Hacker News: maximente

New comment by maximente in "You Are Burned Out and Don’t Even Know It [video]"

maximente — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:35:05 +0000

i am so grateful for this man's effort and content. his ability to distill topics into super accessible and actionable nuggets of information is something i've never really experienced before. it's almost too good to be true - i'm a little worried there's some guruism going on that's subtly increasing my opinion of him (granted he's super charismatic, well spoken, and sharp, but still)

New comment by maximente in "BumbleBee: Run and distribute eBPF programs using OCI images"

maximente — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:01:43 +0000

also shouldn't be confused with this old bumblebee project, in which a space makes a large difference in what is rm -rf'd:

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...

comments on commit are also legendary: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

New comment by maximente in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

maximente — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:40:03 +0000

their CDN is omicroncdn.net - cannot make this stuff up

Benthos – Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

maximente — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.benthos.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465159

Points: 2

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New comment by maximente in "Updating the Go Memory Model"

maximente — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:30:52 +0000

viper, which nicely handles env vars, also can watch for config changes: https://github.com/spf13/viper#watching-and-re-reading-confi...

if you're rotating creds or need to open/close the DB, this will typically just add another select case to your main method, where you also block on e.g. signal catching to cleanly shutdown the app

Perspectives on the Pandemic – “Blood Clots and Beyond”

maximente — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:43:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPjAfNNA-U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867094

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maximente in "Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again"

maximente — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:14:07 +0000

strange: drunk driving continues to cause grave personal, public health and economic harm to non-participants and has for, what, well over 50 years? yet the US seems to be largely "functioning".

New comment by maximente in "OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana"

maximente — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:31:32 +0000

boy howdy, with all the flak i hear about this and the awesome talent in tech, you'd figure an entrepreneur or 1000 would take a stab at this, make it better, charge less. apparently there's gazillions to be made by even charging 50 percent of what AWS does.

so, when should we expect this gloriously efficient competitive market to kick in to action?

my guess is that the AWS ecosystem, despite "price gouging", is simply the best and will be because this is really hard, non-glorious engineering, where solid reliability actually matters. anyone who wants to can go ahead and co-lo, so, whatever. people who want cloud will pay, and those who can't or won't, will not.

New comment by maximente in "Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial"

maximente — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:12:26 +0000

> Masks don’t help for privacy

alrighty then. glad that's cleared up.

seriously, what's up with this binary thinking where there's just no room for nuance whatsoever? "no, patching systems isn't effective, because unknown 0 days exist, so it doesn't help."

how about - bear with me - wearing a mask is merely /one/ component of not being mass surveilled, and is part of several layers, each one of which is clearly helpful although each one independently may not solve the problem entirely?

New comment by maximente in "Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial"

maximente — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:47:31 +0000

there are also eg privacy advocates who may now be able to wear masks without too much hassle for the foreseeable future to defeat mass surveillance.

for example, pre pandemic, police in Berlin would absolutely stop and harass anyone wearing a mask in a U station/train; that'd be extremely awkward going forward, at least for a little bit.

New comment by maximente in "Avoid Consumer Routers"

maximente — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:18:21 +0000

i really like my https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar750s/ : comes with a GUI on top of openWRT that allows easy static IP assignment from MAC, wireguard config as either server or client, etc. you can always drop into LuCI as well, or reflash with latest openWRT. plenty of storage for additional services and packages if that's your thing.

no affiliation, just a happy customer!

New comment by maximente in "Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen"

maximente — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 22:02:36 +0000

what hardware/software/data are you, or anyone else, using to get these readings?

New comment by maximente in "Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?"

maximente — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:08:22 +0000

i consider all tech - all forums, social media, etc. - to be similar to a special forces group (or pick your favorite non-violent elite group). it's best deployed with a clear objective in mind - learn more about Haskell from gurus, see how S.V. is reacting to tech workers/wages changing, get a job or work from monthly threads - until either the effort is a success, more time/energy can/should be brought to bear, or it can be easily aborted without much fanfare.

so, what do you want? if it's to network, connect, learn, debate, get a new job - do that, and avoid the addictive type stuff like refreshing every 10 mins, etc. if it's to avoid boredom, well... tread carefully.

New comment by maximente in "NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images"

maximente — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:53:53 +0000

great: i'm thrilled that the RPG-7, a weapon that is over half a century old, is so awesome. let's cancel all US variants of this tried and true beast and send the money directly to NASA: win-win all around, except by those developing unneeded RPG-7 improvements.

New comment by maximente in "Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut"

maximente — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:09:24 +0000

impossible is focusing on restaurants more than mass market. observe eg partnerships with chefs/restaurants. a fairly large amount of beef in the US is consumed in restaurants/made to order type stuff; that's what they're attacking

New comment by maximente in "Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut"

maximente — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:02:26 +0000

you seemed to have missed the industrial part of the original comment. there is a reason you haven't waltzed into the horrible facilities that end up in documentaries, etc., to include: they are not approved on any non-cable network due to gore etc., not approved on Facebook, YouTube ToS (graphic violence), ag-gag laws, and so forth. you are not invited.

and let's not kid ourselves - with 50+ /billion/ land animals killed per year, almost all of which are factory farmed, the idea that joe farmer is going to pick up the tab with his 100 chickens isn't realistic, or that joe hunter is going to make a dent in that number.

as far as animals dying when crops are harvested, yeah, we can and should do better. at least they weren't castrated without anesthesia or lived their entire lives in gestation crates or getting inseminated (pigs), beak shaved off (chickens), or eyes cut off so they grow faster (crustaceans). the suffering isn't comparable; comparing it as such is asinine.

New comment by maximente in "U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case"

maximente — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:10:43 +0000

nah, the DC office's tech talent ain't bad, although like most engineers they're not the best at efficiently communicating technical stuff to, say, staff lawyers

New comment by maximente in "Running my own DoH relay and getting Pi-hole protection away from home"

maximente — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:37:54 +0000

the web UI, logging, graphs, top blocked sites/queries are all really nice to have and are great for diagnosing badly behaving apps/clients/websites.

i am sure that this is all possible using some slick openWRT command line/LUA magic/plugins/god knows what, but my time isn't free, and i'm not interested in hacking that all together on the same device that provides internet access.

New comment by maximente in "Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes"

maximente — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:02:00 +0000

awesome - always wanted to try to create a vegan/clean meat ETF that isn't mostly tech - will check this out

New comment by maximente in "My Company Sold for $100M and I Got Zilch"

maximente — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:27:05 +0000

i am just a random internet person and definitely not a financial advisor. i did find this really helpful when i didn't know much about wealth over long time horizons.

https://jlcollinsnh.com/manifesto/ - skim this, see if it's interesting to you

follow up with https://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/ if so