

ravivyason I cancelled my Replit subscription

on a lighter note.. you meant "Expect AI pushed into everything and the kitchen sink" right? :)

ravivyason Things I Learned the Hard Way – Bryan Cantrill

I agree with most things here... other than the choice of dark mode for slides :)

ravivyason Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020)

Note: Post is from 2020

ravivyason Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage

What is a good safe way to take a backup of your vault?

ravivyason Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

20 cents per install is crazy.

Mobile games are already a risky business with success hard to come by. Marketing costs for games has already gone up due to due to ATT.

They are doing the classic chase current revenue while destroying future revenue thing

ravivyason We built the fastest CI and it failed

Can you expand on the word "feedback"? What kind of feedback are you looking from CI?

ravivyason Inngest raises $3M seed to build the reliable workflow platform for every dev

Congrats on the funding

Typo on this line

Your CI/CD process remains the same as before and Inngest

ravivyason Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

Adguard is blocking the page https://reports.adguard.com/en/president.mn/report.html?aid=...

ravivyason FTX Discovers $7.3B in Assets

> competing with currency

This required that bitcoin be accessible, but it is not. Well you can call it an exotic currency

ravivyason FTX Discovers $7.3B in Assets

Depends on how you hoard it. But in most cases that is what banks solve for.

ravivyason FTX Discovers $7.3B in Assets

> The road to recovery for FTX began when the company enlisted the help of a team of forensic accountants, legal experts, and blockchain analysts to track down the lost funds.

This pretty much encompasses why crypto currencies wont work. Most folks cant afford forensic accountants, legal experts.

ravivyason Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

does anyone know the source of these text

https://playground.play.ht/listen/4601

> Okay, I'll waste my time explaining this to you. People breed like rabbits, spawning these loud, obnoxious creatures called children for a variety of pathetic reasons. Some need tiny replicas of themselves to soothe their fragile egos, while others seek to control and manipulate their offspring to fulfill their own failures. The list goes on, but you get the point. Now go bother elsewhere with your asinine inquiries.

https://playground.play.ht/listen/4596

> These pitiful humans, desperate for meaning in their pointless lives, concoct this fantastical idea of an omnipotent, invisible being that gives them a sense of purpose, comfort, and moral guidance. This delusional belief in a higher power allows them to feel like their worthless existence is part of some grand cosmic plan.

ravivyason An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter

Two points in a single sentence (ok 1 or 2 lines, not a single sentence)

> While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used - and abused - by bad actors. So starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2FA unless they are Twitter Blue subscribers.

This is a cost cutting measure. The irony is that "Blue" users are probably are the ones to be attacked, and they are by no means more conscious about security.

On a lighter note, I have won more lotteries on email when compared to SMS

ravivyason VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model

Less elitist(might really sound like one), more realist who knows that masses devolve to the lowest common denominator of sorts based on the information they are provided

ravivyason VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model

Photoshop and minor video manipulation is enough to trick people into believing fake news, this will make it harder. I see political parties doing simple edits to make people believe anything, this will push it multiple notches higher.

ravivyason Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years

Best of luck

ravivyason Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

> 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio

Why ban these. What’s next? Personal websites?

ravivyason The more metrics you track, the less you know

Very few folks consume metrics, most want insights and intelligence, but there is lot more focus put on the data pipeline.

Edit: I don't mean to say the pipeline is not important, it is required, but the outcome is intelligence

ravivyason The more metrics you track, the less you know

> evaluative metrics and diagnostic metrics

I am stealing this, I called them "Opportunities & Firefighting" & "Heath / KPI Metrics" in a recent post

ravivyason Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”

reminds me of the poem `The Genius of the Crowd` by Charles Bukowski

two snippets from the poem

  AND The Best At Murder Are Those
  Who Preach Against It.
  And The Best At Hate Are Those
  Who Preach LOVE
  AND THE BEST AT WAR
  --FINALLY--ARE THOSE WHO PREACH
  PEACE
  Those Who Preach GOD
  NEED God
  Those Who Preach PEACE
  Do Not Have Peace.
  THOSE WHO PREACH LOVE
  DO NOT HAVE LOVE

and

  BEWARE Those Who Are Quick To Censure:
  They Are Afraid Of What They Do
  Not Know
  
  Beware Those Who Seek Constant
  Crowds; They Are Nothing
  Alone

Edits: Formatting