dolmen

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811.
by dolmen 5y ago
KNX just works. Wires. Just a small issue: huge installation cost (because wires, but also software license)
812.
by dolmen 5y ago
The pairing experience is still a nightmare. "Press the button for 3 seconds, but not five." "Do the pairing near the receiver." And you have to swap batteries.
813.
by dolmen 5y ago
Notice that vaccine companies don't make videos at all.
814.
by dolmen 5y ago
It sounds like people not wanting to upgrade their body with vaccines: the weight of rumors.
815.
by dolmen 5y ago
If there is no need for precision at scale , there is no need for automation.
816.
by dolmen 5y ago
> It's very possible that a leap minute every century or two would cause less disruption. Sonuds like "make it a problem that will not happen in my life time".
817.
by dolmen 5y ago
Global warming is breaking our software. From https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/144#note_633612324 > Until last year, leap seconds had been very predicable. The effect of global warming on earth
818.
by dolmen 5y ago
Worse: money is going to ephemeral people experiences. Restaurant, Dinseyland, theater, Netflix. And many of them have a negative environmental impact.
819.
by dolmen 5y ago
Walmart.com ships only in the US. Not in Europe, Asia. While Amazon has stores for all regions of the world that count.
820.
by dolmen 5y ago
Well, this raises the cost of capsule reuse because of transport back to the launch point.
821.
by dolmen 5y ago
Keep in mind that the fortune of those millionaires might collapse if they die in the adventure. Or insurance cost might might make the trip much more expensive than just the ticket.
822.
by dolmen 5y ago
I think that he has now retired from Google. I fail to find references online. I only vaguely remembers of some tweets that told about that indirectly.
823.
by dolmen 5y ago
Changelog.com has multiple weekly podcasts about programming: http://changelog.com/podcasts As a Go programmer I recommend Go Time: http://changelog.com/gotime There is a huge archive of past episodes (last
824.
by dolmen 5y ago
Maybe a small Python engine (MicroPython, Snek [2]) on WebAssembly might also fit some niche uses. MicroPython has a version working in the browser using unicorn.js (which emulates ARM CPU). [3] [1] https://micropython.org/
825.
by dolmen 5y ago
text/javascript or application/javascript? And so, text/python or application/python?
826.
by dolmen 5y ago
See also this talk by John Carmack about buffering problems in input and output stacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLpKzUxjGk
827.
by dolmen 5y ago
20€/month for 150Mbps download, 10Mbps upload in France. Of course, for that price I have to regularly deal with the shitty service of Numericable (payment service down, money extorsion for which I have to send snail mail to recover...
828.
by dolmen 5y ago
Look at this 5 years old video that explains the economy of game cheating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7V60r7Jco
829.
by dolmen 5y ago
Looks like a cool device also to use as a remote control for real life objects: - drones - robots - LEGO MindStorms/Powered Up/...
830.
by dolmen 5y ago
I Stopped Using Emojis When I Posted On HN.
831.
by dolmen 5y ago
No better than obfuscated JavaScript to give trust to the average HN reader.
832.
by dolmen 5y ago
Another implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805811
833.
by dolmen 5y ago
Of course, why write 50 lines of throwaway code when you can write 500? Single static HTML files are under valued.
834.
by dolmen 5y ago
Did you write that qrcode function [0] yourself? The code is obfuscated and doesn't mention the source. No better than obfuscated JavaScript to get trust from HN readers. [0] https://github.com/zdgeier/wifi-code&#x
835.
by dolmen 5y ago
Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.
836.
by dolmen 5y ago
"so simple" ... "in a few hours" The project is so simple that it would be easier to rewrite it from scratch in that time frame. But the qrencode CLI allows to just avoid that.
837.
by dolmen 5y ago
Can you win at the BTC mining lottery with just one ticket? Is it worth mining with a slow machine?
838.
by dolmen 5y ago
You mean like... paying using a card number (VISA, Mastercard, Amex) on the Internet?
839.
by dolmen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
840.
by dolmen 5y ago
I just had a look at the OpenAI website. They advertise an English-to-French translation service powered by AI. But it appears that nobody who is French native has even reviewed the service presentation. When the marketing material is just

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