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Show HN: Box Line Text – A simple whiteboarding tool for screencasts(github.com)
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by jncraton 7y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to other projects such as Lepton? https://github.com/dropbox/lepton The goals and results appear similar. Is the primary difference that brunsli will likely actually be part of a stan
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by jncraton 7y ago
I'm glad to see this as well. I've been working on a site as part of a class project to help surface used items that have a long useful lifetime. My hope is that this will help in a small way to reduce the cycle of consumerism. He
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by jncraton 7y ago
Exactly. I like to do this for both speed and privacy. You can even use DDG bangs as your keywords. I do this for the bangs that I use most frequently (e.g. !w) for both reduced latency and increased privacy. This means I keep the muscle me
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by jncraton 7y ago
You aren't wrong, but the two are tightly related. LEGO's competitors are also selling many licensed products, but LEGO's position as the best quality brand in the market has allowed them to secure contracts for the most popu
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by jncraton 7y ago
I'm not saying nothing else survives. Mega Bloks have been around for 30 years and are still filling their market niche well as far as I know. I'm simply saying that quality has been what sets LEGO apart from its competitors. They
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by jncraton 7y ago
IMO LEGO thrives thanks to their relentless focus on product quality. The phrase "det bedste ir ikke for godt" (roughly "only the best is good enough") has a long history in the company. The fact that they have been able
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by jncraton 8y ago
You can usually get closer to $5 per pound on eBay if you search carefully. I built an algorithm to do this searching and filtering for me: https://joncraton.com/lego-by-pound
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by jncraton 8y ago
I'm not aware of anything like that. It should be possible, though. When models are available for the elements, as they are with LEGO, it should be as simple as identifying connection types and mapping them to spatial movements.
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by jncraton 8y ago
If you like this project, you may be interested in a similar project that I did a while back using using the turtle interpretation of grammars to represent connections between LEGO bricks: https://github.com/jncraton/co
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by jncraton 8y ago
I'm interested to see where this goes. I use Plaid as a developer, and it feels like the user experience keeps getting worse. This isn't Plaid's fault, but as more and more financial institutions require 2FA, it gets much les
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by jncraton 8y ago
> I don't need my google calc/excel to integrate with youtube, and I don't need google play music to integrate with gmail. Google should look at these things as individual companies, which it seems like is something that t
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by jncraton 8y ago
It's definitely impressive. In addition to accepting donations, they also offer a paid plan that offers more space, bandwidth, and features: https://neocities.org/supporter
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by jncraton 8y ago
Thanks for your work on this! That sounds like a great direction for future development. I hope that you are able to make this work out!
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by jncraton 8y ago
You aren't wrong, but there is some value in a more complex control system. For example, the fridge uses some sort of hysteresis to prevent the compressor from cycling on and off too quickly. Let's say it runs for 15 minutes every
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by jncraton 8y ago
Tesla's financials are terrifying. I hope that Tesla succeeds, and I believe that they can. However, there is nothing about the company that makes an investment in TSLA feel like a sure thing to me.
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by jncraton 8y ago
You are definitely not alone. I personally use pweave, which is essentially a thin Markdown/LaTeX parser wrapping Jupyter kernels for injecting the output of code chunks. I like being able to use my existing tools (text editor, make, v
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by jncraton 9y ago
The convert tool is part of imagemagick and only works on image formats as far as I know. I personally use pandoc to do similar conversions on documents and ssconvert for spreadsheets.
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by jncraton 9y ago
That would only work if the knockoff image is registered on-chain after the real image. If I'm going to rip off an image, I'm not going to submit it back to the entity that created it. Hashes don't verify the date that someth
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by jncraton 9y ago
Agreed. I haven't had this much fun thinking through the implications of a new exploit technique in a long time. It is truly beautiful.
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by jncraton 9y ago
SharedArrayBuffer will be disabled by default as a stopgap: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-lan... performance.now() accuracy is also being reduced.
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by jncraton 9y ago
Sort of. They now hold as much BCH as they had BTC on August 1st. However, BTC is worth significantly more than BCH in terms of dollars currently. The gain is more like ~20% in dollars.
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by jncraton 9y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I would add that part of the value of Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies comes from its incredibly high PoW difficulty. The Bitcoin network currently completes 14 quintillion sha256 hashes every second
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by jncraton 9y ago
Bitcoin is the long term store of value for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It's poor for small transactions, but works well for storing large amounts of value as it is significantly more secure in terms of PoW than anything else out the
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by jncraton 9y ago
Agreed. I wouldn't buy an L series myself. The EliteBook is mine and the ThinkPad belongs to my employer.
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by jncraton 9y ago
Interesting. I've found that used business-class laptops from several years ago do nicely. I use a ThinkPad L420 and EliteBook 8460p daily, and they both work well for me. They are reliable and robust.
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by jncraton 9y ago
I'm not sure if any of this will help or not: - You can add `mouse:off` to your config to disable the mouse - I use `cursorline:off` to help on slower connections. This prevents having to redraw an entire line when the cursor moves up
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by jncraton 9y ago
I'm not sure if this is a serious question or not, but about 75% of the top sites on the Internet use jQuery: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery Perhaps new projects shouldn't be using jQuery, but
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by jncraton 9y ago
> I'd love to see someone shake up the space with a "modern" take on emacs and vim: native, fast, powerful, very configurable, terminal based, but also with a conscious view on the initial learning curve and out of the box
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by jncraton 9y ago
You're basically correct in terms of SC not technically being continuous. There are discrete steps under the hood. One of the significant challenges is figuring out how to use 42ms (the frame duration on fastest speed) of computing tim

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