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by blagie 3y ago
* Wired ethernet is now usually slower than my 802.11. 802.11ax is 0.5-10Gbps in theory, and in practice, faster than gigabit ethernet. * Fiber seems... overpriced. I'm not quite sure why. USB TOSlink is $3 on Aliexpress, as is the cab
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by blagie 3y ago
As an expert in the field, I disagree. I can tell you that a polystyrene capacitor will be super-linear, a C0G will be quite linear, stable, and fast, while an electrolytic will be slow, highly nonlinear, and polar, and how that impacts per
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by blagie 3y ago
There are descriptions. See the product page: https://nostarch.com/open-circuits Or better yet, chapter 1: https://nostarch.com/download/OpenCircuits_Chapter1.pdf It's an absolutely brilliant book
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by blagie 3y ago
To be fair, it was really pretty!
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by blagie 3y ago
One of the nice things about concrete -- if done right -- is that it produces emissions only once. We have Roman concrete structures which were still standing 1500 years later (and went down due to war, rather than wear).
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by blagie 3y ago
Because we come here to learn, debate, and argue. That sometimes leads to solutions, improvements, or startups, and if nothing else, better civic society and better personal choices.
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by blagie 3y ago
How much of it decomposes into the atmosphere? How much stays down? That's a serious question. I have no clear sense of what happens in landfills. For all I know, they might be the new fossil fuel reserves in the year 30,000.
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by blagie 3y ago
One of my professors once told me that we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere, and that the best thing we could do to the planet was to cut down trees, bury them, plant more trees, cut those down, and bury those. If they become decks, paper
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm curious: Why two-time? It feels to me that YC would generate enormous value the first time. It feels like there might be very strongly diminishing returns on investment after that. My impression is that the equity YC receives, rela
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by blagie 3y ago
Question: - I am older, established, and have done a number of successful startups in various roles. - I have a family and can't spend a summer in California. - I don't need the seed funding YCombinator provides, but I don't
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by blagie 3y ago
Technically, I'm comfortable switching to a redis fork / clone. I'm profoundly uncomfortable with what happened here socially or legally. I wanted thoughts here. - Is my discomfort warranted? - If so, how can we prevent somet
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Ask HN: Redis Takeover
4 points by blagie 3y ago|2 comments
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by blagie 3y ago
The vast majority of the "open ecosystem" does a fine job funding open-source developers: - In surveys, the vast majority of Linux maintainers are paid - Both I, and many other people I know, have spent most of their adult careers
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by blagie 3y ago
The new license is incompatible with Debian policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the... The new licensing scheme effectively excludes redis from most of the open ecosystem, by cascading
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by blagie 3y ago
I am building a major open-source package around redis. This kills it. AGPL, I could go with. AGPL/proprietary dual licensing works well. There's an open ecosystem and a closed one. Non-free is a non-starter. It's no longer G
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by blagie 3y ago
I saw that announcement, but I thought they changed their mind about a week before it was announced?
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by blagie 3y ago
shurg Make a free version which keeps all data locally AND uploads a copy to your cloud (at least for internet-connected machines). Upsides: - Marketing / visibility: You're a repository of free designs - Network effects: If peo
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by blagie 3y ago
Thank you!
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by blagie 3y ago
Plus a $10k transfer fee and a $100k patent conversion fee to change a personal patent to a C-corp patent. Transfer fees are not a bad idea in either case. If a company goes under, it often leaves a portfolio of patents which get auctioned
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by blagie 3y ago
I would split hobbyists and students. Students become professionals and DO make choices. I've seen more than one CAD company succeed primarily by courting universities. Indeed, Apple for a long time dominated graphic design mostly due
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by blagie 3y ago
My advice would be to have two versions: - Paid, which supports private designs. - Free, where every design is open-licensed and discoverable. There are approximately zero companies which will want their IP open. On the other hand, this mak
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by blagie 3y ago
Glad to do research! Can you give me pointers? This seems like the sort of problem we ought to learn to solve. That's why I'd like us to try things, and I'm happy to have a little bit of my tax dollars involved. This problem
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm not sure water needs to be diverted, per se. The problem isn't baseline water level but waves, and especially large waves, and sand washing away. It seems like the solutions would involve some combination of: * Breakwaters, to
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by blagie 3y ago
Things which make sense to me: 1. Deregulate / reregulate to where residents are allowed to build a seawall instead of sacrificial dunes. 2. Bring in the Army Corp of Engineers to help with design, planning, and evaluation. Things whic
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by blagie 3y ago
> Most virus infections can cause long term problems. This is very, very false. Your body is currently fighting off a very large number of virus and bacterial infections. Most are innocuous, and don't even raise the symptoms of a co
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by blagie 3y ago
I like the idea of making sure the inventor gets some portion of royalties. To be honest, it'd probably help my employers too. If that was the case, I'd have dozens of patents under my belt. As is, I see little upside to applying
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by blagie 3y ago
> For every point, you have to take a subjective decision that is in no way trivial. Have you ever been through a non-trivial patent filing process? Any other non-trivial administrative law case? A non-trivial court case? This is precise
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by blagie 3y ago
As this post first went up, it actually wasn't bad. If you didn't look at timestamps or similar, it looked like, to give an analogy: I post: "Paul Graham argues we should do [x]" with a link to their blog post. Shortly t
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by blagie 3y ago
Personally, I would: 1) Limit the number of patents granted every year. Patents worked fine 100 years ago, when there were fewer of them. The standards for things like "non-obvious" should increase to keep a cap. 2) Ban patents on
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by blagie 3y ago
FYI: Spambot.

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