fredthedeadhead
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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I really miss reading new blog posts and series from Shamus :(
Comment · 2 years ago
What does the author use to measure sound and create those graphs? I'm interested in automatically monitoring an annoying noise that's coming from a neighbour.
Comment · 2 years ago
The blog post is 404ing, here's a Web archive link
https://web.archive.org/web/20240610032818/https://asim.bear...
The author has added an important edit:
> I want to preface this by saying yes the practices here are very bad and embarrassing (and we've since added robust unit/integration tests and alerting/logging), could/should have been avoided, were human errors beyond anything, and very obvious in hindsight.
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> This was from a different time under large time constraints at the very earliest stages (first few weeks) of a company. I'm mostly just sharing this as a funny story with unique circumstances surrounding bug reproducibility in prod (due again to our own stupidity) Please read with that in mind
Comment · 2 years ago
> The Google Cloud situation
What's the Google Cloud situation?
Comment · 2 years ago
So, I think this hilarious, but link shorteners have to be stable, right? What happens when link shorteners go offline? Is there a way of decoding shortened links without the server?
Comment · 2 years ago
Project Rho gives several compelling reasons why there ain't no stealth in space
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect...
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks, I missed that!
It looks like it landed on quite an incline, almost 45 degrees.
Comment · 2 years ago
Are images of the damage available to the public?
"Imagery revealing damage to the rotor blade arrived several days later."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasa...
Comment · 2 years ago
The site is down, so here's a working archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240125111236/https://www.coldb...
Comment · 2 years ago
Sonatype's response https://www.sonatype.com/sonatypes-ongoing-commitment-to-mav...
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm pretty interested in Breeze as an alternative https://breeze.social/
* There's no endless swiping. Users can only see a handleful of matches, each profile stays visible until users say yes/no on each profile, and the profiles are only topped up twice a day.
* All chatting is in-person, which is much more human than trying to text online. If users match, they can't chat. They both put down a deposit (about double the cost of a drink in a bar), pick a day & time they're avaliable, and Breeze automatically makes a reservation at a local bar (the first drink is free), or a park for a walk.
* Since dates require a deposit, and there's only so many days in the week(!), and users can't make new matches without first planning current matches, users don't get overwhelmed with connections - the existing contacts are prioritised.
* They're not owned by Match.com - which for me is a big plus! More disruption of their monopoly is a good thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
The blog was removed after OkCupid was acquired by Match.com, which is another problem in online dating apps that isn't often mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group#Dating_services_...
This chokes out competition, and users end up with several apps with some gimmick, but at their core they're designed to keep most users locked into actively dating, either to make the app seem popular, or to squeeze money out of them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Fireship did a 'SurrealDB in 100 seconds' in case anyone would like a quick video summary: https://youtu.be/C7WFwgDRStM?si=va17q7zagn4lIoi3
Nitpick: it's Wasm, not WASM.
Wasm is a contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps. https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/intro/introduction.h...