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New comment by camel_gopher in "Claude for Small Business"

camel_gopher — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:06:09 +0000

2-3 percent; so far (Homer Simpson)

New comment by camel_gopher in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

camel_gopher — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:11:25 +0000

The hero we needed

New comment by camel_gopher in "Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus"

camel_gopher — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:43:32 +0000

Grafana knows their open source products are eating into revenue. Expect corresponding strategy to offset that.

New comment by camel_gopher in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

camel_gopher — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:38:50 +0000

You can communicate like this and have it be effective if you have an established good relationship with the recipient. That’s why team cohesiveness is important.

Context of whom you are communicating with is also important. That’s the trade off of approaches like these rules. In some situations they are fine. In others not so much.

New comment by camel_gopher in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

camel_gopher — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:02:02 +0000

Why do you need a proxy? Pull the queries off the network. You’re adding latency to every query!

https://github.com/circonus-labs/wirelatency

New comment by camel_gopher in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

camel_gopher — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:05:41 +0000

The problem with increasing your following distance though is now you get other drivers cutting in, and you’re back to where you started

New comment by camel_gopher in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

camel_gopher — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:18:04 +0000

Dang 560 watt draw. About the same ratio as other LED options at 90 limens per watt though.

New comment by camel_gopher in "Show HN: A desktop app that blocks work when you bite your nails"

camel_gopher — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:03:44 +0000

Thank you for making this

New comment by camel_gopher in "Observability's past, present, and future"

camel_gopher — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:49:12 +0000

2006 - Bryan Cantrill publishes this work on software observability https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1117401

2015 - Ben Sigelman (one of the Dapper folks) cofounds Lightstep

New comment by camel_gopher in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

camel_gopher — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:37:43 +0000

Hey now he said 1,000ms, not 1 second

New comment by camel_gopher in "Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year"

camel_gopher — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:52:31 +0000

Tariffic

New comment by camel_gopher in "Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners"

camel_gopher — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:48:08 +0000

A rule that has suited me well is to take an estimate, double it, and increase by an order of magnitude for inexperienced developers. So a task the say would take two weeks ends up being 4 months. For experienced developers, halve the estimate and increase by an order of magnitude. So your 10 days estimate would be 5 weeks.

New comment by camel_gopher in "Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness"

camel_gopher — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:22:44 +0000

Yep, homeostasis

New comment by camel_gopher in "We're learning more about what Vitamin D does"

camel_gopher — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:47:07 +0000

Here’s the American association of dermatology recommendation. They say don’t try to get your vitamin D from the sun. https://www.aad.org/media/stats-vitamin-d

New comment by camel_gopher in ""Good engineering management" is a fad"

camel_gopher — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:07:22 +0000

You have to be careful of the perceived politics around this. Tall poppies get cut down. I still don’t totally understand why but sometimes taking initiative doesn’t sit well with the folks who want their trains to run on time.

New comment by camel_gopher in "Measuring Latency (2015)"

camel_gopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:15:26 +0000

Someone smart I know coined it as “wrong but useful”

New comment by camel_gopher in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

camel_gopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:37:02 +0000

It’s where you decouple the vehicle information (make, model, plate) from the PII (registered owner information)

New comment by camel_gopher in "Measuring Latency (2015)"

camel_gopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:27:00 +0000

Nearly all time series databases store single value aggregations (think p95) over a time period. A select few store actual serialized distributions (Atlas from Netflix, Apica IronDB, some bespoke implementations). Latency tooling is sorely overlooked mostly because the good tooling is complex, and requires corresponding visualization tooling. Most of the vendors have some implementation of heat map or histogram visualization but either the math is wrong or the UI can’t handle a non trivial volume of samples. Unfortunately it’s been a race to the bottom for latency measurement tooling, with the users losing.

Source: I’ve done this a lot

New comment by camel_gopher in "Why top firms fire good workers"

camel_gopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:18:38 +0000

Evil

New comment by camel_gopher in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

camel_gopher — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:15:01 +0000

You have to be able to get the prescription. HMOs (Kaiser specifically) will generally not provide any sort of preventative care in this area unless your numbers are very high. You can’t get access to a cardiologist unless you’ve already had an adverse event.

If you can get time off work and have a PPO, you can get the preventative care.