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Most welcome

We also meet in the evenings sometimes, so I would join now and figure it out later.

You pray that people either have their contact details in their HN profile or that they attached some social networks to their meet.hn post. Then you trawl through your set of qual…

There is https://meet.hn/ , which is a good way to bootstrap (and indeed, how I bootstrapped this meetup)

Having it be an open invitation meetup would attract a very different cohort and would have a very different character. Feel free to start that meetup - I might give it a try. But …

You were added :) See you in person

There is a conscientious objector to every communication system. As was said above: WhatsApp had the fewest.

We've been organising this for a while (a year? more?). It's quite relaxed - just a coffee morning every month or two. I'm sure there are other HN local meetups who could post in t…

There was a good explanation when they published the mechanism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309

That is indeed how it works https://news.ycombinator.com/pool But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough

> Consuming that much caffeine is terrible for your heart. He's talking about 800mg, and I doubt it. 400mg is well known to be a safe daily level. I doubt by doubling it you will e…

Interestingly, after writing this (some years ago) I spoke to some of the original authors. They had never used Smalltalk. So I suppose they invented this stuff independently

No, no, there is a single world ring. the 16mb limit is for values

Well, I say "more or less" :). But the fact that there is a single global database doesn't mean that you can read every key or value (but generally, yes, you can _read_ everything)…

They don't use pip, you just import the module and it is pulled from barbara

Mostly is no rule, adding a cache can just save you from having to buy a bigger database instance in many cases. The most common first thing to cache is getting the current user, b…

Once someone decides they want to use redis as something other than a cache, you sort of do have 2 cache technologies anyway. You can't use a redis instance that is configured for …

Yes I switched from claude code to opencode with deepseek recently. It is basically indistinguishable from sonnet. At this point my own prompts, AGENTS.md, background docs and so o…

It often is illegal to pay them. They are often on sanctions lists, or indeed in embargoed countries. And it's just generally not allowed to pay unidentifiable parties for basic an…

Fair enough. I didn't say so but - bookstack is great. Thanks so much for it.

As best I can see, bookstack has not experienced much in the way of concrete issues with Github. And there there are no concrete benefits from migrating to Codeberg. It is his proj…

"56k" meant 7 kilobytes per second as a theoretical max. So 4.4 was ok. Everything with networks is done as bits, I think honestly for marketing reasons now