Hacker News: xmaayy

New comment by xmaayy in "Deep Learning with Jax"

xmaayy — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:55:07 +0000

More of a meta-question; I'd love to know if people do self-directed learning more frequently, or if they follow through full (or partial) textbooks to learn concepts they're interested in. I have a hard time going through full books, but I have no doubt this leads to gaps in knowledge that someone following a textbook would not have.

New comment by xmaayy in "What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated"

xmaayy — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:26:19 +0000

> 1. For multiples processes use `gunicorn`

This will load up multiple processes like you say. OP loads a large dataset and gUnicorn would copy that dataset in each process. I have never figured out shared memory with gUnicorn.

New comment by xmaayy in "Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust"

xmaayy — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:57:10 +0000

"I want the free service to work for my edge case"

If you want to continue serving your clients, you can still pay for a certificate from an authority trusted by your outdated clients. If you want to continue serving the old clients for free, ask them to use another free browser that will allow them to do so.

New comment by xmaayy in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

xmaayy — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:18:23 +0000

Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)

New comment by xmaayy in "Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?"

xmaayy — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:32:55 +0000

Massive corporate HR Dept with custom rolled software. Bank team with software for compliance. Endless possibilities...

New comment by xmaayy in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

xmaayy — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 16:44:53 +0000

What a joy it would be to be a kid in highschool writing book reports with ChatGPT

New comment by xmaayy in "Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?"

xmaayy — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:54:18 +0000

I think the intention though is to confront it rather than just ignore it to either help the interviewer realize its not acceptable, or just make them less likely to do it again.

New comment by xmaayy in "We need a middle class for startups"

xmaayy — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:27:07 +0000

I think what you just described is called "A Business"

New comment by xmaayy in "My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home"

xmaayy — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:47:20 +0000

You'd need raid SSD's or a sizeable RAM disk to make sustained use of it. Very few SSD's support full 25GB/s

New comment by xmaayy in "Hetzner Cloud – Data loss incident"

xmaayy — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:41:38 +0000

The storage system is highly available, but the data is not guaranteed to be :)

New comment by xmaayy in "Success and Failure at Pebble"

xmaayy — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:31:45 +0000

I had the Garmin first, and a colleague recommended whoop specifically for sleep / recovery tracking. I got the apple watch as a gift, which has since taken over most things because of the wonder WorkOutdoors app :)

New comment by xmaayy in "Success and Failure at Pebble"

xmaayy — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:56:34 +0000

"Apple sells millions of iPhones, therefore Android phones (samsung, Xiaomi, etc) are doomed"

I have a Garmin watch, an apple watch, whoop, etc (not all on at the same time of course). Different people want different things, ex: apple watches should be charged daily, but the pebble could be charged weekly. That in itself is a big selling point. I'm sure there were many such differences that could make for a successful product.

New comment by xmaayy in "Should you work fixed hours, even if you have a flexible schedule?"

xmaayy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:42:17 +0000

I found that working really early is a key to enjoying remote work. Being done by 2PM lets me get out and do things in daylight regardless of season.

New comment by xmaayy in "Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole"

xmaayy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:28:14 +0000

It depends a lot on where you work I've found. I recently had the chance to experience a team where they were given the full implementation logic by a product team, and your job was to turn it from business logic to code almost 1:1. I spent nearly all my time writing and testing, which was an interesting change.

New comment by xmaayy in "Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole"

xmaayy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:23:45 +0000

I accidentally went down that rabbit hole this week. I only realized how long I'd spent 2 hours later; I may never make that time back in increased efficiency hahaha

New comment by xmaayy in "Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests"

xmaayy — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:55:25 +0000

He literally says something to the effect of "I'm only saying that the glare is obscuring the true shape of the object" in the first minutes of the video.

New comment by xmaayy in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

xmaayy — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:48:01 +0000

I also stumbled across his channel recently (that video seems to have gained a lot of traction) and would recommend most of his content! Very thorough.

New comment by xmaayy in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

xmaayy — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:43:40 +0000

Reading the reddit thread; it seems like this individual was an OG miner and just held ETH for many years. His previous time investment matured, and he decided to finally cash out.

New comment by xmaayy in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

xmaayy — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:40:06 +0000

I think you can do test transaction off-chain, I think they're called test-nets and you can use them through many wallets, and even online IDE's[1]. Unfortunately, crypto is still at the stage where it's built for devs and technically minded individuals, and its pretty user hostile. Sending directly from wallet to wallet is a pretty low level thing to do, and generally people should be executing transactions through swaps or other DAPP's, which to me seems like we're working against the empowerment principle of crypto

[1] https://remix.ethereum.org/

New comment by xmaayy in "Embrace slow productivity"

xmaayy — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:53:19 +0000

I found it entertaining enough that I went looking for more :)