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siscia

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siscia.at.hn

Building indie and BigTech

Building: https://getgabrielai.com

Email: sisciapub [at] gmail [dot] com

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siscia··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally
Gmail API gives you the email file as MIME file.

From there is a bit up to you and depending on actually what data you get.

But I had a reasonable simple time with parsing it and getting data out of it while building https://getgabrielai.com

siscia··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally
If you go through a lot of emails, you may be interested in a small product I have developed.

GabrielAI (https://getgabrielai.com) can filter your emails given a GPT prompt and then make a special action, like drafting a reply or apply a label.

I am now introducing a digest if emails. So that every 6 hours (or whatever time) you receive an email with the summary of all the unread emails in your inbox.

It is free for now, but the summary feature is hide by a feature flag.

If you are interested, I can ungate your account.

siscia··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally
Would you pay for that?

I developed GabrielAI (https://getgabrielai.com) an assistant for Gmail.

You provide a GPT prompt and it scan all the new emails. If the email matches the prompt it will do an action. Either drafting a reply for you or set a label.

It will be trivial to go through the whole inbox. But expensive.

It is a nice feature to add though...

siscia··on GPT-4o
Now a bit of Shameless plug, but of you need an AI to take over your emails then my https://getgabrielai.com should cover most use cases.

* Summarisation * Smart filtering * Smart automatic drafting of replies

Very much in beta, and summarisation is still behind feature flag, but feel free to give it a try.

For summarisation here I mean to get one email with all your unread emails summarised.

siscia··on On Self-Respect (1961)
Very well written and very different written than what we usually consume.

I suggest everyone to take those 20 minutes

siscia··on Erasure Coding versus Tail Latency
Nice to see this talked about here and Marc being public about it.

AWS is such a big place that even after a bit of tenure you still got place to look to find interesting technical approaches and when I was introduced to this schema for Lambda storage I was surprised.

As Marc mentions it is such a simple and powerful idea that is definitely not mentioned enough.

siscia··on The Cloud Computer
I am missing how AWS/GCP/Azure does not solve this for you.

Price point?

siscia··on Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
This is the exactly the reason why I use auto-restarts.

I know there are problems in the software I am running, but I don't what to think about it. I want it hidden from myself.

siscia··on A Poor Man's API
Maybe I am biased, but at this point I would find simpler to just give access to the DB.

Let user write their own SQL queries and meter how much time they use for billing or abuse prevention.

siscia··on Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
I see stories like this a few times.

But oftentimes management ask if the project will be completed at all. And yes, the project will be completed.

But the real question to ask is often:

Will it be completed on time? On budget? With the same quality level?

And this is a complete different story.

siscia··on GitLab SaaS Free Tier FAQ
Anytime I read about price increases with gitlab I am wondering if we should just have a well designed python library for all our CI needs.
siscia··on CernVM File System
Yeah I work on that.

The startup time is clearly faster as we don't download the image (especially if compared to download the layers and start the docker image).

The main "trick" is that docker images usually includes a lot of files that are not really accesses during standard operations hence pulling them is not needed most of the time.

siscia··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Ireland, Dublin, Remote

System engineer working close to the Linux interface.

Quite experience in getting system and complexity in check with test, CI and automation.

Acute business acumen and able to figure out and work on the most important business priorities.

Previous experience include FAANG, Startups, Scaleups, and big public organizations.

Rate starts at 200 EUR/hour

siscia··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
I wouldn't say "hard" but I would definitely say different.

Even as somehow experience dev, getting on board in a new team is quite hard if everybody is remote.

siscia··on 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
Why you need SSD for photography? An HD seems a better solution to be honest, isn't?

Opening a single picture is a sequential operation, as well as dumping pictures from camera to disk.

Am I missing something obvious?

siscia··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
At first was a little uncomfortable with the change, but then I thought how much would it be today to add those optionals to a new car.

Checking from my phone, the heated steering wheel is more than 300$, which is more than what would cost the permanent upgrade in the car.

Now we should wonder, having a construction line and distribution system capable of handling optionals like the heated steering wheel, does it cost more or less than 300$? I don't think that the answer is obvious.

Would it be possible that the car get actually cheaper for the consumers?

Also having those optionals allow to turn them on and off at will. Maybe if I swap car with my SO it would like the heated seat that I never care for.

I see the dangerous of this, but I also see the benefits.

siscia··on Go 1.19 Beta 1 is released
Goroutine, pointers vs value, cancelling work in goroutines, avoid dead locks.

What makes go powerful also make it weak.

In general the complexity need to live somewhere and in go it can only be the code itself as the language is too simple.

siscia··on Go 1.19 Beta 1 is released
The appeal of go is that it is easy to learn, you can put any young person just out of college and have it produces a lot of line of code that resemble something working.

The reality is that go is a very hard language to master and to avoid footgun. But it is an hard truth that few people are willing to accept.

siscia··on Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
What company is that?
siscia··on Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
Adding redundancies is bad from an economic view centered in the next few months.
siscia··on Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
I am very naïve on this, but unions seems to always been portrayed as negative to business and I really don't understand this view.

Of course, if you are paying more money from getting the same amount of value from an employer, that is bad for business.

But this is not necessarily what can happen, giving more benefits, more stable schedule, better wages, more WLB means being more competitive in the labour market, it means retaining worker more easily. If the company is not wise enough to do it by itself, still it doesn't means that it cannot be a net positive for the company itself.

The whole idea of treating humans as leaking, opexed, robots will need to be fixed, but it can be done and it can bring benefits.

siscia··on Show HN: Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning
I like it!

However, I would like an interface a more long term and with fewer details.

Like I am planning the next summer with my SO, and I would like to know which day each of us is in which continent. So the interface should show me days, not hours.

I am not sure I was able to explain

siscia··on Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
Most of energy consumption is baseline metabolism, which is directly correlated with your muscle mass.

The fastest and healthiest way to get a better body (which is not loosing weight) it is to start lifting heavy things over and over again.

You can starve yourself and loose wait, also rather fast, but as soon as you go back to your standard eating, that weight will come back.

If you increase your muscle mass, you won't necessarily loose weight, fat will be replaced by muscle, but your appearance will be much better, you will be healthier and overall you will just feel better.

As always there are not shortcuts.

siscia··on Everything you need to know about monorepos
It is possible and I did it.

In target repo you create a folder and in that folder you rebase your dependency repository.

Maybe I can find better documentation that I remember writing it down somewhere.

siscia··on Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
Can we get the minimisation features also for the generative/property based testing?

I found that property base testing is so much better than unit testing and only marginally harder to write, after some practice at least.

However the property base testing in the go standard library is so unadvanced that it is basically impractical.

Hopefully with generics the status will improve.

siscia··on Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?
You will always rely on some external services.

Either AWS for hosting or if you go the crazy root your ISP to bring internet to your own server.

Relying on Google sheet and Google form seems like a reasonable safe bet.

Then of course, the simple stack may not be enough, but if it is enough, I am not aware of anything simpler.

siscia··on Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?
Can you make it out of a google form and a google sheet?
siscia··on Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
I came here to make this exact same comment.

It really seems like they lost the few key people that were holding the whole thing together, either to another company or just to the void due to bad management.

I would love to understand more about this change.

The more I mature as an engineer, the more I see the value of few engaged Individual Contributors that behind the scenes are driving the product and steering management decisions.

siscia··on Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
Can we make an example of those "boring" companies?
siscia··on How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis
Ahahah it is the same, I just rebranded RediSQL to ZeeSQL when RedisLabs got the trademark for Redis.
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