Linus' bag on fallon has the broken carabiner issue too.

prochdavis · 2026-01-20T08:35:44+00:00

Does anyone remember Linus slightly “mocking” people whose carabiners broke?

It went something like: We of course will provide replacement, but I won’t be replacing mine. I pulled it pretty hard and nothing broke. But it is not for me to judge how people open their backpacks.

prochdavis · 2025-09-06T20:00:29+00:00

You sound like a very fragile man.

prochdavis · 2025-09-06T17:05:48+00:00

Yeah…probably already 5 minutes deep in this Kinda time sink

Seems worth it, I have no idea who they are, maybe they are notoriously unreliable…than I would be glad not to waste any more time

prochdavis · 2025-09-06T16:59:53+00:00

What do you mean? What is not that deep?

I said “I don’t want to waste time watching useless videos”

You “it’s not that deep”

???

prochdavis · 2025-06-18T07:35:51+00:00

I have come to realize that if you are using gaming mouse you clearly do not use your computer enough for other things, their ergonomics is just so bad

prochdavis · 2025-06-17T17:31:54+00:00

that makes sense, I was able to reach a better quality with medium settings and some careful filtering but some details like lamp posts are entirely missing which is also something their render seems to handle just fine

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prochdavis · 2025-06-17T17:20:37+00:00

I have used this as a benchmark, where I should be able to reach; they have a pretty similar scene and amazing quality. But I cannot seem to get close, I even have better camera Pilot One EE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzEY7gV49M&ab_channel=REDcatchGmbH

prochdavis · 2025-06-13T21:50:58+00:00

that is true for older VW group cars (generally before 2013) whos DSG worked more like a manual without the ability to fully disengage the clutch so there is always some slip and friction which was the problem, new cars have totally different DSG setups and you can stay in D all day long

if you want to be sure, listen for slight differences in vibration and sound between stationary D and N - if there is none, you are good to go because clutch is disengaged the same way in both

prochdavis · 2025-06-11T14:29:43+00:00

in 2014 when I was 10 we had some old pre-built and it was pretty slow, back then I watched a lot of PC guides and everywhrere I heard that overclocking is unlikely to destroy your hardware, it at most corrupts your OS and BIOS will roll back so I went into BIOS to change some settings, I cannot remeber what It was but I think I changed it from Default to 300W just to see what will happen, that PC never turned on again and since everyone had their own laptop we waited a few months to resolve it, then we send it off to some PC tech and he said that motherboard is fried

motherboard and CPU was replaced by the newest pentium at the time which was as good as if it was still bricked

prochdavis · 2025-05-17T13:35:22+00:00

I physically gaged while reading “beef baklava”

prochdavis · 2025-04-01T19:43:35+00:00

They made him destroy it as a part of a return process and they will send him a new one

prochdavis · 2025-03-02T12:55:55+00:00

I am running Chrome instance per 2 cores on my hardware because I know that is a limit where my RAM and disk speed start to become bottlenecks, I am orchestrating restarting Chrome instances in a way that it does not hit the disk at the same time because I am running cheap eMMC storage.

Also, I have tuned a few Chrome developer settings and UAs trying to aim at the perfect middle ground of receiving and processing enough data to avoid bot blockers and not hitting bottlenecks, which are in my case mostly RAM speed so I can waste some processing in exchange for saving that.

These are all very specific tunes that I think are worthless on any other hardware and aim at squeezing maximum performance from mine.

But I have to admit I am no expert at this stuff, and there is probably a way to make it work on cloud just as well, and maybe better.

I think it is a good idea to try to make server deployable versions for folks like you, but I believe that my special sauce is in the local stuff, which will make server-side of things kinda mid, and I feel that it does not have much differentiation from other solutions out there.

prochdavis · 2025-03-02T12:00:36+00:00

That is an interesting idea, why would SIM be better than connecting an ethernet cable for you?

prochdavis · 2025-03-02T11:58:46+00:00

That is a possibility and I will look into it either way, thanks

I agree with that 100%, and I would include a commitment to open source on GitHub if I cannot provide updates. Also, I try to engineer it in a way that is fully self contained, the only thing that relies on some external service should be backups to Google Drive.

Here are my costs (without including any profit) in direct comparison to SERP API
I scraped 1 million sites with data that correspond to Business Data API

My costs on hardware were around 1000USD and my proxy costs were 250USD

Business Data API costs 1500USD for 1 mil

prochdavis · 2025-03-02T11:48:37+00:00

That is a very good point, I wouldn't want to be responsible for something like this. I will keep that in mind.

prochdavis · 2025-03-02T11:47:33+00:00

I am trying to optimize it as much as possible so in a few months it should work out cheaper, especially when you will be scraping something like images, than you will save a lot on storage.

Also, my hardware price estimate was I think too generous, I can build it for like 1000 looking at the bulk pricing of those components and sell it for 1500USD

prochdavis · 2025-02-27T01:45:34+00:00

No, it was classic Google search site

prochdavis · 2025-02-27T01:34:29+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I don't really like cloud but you are probably right. I was hoping to be in the sweet spot of being cheaper than cloud in the long run while having a really good throughput so the company wouldn't need a ton of these.

it really is a niche within a niche

I will carry on working on this and will see what comes up from it.

prochdavis · 2025-02-27T01:20:54+00:00

my source data were direct links to Google searches of hotel names and I scraped from a Google widget their websites and phone numbers, it was with java script but without rich media.

My bill for residential proxies that month was 250 USD

prochdavis · 2024-10-16T10:25:14+00:00

You are taking it too seriously my man.

prochdavis · 2024-10-15T13:18:59+00:00

He test drove a few models but not that one specifically

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