steffs

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by steffs 5mo ago
The onion model is the right mental frame. The nastiest failures are often not obviously bad SQL, they are valid queries that become dangerous only after the planner sees real cardinalities. Row limits and statement timeouts help, but a que
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by steffs 5mo ago
I think the deeper point is not CLI specifically, it is structured local tooling with predictable side effects. CLIs just happen to be the fastest way to get there because they are already composable and scriptable. The end state probably l
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by steffs 5mo ago
The part that stands out is that you are optimizing for warm state instead of cold boot. That feels right for dev shells. If the workload is repeated short lived environments, template fork time matters more than booting a minimal kernel fa
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by steffs 6mo ago
The multi-modal bundling is the part that stands out more than the raw inference speed. If you are building an app that needs text generation, image generation, and speech recognition, right now the local setup is three separate services wi
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by steffs 6mo ago
The no-JSON-boundary piece is the part that stands out to me. Most polyglot runtimes spend a lot of cycles serializing and deserializing at the language boundary, and that cost compounds fast when you are doing SSR or tight per-connection l
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by steffs 6mo ago
The StumbleUpon comparison is apt but I think what made StumbleUpon work was the social layer: you could see what your friends upvoted, and that created an implicit filter against the pure randomness. Pure random discovery is fun for a sess
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Show HN: HiveSpace – GitLab Runner Health Dashboard(hivespace.io)
1 points by steffs 8mo ago|0 comments
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by steffs 8mo ago
Doesn't make sense... most of the software used on 3D printers is open source.
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Show HN: Foom.ist: When silicon surpasses human brainpower(foom.ist)
1 points by steffs 8mo ago|0 comments
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by steffs 8mo ago
I love this low-level stuff. Do you think this is the reason that in the past year or two DNS providers have stopped allowing CNAME records for the root domain? Meaning, it's to ensure backwards compatibility for certain DNS resolution
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by steffs 4y ago
The realness here is palpable
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by steffs 4y ago
So guilty of this.... 1st thought "I should just learn this new skill so I can do it myself" 2nd thought "That will take days/weeks... learn enough to hire it out" 3rd thought "I'm glad I went with 2nd tho
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by steffs 4y ago
100% been vegetarian for 10+ years and didn't realized I needed vit A suppl. till just a few years ago.
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by steffs 4y ago
The end of an era for sure.... hope the iOS keep coming out for as long as possible.
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by steffs 5y ago
Great article. I'm curious, did you also post the startup on HN, and if you did, did you do it before or after PH?