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by kumarsw 4y ago
It's good to see that Fritzing is still alive. I recall that there were plans to move it to a web platform that fizzled out, and the original application was unmaintained for a while. I'm a little surprised to see that the pay-to-
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by kumarsw 4y ago
Semi-related, but last night I watched City Beautiful's video on YT [1] that explains the troubled relationship between poor fire management practices in the western USA and poor development practices - meaning intermingling of houses
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by kumarsw 4y ago
It does seem like like a somewhat straightforward application of spam filters, doesn't it? Clickbait headlines follow strong trends ("...and here's what happened"). So do the linked "articles."
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by kumarsw 4y ago
I recall someone (possibly Adam Something on YouTube complaining about a similar idea) coining the term "Not a Train" to describe concepts such as Hyperloop and this, the idea being that they are (1) futuristic and exiting and (2)
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by kumarsw 4y ago
Using Marginalia always reminds me just how much we have lost since the golden age (2000-2010) of the internet. Thanks for bringing it back in a small way.
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by kumarsw 4y ago
Not a filesystem, but rclone works pretty well
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by kumarsw 4y ago
I feel that the real interest here is the HN discussion, and it really doesn’t matter if the story is fabricated for the upvotes
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by kumarsw 5y ago
https://pin2.io I work in electric power, though it's mainly behind a computer. My site is mostly a collection of personal hardware and software projects, most notably a deduplicating version control system for binary files
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I wound up writing dupver https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver after getting frustrated with the lack of versioning tools for binary files. One neat thing about .docx files and their ilk is that they are "just"
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I've been working on a project for deduplicating version control written in Go https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver I've been a bit frustrated with existing binary version control systems which I've found
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I'd say this is a fair assessment of the project. It came off as overambitious with a number of high-risk project management decisions made at the expensive of a minimum-viable initial product. And this was just looking at it from an e
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I started this a couple years ago to help me keep versions of binary database files I'm working on. It's based around the chunker library from the Restic backup software and more-or-less patterned after the existing binary VCS Boa
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Show HN: Dupver - Deduplicating VCS for large binary files in Go(github.com)
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JabRef: Reference manager that uses bibtex as a database(jabref.org)
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by kumarsw 5y ago
This case reminds me a bit of the big stink with the Daraprim price hikes and Martin Shkreli being dumb enough to be the public face of it. That worked out pretty bad for him but also bad for everyone else, because now we had a guy to blame
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by kumarsw 5y ago
Not as far as I know, but it does have "flat mode," which I've never seen anywhere else. Flat mode displays files from all the subfolders in a single list, quite handy for bulk operations.
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by kumarsw 5y ago
One thing that the article didn't mention is that second generation rodenticides are actually not especially dangerous to pets assuming that the owners are aware of the symptoms (usually lethargy and discolored lips). For warfarin the
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I feel like we are at the low point or even losing the battle between search engines and SEO spam. Maybe it is time for the Yahoo-style curated directory to return? We seem to be getting a microcosm of this with the awsome-* GitHub lists an
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I'll go ahead and point out the obvious that the chances of Safari going Chromium-based are high given that (1) iOS Safari sucks and (2) Microsoft has had good success with Edgium. So the likelihood of Mozilla being the only dissenting
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by kumarsw 5y ago
My personal interpretation/variation of this is to use two different backup formats, even if everything ultimately ends up on hard drives (whether my own or a cloud service provider's). I usually will do 1 file backup via Duplicac
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by kumarsw 5y ago
They have been selling for a dollar for 35 years. I'm really curious how their inventory has changed over this period. One 2020 dollar is 40 cents in 1985 dollars, but the cost of consumer goods has decreased significantly since 1985.
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by kumarsw 5y ago
That's Family Dollar and Dollar General. Dollar Tree is/was the "true" remaining dollar store.
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by kumarsw 5y ago
Something I've been wondering is in what region(s) Ebikes are becoming popular - it seems to be mostly the UK, East Asia, and maybe some larger coastal US cities. Hopefully this will (in the US) lead to cities taking the idea of low-sp
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I feel that the issue with the dislike button is its ambiguity, similar to star ratings. A Uber driver or Ebay seller with a many of 4-star ratings is clearly fine, but one with a moderate number of 1-star ratings is not, despite having the
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by kumarsw 5y ago
For a random-access archive format that supports compression see DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/home.html It doesn't seem very well known, which is unfortunate because it's much better suited for archiving files
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by kumarsw 5y ago
This sort of density pattern is present in Colombia. The government taxes unbuilt land on a lot at a higher rate than built land, so this incentivizes having houses share a wall, which is the norm.
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by kumarsw 5y ago
Somewhat tangentially, I watched a recent Not Just Bikes YouTube video that discusses the merits of commuter rail [1]. The video is obviously trying to discourage infrastructure that supports car-based suburbs, but another point came out th
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by kumarsw 5y ago
The issue with a "weird" license like this is that anyone other than individuals will be afraid to touch it. This includes corporations, universities and governments. Existing licenses like MIT or BSD are well-understood and don&#
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by kumarsw 5y ago
Overhead distribution is somewhere on the order of $100k/mile to install. Maintenance varies depending on how much tree trimming is needed.
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by kumarsw 5y ago
I've been using Xojo for a little while, which is kind of like a cross-platform Visual Basic. It's pretty nice other than a fairly limited standard library (json is supported but not zip files, no object serialization and limited

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