bradstewart

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by bradstewart 4y ago
This. I feel this basically every day now. I really miss the naivete, and I struggle mightily to "just start writing code like I would have".
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I've had the same hard plastic Nalgene water bottle for 10 years or so. Doesn't dent, doesn't break, costs about $10.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
But how do I then tie that unique timestamp to an actual person ? Which is what GDPR is concerned about. (edit: spelling)
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Single-family residential/real estate.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
It's a question of cookies vs HTTP headers. Cookies are hard to use with CORS (when using backend-as-a-service stuff like Firebase, in particular) and/or mobile apps. There's really no difference between a random session id a
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Those things are _definitely_ sold to large corporate consumers. And in places like Texas (with a deregulated energy market), electricity is also often sold to individual home users.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Is certainly can add complexity when you consider bandwidth and/or processing constraints.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Oh man, I totally forgot about the slice-into-HTML stuff. Back before everyone decided table-based layouts were "harmful".
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Those two pieces of software were undoubtedly the thing that got me into websites, which led to building computers, which led to my current career. Incredible stuff.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Pretty much everyone at my company who has Airpods suffers from this, it seems particularly bad on Zoom for some reason (still happens on Google Meet, but less often).
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I would definitely buy a Roomba for my lawn (assuming it worked well). Obviously more safety concerns than a vacuum cleaner, with the spinning metal blades and all, but seems doable.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I keep hearing this, but it hasn't happened to me yet. I wonder if it's because my Spotify history without kids is ~10 years vs ~2 years with? We listen to a lot of Disney music, etc in the living room on my account, but I've
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I honestly find Netflix's the easiest to navigate, by far. Hulu did that big redesign, and it's extremely pretty to look at, but even after a few years of trying to use it, I still struggle to do anything other than "resume
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Even the Premium 4k streams have surprisingly low bitrates and, occasionally, framerates. I dug out the blu-ray player the other day and was absolutely shocked how good things looked and, even more so, sounded --the audio quality from Netf
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Electricity Map has some open source components, mainly data collection related. Most everything else I'm aware of (current employer included) is not open source, but feel free to reach out if you're interested in working for a cl
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by bradstewart 4y ago
A falling bullet broke a solar panel? How big of a bullet.... Mine have survived hailstorms without issue.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
The ability to have unique per-camera keys with tamper-resistant storage (that can "self destruct" when it detects voltage glitching, etc) has come a long way in the last 11 years.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
> Why do you need to hide evidence of tampering? If I know my camera was tampered with, I can invalidate the signing key.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Which would reduce your use of plastic bags.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I think a large part of it is that software engineering is barely _engineering_, in the traditional sense. And I do not mean that in a derogatory way, I have an EE degree, but write software all day long. There are extremely few EE jobs ava
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by bradstewart 4y ago
This usually isn't true at scale though. The chip manufacturers do a ton of validation and qualification to set the operating parameters (voltage, etc). You can undervolt (or overclock) one specific chip, individuals have been doing
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by bradstewart 4y ago
How do guest networks solve this? You switch wifi networks before you want to use Chromecast?
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by bradstewart 4y ago
The best part of the BeagleBones, in my opinion, was the onboard eMMC. Soooo much more reliable than running from sd cards at "scale". In a former life, we had around 1k BB Blacks and 2k BB Greens deployed in greenhouse automation
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by bradstewart 4y ago
You're on to something here. If I had some signal that indicated "sufficient information uploaded, algorithm running" it'd be easy to stop. But the (obvious) problem is that signal is, usually, the discovery of the solut
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by bradstewart 4y ago
This is so, so true. At this point, I'm not sure it's a lesson I'll ever learn. Despite experiencing the "shower solution" repeatedly over the years, I still cannot get myself to let go and take a step back unti
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Assuming you want to be talking to investors. Some people prefer coding, and may want to do it in a well-vetted startup.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Buy servers from https://oxide.computer/ ?
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by bradstewart 4y ago
The company itself issues you the options, usually as a form of compensation because you're an employee, etc. That option is a certificate that gives you the ability to purchase a share of the company at a specific price (the strike
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by bradstewart 4y ago
It comes down to whether or not you think the company will have a successful liquidity event. If you think the company is going to shutdown, or sell at a lower valuation than your option's strike price, don't exercise them. Your s
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by bradstewart 4y ago
You can certainly get RSUs in a company before it goes public. You won't (generally) be able to sell them very easily, but being a publicly traded is not a requirement for issuing stock to employees.

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