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by jkestner 5mo ago
Tools and Toys, or Uncrate, might have started out like this but seem to be more platforms for “brand stories” and just fresh new luxury gadgets. If you start a blog like this to fill in the gap, I’ll follow!
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by jkestner 5mo ago
I wonder how many of those accounts are sock puppets like we have in American social media.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
Aaron Parsley's account of the Kerrville flood in Texas Monthly is deserving. A waterline-level personal account that makes a disaster real. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...
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by jkestner 5mo ago
But thanks to the visibility Torre has given it, it'll be a lot harder for the NBA to go light on them.
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Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose(worseonpurpose.com)
12 points by jkestner 5mo ago|5 comments
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by jkestner 5mo ago
Here we’re at the origin of the tool and get to watch how many people hit themselves in the head before we learn this collective wisdom. There’s a gap between what the tool will allow you to tell it to do, and what it’s good at. The feedbac
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by jkestner 6mo ago
I get most people don’t want to fight that perception, but it’s an opportunity to educate people on the process, and if enough people do this, it normalizes the idea of people working on things, instead of the idea that products are deliver
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by jkestner 6mo ago
This should feel personal to a lot of us. I have hopes of applying to the Small Business Innovation Research fund ( https://seedfund.nsf.gov ), a program that gives small companies a good chunk of money without taking equity, in o
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by jkestner 6mo ago
You don’t think it’s worth it to research this yourself. That’s what the NSF is for, on a bigger scale! LMGTFY: https://www.nsf.gov/impacts
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Any self-respecting Aztecophile. They're also the cause of startup names dropping a vowl. Insufferable.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
http://supermechanical.com/pickup Been in production hell thanks to tariffs (wrote a lot about it) but should ship by summer.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Different use case (environmental data recorder) but our current product uses an STM that turns on an ESP32 (not trusting that sleep mode) when it needs radio, to run on 2 AAs forever.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
True. It's unconscionable to give a cat access to cigarettes.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
My battery’s at 70%, I could replace it for $50, but I consider it a feature to get me off my goddamn phone more.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
I do the same, to the point that I avoid updating the OS so Apple can’t break my flow/heart.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
And the cameras can provide them with solar panels. I’m lucky to live in a walker-friendly neighborhood where most homes aren’t walled off by privacy fences. I’ve found our communal strength in talking to neighbors about the cameras that fe
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Agreed! It's a small but satisfying interaction to have that coordination and unspoken communication with other drivers at a 4-way stop. I've taught my kids when crossing the street to make eye contact with drivers to make sure th
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Reminds me of a mini-course I took on sound design. Lots of exercises in trying to squeeze expression out of a limited palette. Not too different from LEDs, but of course we have different cultural references for audio. Neat subject.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
I have a new idea for a bike horn.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
In talking with many of the older people in my community about Flock, they initially defer to what our police department says it needs. A few things made them reconsider: - This is not about our police. This is about all the outside organi
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Benn's videos along with this one from a very chill middle-aged engineer/state rep made the difference in swaying our town to discontinue its Flock contract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbE5ks7dFg
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by jkestner 6mo ago
I bought some actual Brawndo back in the day. An energy drink company had licensed the brand. Did not share with my plants, having learned better from the movie.
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by jkestner 6mo ago
Texas Monthly (“The National Magazine of Texas”) covers local news with a straight face, letting the absurdity speak for itself. Read the recent article about ranchers and rabbis searching for the perfect heifer to bring about the end of th
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
That immediately made me think of the Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer got stuck in the third dimension.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Of course they do. But this is HN - not as neat as using the 15-year-old phone I have.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
My kid uses a shared Google doc to chat with friends on their school-issued Chromebooks. (But still has the problem of unsupervised screen time.)
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by jkestner 7mo ago
I dug out an old Motofone (the $40 eink candybar) for this reason, only to discover that it’s 2G, which has been decommissioned. Too bad, would’ve been fun to watch the kid learn T9.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
I read the readme. :) Very nice. Thoughtful features. Get this on Homebrew!
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by jkestner 7mo ago
I guess they assumed that a musician whose whole persona is built around weed would supply the evidence.

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