jelicicm
Joined 5 years ago
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Nov 30
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Comment · 1 year ago
- Pragmatic Engineer [free version] -> noticing I rarely read full text, so will probably unsubscribe soon
- Banker on Wheels -> finance, hit & miss in my opinion
- Bike Gremlin -> bicycling knowledge [repairs, servicing], educational and thorough
- Pointer.io
- programmingdigest.net
Comment · 1 year ago
Haruki Murakami's What I talk about when I talk about running was a nice listen. For bonus points, listen while running obviously.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for this. Love the simple design. I hope this DB keeps growing!
One note: Sorting on Ram Size column seems to be string sorting (e.g. descending order gives 96, 8,...,7.34,64), when it obviously should be numerical.
Comment · 2 years ago
Knew what car I was interested in. - narrowed down the search to three different brands/models and wrote a scrapper for a local used cars website. Then this scrapper built up a DB of info about cars available, and I was able to easily query them, and have data about how long were those cars up there (how long from ad to sale), plot price graphs etc.
Bought a car with 10% less than the AVG price for the brand/model/year, with really small mileage.
Comment · 3 years ago
Now got 4x in a row: stranger lost video.
Comment · 3 years ago
Would've loved to have tried it, but sadly am stuck at "connecting to stranger". I guess the problem could be that I'm in Europe, so if all 3-9 strangers (that's the range of people staring during my waiting period) are in USA the ping is high so the system won't connect us.
Sounds interesting!
Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure it would qualify for 'public API', as you're self-hosting it, but I'd like to nominate ZeroMQ documantation[0]. To the point, with occasional comedic remark, lots of examples. Excellent.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks. Will give it a try!
Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry, not saying that. I do have an option of either A2DP or HSP. I was not familiar with auto switch. But you kind people have filled me in in this thread.
A2DP sounds amazing for listening to music, no problems there. The problem is the hassle of switching between profiles, since I tend to use my headphones in work environment (calls, meetings) - this is the reason I still keep a pair of cabled headphones around.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hm, not really sure about `auto_switch`, didn't dig deep enough to find it I guess. PulseAudio only offered HSF/HSP which sounded simply terrible. PipeWire's HSP sounds pretty good (mSBC codec), although it's still obviously worse than A2DP.
I'll have to look into auto switching and how to enable on either system.
Comment · 3 years ago
Stumbled into PipeWire few months ago when trying to setup Bluetooth headset on Ubuntu OS. It's superior to PulseAudio, but...
Really unbelievable to comprehend that Linux distros have such bad support for Bluetooth audio headsets - something very common in today's tech world. Android, Windows and Apple's OS all very efficiently switch from A2DP codec which is excellent for audio playback, but has no possibility for bidirectional communication (so you can't use your microphone) and HSP/HFP coded which provides worse sound, but you can talk. Linux doesn't have this fixed, there were some attempts [0], but nothing great came out of it.
[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18...
Comment · 4 years ago
This lovely presentation of how GPS works: https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
Same website has several other, equally cool, blog posts.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not the reply you're looking for, but it's a topic I'm interested in. My current situation is that I'm employed in a startup that might be killed by the end of the year, if the next round of investing is found. If there is money - I'd like to stay and work here and at that point won't be interested in changing positions, but I need to think about options too at this point.
My line of thinking is as follows:
1) Follow "who is hiring" monthly posts on HN
2) Look on LinkedIn ads; do research on company which is hiring (if possible because sometimes agencies won't tell - in which case I'm probably not considering)
All ads are to be filtered by $TECH_STACK + Full-Remote.
Happy to follow this thread to find more interesting places.
Comment · 4 years ago
As someone who will attend their fathers funeral tomorrow this really resonates. I do feel I didn't know him enough and that this feeling might haunt me in some moments later in life.
Will be sure to do it with my mother!