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Comment · 4 months ago
Nearly all my hackathon projects were hardware, back in college.
A couple examples (both from HackPrinceton, which had the best EE labs):
* https://blog.cyrusroshan.com/post/electronic-banjo (crowd favorite)
* https://blog.cyrusroshan.com/post/spin-to-win (a "moonshot" idea)
There's something nice about holding your work in your hands. Tangible work is also both easy to explain, and hard to fake. So going the hardware route felt fun, fulfilling, and scored well.
Good times.
Comment · 1 year ago
This works if you're on call for your systems. In many situations (ranging from small startups to big tech), you're also on-call for the systems of sister teams.
Not that there aren't other ways to fix that. But fixing the erroring service isn't practical in all cases.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's quite easy, actually. We did this at work, recently.
Bun is two things. Most commonly, it's known for its Node-competitor runtime, which is of course a very invasive change. But it can also be used purely as a package manager, with Node as your runtime: https://bun.sh/docs/cli/install
As a package manager, it's much more efficient, and I would recommend switching over. Haven't used pnpm, though--we came from yarn (v2, and I've used v1 in past).
We still use Node for our runtime, but package install time has dropped significantly.
This is especially felt when switching branches on dev machines where one package in the workspace has changed, causing yarn to retry all packages (even though yarn.lock exists), where bun only downloads the new package.
Comment · 1 year ago
A bit aggressive. No, wouldn't connecting to a slow 3g tower affect ping times to all global servers proportionately?
The proposal has other flaws, but phone to tower latency isn't one.
Comment · 1 year ago
An interpretation that makes sense to me: humans are non-deterministic black boxes already at the core of complex systems. So in that sense, replacing a human with AI is not unreasonable.
I’d disagree, though: humans are still easier to predict and understand (and trust) than AI, typically.
Comment · 2 years ago
In general, the way a walled garden wins is by providing everything its villagers need inside.
And Apple’s products seem to create walled gardens in order to prioritize [first creative, then economic] control.
Based on the demographic that a significant portion of their marketing seems targeted towards (artists and creative types), I think your theory sounds likely.
Comment · 2 years ago
This sounds depressing. I’m sorry that you had that experience.
It’s a frustrating position to be in, and you can feel quite helpless.
In my experience, it’s less about “do only what’s asked”, and rather “say no”.
I.e. explain “I can do X, but if I do that then Y will suffer, and Y is a priority”. (Y being another company priority, or even your own mental health). Stated in these terms, it’s easier to negotiate your time with your coworkers.
Comment · 2 years ago
Go bootstraps itself (Go is compiled by Go) but Gofmt does not format itself (an even simpler job).
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice find. I think you're right.
FWIW, I don't think the code style in [2] is less simple (slightly more readable, to use `if (X) {} else {}` rather than `if (!X) {} else {}`, for example).
So to me, this reads as the author of [1] is just overcorrecting by adding process, when some test cases or code review would've been more helpful in preventing whatever incident [2] caused.
Comment · 2 years ago
Stay tuned! We’re building this out soon. :)