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ukd1

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9 Mothers, P26. Former Rainforest QA, S12.

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ukd1··on Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion
It's an aggressive delivery, but I think you're asking the right question. From his citations and examples, it seems believable he's correct.
ukd1··on I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
True. I installed a L2 charger for <$1k all in, and basically only charge once, maybe twice a week at $0.115/kwh. Superchargers are generally $0.33-60/kwh.
ukd1··on Confessions of a Startup Founder's Wife
TBH, I've no idea. One would hope the exception, but who knows. I'm aware it's gonna be different this time around than the first time, for sure. There are obvious pros, and some obvious cons.

Either way I'm going for it though lol. I think I just need to figure out what the limits are with the fam explicitly.

ukd1··on I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
Try renting a Tesla next time; the network for charging is great, and I think I've only ever had one failure in years, and just moved stalls.
ukd1··on I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
I think you're mis-informed.

Teslas can easily charge at other branded recharging stations; mostly you never see it as there is no point. The Tesla ones are good. There are adaptors to all / most public charging stations for cheap. I keep a few, and my wall-charger (for 120/220v outlets) in the front-trunk.

Non-Teslas charging at Tesla stations is new/not really a thing though.

ukd1··on Confessions of a Startup Founder's Wife
I'm not sure it's this clear cut.

I'm in the partner and kid stage, and whilst I wasn't when I did my last startup - I was mostly single and could do literally what I want, when I want - which is in a lot of ways awesome if the company is the thing you wanna do...now I am more stable (routine wise?), more driven (for family, as well as wanting a win), more experienced (that's aside from being single or not I guess), but do have more responsibilities. I'm at the edge of starting something new. Wish me luck either way.

ukd1··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
Ya I'm on an M1 Max with 64G of ram, and it's still great. I know the M2 and M3 now (for Max) have more memory bandwidth, which is attractive, but otherwise...meh.
ukd1··on Ask HN: Are there valid Google Search alternatives?
Kagi has been worth paying for myself.
ukd1··on Minimum 15% global corporate tax has too many loopholes
It's generally a lot less than VAT equivalents though.
ukd1··on Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all
What do you propose? They should continue to allow everyone outside of gaming to use it for free?
ukd1··on Choose Postgres queue technology
Maybe it's changed in the last year or so, but from benchmarking and writing / running queue software for Postgres - SKIP LOCKED was/is significantly faster. Is that different for MySQL?
ukd1··on Choose Postgres queue technology
I maintain QueueClassic (https://github.com/QueueClassic/queue_classic) for Rails/Ruby folks; which is basically what you're talking about - a queuing system for Postgres. A bonus reason, and why I originally wanted this was the ability to use transactions fully - i.e. I can start one, do some stuff, add a job in to the queue (to send an email), .....and either commit, or roll back - avoiding sending the email. If you use resque, I found sometimes either you can't see the record (still doing other stuff and it's not committed), or it's not there (rollback) - so either way you had to deal with it.

QC (and equivs) use the same db, and same connection, so same transaction. Saves quite a bit of cruft.

ukd1··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
Ditto; also happy customer, been paying for a long time now, never looked back money wise, or to google.

My experience trying switching with duckduckgo (repeatedly) always failed; checking google, unhappy with ddg results. Kagi, not so.

ukd1··on Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrL5tqFczPE
ukd1··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Ya - better that purely visual I guess - yet I'd need to toggle it to tell, unlike now
ukd1··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Removing the mute switch for the action button is a step backwards; if I upgrade I'd not be able to feel in my pocket that my phone is on mute.
ukd1··on Learning Zig
Nice post. I learnt via https://ziglings.org - koans where you fix minor, and increasingly hard things to learn a languages concepts.
ukd1··on All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped
Convergent tech has been something I've wanted to work well for ages - I remember trying a Samsung Note and Linux on DeX, but it never really worked well. I see from a quick Google it's long since dead. It's likely the only thing that would prompt me to even think about moving from iOS.

One day?

ukd1··on San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis
NYC and Vegas also do this, but most have some kinda mute
ukd1··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
Why is A[LN]PR unlawful for private citizens to perform on their own footage? (e.g. using https://www.openalpr.com)
ukd1··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
I always wondered if this still worked with a IR/UV camera too...?
ukd1··on Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
https://tinygrad.org is trying something around this; currently working on getting AMD GPUs to get on MLPerf. Info on what they're up to / why is mostly here - https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t... - though there are some older interesting bits too.
ukd1··on Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
I've got a three letter twitter (/x?) handle it happens all the time. It's not quite annoying enough to change my username though.
ukd1··on Man spoofs threatening texts from ex-gf, gets her jailed multiple times (2020)
It's impossible to use phone records if it wasn't SMS e.g. WhatApp, Signal, iMsg.
ukd1··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Ya - if I could afford this and didn't, and the kid died - I'd always wonder if the better seat would have saved them. I have a really good seat (this didn't exist), and also (probably equally...or more importantly?) a very highly rated car.

Safety is a great way to sell this product, though the price may limit who buys it.

ukd1··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
At least at my place, whilst also not covered, it's a $10 surcharge.
ukd1··on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month
In some ways, they do have costs - the on-going extra wear / load on everything in the vehicle, which presumably is covered by the warranty if you pay for this. That's not free, nor zero.
ukd1··on How Postgres Triggers Can Simplify Your Back End Development
Using triggers when you have a single-codebase is prone to obscuring where things happen - is it in code, or in a trigger somewhere? However, when you have multiple different codebases touching the same db, it can be great at enforcing things to happen in the same way across these.
ukd1··on GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities
telling it to "make it better" results in...actually better:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="100" height="100"> <!-- Body --> <ellipse cx="50" cy="55" rx="20" ry="28" fill="#FFC0CB" />

  <!-- Legs -->
  <rect x="32" y="70" width="6" height="20" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  <rect x="62" y="70" width="6" height="20" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  <rect x="40" y="70" width="6" height="20" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  <rect x="54" y="70" width="6" height="20" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  
  <!-- Head -->
  <circle cx="43" cy="32" r="10" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  
  <!-- Eyes -->
  <circle cx="39" cy="29" r="1.5" fill="black" />
  <circle cx="47" cy="29" r="1.5" fill="black" />
  
  <!-- Horn -->
  <polygon points="43,16 42,25 38,22" fill="#FFD700" />
  
  <!-- Ears -->
  <polygon points="37,22 35,29 38,27" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  <polygon points="49,22 51,29 48,27" fill="#FFC0CB" />
  
  <!-- Mane -->
  <path d="M32 35 Q40 28 45 40 T55 50" stroke="purple" stroke-width="2" fill="none" />
  
  <!-- Tail -->
  <path d="M73 65 Q75 75 80 70 T90 80" stroke="purple" stroke-width="2" fill="none" />
</svg>
ukd1··on GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities
I asked gpt4 to "draw a unicorn using svg", and it gave me way better results:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="100" height="100"> <circle cx="50" cy="45" r="15" fill="#FFC0CB" /> <circle cx="50" cy="65" r="18" fill="#FFC0CB" /> <rect x="44" y="33" width="12" height="15" fill="#FFC0CB" /> <rect x="40" y="15" width="3" height="20" fill="#FFD700" /> <circle cx="45" cy="40" r="3" fill="black" /> <circle cx="55" cy="40" r="3" fill="black" /> <path d="M35 70 Q50 55 65 70 T95 70" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="none" /> </svg>

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