Hacker News: dsunds

New comment by dsunds in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

dsunds — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:37:55 +0000

They do, its called developer mode.

New comment by dsunds in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

dsunds — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:08:24 +0000

I'll play devil's advocate. What is Bambu Lab's motivation to provide lifetime free cloud services for a onetime revenue transaction? They could demand a subscription. But they probably know for casual users this would be unwelcome. They could seek to monetize via other means like ads or cross and up-sell. Third party clients are a risk to these.

I don't see the ground the OSS community are standing on to demand Bambu provide free services.

New comment by dsunds in "Tracy Kidder has died"

dsunds — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:31:20 +0000

I commented once before to you here on hackernews but this book, and the story of your dad, influenced my entire career as an electrical engineer and software developer (class of 1988, I think we were asked to read the book, and its still here on the shelf today). It helped me keep a good perspective on my career over all these years.

I am honored and humbled to be able to say this to you, so many years later.

New comment by dsunds in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

dsunds — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:44:09 +0000

I really enjoyed it and I would like to know more about the editorial process used and how similar it is to the feedback loops and constraints being used for software development. How much of this plot was generated versus specified.

New comment by dsunds in "Scott Adams has died"

dsunds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:19:02 +0000

I grew up with Scott Adams.

My very fist job as a junior dev in a corporation, pre dot-com, his comics resonated with me and my co-workers. My proudest achievement was finding a way through the corporate firewall to get his comics off the internet and post them internally.

As I grew older his work became less interesting and less relevant as I moved to the pointy haired side. But as a natural skeptic his impact helped shape me and my career. It worked for me!

I don't understand what causes such successful people to take a hard turn toward apparent bigotry. As you age you have to reconcile change and your place in history. I'll try to take lessons from Scott Adams and my other would-be heroes as I go and hope to leave the world better off in my small way.

New comment by dsunds in "Find SF parking cops"

dsunds — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:29:01 +0000

My dad, former firefighter, age 83, likes to tell this story of someone parked in front of a hydrant and them running the hose through the car. He’ll be happy it’s stood the test of time.

New comment by dsunds in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

dsunds — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:27:02 +0000

I did the same thing, scraping those via telnet, before the company (Texas Instruments) supported HTTP to the world wild web. Fun, and simpler, times.

New comment by dsunds in "CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop"

dsunds — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:36:24 +0000

Radial arm saws vanished because they were a compromise solution that slider miters made inferior. They are pretty safe as the blade is constrained to travel along the arm for cross cuts and for rips is locked in place. The usual problem is simply stalling the saw. Rip cuts can definitely kick back if you don’t take the time to set them up right including the guard and anti kickback device. They can do it all, cross cut, compound miter, rip, dado. There were some sketchy shaping attachments I’d be hesitant to use. But the main problem is they are large as a big table saw and the changeover time. A table saw and sliding miter is the way to go now. But I still own a radial and if I had the space in my shop would set it up Norm Abram style.

New comment by dsunds in "Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon"

dsunds — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:57:11 +0000

Same. An unconscious bias buster.

And truly, thank you. Rock solid. Steady hand.

New comment by dsunds in "How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers"

dsunds — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:37:28 +0000

AWS has a few projects to reduce launch times for example https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/reducing-aws-fargate... https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/09/introduci...