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by dperfect 5y ago
I've shared this before, but this has happened to me - 3 times - with different sites I created. One was very similar in nature to OP's (essentially a specialized tool/calculator with affiliate links to the products), and ano
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by dperfect 5y ago
> Output: Digital services, site subscriptions, digital assets, in-game items, NFT's representing real world assets held by trusted companies (wine, event tickets, tokenized securities). > None of this requires oracles and exists
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by dperfect 5y ago
I completely agree with the author. I've been reading a lot about the EVM, and while there's some interesting technology involved, it feels unlikely to be able to support any worthwhile applications outside of blockchain finance o
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by dperfect 5y ago
> We've reduced our overall sign-in speed by about 20% So it's slower now, or did you mean to say you've reduced the time to sign-in?
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by dperfect 5y ago
I apologize - I truly don't mean to bash GIMP and I appreciate all the work the volunteers have done. It has come a long way and appears to be getting better with every release. My reliance on adjustment layers and non-destructive work
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by dperfect 5y ago
The fact that Photopea is better than GIMP in so many ways (does GIMP still not have adjustment layers for non-destructive editing?), and was created by one person is a little depressing, but also inspiring at the same time.
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by dperfect 5y ago
I agree – the number is probably insignificant, but I don't think you have to restrict your estimate to people who hate AMP. Basically an average iOS user (likely using Google as it's still the default last I checked) who in the p
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by dperfect 5y ago
Not sure if this is DIY enough for you, but I'm using an MQ131 (about $20-$30 on Amazon, probably cheaper directly from China [1]) in an air quality monitor I'm building. There's an Arduino library for it [2], and from what I
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by dperfect 5y ago
> They got a bonus of $20 for every question they found where their answer was more correct than the original. > We need to put care into our systems. We need to build checklists and peer review and resilience into the way we express
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by dperfect 5y ago
I'm all for cleaner air (especially reducing dangerous gases and pollutants), but at what point does the over-sterilization of our environment (specifically with regard to microbes) do more harm than good? People in my family suffer fr
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by dperfect 5y ago
I do this with a cheap (~$20) USB RTL-SDR – no Arduino or custom electronics necessary. Of course, I only use it to monitor my own energy usage (electricity and gas) using rtlamr[1] and a script that periodically sends the data to InfluxDB,
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by dperfect 5y ago
> ...just a few years ago, the only legal way to fly a drone was with an actual aircraft pilot’s license. As I understood it, small unmanned aircraft flown for hobby or recreational use had long been excluded from the full authority of t
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by dperfect 5y ago
Agreed. One of the things (among many) that convinced me of IG/FB's hostility toward developers – and users – was when they stopped providing basic user information in their official "Instagram Basic Display" API, whic
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by dperfect 5y ago
That's true. I suppose keeping track another way might offset the added annoyance of the "rewind" routine (attaching another device, connecting USB for power) when refilling the reservoirs. Personal preference I guess.
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by dperfect 5y ago
Nicely done! Instead of a device to rewind/reset the counter in the EEPROM periodically, I wonder how hard it would be to modify or replace the EEPROM with something that simply ignores any modification to the data (essentially making
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by dperfect 6y ago
Still doesn't make sense to me. > If they add their brick to the top, other students will pay them (in bricks) to write their own names on it with a sharpie Other students are paying in bricks ? Is that supposed to be transaction f
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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm not sure I see how this relates to cryptocurrency. It misses the core attributes that give crypto value: scarcity, and the fact that it can be exchanged for other things of value. If there's no shortage of bricks, and those br
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by dperfect 6y ago
> Do you trust Amazon, Google and Microsoft or millions of sysadmins in podunk companies to secure their infrastructure? Of course not, and when they screw up, we lean on a robust (yet imperfect) legal system to intervene. One of the adv
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by dperfect 6y ago
Cool - glad you brought up the smart lock example. How does that work without trusting (presumably off-chain) software/firmware to honor the change as to who should be able to open the lock? The smart contract might be iron-clad in sho
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by dperfect 6y ago
Wouldn't that just make those few oracles an increasingly valuable target for manipulation/corruption?
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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm not sure I've gotten a clear answer to this before, so someone please help me understand: I can see how smart contracts might be useful in contracts that involve other assets that are directly connected in the same decentraliz
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by dperfect 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this code would block if (for example) one single request in a batch of 10 takes significantly longer to complete. The 9 other threads are then doing nothing while they wait. Of course, you could implement
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by dperfect 6y ago
Is this the "new magic" that DHH teased on Twitter, or are we still waiting to see what that is? Also, should we expect this to be included in a future version of Rails? My first impression is that the API seems a little convolute
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by dperfect 6y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. It doesn't even really help to run your own proxy on a server somewhere, because although the target wouldn't know for sure what the client's IP address is, queries from just one IP are likely to
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by dperfect 6y ago
This may have changed, but in the past, I believe they were essentially just rebranded Xiaomi cameras (possibly from other suppliers) with different firmware. I originally thought the Chinese products were clones of Wyze, but it appears Wyz
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by dperfect 6y ago
Your reading of "its not 'run any container in Lambda'" may be a bit too pessimistic. From what I'm seeing, you can run any container (<10 GB), but it just has to implement the Lambda Runtime API[1]. You can&#x
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by dperfect 6y ago
Not a dumb question! I'm sure there are a lot of different approaches that could work. For my own projects, I like to keep client-side code separated from the server-side code. The static site (with compiled JavaScript) gets deployed t
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by dperfect 6y ago
I used Rails for a lot of projects starting ~10 years ago, but slowly gravitated towards a stack based on Sinatra (for a lean REST API), Middleman (static site generator), and webpack/react/etc - for mostly the reasons you describ
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by dperfect 6y ago
If you haven't already seen it, I'd recommend watching Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould . I'm not familiar enough with Gould's life to comment as to its accuracy as a biopic, but the film is definitely unique an
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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and I definitely think the whole copyright system needs reform, but I believe there could be legitimate issues with the legality of publicly posting guitar covers as this person is doing on their channel. I'm not

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