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by foxylad 6y ago
We've used Google Appengine for over ten years now. It was the first service to abstract infrastructure, so developers could simply deploy code without worrying about scaling and redundancy. Google's edge (for us) is reliability.
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by foxylad 6y ago
My first printer was an Anet A8, which lived in the garage due to the noise. I used Octoprint with a webcam to keep an eye on progress, both to abort bad prints and to know when it was done. I now have a Prusa Mini, which is quiet and small
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by foxylad 6y ago
No mention of cost, certainly within the five minutes of reading I bothered to do. I'm intrigued that Google presumably thinks working with developers from a few big brands is the best path to success. If they'd given away as many
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by foxylad 6y ago
Competition analysis should be number one on the "Before You Write A Line Of Code" list. As the author has found, the value proposition is also important, but looking at competitors offerings will often inform that too.
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by foxylad 6y ago
My only grumble is the LED backlight is too weak to read the tme at night.
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by foxylad 6y ago
Funny insane rather than funny haha. Here in NZ, I cannot imagine a company surviving if they made it so hard to contact them that systems like this were neccessary. I have waited a few minutes on occassion, but it's far more common to
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by foxylad 6y ago
PWA stands for Progressive Web App. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application
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by foxylad 6y ago
Interesting move. It seems to me that IFTTT caters for a non-technicial hobby audience, because technical people and commercial outfits can replicate everything it does (and more) with a web server and some python scripts. And ten bucks a m
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by foxylad 6y ago
We'd have to build a lot (billions) of new distribution infrastructure to get the Manapouri power to Auckland. There are a lot of ideas circulating about what to do with the Tiwai plant, including setting up a Tesla factory (it has a d
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by foxylad 6y ago
> LNG is basically free Free as in money, costly in consequences. The whole point of energy storage schemes is to allow us to migrate away from fossil fueled energy.
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by foxylad 6y ago
I often use base 36 (0-9 a-z), which is the most compact notation (highest base) that python's int() function can decode.
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by foxylad 6y ago
We have continuous distributed dictionary attacks on our SSH servers, with attempts from literally thousands of IP addresses at a cadence designed not to trigger rate alerts. We moved from port 22, and within days all ports were scanned and
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by foxylad 6y ago
Wow. So much geekery comparing ICE to electric, without a single mention of global warming. Big oil has done an amazing job making the subject unmentionable.
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by foxylad 6y ago
Google's entire business depends on being squeaky clean. If they ever got caught doing "sophisticated" opinion influencing, they'd lose half their value overnight as customers switched to alternatives. And then every dem
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by foxylad 6y ago
Of course you don't need to waste time setting up security properly. And it's such a pain locking and unlocking your car and your house every time you go in and out too. Tell me, where do you live again? I'm 58 and bald, so c
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by foxylad 6y ago
Consider Facebook/Twitter as anyone-writable databases. Your comments translate perfectly.
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by foxylad 6y ago
Developing without shipping is saying "I know what my (potential) customers want better than they do". People with big egos may actually believe this; but I think most people pretend they believe it so no-one ever gets to criticis
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by foxylad 6y ago
There is a big user issue on top of the philosophical and maintenance issues - snaps are SLOOOOOOW. I've only experienced them with two applications, and both took forever to startup compared to the apt-get installed versions I quickly
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Forms are going blue, whether you like it or not
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by foxylad 7y ago
Your comment triggered the thought that blackmail is INCREDIBLY lucrative. So much so that I'm surprised it hasn't already happened. If favourite rogue state infiltrated FB/IG enough to do what Bark is doing on a system lev
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by foxylad 7y ago
Possibly reading the wrong thing between the lines,but if anyone expects women to initiate relationships online, they're going to be very disappointed. For women, the risk\reward equation is astronomically biased against them. If you&#
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by foxylad 7y ago
One massive differentiator that is often ignored is scalability - as in can it be scaled DOWN? Nuclear has to be done in massive scale, which causes all sorts of problems: project complexity and cost; security; security of supply; transmiss
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by foxylad 7y ago
Kiwi here, so not biased at all. I'd put it down to better diet and better climate (so more outdoors physical activity), rather than genetic diversity.
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by foxylad 7y ago
The last example is the best - that making your service hard to cancel means your customer's enduring memory is of pain. And it validates the customer's decision to leave, because there must be other better options if you are so d
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by foxylad 7y ago
How does Eto compare to the very mature wxWidgets?
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by foxylad 7y ago
Or physical. I buy CDs for my favourite music, and rip them for digital consumption. Shame there is no way to do this with books.
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by foxylad 7y ago
We have an alert service for schools. SMS average deliverability is only 88%, and in high traffic events it's even worse. For comparison, voice is 97%. So SMS is actually not that great.
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by foxylad 7y ago
As I get older, the blindingly obvious principle that we're all different seems to get more profound. In this case we all have different drivers, and different definitions of "sane". Some people love being part of a bigger w
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by foxylad 7y ago
Make the passwords one character longer than what is noted in the book? Only you know the character and where it is added. For bank cards with fixed lengths, increment/decrement the nth character, swap two characters, or do a circular
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by foxylad 7y ago
Really good point. I'm amazed we don't hear this argument more, and also the related one that we always used to have an anonymous payment system (cash) so why is a digital equivalent unthinkable?

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