mrich

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I work on a distributed in-memory database at SAP SE.

- Previous projects: https://richtarsky.com/docs/projects.html

- Github: https://github.com/mrichtarsky

www.productive-cpp.com

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Comment · 3 months ago
Could you please add a link to the Goodreads page of each book?
Comment · 1 year ago
What is breaking? FYI, you need to remove the ball from time to time and remove the dust that might be blocking the optical sensors.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla is not the only player. All brands now have EVs, there are both cheaper and more luxurious Chinese EVs, that's some massive competition.

The only reasons Tesla could be valued differently are FSD and Robotics, which Musk and Tesla-friendly analysts are heavily pushing. Since Musk has made massive loans against his Tesla stake you can expect that he will keep highlighting those narratives as well. A revaluation of the stock to sane levels would certainly cause him some financial difficulties.

Comment · 2 years ago
So it's ok to sell a feature to customers if you only find out later it's not possible?
Comment · 2 years ago
Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.
Comment · 2 years ago
So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adjust the metric to filter out getter/setter)
Comment · 2 years ago
Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but after a couple months I received an email from the registry regarding one domain telling me to prove I was an US citizen. I couldn't, Namecheap support told me they couldn't help either. So the domain was suspended. A few days later they suspended the other domains which they found since they belonged to the same contact. Partly my fault for not reading the registry rules I guess but definitely a bad experience.
Comment · 2 years ago
What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years.

Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.

Comment · 2 years ago
Also loads instantly for me now, didn't make any changes.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome.

That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pdfs is that they contain highlights/notes, so you can directly import them into Zotero and all your annotations are there. For epub, you have to hope there is a way to export the annotations that are stored by the reader app, and then you have to process them further. Readera is a great reader for mobile that makes this possible. I'm currently working on a script that will convert an epub to pdf, extract the annotations from Readera, and mark them in the pdf. Then I can import the pdf into Zotero, while still retaining the great reading experience of epubs.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
If you are spending more than two hours per day at your desk, it is worth it. There are some cheap ones out there that are OK (200€) but even a sturdy one is not that expensive, when you consider the time you spend there and the benefits to your health.

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