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by lucaspiller 6y ago
HTTP clients in programming languages are not as smart as web browsers when it comes to verifying SSL certificate chains. For example, if the chain presented by the server is missing intermediate certificates, modern web browsers are able t
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by lucaspiller 7y ago
If you don't need street-level geocoding, the GeoNames [0] project providers their data free of charge (attribution required). It provides city and district level data, which is suitable for tasks such as displaying the location name o
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Automatically dimming your monitor at night(stackednotion.com)
3 points by lucaspiller 7y ago|1 comments
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by lucaspiller 8y ago
Bobtrade | Full stack Engineer, Data Engineer Intern (paid) | London, UK | ONSITE INTERN Bobtrade is an exciting startup which is going to revolutise the construction industry. We are changing an industry set in its ways and bringing it int
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
SEEKING WORK | Full stack Ruby on Rails and JavaScript developer with over 8 years experience Location: London or remote LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaspiller/ GitHub: https://github.com&#x2
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I run a small SaaS (aimed at businesses and professional freelancers) application which originally only had GitHub and Facebook authentication. I'm now only giving the option of email for new users, and will eventually remove GitHub an
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
For anyone interested I created a privacy focussed theme for Hugo, with no third party scripts or assets: https://github.com/lucaspiller/hugo-privacy-cactus-theme I wanted a minimalist theme that's fast to load, b
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
When you make an emergency call on a GSM network it specifially uses the tower which provides the best signal, which may be on a different carrier. In most countries you don’t even need a SIM card to make an emergency call. My point is ther
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Is there a name for this kind of architecture? Once I was daydreaming and thought something similar would work well for business CRUD applications. You get an audit log for free, and it would enable offline edits relatively easy.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It's fairly common in eastern and northern Europe too. In my building there is a single heat pipe from the city, however each unit has it's own meter for cold water, hot water (for taps) and hot water (for heating). The hot water
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
You can also buy clamp sensors that can be connected directly to a microcontroller (with an ADC - so not a Raspberry Pi without external hardware). http://www.homautomation.org/2013/09/17/current-monitoring-w.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
That’s no different than replacing parts on a car. You can pay Toyota to replace your brakes, or do it yourself. If you choose the later, then they fail, it’s not Toyota’s fault.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Be advised that Orange Pi have many different boards with similar names, but vastly different specs. The $6.99 model is for 256MB RAM and a Allwinner H2 chipset. Also a lot of the boards can only be powered by a DC jack, not the onboard Mic
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Typically when a lithium-ion battery is recycled some metal parts are extracted (the battery contains metal plates which are relatively easily separated), but the lithium usually is not as it’s a lot more complicated to extract. Economicall
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
There are plenty of other good comments explaining why negative tariffs exist, but not many giving a solution. In Europe a lot of residential heating is from electricity, so why not enable this on-demand when the electricity prices go low?
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
IUNGO is a blockchain based project to do exactly this: https://medium.com/@iungo/iungo-global-wifi-networks-is-abou...
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
One of the big hurdles with OLED is avoiding “burn in” and image retention. For TVs it’s not so much of an issue (although even with my 2017 LG OLED I’ve experienced temporary image retention) as the picture changes often, but with a comput
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
If you want to pass-through a consumer Nvidia card to a VM, you need to hide that you are running a VM from the guest OS, otherwise the Nvidia drivers will fail with some obscure errors. https://github.com/sk1080/nvidia
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
So why not take advantage of that... instead of passwords just email the user a link they need to press to login.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
> That and the fact that there are still very few places accepting it. This is one thing I don’t get. In countries like China and India (to name the two countries I know about) mobile payment apps are ubiquitous. You go in to a shop, sca
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I often read comments here comparing our lives to hunter-gatherers, but something to bear in mind is most humans haven’t lived like that for many thousands of years. We may have evolved from that, but our bodies are very different to the pe
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Further to this, one of the main concerns for Lithuania (and other Baltic states) is energy independence from Russia. Ignalina made them a net-exporter of electricity, but now almost 70% of electricity is imported, mostly from Sweden. Gas a
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It's available from the Microsoft Store in Europe, probably will take time until it's available from third party retailers as it was only released last month: UK from £1499 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/stor
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
As long as you don't mind being tied into the Apple ecosystem (and trust they won't loose your data) it's a good solution. Notes used to be backed by IMAP, but the new 'rich notes' since iOS 9/OS 10.11 is backe
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Here in Europe it’s even worse, in my country the only streaming services are Netflix and a Russian-only equivalent (I don’t speak Russian). It’s no surprise that pirating content is so prevalent here, it’s not that people don’t want to pay
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
> Once the monopoly is out, Uber will just be like every other taxi company. And better still, all the taxi companies will be like Uber. That is pretty much how things are here in Lithuania. The system works well, you don't really c
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It's also indirectly their funding model. The bulk of Mozilla's revenue comes from search partnerships, who earn the bulk of their revenue from advertising.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I do the same (uBlock Origin) and almost every site works, but there are a still a few I need to whitelist because they do weird stuff, like triggering their own scripts to run from analytics callbacks. Airline and banking websites are a
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
My 2014 MBA has recently started saying this, but I haven’t noticed any sudden change in battery life, I still get 5-6 hours.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
What's wrong with cheap handheld barcode scanners, like this for $17: https://www.amazon.com/Barcode-Scanner-Symcode-Handheld-Read... It just acts as a USB keyboard (no drivers needed), so you could easily hook it up t

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