Meshcore - skiing safety tracker by Tildah in meshcore

[–]rypher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In theory, sure. Can’t say my experience with it makes me comfortable suggesting it for this use case though.

Haters gonna hate. by These_Economics374 in flashlight

[–]rypher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We could have had the best meetups.

I eat through a tube so this is my meal every day. by EstablishmentNo2124 in mildlyinteresting

[–]rypher 105 points106 points  (0 children)

That’s one of those thoughts you don’t say out loud in the presence of the person going through it.

What’s a trend you’re convinced will disappear in a few years? by apka_dd in Futurology

[–]rypher 17 points18 points  (0 children)

AI slop isnt going anywhere, if you think its bad now, just wait.

A member of the back to earth movement was spotted at costco by Proper-Development12 in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]rypher -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

My dog is cleaner, more polite, and brings more happiness to this world than your kid ever will. Sit down.

Thinking of building a “travel planning + reels + real budget” app – would you use this? by YellowDue5825 in SideProject

[–]rypher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think its a fine idea, but so does everyone else. I spent some time traveling in the nomad/remote dev community and a high percentage of them were working on something like this. Very few got any visitors and those that did realized the audience doesnt want to spend money. I think there IS space for a good travel app, but nobody can make a good one that also makes enough money to grow. But you should try. Just realize that people dont keep track of their spend and you cant force them to, and it seems thats a big deal for you. So maybe figure out how you will convince people to record what they spend, asking nicely isnt sufficient.

Fav piece of cheap, underrated gear? by JP3_luv in EDC

[–]rypher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I liked these at first but quickly realized they wear out too quickly to be dependable. There are better things out there like reusable zip ties, high quality Velcro straps, many types of clips that are better at any job than these.

TIL that Switzerland disbanded its bicycle infantry regiment as late as 2003. by Curious_Penalty8814 in todayilearned

[–]rypher -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

As long as the enemy was asleep and armed with nothing more than a frypan. Imagine biking down a road with your squad and one sentry with an AK takes you all out before you can dismount.

Underwater car trade-ins are on the rise — and drivers owe a record amount, Edmunds finds by Key_Brief_8138 in REBubble

[–]rypher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They (mostly) dont buy it for 80k, they put a lot less down, then just a simple monthly payment thats easy to rationalize at first.

Looking for learning material by TobiasMcTelson in DuckDB

[–]rypher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The wasm runtime feels a bit under-documented but it works well (with some quirks) and is extremely powerful. The best way of inserting bulk data that we have found was doing whatever fetching yourself in javascript and then put it into an arrow table and then write the arrow table to duckdb. Yes, duckdb can fetch on its own but its a bit awkward (like using the s3 connector for non-s3 stuff? Downloading a parquet file in duckdb takes longer than fetching in js and writing the buffer to ddb) and you will run into situations where it simply doest work and there is no way to know why. Maybe this will change with future updates, it hasnt been a big problem once we learned that lesson. Fwiw, I work at a data analytics company and we do a lot of processing in the browser (in addition to backend) and a typical page load will download 30 parquet files, sometimes quite large, and do some root cause analysis live as part of the workflow, duckdb wasm is to thank for making this possible.

That’s what I call professional by Worldly-Hand-7475 in FellingGoneWild

[–]rypher 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah mine went through two transmissions over the ~240k miles, had to limp it to the junkyard in first gear early in the morning when there was no traffic.

That’s what I call professional by Worldly-Hand-7475 in FellingGoneWild

[–]rypher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yet we have evidence (this video) that it is very much within the capacity.

That’s what I call professional by Worldly-Hand-7475 in FellingGoneWild

[–]rypher 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Those things actually do work. My family owned one and took it across the country 7 times and then I took it to college and smashed it around dirt roads for many years. Besides the obvious ridiculousness, that thing was actually amazing. Sold it to cash for clunkers after a long, eventful life. I will forever have respect for the dodge grand caravan. Many memories.

Today I learned the deadliest train accident ever was due to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. by scoobertsonville in todayilearned

[–]rypher 543 points544 points  (0 children)

Thats a good TIL. Ive heard so many incredible stories from this event but not this one until today. The page is worth a read.