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calt commented on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved   blog.pragmaticengineer.co... · Posted by u/thunderbong
passivepinetree · 6 months ago
Another assumption that bothers me here is that the $9M in revenue would be completely lost during an outage. I imagine many customers would simply wait until the outage was resolved before performing their intended transactions, meaning far less than $9M would be lost.
calt · 6 months ago
On the other hand, customers can become frustrated at being unable to trade when they need during an outage to and go to a competitor.
calt commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app   nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
parthdesai · 6 months ago
There's no way it would've gotten the adoption it did in 3rd world countries if you had to pay $1 per year.
calt · 6 months ago
Thing is, it already was getting that adoption, and network effect can largely take care of the rest. Also, some it’s tied to a real phone number, geographic price differentiation is trivial to implement.
calt commented on The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding   thewayofcode.com/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
calt · 7 months ago
And now it’s flagged. This is why we can’t have anything fun. Hacker News doesn’t do humor. I could go on for a while about how brilliant the satire and self deprecating humor on Anthropic’s part is in this piece. But all people seem to see is “ewww gross vibe coding“
calt commented on The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding   thewayofcode.com/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
zer00eyz · 7 months ago
> The Vibe Coder stays behind,

> that is why he’s ahead.

> He is detached,

> thus at one with all.

> Through selfless action

> he is perfectly fulfilled.

Clearly your not fulfilled and should be vibe coding, at least that's what Rick Rubin says...

I'm not sure a koan to vibe coding in the style of Lao Tzu and the Tao is in good taste. I can tell you that as a lover of the Tao, it is poorly done at best.

Clearly someone missed the point of Wu Wei in the source material and this is the result.

calt · 7 months ago
> it is poorly done at best.

And that’s the point. It’s satire.

He’s saying, “Use silly toys to make bad art, and while you’re at it claim it leads to enlightenment, like the vibe coding evangelists say it does.”

calt commented on The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding   thewayofcode.com/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
eapriv · 7 months ago
How does it make it less horrible?
calt · 7 months ago
Because it’s a joke. It’s satire, and it hits the nail on the head of so-called vibe coding enlightenment.
calt commented on The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding   thewayofcode.com/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
calt · 7 months ago
I spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out if this was _actually_ THE Rick Ruben, and then another 5 wondering why the f he was writing about vibe coding.

For those who don't know, Rick Ruben is one of the most influential record producers of all time. His specialty is prompting people to help them make their art. So I suppose it follows that he's taken an interest in doodling with vibe coding.

I find that this lives right on the lines of inside joke and satire and insightful and serious. I can't stop chuckling to myself as I read them.

calt commented on AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia   eyewiki.org/AR_Computers_... · Posted by u/plun9
mncharity · 9 months ago
> center is sharp and the periphery is extremely blurry. I was told this is to save on video processing resources.

It's caused by the panel/lens hardware. Center resolution is laptop-like, but by 35ish degrees off center that's down by ~half.[1]

[1] line graph in https://kguttag.com/2023/08/09/apple-vision-pro-part-5b-more... . General caveat that Guttag's "not possible"s sometimes have an implicit "if you're not doing anything weirdly off-VR-mainstream". Monitor replacement has very different constraints than mainstream gaming - like, refresh rates (and thus bandwidths) of 60 Hz and lower (even 20 Hz) can be fine, while for VR games that'd be absurd.

calt · 9 months ago
Thank you! The link is amazing.

I figured it was something like this. I went to go demo it specifically because I had a fantasy of using Apple Vision Pro as a monitor replacement. The demo quickly changed my mind and got me to consider all of the crazy home/office/mobile workspace upgrades I could do with a $3500 budget.

calt commented on AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia   eyewiki.org/AR_Computers_... · Posted by u/plun9
calt · 9 months ago
One aspect of computer screen eye strain is the extra-ocular muscles not exploring using their full range on motion and instead being focused on the center of their field of vision non-stop. I went for a demo of the Apple Vision Pro hoping to have my whole field of view be one giant screen. Instead, the center is sharp and the periphery is extremely blurry. I was told this is to save on video processing resources. To make something sharp you have to move my whole head to look face it directly. It didn't even come close to having as much useful field of view as a nice setup with a couple of monitors. It was really not what I was hoping for.

The article promises that AR glasses will "keep the visual field broad and wide." Maybe products will fix this in future iterations, but I'm not too hopeful for the near future.

calt commented on Infosec 101 for Activists   infosecforactivists.org... · Posted by u/greenie_beans
globalnode · a year ago
This is ridiculous, just don't use a network of any kind or you'll be tracked by someone somewhere. Simple as that. Misleading people into thinking they can use these tools and be safe is dangerous. I suppose the only way to be safe is to assume you're being tracked somehow and use burners or throw aways that don't matter.
calt · a year ago
This advice is unhelpful. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Cell phones are a useful tool for coordinating and communicating.
calt commented on New Features in Fedora Asahi Remix   asahilinux.org/2024/01/fe... · Posted by u/jasoneckert
tombert · 2 years ago
I guess you want to prove everything that this post said. Maybe I should rescind my other comment defending HN.
calt · 2 years ago
But it got flagged and deleted. Yay moderation!

u/calt

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