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Re:NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:29PM (#45814958)
This person is a PHP programmer according to their LinkedIn profile. They are just using the existing OMAPLoader tool and does not seem to have embedded device programming experience. I am not hopeful they will be able to write custom firmware for the thermostats.

LFP

Re:The Charlie Sheen effect on HIV testing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:18PM (#42901244)
This was me. The LA party scene was wild in the late 2000s. I knew two girls who partied with "Good Time Charlie" and were vocal about it. I partied with one of them so I definitely got tested when I heard the news.

LFP

Re:LMDB: A database powered by language models on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:20AM (#36003010)
Bad name. Try again:

https://www.symas.com/lmdb

LFP

Re:Judge Decides Against Internet Archive on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:37AM (#35303053)
Thank you for telling me what I have the right to do with my uterus. You really put me in my place. I was so wrong before.

LFP

You are going to hit a scaling limit from AWS on the # of VPC your org can have and have at the same time.

LFP

> old school opensource, which is a bit surprising from meta

Aren't you a cheeky lad? Metea turned out lots of open-source database systems:

* RocksDB

* Hive

* Presto

* Cassandra

* Velox

LFP

Bad name. Too close to AlloyDB. Cross the Rubicon and rename it.

LFP

Are the rumors true that it doesn't handle Web3 sites well?

LFP

Re:Show HN: AI-Powered SQL Tools on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:31AM (#34694868)
Aybody actually use this? My boy Beats was all up in it but he said that it didn't work on Sybase.

LFP

Re:A powerful SQL console for ClickHouse database on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:45AM (#34627162)
What makes this "powerful"? It just looks like any other database web interface?

*LFP*