How does the Aeron compare to the Embody? I like chairs that are tough and firm on the back (I also prefer sleeping on the floor and use no padding) and get constantly disappointed by soft furniture.
Readit Newspantelisk commented on Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair? · Posted by u/DamnInteresting
pantelisk commented on WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser blog.stackblitz.com/posts... · Posted by u/bpierre
Typically when you see stuff like this be Chromium-only, it's because Chromium has a bunch of non-standard/one-vendor-only stuff enabled in production builds and neither Firefox or Safari have it enabled (or implemented at all). A few examples include Bluetooth, MIDI and USB.
I don't understand why you are downvoted. Filesystem access is another big one! Chrome has the technological advantage and sports an enormous kitchen sink of features. One has to make the hard decision, work on a concept that will work only on one browser, try to cut corners with graceful (or crippling) degradation, or wait potentially a long time until a spec is standardized and implemented. The latter may result in others hitting the market sooner, so it is understandable why we end up with web-apps that function in a single browser only. Hopefully this improves in the future.
pantelisk commented on Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? · Posted by u/graderjs
I built audiomass ( https://audiomass.co ). it is not a dev tool but a general productivity tool (allow people to record, edit and manipulate audio directly in the browser).
I just wanted something that works as promised and respects the user (open source, 70kb total payload size, no ads, no tracking, feature complete, etc)
ha, awesome! I love how minimal the whole approach is
I call this, "Sweeping Vertigo" https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=tan%28i%2Bt%29*random...
pantelisk commented on Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments reuters.com/technology/tu... · Posted by u/imartin2k
A government antagonizing its own citizens, what an odd mindset. The rule always is "Stifle innovation -> Get left behind."
pantelisk commented on Consciousness Is Just a Feeling nautil.us/issue/98/mind/c... · Posted by u/gHeadphone
I'm also sympathetic to explanations in that vein. In particular that one of the main pieces of it is our simulation of ourselves - a recursive mirrored lense.
Yes, I am with you. I really like Joscha Bach's theory that our brains hallucinate ourselves, almost as a fantasy character that goes through life. (checkout his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, mind blowing talk by Joscha)
pantelisk commented on Consciousness Is Just a Feeling nautil.us/issue/98/mind/c... · Posted by u/gHeadphone
I believe that consciousness is a simulation our brain is running. Our brain is a computer that runs human simulations.
This is why we anthropomorphize everything. Why we buy our dogs a little dog-house that looks like a people house. Dog doesn't care. Why we play such different roles - a cruel boss may be a loving father a few hours later. Likewise, why when people adopt a nickname "What would X do?" they find courage, or get to act differently (common trick in sales). It is why religions made god in man's image. Gods that fit human archetypes, roles or feelings (the father, the mother, lust, war) etc.
And of course, why people with multiple personality disorder get to have such vast personality changes and ups and downs.
What is the evolutionary benefit? Empathy. If I can simulate what you feel, I get to understand what you are going through, I may be kinder to you. And this way we get to cooperate and build a civilization that is not based on swarm mechanics (like ants, or bees).
Consciousness will soon have it's Gallileo moment. And we will be shocked to discover there is nothing special about our current human-centric world of "consciousness".
pantelisk commented on Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain aws.amazon.com/about-aws/... · Posted by u/bpierre
genius move from amazon. correct me if im wrong, this looks like a blockchain backend as a service?
But why are we celebrating centralization of systems that have "decentralization" as their biggest selling point?
pantelisk commented on Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/prismatic
The art style of Francis Bacon is fantastic, but the troubled life he led is maybe even more intriguing, mysterious and dark.
For those curious, here's a very well done documentary on Francis by BBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY (warning, graphic themes)
pantelisk commented on Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex theregister.com/2021/02/2... · Posted by u/pjmlp
I remember trying out docker sometime back in late 2013. Something about it never fully stuck with me. I always felt like the final boundary for a piece software should be the process, not the computer. Plopping an entire VM into a zipfile and saying "here's your software" felt like lazy engineering to many of us at the time (and still today).
For our current stack, the answer has been to make the entire business application run as a single process. We also use a single (mono) repository because it is a natural fit with the grain of the software.
As far as I am aware, there is no reason a single process cannot exploit the full resources of any computer. Modern x86 servers are ridiculously fast, as long as you can get at them directly. AspNetCore + SQLite (properly tuned) running on a 64 core Epyc serving web clients using Kestrel will probably be sufficient for 99.9% of business applications today. You can handle millions of simultaneous clients without blinking. Who even has that many total customers right now?
Horizonal scalability is simply a band-aid for poor engineering in most (not all) applications. The poor engineering, in my experience, is typically caused by underestimating how fast a single x86 thread is and exploring the concurrent & distributed computing rabbit hole from there. It is a rabbit hole that should go unexplored, if ever possible.
Here's a quick trick if none of the above sticks: If one of your consultants or developers tells you they can make your application faster by adding a bunch of additional computers, you are almost certainly getting taken for a ride.
I agree with you. However, after spending years and years trying to compile software that came with cryptic install instructions.
Or have the author insist that since it works on their machine I 'm just doing something stupid. Docker was largely able to fix that.
It's a somewhat odd solution for a too common problem, but any solution is still better than dealing with such an annoying problem. (source: made docker the de facto cross-teams communication standard in my company. "I 'll just give you a docker container, no need to fight trying to get the correct version of nvidia-smi to work on your machine" type of thing)
It probably depends on the space and types of software you 're working on. If it's frontend applications for example then its overkill. But if somebody wants you to let's say install multiple elasticsearch versions + some global binaries for some reason + a bunch of different gpu drivers on your machine (you get the idea), then docker is a big net positive. Both for getting something to compile without drama and for not polluting your host OS (or VM) with conflicting software packages.