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by raminf 7mo ago
We had to memorize this back in grade school. It still gives me shivers every time I read it.
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by raminf 10mo ago
Many years ago, I was leading a team that implemented a hyperfast XML, XSLT, XPath parser/processor from the ground up in C/C++. This was for a customer project. It also pulled some pretty neat optimizations, like binary XSLT comp
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by raminf 11mo ago
In a past life I had a Wall of Shame of headlines on firmware update fails. The lesson was you built firmware updates upfront and right into your development process so it became a non-event. You put in lots of tests, including automatic ve
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by raminf 11mo ago
Feel like we're revisiting heuristic planning and General Problem Solving by Simon, Shaw, and Newell.
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by raminf 1y ago
100% agree with statement of problem. Only partly on-board with the possible solutions. There are many other ways, and most likely not a single solution to fit all. Kudos to CF for pointing out the dips in the road ahead. A big, juicy probl
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by raminf 1y ago
One of the main points of using a UUID as a record identifier was to make it so people couldn't guess adjacent records by incrementing or decrementing the ID. If you add sequential ordering, won't that defeat the purpose? Seems li
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by raminf 1y ago
Was going to ask how much all this cost, but this sort of answers it: > "Managing Cost and Usage Limits: Chaining agents, especially in a loop, will increase your token usage significantly. This means you’ll hit the usage caps on pl
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by raminf 1y ago
> You MUST include the ENTIRE conversation history in each prompt to Claude, not just the last message. > ALWAYS include ALL messages from the beginning of the conversation up to the current point. That doesn't seem very scalable
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by raminf 1y ago
Any post about IoT security that doesn't mention or link to Shodan ( https://www.shodan.io ) is missing a lot of context. It's way worse than you think. Also, with tools like Chip Whisperer ( https://www.newae.
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by raminf 2y ago
Wonder if the rules will protect the information providers or the consumers.
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by raminf 2y ago
HN has been a daily read for last 15 years. Appreciate the information flow. Incidentally, after years of lurking, applied to the latest YC batch. Didn't make it, but will try again once further along, or with a new idea.
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by raminf 2y ago
Relevant Calvin and Hobbes: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/11/29
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by raminf 2y ago
> Hacker News > You'll finally stop checking egg prices at Costco and instead focus on writing that definitive 'How I Built My Own Super App Without Getting Rejected By Apple' post. On it!
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by raminf 2y ago
Costco people recommended showing up early. Went there right at opening in the morning and there was plenty. To their credit, they haven't raised their prices. Also, shocked to see people hoarding multiple boxes of 50 eggs. Hoping it w
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by raminf 2y ago
Lattner left Apple a long while ago. He's been working on Mojo, a different (Pythonic) language and runtime: https://www.modular.com
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by raminf 2y ago
I didn't mean to send you down a rabbit-hole since you've already built an awesome-looking platform. Just googling, came across a devkit: https://ameridroid.com/products/pinetime-smart-watch?variant... The D
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by raminf 2y ago
Awesome work building it all from scratch! Hate to be that guy, but was using something hackable like a PineTime ( https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ ) and doing a direct BLE connection to the device using the Blo
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by raminf 2y ago
I remember talking to techie friends about this a couple years ago. With the advent of AI screeners, it would only be a matter of time before candidates figured out how to craft and rewrite not just their cover letter, but their whole resum
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by raminf 2y ago
On semi-related news... Santa Cruz Wharf’s fallen restroom becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: https://archive.ph/k1lwt
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by raminf 2y ago
Back when I was consulting, I always made sure to stay in touch separately with three people: a) The internal project owner. Usually a VP or Director. b) The owner's assistant/gatekeeper, who made sure they saw and signed document
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by raminf 2y ago
Relatives were asking for a basic explainer. Here's a good one by Hannah Fry: https://youtu.be/1_gJp2uAjO0
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by raminf 2y ago
I'm a little confused. The baked-data model is so you DON'T have to generate a thousand static pages. But this solution does exactly that. Not complaining, mind you. My kid is trying to learn HTML/CSS/JS and wants to put
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by raminf 2y ago
When you went from Jekyll to Kubernetes, it was must have been like when Ted Kaczynski first learned about battery-operated timed fuses. Enjoyed the read. Looking forward to when you chuck the whole thing into the bin and run Wordpress on y
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by raminf 2y ago
Built an app when the iPhone first came out. Spent 2 months building the core app and another 3 months working to reduce the number of taps and remove road-bumps in the UI/UX flow. Totally paid off. Working on another app now. Sweating
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by raminf 2y ago
RabbitMQ can also act as a native MQTT broker. For edge applications/devices, you can also use MQTT over websockets: https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/web-mqtt Edit: FWIW, NATS also supports MQTT: https://d
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by raminf 2y ago
It won't take that long (I already have two use-cases for it). The only concern is how brittle it might be vs. future Python releases.
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by raminf 2y ago
Firebase (especially Cloud Messaging) is in use by a lot of companies. Killing that off will have a huge blast radius.
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by raminf 2y ago
FWIW, 405B not working with Ollama on a Mac M3-pro Max with 128GB RAM. Times out.
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by raminf 2y ago
The amount of effort put into all the porting and reverse-engineering is impressive. Especially, getting the toolchain working. That's usually where most of the hair-pulling comes in. For those wanting to hack their own tracker, for sl
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by raminf 2y ago
For mobile, this looks promising: https://skip.tools Transpiles SwiftUI over to Kotlin/JetPack Compose. Native all the way down. Haven't used it in production, but the demos work and are native after going through XCod

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