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New comment by vvladymyrov in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

vvladymyrov — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:23:44 +0000

15 min ago I saw it north from Denver - half of the sky was red.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)"

vvladymyrov — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:31:38 +0000

Water boils at lower temperature because of lower pressure at higher altitude. As a result cooking is different - normal recipes don’t work as expected. From my personal anecdotal experience even grilling somehow is different at 8000ft.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

vvladymyrov — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:36:34 +0000

Fun fact that Masimo acquired Sound United in 2022 for 1B. Neither market nor investors were happy about this strange choice of company with health equipment focus doing this move. In 2024 Masimo changed CEO and now divesting audio brands business for just 350M.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "[dead]"

vvladymyrov — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:08:23 +0000

Paywalled. The only content I see on the page:

``` Grok-3 appears to be state of the art; that speaks to the power of Nvidia, and actually increases the pressure to spend more. ```

New comment by vvladymyrov in "MySQL at Uber"

vvladymyrov — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:39:30 +0000

More posts about mysql from Uber - it is interesting to compare state of Mysql in Uber with 2016.

* Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283348

* Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836748

New comment by vvladymyrov in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

vvladymyrov — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:24:23 +0000

I’ve installed 4 similar skylight lamps to the basement. Bought them on Amazon for 700$ each (had to replace 1 because it had uneven light). They make basement light much closer to ourdoor light and made basement very cozy and comfortable. I had depth space in the ceiling, but width of the lamp didn’t fit between joists - so could not push lamp all the way at the ceiling level. End up building nice boxing around lamp. So it was medium complexity project with great result.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "I automated my job application process"

vvladymyrov — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:27:12 +0000

I really miss StackOverflow Careers because they had exactly this feature - I enter my career details once and SO Careers allow me to generate nice CV in PDF format. Personally I’ve found couple great jobs though SO Careers, it is sad that SO decided to shutdown Careers business.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests"

vvladymyrov — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:24:19 +0000

I can suggest improvement - combining long running e2e tests with notebooks is even better match

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

vvladymyrov — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:00:40 +0000

This is nice of them. I think this is because screen replacement was required and them not having SE2 in stock.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

vvladymyrov — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:57:33 +0000

> I predict they'll produce another small phone in a few years. It'll sell well due to pent up demand, and someone will be declared a genius for selling 100M's of extra phones that year.

I’d wish this too. I’m afraid that Apple over the next few year would become more risk averse then ever before. Also old Execs are leaving and retiring - so less people with hands on experience how to start new products VS keeping lights on.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life"

vvladymyrov — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:52:07 +0000

They would tell you and you would notice if your phone was replaced - it would have new serial and 2FA apps won't work on a new phone without reregistration.

Most likely it took them a week to get a new battery for replacement shipped.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life"

vvladymyrov — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:48:56 +0000

I've successfully have replaced batteries and displays in older iphones (mainly iphone 6). But with newer iphones opening the phone is more complex.

I've read online and heard from Apple Store representative that iPhone 12 (all models) has tendency to crack the screen when phone is opened for repair or battery replacement and in that case Apple Store would replace the hole phone (this is were multi day repair process). So I would rather pay $90 to Apple that guarantees that I'll get a phone replacement in case when screen is broken during battery replacement. Without the phone I sill would be able to answer the cell calls from Apple Watch and with ipad over WiFi.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life"

vvladymyrov — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:17:53 +0000

Good luck. I’ve tried to replace battery in mine 12 mini last week - with no success. I had to leave my phone for 4 hours or several days (if they brake screen during battery replacement, they will wait for replacement phone to be shipped overnight). Also representative was convincing me to buy a new phone - saying that battery replacement won’t help much because new ios versions has features which high battery usages, while newer iphones has larger battery and hardware optimizations for these new features. I’m thinking about iPhone 16 now while keeping iPhone 12 mini as backup phone.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "The PlanetScale vectors public beta"

vvladymyrov — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:26:42 +0000

Awesome. Does planetscale vector support multi node indices (like Milvus) and even further blob store index storage which can be separate from compute, allowing to pay for compute on demand when queries are run?

New comment by vvladymyrov in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

vvladymyrov — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:36:30 +0000

+1 . I have nothing to upgrade to from my iPhone 12 mini. Probably will replace battery and keep it running for couple more years.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders"

vvladymyrov — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:44:16 +0000

I’m missing the app already. Somehow I’ve got highly addicted to the idea be click article summary feature of Artifact. There was something highly gratifying of scrolling through articles’ titles and getting bullet point summary and not scrolling and reading through gazzilion of ads and pop ups most of the articles have nowadays. Recommendation part was more subtle, but working for me - there few occasional that I’ve learn something useful or interesting to me…

I would be grateful if somebody would suggest apps or service with similar article summarization functionality on a tip of users’ fingers.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea"

vvladymyrov — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:48:43 +0000

Facebook recently started to show me this nasal stent product https://alaxousa.com/how-it-works/ Basically they sell expandable metal mesh tubes that are inserted though the nose and go down to throat when installed. And they are rather expensive - $395 and according to FAQ last up to 18 months.

I’ll ask my ENT about these stents when I’ll visit them next time.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Thoughts on the Remarkable 2"

vvladymyrov — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:12:04 +0000

I own Remarkable 2, bought it on release day and received it from the second batch. The fill and design is awesome. I use it lightly for daily work notes. But the hardware and software is aging and becoming outdated - no light, slow ereader.

Remarkable needs to release updated device, not sure if they have money for that. I’m so sorry to see them wasting their money on ads - promoting outdated device.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)"

vvladymyrov — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:57:19 +0000

I was considered 13” Onyx Boox Lumi Max, and still do, but couldn’t justify as I don’t do that much organized reading.

Onyx made annoying product decision to not include microSD to expensive 10 and 13 inch models, while still keeping it on 8” Leaf2 and Page.

Are you using written notes while reading on your Lumi Max or typing only?

With such reading system I would look into Obsidian/Notion/Readwise/Logseq/Tana running on Lumi Max - at least Obsidian and Logseq has android apps. Note that Logseq is local first system - it stores files on your disk then the option to sync on your server for free or their paid sync service.

New comment by vvladymyrov in "Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)"

vvladymyrov — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:48:27 +0000

Thanks for the hint about einkbro saving articles to ePub, I’ll give it a try. Does saving to ePub feature works for paywalled content? Does it save ads too?