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Raspberry Pi Scoreboard(github.com)
2 points by gregmac 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 6y ago
This is like being in a plane at cruising altitude, looking down at the ocean, and declaring there's zero signs of life, so the ocean must be dead.
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by gregmac 6y ago
> many casino games and other gambling games aren't games because you also can't meaningfully affect their outcome I've never really thought about it, but it is definitely why I hate slot machines, in particular. The only
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by gregmac 6y ago
I'm not sure if there's a name for this type of game, but it's purely luck based (pick a card, move to that spot), and.. I kind of hate it. Unfortunately my 5 year old doesn't. I found a variation that makes it tolerable
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by gregmac 6y ago
Seeing this brings back a vague recollection of touring a radio station -- I'm going to guess in the early 90s -- and seeing a bank of VHS machines they used to record everything they broadcast. I think I (or someone) asked about them,
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Microsoft Teams smart displays make it easier to work from home(slashgear.com)
2 points by gregmac 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 6y ago
This misses using `git pull --rebase` [1] (or even better: `git config --global pull.rebase true`), which greatly simplifies things working with others, and avoids tons of extra merge commits. It also doesn't have the downside of rewri
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by gregmac 6y ago
While I agree about not being personal, I don't agree that it has to be data-driven in the formal way you seem to be implying. Its also quite possible to build horrendous UX (even it it's supposed to be a dark pattern) while being
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Cyber attack shuts down Canadaian Royal Military College network(kingstonist.com)
1 points by gregmac 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 6y ago
> Also satisfying was catching a surprising number of hidden bugs caused by sloppy programming (some logical errors are obvious when you give functions, arguments and variables good names) I agree, and I've found the same adding tes
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by gregmac 6y ago
Most of the code quality comments I make (and recieve) on PRs are about naming and comments, and they're mostly for future changes and maintenance. Good example from a couple days ago: someone made a helper method for compressing somet
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by gregmac 6y ago
>> about how a code base "is crap" > Translation: "Not written in the particular arbitrary style that I'm used to" > I've found this to be almost universally true especially when the claim is given
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by gregmac 6y ago
The commit message with a good PR description is okay , but for any sizable code change still doesn't provide full context for an individual piece of code (git blame). Either the PR description is massive -- in which case it's ha
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by gregmac 6y ago
I just cancelled / paused Disney after having it for the last 4 or 5 months. My kid watched a bunch of shows and movies at first, but barely anything in the past couple months. Maybe we'll get it again in a few months or a year. I
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The Serverless Reference Architectures Project(jeremydaly.com)
2 points by gregmac 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 6y ago
Yeah, this is going to be a major selling factor for a whole bunch of on-site service industry companies (carpenters, framers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, welders, etc). Even a 2.5kw generator is pretty big: 2'x1.5'x1.5'
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by gregmac 6y ago
I think this actually highlights part of the problem. There's certainly a ton of capable products there, lots of stuff that looks very fun to play with. You can probably find something with whatever specific combo of features you need
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by gregmac 6y ago
> There's no other board in this range because the other chipmakers aren't subsidizing their boards or ecosystems in this fashion. Can you elaborate on this? Who is subsidising the Pi, and why?
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by gregmac 6y ago
So this (and I assume every other solution people have mentioned) are using youtube-dl -- which means the chromecast is playing a stream from the device initiating the cast. When I cast from my Android phone to a cast receiver, my understan
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by gregmac 6y ago
> with its algorithmic playlists and singles focus, bolsters the throwaway consumption of music What is "throwaway" music? Personally, I tend to listen to genre-focused playlists I curate over time, and often in "radio&quo
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by gregmac 6y ago
I was watching an interesting video about this the other day [1] which suggested that one approach might also be a convoy of trucks, where the first one has a driver (even though it may be driving autonomously on the highway) followed by se
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by gregmac 6y ago
I don't order food from Amazon at all because I don't trust them not to send something counterfeit or expired. It's just not worth the risk/hassle, and a lot of the time they're not the best price anyway. I'm a
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by gregmac 6y ago
I think partly it's just the inconsistency that bothers me, but when I'm being a consumer of a project it's one of the main things I look at -- certainly more than many of the other top-level items. * "Actions" are
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by gregmac 6y ago
Agreed! Related: I was updating a bunch of dependencies yesterday, and so was going through looking at what's new in a handful where I was behind a major version or more. "Releases" is even harder to find now (it's in th
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by gregmac 6y ago
> resulting in the loss of an async cycle. This is great way to think about this, thanks. Depending on the team and communication channel, the cycle time can be hours or even a day (not including weekends), and I think avoiding extra cyc
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by gregmac 6y ago
This is actually fairly significant. As a point of comparison, in 2019, Apple did about 50 billion in sales [1], which means they made about $15 billion In 2018 (latest I could find numbers for) they reportedly had 20 million registered dev
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by gregmac 6y ago
It's crazy how much effort people expend fighting against this. No one is asking you to do development work to make it happen. No one is forcing you to update your repositories or change your workflow. You're free to continue usin
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by gregmac 6y ago
Why would you want to "protect" the data in this way? It's user-hostile, and anyone determined enough will be able to get at it no matter what you do. If it's popular and valuable enough, instructions and/or code to
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by gregmac 6y ago
It's a good point. At any given time, the key is either compromised or it's not. And you may or may not know either way. If it's compromised, and you know, then it should be revoked -- if your only mechanism to revoke it is w
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by gregmac 6y ago
> My pet theory why YouTube is better is that there is no incentive to make videos longer. [...] YouTube videos seem to be mostly as long as they need to be to tell the story they want to tell. I don't think this is an accident: You

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