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by hugs 4y ago
My hunch is that someday crypto will be accrued and used like frequent flyer miles or credit card rewards points. But the "better than any alternative" part is that they'll be more fungible than rewards points.
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Startups Asked for Help Making Payroll After SVB. VC Responses Were Mixed(forbes.com)
4 points by hugs 4y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 4y ago
Googlezon (From the short film Epic 2014)
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by hugs 4y ago
"Find 40 banks" Sadly, that's your job now. Alternatively, I could imagine more VCs from now on will stop giving out the whole round in one wire. They'll start wiring money only in small traunches. You'll legally ha
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by hugs 4y ago
This didn't age well. So... Definite plans now to move 100% of my money out. Thankfully, I'm within FDIC limits.
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by hugs 4y ago
No plans to move money out. But definite plans to create a new, additional account elsewhere and when payment for current orders in process comes in over the next 30 to 60 days, have those new funds go into the new account. (Basically, dive
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by hugs 4y ago
Yeah, the lack of a sane upgrade path really is a massive issue that should be labeled more clearly. (And a headline level bullet point in any written review of it.) The lack of a sane upgrade path completely undercuts their marketing messa
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by hugs 4y ago
I'd bet that money and humanpower would have fixed the problem, but they didn't have enough of either. The problem was that Elementary OS was a very ambitious project, but they didn't have the same people and money resources
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by hugs 4y ago
Yes, they lost me on the lack of upgrades. When a new version came out, I saw there were a few random blogs posts on how to do a very much unsupported upgrade through the command line. But I avoided the risk. Since I'd have to do a rei
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by hugs 4y ago
Like I said, easier said than done. Having at least a year's worth of savings is a path to psychology safety while working in tech, which is what they were asking about. I learned this lesson earlier in my career during the Dot Com Bus
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by hugs 4y ago
Two rules: Rule #1: Have enough savings in your bank account to pay all your living expenses for at least one year. (Obviously easier said than done.) Rule #2: Follow Rule #1. (If you do, you'll have time to figure everything else out.
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by hugs 4y ago
I generally agree, especially for kids' furniture, but the pre-drilled grid-beam compatible beams from McMaster-Carr[1] (which is likely just 80/20 Ready Tube) are incredibly strong. I've made a bunch of office desk & tab
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by hugs 4y ago
Literally! The mathematical requirement for grid beam is that the width of the beam matches the hole-to-hole distance in the beams. Lego technic beams are 8mm wide, and the hole-to-hole distance is 8mm. Lego is small-scale grid beam. Exampl
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by hugs 4y ago
Heroku/Node.js/Express/Bootstrap/Three.js Old school, but it works. I keep that side of the stack simple because the front-end is ESP32/MicroPython/3D-printed-parts/aluminum-extrusions/lots-of-motors.
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by hugs 4y ago
I don't have the skills of the person who decoded the signal... however, if you get your ham radio license and start playing with the various digital modes, you'll start to recognize the various sounds of different modes. An APRS
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ActGPT – Chatbot that controls browser by writing Selenium code(yihui.dev)
2 points by hugs 4y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 4y ago
Start here! --> A Dark Room [1] A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables. Ed
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by hugs 4y ago
Maybe. It's all a trade-off. At the moment, I'm running to get one version up and running and willing to revisit design decisions when contemplating a version 2. (If I don't do it that way, I'll keep getting sidetracked
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by hugs 4y ago
Appreciate the support. You can find my contact info via my HN bio. Or follow @pinthing and/or @hugs on Twitter. (Yes, I need to set-up an alternative to Twitter someday soon...)
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by hugs 4y ago
Solenoids could definitely work. They might also be cheaper if I wind them myself. I might do that for a future version. Downside is that's more work to wind custom solenoids, which of course I could automate, but then that's more
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by hugs 4y ago
Hey, thanks. HN doesn't have DMs, though. Send me an email or Twitter DM? (Contact info in my HN bio.)
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by hugs 4y ago
I'd be happy to make it for free just for the feedback! My contact info is in my HN bio. The downside to a motorized display is the cost. Each motor is roughly $1.50 USD. When you include all the other stuff (electronics, 3D printed pa
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by hugs 4y ago
I'm making an open source, programmable tactile display called PinThing. Like the classic "Pin Art" pinscreen desk toy, but each pin is motorized and programmable. I didn't design PinThing specifically for people with bl
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by hugs 4y ago
From the article: "A video is simply a bunch of images shown one after another fast enough to give the illusion of motion. So all we really have to do is take a bunch of photos." The project is a pure film camera that takes a bunc
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by hugs 4y ago
Mostly... unless you get a few servos and an Arduino. That's all I needed to start down my path from my "below the glass" 100% software job to working in robotics and making the magic work "above the glass".
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Tech predictions for 2023 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels(aboutamazon.com)
1 points by hugs 4y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 4y ago
The other definition was a quote from the FFmpeg guide this thread is about.
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by hugs 4y ago
'The term "codec" is a mix of the words "coder & encoder". Those are the magic parts before and after the "decoded frames".' I thought "codec" was a portmanteau of co der & dec ode
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by hugs 4y ago
It's been a looooong time since I mostly did web dev, but if anything got me back in the game, this is it. I'm sad to see Twitter implode, but this unnatural disaster is a window of opportunity that feels like the mid-2000s social
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by hugs 4y ago
"You can do what you want, but you can't want to want what you want." I've read many of PG's essays, but this one feels like GPT-3 wrote it. It's borderline gibberish. Like he trained an AI on all his other es

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