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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I run a service that sells theatre tickets and, far more critically, a service to check if a ticket is valid or not. Tickets are checked, by scanning a QR code, as people walk though the door. Not only do people hate sitting in their seat w
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Why charge $10, when you can charge $10 per month? But seriously, Beeper does have server side components. They're just optional ones. If you don't pay, you don't get those features.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Modern CPUs are fast, and it's trivial to scale compute instances if you need that. The database would be the bottleneck and that's got nothing to do with rails - it's all mysql.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Having built similar software, at a smaller scale, I think you're massively overestimating the complexity of shopify. At it's core, what they provide is (largely) read only set of products, and a (largely) append only set of purch
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
That's like arguing there's "no value" in a business that sells pizza. I mean, anyone can just make their own pizza. Where's the value in someone else doing it for you?
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The limit is it doesn't do filenames or other metadata — it's limited to contents.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
For the benefit of everyone else reading this discussion who doesn't speak Swedish... here's what I got from a good (paid) translation service: "Force majeure typically refers to war, riots, fire, natural disasters (such as f
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
As someone who lives near a beach in a warm climate... I've never seen anyone wear one of these nor have I seen them for sale in stores. I can't imagine when I'd wear one either - if I want protection from the sun I'll w
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
This. The main system memory on a Mac Studio is GPU memory and there's a lot of it. It also has the Neural Engine, which is specifically designed for this type of work - most software isn't designed to take advantage of that yet,
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The main problem with OAuth is it's a three party system. You have an API provider service, an API client service, an a human telling the provider that the client should be allowed to access a limited subset of data on the provider ser
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> there wasn't a cost effective power solution for just desalination There absolutely is. All you need is a bunch of mirrors to direct the sun at a chamber filled with water. The water will evaporate, the expansion into steam create
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Reminds me of PHP 6... For those who don't follow PHP closely - that version was an attempted refactor of the string implementation which essentially shut down nearly all work on PHP for a decade, stagnating the language until it becam
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I work at a consulting firm. Our salary is loosely linked to what percentage of our work is billable (with leniency for inexperienced staff, who aren't expected to be profitable while they're learning their craft). If you spend th
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
That list would be nowhere near complete. For example my brother lost a vessel in a hurricane - he was bunkered down on the mainland and it was gone after the storm - we assume the storm surge lifted the anchor off the seafloor and it float
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> HDR can't give you more range, so what does it actually do? It does give you more range. A lot of modern screens literally can't run at their full dynamic range, they would draw too much power and/or get too hot (some pr
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Both QR codes are using #ffffff. The "bright" one has metadata that tells the operating system to render white at the maximum possible brightness, instead of whatever brightness it would normally render white at. It's broadly
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
It's pretty common in meatspace for communities to have membership fees. I'm part of a community theatre that charges members $20 per year. The membership fee makes you legally a shareholder in the organisation for that year, with
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
That knife cuts both ways - Reddit hasn't paid anyone to write valuable content for their platform, which means they don't really own the content and it can be taken away. A lot of people are leaving reddit over this.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> Connect via USB to a PC as a mass storage device ... if you want a mass storage device... buy a mass storage device? Personally I'm happier with the cloud though. I want all my files in the cloud anyway as an offsite backup, and t
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The file picker is terrible. I pretty much never use it on my Mac, all the apps I use show the filesystem in a sidebar and have a fuzzy search feature. Even Apple apps (like Xcode) have that so clearly they're aware of how bad the file
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The SPA's we create can be reliably linked to (the current URL changes as the user moves around, even though the page hasn't reloaded) and they are "stable" because our business would go bankrupt if Google couldn't
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
In my opinion the only way to use it safely is to ensure your AI only has access to data that the end user already has access to. At that point, prompt injection is no-longer an issue - because the AI doesn't need to hide anything. Giv
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Last year a tiny radioactive capsule the size of a fingernail went missing in Australia, when a "safe" storage container the size of a small car failed and allowed it to fall out. The search to find the capsule cost four million d
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The only subreddit where I saw a vote, it was something like 95% of people voted for a blackout. Almost nobody is siding with reddit on this.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The cost is something like $500 per user per year. People just aren't going to pay that much.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Admittedly I haven't written any ruby code in a very long time, but you only briefly touched on the reason we ran away from it after giving it a serious try: > rails devs pay the bills with other tech or by maintaining legacy rails
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
What is this doing in the first example in the readme? > open https://api.github.com/repos/lmorg/murex/issues As a Mac user, I'd expect that to launch a web browser, but it appears to be downloading a
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
BBEdit was known for that in the past, but it's a weak point these days. It definitely has an upper limit on filesizes and will "choke" on large files (probably only slightly larger than the log files you're using it for
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The gateways I use don't, or at least give me the option not to. Those iFrames cause all kinds of headaches when the user hits the back button or double clicks a submit button or does any number of other things that happen thousands of
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Built in sun shade is totally a thing - there are umbrellas with a built in clamp to attach them to just about any chair. And they work fine as rain umbrellas too. https://www.outbackadventures.net.au/product/oztrail-cl

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