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Re:Ask HN: What niche task/tool websites have you built? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:05PM (#37330809)
https://groupreceipt.com

Solves problem of being out at a group dinner and figuring out how much you owe the one person who inevitably put their card down. Take a photo of your receipt, it digitizes it in seconds, and gives a link to text to your friends/acquaintances. They open, click what they ordered, it proportionally adds tax and tip. No APP required, nor an account. That would be friction.

Re:Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:54PM (#36620973)
Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Re:Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:35PM (#35689841)
And now, a couple years later, he's partnered with microprocessor legend Jim Keller to start Atomic Semi.. https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1636174775310745601
Re:How to really know another person on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:06PM (#33110944)
Better yet.. podcast -> Whisper -> text summarization model... sounds like it'd be fun to hack together
Agreed about Roblox!! Started (unintentionally) teaching myself how to program on Roblox when I was 9, and turned it into a career! Making games encompasses so many areas of programming/creation. Even beyond programming (back end, front end, UI), music composition, sound effects, animation, design, game design.. and share it all with your friends. Alternatively, a simple engine like Love2D (which also happens to be Lua)
Re:I became the world's most prolific DJ, using code on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:53AM (#30790718)
I think you missed the joke!
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:07PM (#30016683)
Pretty darn cool hearing from you! But yes, you're correct on both points :)
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:02PM (#30015761)
This % includes cost of all game server hosting, databases, memory stores, etc. even with millions of concurrents, app store fees, etc. All included in that number. Developer gets effectively pure profit for the sole cost of programming/designing a great game. Taught me how to program, & changed my entire future. Disclosure: My game is one of most popular on the platform.
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:30PM (#30015357)
As one of the top developers on the platform (& 22 y/o, taught myself how to program through Roblox, ~13 years ago), I can say that it seems a majority of us in the developer community are quite unhappy with the image this video portrays. We love Roblox.
Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:07PM (#26584121)
This trick has certainly saved me more times than I am willing to admit! I usually roll with: `fallocate -l 8G DELETE_IF_OUT_OF_SPACE.img`