DamonHD

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by DamonHD 2y ago
Spelling in the title, and pointlessly inflamatory language.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
We started selling the product (a first manufacturing run) before subsequently selling the IP (post covid). Would I do it (or something similar) again? Yes, and I am keeping an eye out for new opportunities (large and small) while doing a
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Yes, we did get patent(s). And it/they probably helped sell the business, and ticked off something on my bucket list, though I'm not convinced that they had much other value! Selling the product was OK, though hampered by our pro
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I invented and brought to market a physical product. There is some 'AI' in the product, but all the tech was hand-crafted. We sold the IP on post-covid when were having huge difficulty raising further investment. (You may also w
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Coding was only ever one of the skills useful/required.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Please add (2023) to the title: this is old. It could be bad news had another Waymo done this. EDIT: would to could: the reply is correct in terms of physics!
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by DamonHD 2y ago
A smart idea. I just bumped up my Patreon monthly for Homebrew to add some power to their elbow!
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Maybe prefix with "Ask HN:"?
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Some bad actors do indeed use ancient UA strings.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Those of us running sites for public information rather than sales cannot make the simple cut-off that you do. And again, none of this is simple. It has taken me a few weeks to establish a usage mechanism that does catch the worst feed pul
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Do you have a CDN between you and Apple / Spotify? Because if you do I think that Apple/Spotify are polling that CDN every few minutes and the CDN is having its bandwidth wasted invisibly, but presumably priced in. Also I agree t
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Not easily on a static server and not without the risk of annoying an actual real human listener! If you look at the "Defences" section: https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html#Hints you'll see there are
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by DamonHD 2y ago
When the bots come out of cloud services then the IPs are all over the place: it's much harder to do right these days.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Generally Googlebot is well behaved and efficient these days, though I have discovered that it is currently horribly broken around 429 / 503 response codes... And pays no attention to Retry-After either... Also Google-Podcast which i
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Not just AI: here is my current side-quest: https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html Over 99% of the bandwidth (and CPU) taken by the biggest podcast / music services simply on polling feeds is completely unnecessa
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by DamonHD 2y ago
It's harder to do right then you think. The first dynamic bandwidth (and concurrent connection) limiter that I wrote was to protect a site against Google in part!
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Maybe for a body shape that they are happier with and/or hope that others find attractive for those times not behind a keyboard? Also, strength appears to be an imporant part of general health.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I learnt a few things from that and I have been writing HTML and tables since before they were famous! B^>
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Many many languages that you will encounter and use in live projects are primarily imperative, eg: C, C++, JavaScript. The describe the "how" and "in what order". While I was an undergrad I was exposed to Standard ML an
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Not quite what you asked for, but as someone using it quite a lot back in the late '80s during a CS&AI degree, Prolog has its interesting features and I'm glad I used it, but I haven't missed it since. I do like declarat
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I am thinking about a call that I have booked tomorrow am with someone who is looking for a tech co-founder!
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Also: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02302-y https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439470-deep-pit-on-moo...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
My company was already mainly remote when covid hit. Like everyone else we tried a few things online, as well as meeting up occasionally to work together outside eg in a pub or cafe. One thing that helped us work better with a key supplie
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by DamonHD 2y ago
https://www.earth.org.uk and other sites and email and NTP and DNS run from the off-grid-powered RPi3B in the kitchen cupboard below me.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I do not want to hand over early my payment and other sensitive details to a counterparty that I do not know or trust (yet). (I built a whole business around helping other people avoid this too.) Yes, freebies are nice, but so is privacy an
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by DamonHD 2y ago
The best cure for that is just to start, without planning or promising too hard!
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Depends what you call 'personal'! My latest notes are at https://www.earth.org.uk/SECTION_podcast.html#Diary and then get turned into podcast episodes at https://www.earth.org.uk/rss/podcast.r
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by DamonHD 2y ago
“The time to make plans is before you need to. It’s hard to overstate what a gift that trip to the lawyer in 2008 was to ‘future me,’” said Tidwell, who fully manages her mother’s finances now that her condition has worsened considerab
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Money problems can be an early sign of dementia(cnn.com)
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Bad: the page is blank until JavaScript is enabled. I try to avoid such sites.

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