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I've always told engineers to duplicate until the abstraction is punching them in the face.
Re:SQLite as an Application File Format on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:30PM (#46080739)
absolutely adore the mbtiles format! thank you for creating that.
Re:Building a GPS receiver on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @01:05AM (#40048535)
This was a delightful read. Reminded me of my time working on low power FHSS radio gear. We truly take modern wireless technologies for granted!
Re:Show HN: Shuttle – Build Back Ends Fast on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:40AM (#37764231)
Not sure if being so opinionated about Rust is a good idea, but very cool nonetheless. Looks well done, excited to tire kick it.

Curious how you see this stacking up against things like Pulumi?

Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:22AM (#35300946)
Are you really grand standing against an AI model rn
They are just going where there is money.
I was an early customer of Flexport and got to talk to him on a number of occasions. I felt the same way about him. Total beast.
Re:Sentenced by Algorithm on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:16AM (#28045665)
Your outrage radar is a little too sensitive pal.
Re:Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:43PM (#26929946)
I would be interested in reading your yet-to-be-written post!
Re:Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:07AM (#26634741)
In classic HN style, half of the comments have devolved into variations of dEbUgGeR bEtTeR and PrInT bEtTeR...

Newflash! You can do both, and sometimes one is better than the other.

Re:We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:54PM (#26377963)
Can you share some examples of high bandwidth 900 radios? In my experience, it’s difficult to get bitrates above ~100kbps on 900 over any meaningful distance.
Re:We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:06PM (#26377528)
I tried (and failed) to build a GoTenna competitor using LoRa and what you say here is 100% correct. Large scale mesh networks are incredibly difficult to build and often end up requiring extreme optimizations for specific use cases. We ultimately abandoned mesh networking in favor of a TDMA approach with base stations.

“smart home without the WiFi configuration” is exactly what Amazon’s network is for, but it won’t be anything more than that. The bandwidth and latencies required for content rich applications is simply not there. Sidewalk is cool enough without trying to sell the magic mesh network pipe dream.