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behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Why didn't you buy a Tesla?

Not a good fit for lifestyle. I'm rural, and I haul around ATVs and dirt bikes with the main destination being 300km away and even more rural. My pickup truck is a way better choice for that.

I used to tow a utility trailer with a small gas car. It worked fine, but this is just so much easier and more luxury. I don't believe any EV could handle this use case.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

I love this idea. I've been desperate enough to reuse gaskets in a few repairs, and suffer oil leaks down the line. Usually it was because of back ordered gaskets that would be weeks or months out. Riding season in Canada is short, so... Take the risk and reuse. If you can ship in a week, I'm a customer.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?

Asus TUF series (A15). Inexpensive with really good hardware specs and upgradable ram, storage and wifi cards. I usually go AMD on them, and midrange video cards. They're shockingly good as desktop replacements but they suffer a bit on battery life. My 4900H/RTX2060 feels snappier than my work M1 Pro in everything I do and it can play pretty much every modern game smoothly.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

3 of the last 4 roles have been recruiters from LinkedIn (Solution Architecture), including the current one. The one exception was reaching out to a customer to let them know I was leaving and they counter offered to get me to join them. LinkedIn is probably the most valuable one to me, by far.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

Give Rimworld a try. It's easy to get a few things done every break and pausing fits in naturally. You can even almost get away with backgrounding it where you set up a bunch of stuff to be done, and let the pawns do their own thing.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay

If I'm reading it right, it's more the acceptance of loss of what you had and more appreciation for what age brings you now. Also the start of removing things from your life, rather than constantly adding new things. To bring it to a HN context, maybe learning that new language won't be as satisfying as just getting deeper on the ones you already know? I'm just guessing at this point.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

3 desktop class machines, one acting as a server. 3 laptops, one is a chromebook. 8 RPi's doing PiHole, OctoPrint and part of my temp/humidity sensor network. It gets fuzzy with the Pi's because I tend to load them up with multiple duties depending on location. With spare hardware I could probably do a few TV PCs.

behohippy | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions

That's brutal. We're on the other side of it right now trying to get exec and HR to actually commit to something so we can hire remote. We had multiple good people in the pipeline who we had to pass on, because they won't actually say if they'll demand these people move to Toronto (one of the worst housing markets in the world) as soon as they sign the papers. It's like we're supposed to surprise them with that?

behohippy | 4 years ago | on: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

One of mine was similar. I got sold on a 100% remote role that turned into 9-5, 5 days a week in an office 350km away from where I live. I was really clear up front that relocation was not an option. I'm not sure if they ignored me, or just felt I'd be compelled to move.

behohippy | 4 years ago | on: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

> Was catfished into a role which was not what I interviewed for

Why does Amazon do this? I've bailed out 3 times on interviews with them now because somehow the role they sold me on end up being completely different by the time you talk to the team members doing the actual job. It's a huge time waster for everyone involved.

behohippy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you do with your older hardware?

My older stuff got turned into TV PCs. I pair them up with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and just run Chrome or Firefox on them. Each tab is a different streaming service, plex or youtube. I could use Chromecast or FireTV, but they feel like less freedom than just running a browser.

behohippy | 4 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

That's awesome, I did the same project when I was working for Hortonworks. I had 8 nodes and it was really limited by memory. I got a few MR jobs running and some benchmarks, but not a great cluster overall.

behohippy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

I don't see Salesforce going away anytime soon. I was a solution architect for a few startups and we lived in SF. The difference between a good experience with SF and a bad one was mostly due to the customization.

behohippy | 5 years ago | on: Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX Spotted

A "perfect" ES node has 64 gig of memory. 32 to heap and 32 for off heap as well as 8-12 cores for executing queries. Heap is mostly used for internal operations and the inverted index stuff (fielddata), off-heap was used for the columnar data store (docvalues). Most server class machines exceed this nowadays, so we would recommend containerizing multiple instances of ES on a single machine and using the rack awareness feature to make sure shards didn't replicate onto the same physical host. It's been a while since I worked at Elastic, so this info might be out of date by now, but we're still using this formula for our ECE setups where I work now.
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