yawniek | 7 days ago | on: Bet on German Train Delays
Yes everyone does their best but in typical german fashion nobody does the right thing because it would mean to break some rules or habit. Its a general problem but it shows hard at DB.
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yawniek | 19 days ago | on: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
really nice, but if you have high res monitor the fonts are too small.
would be nice to zoom the ui
yawniek | 1 month ago | on: Data centers in space makes no sense
I think what many people miss is that energy became far less location dependent if you put compute next to its generation.
The latency for token generation is not so important. So the ratios between energy consumed, bandwidth and latency would in theory favour building dark token factories in remote but optimal locations. But i guess construction and logistics are an issue.
yawniek | 1 month ago | on: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
cost.
the amount of things that before cost you either hours or real money went down to a chat with a few sentences.
it makes it suddenly possibly to scale an (at least semi-) savy tech person without other humans and that much faster.
this directly gives it a very tanglible value.
the "market" might not be huge for this and yes, its mostly youtubers and influencers that "get this". Mainly because the work they do is most impacted by it. And that obviously amplifies the hype.
but below the mechanics of quite a big chunk of "traditional" digital work changed now in a measurable way!
yawniek | 1 month ago | on: The Olivetti Company
Sent you a mail
yawniek | 1 month ago | on: The Olivetti Company
Its an incredible story and way another time. As my cousin put it while i was last in ivrea: those factory buildings where like spaceships at that time.
Partialy very bad luck, but with all the nostalgia i think adriano was also partialy a bit dreamy and that ultimately came at a cost.
On the other side and what rarely gets mentioned: olivetti had a really good and massive sales crew. And that allowed them to spend money on these things.
Ps.Adriano is my biological grandfather. Pps.i posted the link before, but didnt get much traction.
yawniek | 1 month ago | on: Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
i wonder how the Hailo 10H compares to Axera AX8850.
add on boards seem to be cheaper and its a full SoC that can also draw much more power.
yawniek | 3 months ago
The Bat! was absolutely the best email client. ever. way ahead of eudora.
it was a massive step back when i switched to my first macbook in 2006 (the black one!) and started to use Thunderbird.
That said Thunderbird is fantastic now and great to see it get native Exchange support!
yawniek | 1 year ago | on: Kagi Search API
i switched fulltime to kagi, it gives me mostly better results than google and bing.
its possibly quite a clever strategy to have a high price, essentially the tesla playbook:
get a good standing with HNW people and provide an awesome product, meanwhile the incumbents laugh at it because its not scalable and has no significant growth. But also they do not shoot it down. Once its big enough and economies of scale kick in, then the price is lowered or the market pays that price.
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
Then again, we now do have flying cars, floating cities and robot helpers. They just look different and are not (yet?) that common.
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
what D imo would benefit most of is a cohesive standard library that comes with batteries included and makes it easy to ship real world apps and services.
basically what Go did, having many standard protocol implementations within stdlib.
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
Pretty much the same experience.
It is an awesome language, probably still my favourite.
What i did not like is the inconsistent apis and missing basic protocol implementations in the standard library.
Someone should write an heavily opinionated standard library like go has, with basic http,mail, dns etc support. Then D would really be a superpower
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
If you want to build an original midcentury two story house, i am doing a model from a leica scan and plan to share it.
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge
i also don't really understand why they don't offer a similar software/hardware package ontop of linux as apple does.
yawniek | 2 years ago | on: Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
its sad my biological grandfather got a bit lost in buying underwood seemingly out of mortification. He also spent a lot of effort in a not very successful political career in as you say, a very interesting environment. Imagine where Ivrea would be today if that effort went into SGS (and his personal Health i guess).
yawniek | 3 years ago | on: MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective
many people seem to not have clarity on what a distributed log is and in which architecture its useful and in which not.
if you are abusing a distributed log as a message queue, you are most of the time creating a mess.
yawniek | 3 years ago | on: Philips and the death of Europe's last electronics giant [video]
also olivetti, Italy who brought to market the very first personal computer.
yawniek | 3 years ago | on: New Sony Walkman music player
One of the reasons i liked and bought the xperia pro-i was this design style. Unfortunately it has really bad battery life.
yawniek | 3 years ago
I have one. But is a nokia from the 80ies
yawniek | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic
what drove you to move away from MIT licencing?
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