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Re:Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:18PM (#42943270)
Thank you
Re:Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:41PM (#42942393)
Would you be open to sharing the code?
@sqfmi is there any chance that we might/could get a blackberry client for beeper? it would give all those old blackberrys sitting in drawers a new life and might actually help with growth of beeper as well.
Do these limitations also apply to the newer Thunderbolt based usb c ports? If you can’t tell I really miss target display mode and wish a wired cross platform ideally open source solution existed to use any computer as a second monitor.
Do these limitations also apply to the newer Thunderbolt based usb c ports? If you can’t tell I really miss target display mode and wish a wired cross platform ideally open source solution existed to use any computer as a second monitor.
Anyone know of a scrcpy for windows/mac/Linux? If not, why has there not been a “wired” screen mirroring tool for desktop os? Is it just more difficult than doing it for android?

Ask HN: How to Spot Committees in your org?

There’s a common notion that decisions by committee should be avoided. Now I doubt that committees identify themselves as committees. I assume that if it was easy to spot committees they would be avoided. So, I would assume that committees are invisible unless you go looking. My question for HN is what are signs that you’ve got a committee on your hands whether you realize it or not?

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Re:IBM 6780 Quietwriter on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:27PM (#34498770)
Go to 27:52 to see the machine in action. Such smooth movement and the features he shoes for the next 30 mins are so cool.
Re:Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but Serverless on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:26PM (#34482894)
Having used it what are your thoughts on whether Jets replaces rails vs using alongside rails for certain types of workloads?
Re:Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but Serverless on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:28AM (#34476362)
I’m not entirely sure I wanted to see what HN thought. I was thinking if one’s already using rails+aws are there workloads that are not core app functionality, not frequent, but that when they run need to serve a large number of requests that Jets might be the right tool for the job?
Re:Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but Serverless on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:58PM (#34474460)
I'm guessing it also helps keep deploys small (atomic?) when a controller method changes. The unmodified lambdas stay untouched.
Re:Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but Serverless on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:49PM (#34474050)
Wondering why this framework isn't more talked about, especially amongst rails devs to take advantage of AWS Lambda.
Yes, and I see this phenomenon everywhere now. They completely ignore the explicit instructions we are giving and prioritize their “suggestions” instead. Facebook, Twitter with their default timeline views. On Twitch’s TV app it used to be one click from the main page to continue watching a video now it’s 5 clicks because they replace with suggested channels, recommended blah blah.

One can go blue in the face “quoting” terms on Amazon search but they’ll just show whatever they want anyways completely ignoring the exact terms entered. I’d prefer them to say “we couldn’t find any results for you” than to give me pages of useless results instead.

Ask HN: Make Thunderbolt 3 to 2 target display mode work?

I see posts on HN with very talented people who can deep dive into very low level hardware/software so I'm wondering would it be possible to prevent thousands 2011-2014 27" iMacs from ending up in landfills by making target display mode work with newer USB-C MacBooks [Thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2...

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Re:OKRs masquerade as strategy on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:31PM (#29233055)
One of the best talks on the subject I've heard by Richard Rumelt author of "Good Strategy Bad Strategy" https://youtu.be/UZrTl16hZdk
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Wanted to use my 2012 imac as a second monitor for my MacBook and in the absence of target display mode decided to use NoMachine but couldn’t get resolution + separate display without a physical dummy hdmi plug. Thank you
Re:Crazy New Ideas on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:14PM (#27066325)
I believe the technology behind Mighty is amazing, the people involved are amazing, the experience for it's users will be amazing.

I believe the underlying reason for HN's reaction to Mighty has almost nothing to do with any of the above. To the contrary, most of us probably feel that Mighty will be a raging success. But we don't actually like that at all. When I reflect on my own thoughts, the reasons my initial reaction is pessimistic are:

1. If Mighty makes badly designed/architected apps "fast", nobody will fix the underlying issues.

2. The internet will be amazing for the folks that can afford to pay $30-$50/month and all others will have to live with a sub-par experience because of #1

3. Some other company will come along and try to subsidize Mighty for all those that couldn't afford it but they'll monetize by advertising and further personal data collection.

4. Further lack of control over core software on our personal computers.

I fear that one day I'll visit a website with a message saying "This website runs best using Mighty".

There were similar sentiments when RSS blogs started moving to medium. Medium is amazing! but at some point medium needed to introduce a 3 item limit.

More and more of the internet which a lot of us remember as this open thing that no one owns is being siloed into privately owned.

Ask HN: Would you re-align incentives to simplify web development and DevOps

Obviously, it is a subjective opinion that modern web development and associated devops are unnecessarily complicated.The reasons are discussed often right on HN.- The desire to mimic the technical infrastructures of big companies like Google and Facebook whether one’s system needs that level of scale or not.- The desire to replicate software architecture’s of the bigger companies things like...

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I was recently thinking what it would take to do an open source, reasonable priced version of https://www.tonal.com/
Re:Ask HN: New IT System on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:07PM (#21405028)

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