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gregors commented on Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats   support.google.com/google... · Posted by u/eyeareque
staticman2 · 3 days ago
So it looks like these models are over 10 years old

I'm not trying to be a shill for a trillion dollar company but I'd probably put up with the annoyance of swapping the thermostat once every 10+ years over switching to a different company if I was happy with it.

gregors · 3 days ago
If I pay for something and you don't tell me upfront on the box that it only supported until a certain date in big bold letters (like smoke detectors do). I'm never going to buy a product from you again.
gregors commented on The MiniPC Revolution   jadarma.github.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/ingve
Agingcoder · 5 days ago
I want one for gaming , that is silent, provides high end graphics, and takes little space ( Mac mini or studio size ideally ). I’m essentially willing to pay extra for a specced up gaming console.

I still haven’t been able to find something that fits the bill - the hardest part to get information on is noise, since most people don’t seem to care about it or just play with headphones. I understand that such a product is hard to build, with a direct tension between power, space and noise.

What has never been clear to me is whether such a market even exists and I’d tend to say no, even if the market seems to be changing rapidly with amd apus ( we’re far from a 5080 , but it seems to be a step in the right direction ).

gregors · 5 days ago
Nintendo Switch
gregors commented on Why LLMs can't really build software   zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
area51org · 16 days ago
That seems very dependent on which company you work for. Many would not grant you that kind of flexibility.
gregors · 16 days ago
The majority of places I've worked don't adjust business rules on the fly because of flexibility. They do it because "we need this out the door next month". They need to ship and ship now. Asking clarifying questions at some of these dumpster fires is actually looked down upon, much less taking the time to write or even informally have a spec.
gregors commented on Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout   spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-... · Posted by u/ohjeez
amai · 2 months ago
They should buy a nuclear power plant instead. Only nuclear power plants can prevent blackouts.
gregors · 2 months ago
Timely post as a TN power plant is offline

https://www.local3news.com/local-news/tva-takes-sequoyah-nuc...

gregors commented on Timescale Is Now TigerData   tigerdata.com/blog/timesc... · Posted by u/pbowyer
zlib · 2 months ago
Timescale is much better
gregors · 2 months ago
Timescale is sooooo much better. What a bad decision.
gregors commented on Structured Errors in Go (2022)   southcla.ws/structured-er... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
pjmlp · 3 months ago
Go itself is wonky, yet another programming language that is a fine example of worse is better mentality in the industry, whose adoption was helped by having critical infrastructure software written in it.
gregors · 3 months ago
I think it depends a bit on perception. If you're coming from C, Go is a step up in my opinion. Everything surrounding Go's type system and lack luster error handling seems worse to me coming from almost any other language - except C.

Concurrency is also something they got more or less right. The most important thing is that they invented their (Google) language that they could exert complete control over. From a business perspective specifically, that was much better than Java.

gregors commented on The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated   uu.se/en/press/press-rele... · Posted by u/gnabgib
gregors · 3 months ago
>>>> n the study, the researchers leveraged data from 1.1 million Swedish men

So in other words, light years better shape through out all age ranges compared to your average American.

gregors commented on The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
gregors · 4 months ago
>>>> The simple great thing about doing everything through a single process (with threads, goroutines, or whatever inside it for concurrency) is that you have all the shared state you could ever want, and that shared state makes it so easy to do so many things.

If you like the sound of this, check out Elixir/Phoenix

gregors commented on You might not need WebSockets   hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-n... · Posted by u/hntrl
Dwedit · 5 months ago
WebSockets can't go through proxies.
gregors · 5 months ago
Works completely fine in Haproxy
gregors commented on AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards   amd.com/en/newsroom/press... · Posted by u/pella
smcleod · 6 months ago
16GB? In 2025 that seems very small for anything other than gaming.
gregors · 6 months ago
I'm actually happy about that. It specifically targets gamers who want to play video games.

u/gregors

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