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by bigiain 1y ago
At some stage, "improvements" become nothing more than marketing buzzwords. I'd argue one reason ICE are "stagnant" are because they're "good enough" and any potential improvements required expensive
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by bigiain 1y ago
One day, I plan to release a mobile and web app that's a pixel perfect representation of my low fidelity Balsamiq wireframes/UXUI exploration. Just to make the right kind of people's head explode. In the same spirit as this f
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by bigiain 1y ago
What was that weightlifting sub that worshiped "Brodin" and "The Church Of (Something? Maybe Iron?)" I am not a weightlifter, but I'd occasionally visit that sub just because of how welcoming and supportive it was.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Most of the time I'd choose to hide posts tagged AI. (No disrespect to people posting/discussing AI, it's just not a topic that I have much intellectual curiosity for.) Unfortunately sometimes I'd choose to sort by &quot
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by bigiain 1y ago
I really like/use Balsamiq. Although perhaps in a not common use case. I'm really bad at doing neat pencil sketches and handwriting. Balsamiq easily lets be draw something up on my computer that looks obviously like it's &quo
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by bigiain 1y ago
You've probably seen this already, but just in case... You might be interested in Bunny Huang's work on Betrusted and Precursor. He's building a soft-core FPGA based on RiscV instead of i486, but it's a fascinating proje
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by bigiain 1y ago
I have a simpler approach that I've used at home for about 2 decades now pretty much unchanged. I have two raid1 pairs - "the old one", and "the new one", plus a third drive the same sizes as "the old pair&quot
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by bigiain 1y ago
Sure, but nobody expects a 23 year old to have a two decade old LinkedIn account or work history. (Except maybe the sorts of idiots who write job descriptions requiring 10+years of experience with some tech that's only 2 years old, and
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by bigiain 1y ago
> And if you want GPIO pins I’d imagine that a lot of those applications you’d be better served with an ESP32 I often us an Arduino plugged onto a spare USB port. There's a whole lot of GPIO pin related projects that suit 5V better
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by bigiain 1y ago
While that'd be nice, I ended up deciding I probably didn't want something like this installed on my prod RDS Postgres, but instead I can easily run it on local dev/staging Postgres instances, and ensure I'm testing the
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by bigiain 1y ago
> How do you measure greediness? I think a decent first indicator might be "Is the Founder and/or CEO a billionaire?"
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by bigiain 1y ago
Wasn't there a minor scandal a while back where I think Samsung TVs were discovered to be connecting to nearby unsecured wifi to send their telemetry back to HQ? I feel to be safe you'd want to consider opening them up and removin
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by bigiain 1y ago
> The other side of the coin? Because of the first two points, they are also rather cost-prohibitive. Not if you steal one! Which has 3 great benefits, you get a free screen, wherever you stole it from no longer bombards passersby with i
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by bigiain 1y ago
Yeah, Amazon jumped too early. The real business model that's winning the "made-up numbers inputted into a financial model on a spreadsheet" is LLMs marketed as "Just about to turn into Artificial General Intelligence an
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by bigiain 1y ago
Those motorcycles definitely exist, and are pretty much just as much fun to ride as the noisy ones - except for the extrovert, obnoxious, or insecure riders who _need_ noisy exhausts. At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a d
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by bigiain 1y ago
While that's true, it's pretty relevant if you're trying to detect or measure human-caused climate changes. And particularly with respect to changes in both population growth and the effects of the industrial revolution. The
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by bigiain 1y ago
> I don't even understand why RubyCentral included the proposal to use the log data in the post about a security incident. Yeah you do. They're intentionally smearing him. (And they're no better at doing that than they are
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by bigiain 1y ago
They were all spitballing ideas about how to recover from the DHH-driven dropping of corporate sponsorship dollars, and how too keep the support lights on. I think an offer of covering all the 2nd level support costs in return for the right
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by bigiain 1y ago
To me it looks like he wasn't sure who was trustworthy at the time. "The erratic and contradictory communication supplied by Marty Haught, and the complete silence from Shan and the board, made it impossible to tell exactly who ha
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by bigiain 1y ago
It might not be the objective of the owner of that site, but what I'd really like is an updated/maintained subset of what PWA features/components are usable across a selection of browsers - like iOS Safari and stock Android C
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by bigiain 1y ago
There's nothing more frustrating than having your debugging tools change the behaviour enough to hide the bug...
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by bigiain 1y ago
> I both can't verify the values of the winning combination and wouldn't verify those values is simply not true. You have not met my cow orkers...
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by bigiain 1y ago
CASASE? Computer Aided Spicy Autocomplete Software Engineering
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by bigiain 1y ago
> My issue with this term is that it muddies the waters for people who are using LLMs to assist with types of engineering beyond just writing code. I'm now imagining me dying as a vibe-engineered truck has a steering/brake fail
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by bigiain 1y ago
> Do you have your redis exposed without any authentication on the public internet? I will somewhat ashamedly admit to having had a test/development Redis server running on EC2 exploited because I did that. In my defence, it was pur
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by bigiain 1y ago
"From time to time I get security reports about Redis. It’s good to get reports, but it’s odd that what I get is usually about things like Lua sandbox escaping, insecure temporary file creation, and similar issues, in a software which
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by bigiain 1y ago
Or that dude in the black hoodie in the corner who always seems to be camped at whatever cafe you and your cow orkers are using as your startup "office"?
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by bigiain 1y ago
> When dropping a payload from a drone or aircraft, this gliding angle means parachutes will often drift far from their intended targets. This can be especially frustrating and potentially dangerous for operations such as humanitarian ai
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by bigiain 1y ago
Indeed. I wonder what a system like that would cost (at consumer available prices)?
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by bigiain 1y ago
To balance the universe a bit, I read it expecting a drama post - then read it right through because it was at least as interesting as the drama post I'd expected. I also discovered Oxide through this, which looks interesting, except f

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