Hacker News: megak1d

New comment by megak1d in "Oh Shit, Git?"

megak1d — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:03:53 +0000

Came here to say the same - fork.dev is awesome.

I used to be a CLI git guy but haven't used it in years now

New comment by megak1d in "Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

megak1d — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:39:14 +0000

I share this. I quickly grow irritated by Fry’s elaborate language when in written form.

New comment by megak1d in "Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable"

megak1d — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:48:30 +0000

Same experience here in the UK. My 2016 Model S P90D that I’ve had since new is now valued at ~$30k. 12 months ago it was ~$55k. It has lifetime free supercharging, free premium LTE connectivity (maps, spotify etc) and £0 annual taxes (due to tax laws here, a newer equivalent EV would now be due ~$500 a year). It’s done 50k miles and charges at 130-150kW, range is 180/220 miles in winter/summer.

Whoever buys it when I sell it later this year will get an amazing car.

New comment by megak1d in "My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die"

megak1d — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:00:06 +0000

Hmm you obviously had a bad experience with your Tesla, I want to contrast it with my experience - I bought a new Model S in 2016 and still own it now. I owned ~10 cars prior (both non-premium e.g. Ford/VW and premium cars e.g. AM/BMW) and it is the best car I've had both in terms of running costs, failure rates and practicality (luggage space, good for family etc). I've now 8 years old, covered ~60k miles (I don't commute in it) - still has ~85% range it had when new and has been back to Tesla perhaps 4 times total in that time. That said, I've heard a lot of horror stories from others re. Tesla ownership - thankfully, I've not seen it myself.

Musk's antics have turned me off the brand a little but based on my experience, I'd buy another.

New comment by megak1d in "Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative"

megak1d — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 01:02:39 +0000

I would love this paired with sharing photos of certain faces in (eg our children with my wife). Perhaps a dynamic album (with a list of faces) that I could then share.

New comment by megak1d in "Harnessing heat from wastewater"

megak1d — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:16:55 +0000

Ah yes, that’s much neater and more localised. Thanks

New comment by megak1d in "Harnessing heat from wastewater"

megak1d — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:10:59 +0000

So the shower drains through it and the 'wrap around' pipe is the input to your hot water tank?

New comment by megak1d in "CDC File Transfer"

megak1d — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:30:33 +0000

Can I use this to replace some rsync cronjobs I have? I'd love to convert them to 'streaming' rather than updating every few minutes when the cron fires.

New comment by megak1d in "Know Your Carrying Capacity"

megak1d — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:31:44 +0000

This is extremely similar to my DevOps role. Company about 250 ppl, 4 DevOps engineers.

As a ex-product lead (full stack dev) and head of engineering, the “we developers want only to code” winds me up so much.

Just because your code worked once and now another dev has (badly) applied a framework upgrade, doesn’t mean it’s DevOps’ job to find out “why the build is broken” and fix the incompatibility between your old code and the new framework.

New comment by megak1d in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

megak1d — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:28:24 +0000

Agree with this. Twitter is by far and away my favourite platform for consuming stuff from (mostly) others in my industry and OS intel on things like the Ukrainian war.

I can’t remember blocking anyone in recent memory and follow ~350 people. I’ve also had some of my best customer service experiences there, typically from places that, without twitter, I’d have to phone and spend hours on hold.

My simple rule for anything on my phone is that I’m extremely tight on what app I give notification rights to. I can count on one hand how many apps have that ability and twitter most definitely isn’t one of them.

New comment by megak1d in "People don't work as much as they say"

megak1d — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:14:06 +0000

Interesting post. Would you share your tools and personal tracking techniques here?

New comment by megak1d in "Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor"

megak1d — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:41:23 +0000

I am on the look out for a replacement for my HP ProLiant home server with something that has this chip. What minipc did you go for?

New comment by megak1d in "Cap’n Proto"

megak1d — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 10:50:48 +0000

I've always liked the look of this, saw it a while back but we are still using protobuf in our .NET environment simply due to the "free" schema generation using AOP/attributes [ProtoContract]/[ProtoMember] in Marc Gravell's excellent protobuf-net (https://github.com/mgravell/protobuf-net) project - I assume this would also be possible for cap'n proto.