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by maliker 2y ago
They were, at the time.
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by maliker 2y ago
I bought a pair of adjustable dumbbells that each go from 10 Lb up to 50. About $100 bucks. Pretty much my entire home gym. Worked great for me.
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by maliker 2y ago
More than twice as good it would "zoom" past the competition... shit.
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by maliker 2y ago
And then there are apps/OSes that set the mic gain at like 5% of max, so everyone else has to put their volume at 95%. We should probably get off hacker news and just start building a teleconferencing app.
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by maliker 2y ago
And then there's another nag prompt if bluetooth headphones/mic are detected. The latency on those things can get horrendous, up to like 300 ms.
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by maliker 2y ago
I pivoted from tech consulting (logging user issues, basically) to dev by taking a contract programmer role. It was in a non-profit org that didn't really understand software, and I built them a prototype in my own time which got me in
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by maliker 2y ago
My read of the rural broadband decision is that terrestrial broadband providers lobbied hard to get Starlink thrown out on a technically (not enough bandwidth).
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by maliker 2y ago
Great concept. Congrats on launching. Do you have a sense for how much usage Google will allow on a given sheet or user? I.e. will Google shut down the API after a certain usage level? (Side-note, your SSL cert seems to be having trouble, i
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by maliker 3y ago
So bad it’s good.
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by maliker 3y ago
I used to use calendar integrations for these kind of things. Then I realized I'd prefer to have the low priority stuff disappear until I have to deal with, so I switched to followupthen.com and have been happy with it. A nice effect i
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by maliker 3y ago
Oh yeah, we feel this pain point as well re: large and unwieldy containers. The best approach we've been able to come up with is ship a reliable if large container image and slowly factor out or reduce our heaviest and least reliable d
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by maliker 3y ago
So, someone else mentioned this could be sarcasm, but I've got a real application that could use this. It's a complex multi-domain modeling tool incorporating multiple C binaries, python and julia code. We currently deploy with Do
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by maliker 3y ago
I recently signed up for an OpenAI API key, and by default they enforce a quota after which they disable the key, and when you’re ready to serve more requests you increase the quota manually. I’m surprised to learn more companies don’t do t
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by maliker 3y ago
Can you believe this guy STILL works for Amazon while he makes these? I mean yeah free material, but surely his boss and everyone else in the office is seeing this.
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by maliker 3y ago
Video from Krazam that came out with the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s
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by maliker 3y ago
Very nice. Addresses the biggest issue on mobile which is the tap targets are tiny. Great job!
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by maliker 3y ago
Wow, tons of classic hacker news feedback just like the "dropbox won't work" one [0]. And we know how that ended up. With the trend towards more and more non-devs writing code with the help of AI [1], I think you're abso
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by maliker 3y ago
Looks like existing worldwide reserves are 26M tons [0], so this is a big find. [0] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023-lithium.pd...
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by maliker 3y ago
Pandas has also moved to Apache Arrow as a backend [1], so it’s likely performance will be similar when comparing recent versions. But it’s great to have some friendly competition. [1] https://datapythonista.me/blog/pan
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by maliker 3y ago
Biggest advantage I found when I evaluated it was the API was much more consistent and understandable than the pandas one. Which is probably a given, they’ve learned from watching 20 major versions of pandas get released. However, since it’
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by maliker 3y ago
"blocked [in Italy]"
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by maliker 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
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by maliker 3y ago
That data is privately held by utilities, and the high voltage transmission infrastructure is highly confidential (CEII/NERC CIP). If you just need sample data, I'd recommend checking out the test data provided with power flow sim
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by maliker 3y ago
I've struggled with the other part of this flow: getting a good clean PDF of a website in an automated way. Whatever archive.today does is probably the best approach I've seen, but they don't publish their code as far as I ca
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by maliker 3y ago
ChatGPT coded up a simple python script to do this for me if anyone would like to test it out. Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/dpinney/a3c0b1f333ef89748fa12d057a55...
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by maliker 3y ago
The trick is to remember that your job as the boss is to help your employees do their best work. Once that’s established, the language comes naturally. That said, “can you do X?” usually always works. The answer is almost always yes. If it’
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by maliker 3y ago
The can and cannot do problem reminds me of writing Applescript. I just want to call a function not figure out where to sprinkle in random a/the/of modifiers!
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by maliker 3y ago
I've noticed the latest iOS speech recognition model works with whispered speech pretty well. Not a perfect fix, but it's something.
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by maliker 3y ago
Here's a low-effort attempt at putting this all in a single page for everyone complaining about clicking through it: https://rentry.co/iudx6
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by maliker 3y ago
Definitely exciting. Portability of binaries is such a problem these days with all the angst around ABI compatibility in the Linux kernel and the push for containerization (e.g. lots of distros going towards Snap/AppImage). Justine&#x2

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