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Show HN: Way folder sync to Backblaze B2 using Swift(splinter.com.au)
2 points by chubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by chubs 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Parse here. I wonder if things have come full circle and Parse-alikes are becoming fashionable again.
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by chubs 7y ago
ZZ looks genuinely interesting! I like that it compiles to C; this makes life much easier for embedded, say you're working with the ESP32 with it's obscure CPU there's no chance you'd use anything but the supplied C comp
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by chubs 7y ago
Maybe this'll be helpful for someone out there, I hope! This works great with Hugo/Jekyll for setting up your technical blog, which I highly recommend for your career.
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2020 guide to hosting a HTTPS static site on AWS S3 and CloudFront(splinter.com.au)
1 points by chubs 7y ago|1 comments
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by chubs 7y ago
Everyone has to start somewhere, I guess. I believe they're tackling making their own laptops next.
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by chubs 7y ago
I spent some time searching for a JS shim that enables AVIF files to be used in the browser, is anyone aware of one?
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by chubs 7y ago
Ah thanks, that explains it. So i assume it won't work unless something else is also transmitting?
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by chubs 7y ago
I'd love to know how they got the power consumption down so low! 28microwatts when active, that's really something. Some maths: 0.000025W. A typical AA battery is 1.5V / 2Ah ( https://www.powerstream.com/AA-tes
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by chubs 7y ago
Maybe the pitch to voters is: "Your privacy is already toast, your information is being used for ads, why not let us use it for counterterrorism?"
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by chubs 7y ago
You make very good points about the tradeoffs they avoid :) I'd be satisfied if they could do some form of eg bluetooth connection between a desktop app and your phone to give a limited desktop experience, however. I don't think t
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by chubs 7y ago
Arq + B2 is fantastic for me!
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by chubs 7y ago
I thought most squatters 'kite' the domains so they don't have to pay for them? Eg they buy the domain and get a refund just before the month is up, then buy it again, ad nauseum.
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by chubs 7y ago
Broadcom seems to have a hardware decoder ready now: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/25/broadcom-bcm7218x-st...
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by chubs 7y ago
Perhaps they're only AV1-ing a blockbuster per week, say.
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by chubs 7y ago
I found similarly when I ported an image resizing algorithm from Swift to Rust: I'm experienced in swift thus was able to write in an idiomatic way, and have little Rust experience thus I wrote it in a naive way; yet still the rust alg
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by chubs 7y ago
You'd flash the (now-defunct) Chip SBC using Chrome - I always wondered how that worked, it must have been WebUSB! It worked brilliantly. Pity the tech hasn't found much take-up. I can imagine use-cases for it are scarce. http:&#
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by chubs 7y ago
SSD's even? That's amazing. They shouldn't draw much current, and certainly shouldn't use much CPU.
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by chubs 7y ago
I once read a guideline (by DHH I think?) "One, Two, Refactor" as in write it once, then duplicate it, and the third time think about refactoring it to be DRY. But yes it's all about discerning what's reasonable given th
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by chubs 7y ago
If i'm not mistaken, he indicates he's running the 6k display from it. That would likely be the cause: That's a lot of pixels to push from a mobile GPU.
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by chubs 7y ago
Sounds promising! I like the idea of open source projects being an ‘extraction’ from something mission-critical like BearSSL, similarly to Rails’ birth. Also agree totally re the comparisons of other languages, none are really ideal for emb
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by chubs 7y ago
Are they as concerned about people's health, or do they just want to get rid of people who waste time on smoking breaks?
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by chubs 7y ago
So is it the case that you only need 'unsafe' for some of your codebase where you're eg bit-banging, or using peripherals, or whatever - but the majority of your logic is running in normal 'safe' mode?
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by chubs 7y ago
I'd be surprised if it's any different to modding your BIOS in a PC motherboard: Buy a SOIC-8 clamp, a USB interface and bob's your uncle. Unless the ECU is potted in epoxy.
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by chubs 7y ago
Congrats jeremy, looks fantastic! That video showing the miniscule boot time brings me hope that it is possible to write software that takes advantage of the crazy-fast computers we have these days.
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by chubs 7y ago
The main problem being tackled is trying to get fusion to remain 'alight' - i think if any of the containment systems fail, it simply extinguishes immediately. Not a physicist, though :)
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by chubs 7y ago
Base car costs $AU71k according to carsales, plus it has 88kWh worth of batteries. A naive calculation puts that at $65k worth of batteries when compared with 6.5 tesla powerwalls (costing $AU10k each) to get the same capacity (obviously th
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by chubs 7y ago
Really? I read otherwise: https://blog.timac.org/2019/0926-state-of-swift-ios13/ It'd be hard to know unless you worked there. It's just a wild theory, I might be wrong :)
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by chubs 7y ago
I have a theory that this year tons of stuff was rewritten in Swift, because with the lockdown of the ABI it's now possible to write libraries in Swift. This might be why this year is a bumper crop of bugs.
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by chubs 7y ago
Here's one thing my pastor (who was somewhat high-profile and had his fair share of 'haters') said a few times: You simply have to outlast your critics. Maybe all you need to do is keep at it, and ship an awesome v1 when read

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