jtwaleson

Half the size of Amsterdam? I had to look this up but you’re right. The “City of Paris” has 2M inhabitants and 105 sq km. Amsterdam has 0.9M inhabitants and 219 sq km. Learned something new, thanks :)

That sounds very unhealthy :) I try to remind myself that these are slightly dangerous things and I should stick to one per day.

I've recently started taking 200mg caffeine pills in the morning instead of coffee. A very cheap and easy way to boost energy in the morning, within about 15 minutes you really want to get out of…

I created a micro framework for slack bots that can be deployed to Lambda here: https://github.com/jtwaleson/minimalistic-serverless-slack-a... It’s probably a lot less rich than…

How do you deploy this? I want to run slack bots on 0 running costs where possible.

My takeaway from the Lex Fridman interview is of someone that’s machine-like in his approach. AGI suddenly seemed simpler and within reach. Skipping consciousness and qualia. It’s inhumane, but machi…

Oh man. Once, when I was a young padawan doing maintenance by myself on one of our three racks in a colocation DC, I dropped a 1U server from about 2m/6ft high. It was scary as hell. While tryin…

Check out Mimi. A Berlin based hearing test that runs on your iPhone.

Wrong blood glucose monitor readings can have deathly consequences, as you base your insulin intake on it. It makes sense to be more careful there. On the other hand, how OTC monitors can introduce mo…

Nearsightedness (myopia) and farsightedness (hyperopia) are both not OTC, presbyopia is. However, the correction for presbyopia (+ lenses) is the same as for farsightedness, provided you don’t have a…

Officially yes, but in practice you can buy glasses online if you know the power of the lenses. Contact lenses do have a prescription verification requirement for sellers.

I completely agree that right now, this is the right mindset. We need to reduce our footprints a lot until we are in better shape as a planet. However, I hope that one day we'll be able to travel…

I personally have no experience with Knative. In my view, you open up a different can of worms by dragging in k8s. Either do everything natively on your cloud provider or go all-in with k8s.

Are you joking? The products page is laughable compared to the big cloud providers. Hell, it has "We create custom-fit solutions" on the landing page. If anything screams non-cloud it's…

But you realize that all tightly integrated high-level services like IAM, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch (just to name a few from AWS), make the cloud a joy to work with? AWS had VMs and Manage…

I'm European and I'll happily admit there is no EU alternative to AWS, GCP, Azure. The breadth of services _on_, and the amount of engineers able to work _with_ these platforms is incredible…

To an extent it should reduce eye movement, yes. My cheap ass car doesn’t gave that though :’)

I’ve noticed that the speedometer or rpm gauge can sometimes move erratically when I’m making eye movements while driving. At first I thought the engine or the instruments were broken (I drive a crapp…

Are you happy with the outcome? I think there are better ways to avoid it getting stolen :D

I am confused. It got stolen in the end? Did you try to avoid it getting stolen with the sticker?

I bought a new knock off Eames Lounge replica with Ottoman, made of faux leather for 600 EUR. Now, 5 years later, the buttons are gone, the leather in the seat is torn. Wood and metal are great though…

Is pozidriv not more popular than Philips in the US? Here in NL it’s mostly pozidriv but many people mistake it for Philips. Also here Torx is gaining popularity, I don’t buy anything else except for …

When re-running the notebook I get the same results with every execution. I'd like to see some alternatives for the same text. Any pointers on how to achieve that?

Although not really my job, I often helped people with their computers at the office. I learned the hard way to not just dive under a desk to fix the cables if women were working there. After startlin…

Had 3 employers and 5 roles in the last 12 years. Everything through people in my network asking if I'd be interested.

This sounds you like have hyperopia. This thing you call "focus" is in part accommodation, another part is probably mental concentration. This accommodation ability deteriorates when you are…

It's the normal thing to do if only spherical lenses are available. E.g. cheaper off the shelf contact lenses. Contacts with cylinder correction are relatively novel and have downsides. The lense…

This is enough for the basics, but modern lenses are more complex. Eg multifocals for basically anyone over 45, or high end custom lenses that can correct higher order aberrations. Anyway, the optomet…