edsonmedina | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
In all honesty: my sanity
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edsonmedina | 3 years ago | on: How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
conclusion: inconclusive
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report
The title doubles as a nice insult.
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
Oh, not TLA+?
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
no-comment
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
The images are still huge for the quality.
There's a lot of gains to be had with proper compression here.
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting
Tin foil edition
edsonmedina | 4 years ago | on: Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs
If a diagram is too complex, shouldn't you just add more abstractions? That would simplify the refactoring too.
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free
Article from June.
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: How and why I stopped buying new laptops
You call 283kb optimized?
In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: How and why I stopped buying new laptops
For a low-tech solar powered website, it does require a lot of loading (>500Kb for the homepage, >350kb just for this article).
You should optimize your images. This would probably drastically reduce your electricity use per unique visitor.
Nice article by the way. I love the frugality.
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best resources for learning about commercial “IDE grade” parsers
Have you looked into any open-source language servers?
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
Doesn't the added efficiency in plowing mean more carbon release from the soil (thus offseting any gains from not using diesel)?
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
No
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar
I've read stories of whales attacking boats before, and theories about they being bothered by the boat's sonar.
edsonmedina | 5 years ago | on: Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window
Sounds like the Shrek Donkey method.
"Are we there yet"?
edsonmedina | 6 years ago | on: T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
Social-media political bots about to get harder to detect.
edsonmedina | 6 years ago | on: Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall
"according to the Daily Mail".
The tabloid.
edsonmedina | 6 years ago | on: Go + Services = One Goliath Project
Making them work with strong types would require generics which would introduce a lot of complexity to the language though. It's being debated for years.
It's pretty trivial to write your own custom map/filter/reduce though.
edsonmedina | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
Indiehackers would disagree (https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1)
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