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by mceachen 5y ago
Unfortunately CA made the odd decision to expire all prior-to-a-couple-years-ago BEV HOV stickers, burning all the early adopters. IOW: Got a white BEV sticker? That's worthless. You need the red sticker, only available on new BEVs.
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by mceachen 5y ago
You can charge a Tesla with a standard type-2 quick charger (if you have an adapter for the J-1772 or CCS cable), but you can't use the supercharger network to charge a non-tesla BEV, AFAIK.
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by mceachen 5y ago
Brighter projectors would certainly help, but only if they can expand contrast ratios. I haven't read about projectors using the perceptual tricks you described: it seems like POV-based approaches would have a distracting strobe effect
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by mceachen 6y ago
Neat idea, but electric charging stations are pretty well established, at least along coastal and central California. If you look at plugshare you might be surprised how many quick charge (>50amp) stations are available along, say, I5 or
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by mceachen 6y ago
Roughly a decade ago S3 storage pricing had a ~10x premium over self-hosted. The convenience of not having to touch any hardware is expensive.
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by mceachen 6y ago
I don't think these maps take into account mountains. There are rest stops on 280 (just south of 92) that (at least used to) host telescope parties: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vWEkH1bSvaUZKZHS8 . You can definitely see the
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by mceachen 6y ago
I'm actually trying to help add a bit of serendipity to browsing digital photo and video libraries with my self-hosted app, PhotoStructure: when you browse hierarchies, it picks out random samples of the assets that match that hierarch
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by mceachen 6y ago
FWIW, Netscape got bought out by AOL, but not before it spun off Mozilla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape It may be hard to believe, but the first iteration of Internet Explorer on Macintosh (back on System 8) w
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by mceachen 6y ago
(tried again, and neither Evince nor Okular support signatures, at least with the versions shipped with Ubuntu 20.04)
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by mceachen 6y ago
An example of "unsafe defaults:" NeXT used Display PostScript for the display manager. If you opened an email that had PostScript commands, the mail agent would happily, automatically, execute them. A favorite payload sent around
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by mceachen 6y ago
Editing PDFs and sticking your signature on documents is trivial with Preview.app. Save-as-PDF is broken (edits don't show up reliably), but you can easily just print to PDF to work around that bug. I can't get Evince or Okular to
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by mceachen 6y ago
PhotoStructure! I had a huge mess of photos and videos after N photo cloud services had come and gone, and left me with down-sampled or metadata-wiped files, and nothing could dedupe and organize the mess, so I wrote it. Completely self-hos
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by mceachen 6y ago
Oh man, I didn't know about VACCUM INTO, thanks!
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by mceachen 6y ago
Here are some analytics from an HN hug a month an a half ago: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/front-page-of-hacker-news... (Static sites should be fine, but many sites use dynamic CMS like wordpress, ghost or discou
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by mceachen 6y ago
Yup. There's a bunch like that. Know that CSS colors mostly came from X11: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names The CSS team shares some blame, though: they adopted them (and they really didn't nee
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by mceachen 6y ago
I have a "lint" pre-test step that builds with tsc and runs eslint. I also have a `tsc --watch` running in a vscode window that highlights syntax and typing errors as I develop.
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by mceachen 6y ago
While this may seem terribly ungainly, Nokia had a debian-based, smartphone-sized touchscreen tablet 18 months before the iPhone was released. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
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by mceachen 6y ago
> you can't upload photos using e.g. Google Photos or Nextcloud in the background You can certainly upload/sync to your personal NAS at home with third-party apps. Many of my beta users use Resilio Sync, PhotoSync, or SyncThing
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by mceachen 6y ago
Check the webmaster tools on Google, Bing, and any other relevant search engine. If they've detected malware on your site, the webmaster tooling will highlight it. Virustotal.com also supports URL scanning, of you're concerned abo
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by mceachen 6y ago
You're welcome to try PhotoStructure. It's still a young product, but it's already got some unique features and new releases come out regularly: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
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by mceachen 6y ago
Re: open source: There's already a bylaw that requires the code to be open-sourced in case PhotoStructure Inc. closes: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#if-photos... Thanks for the suggestion
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by mceachen 6y ago
I'm building a self-hosted, cross-platform one that you're welcome to try! https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
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by mceachen 6y ago
> I don’t know if the sort of performance issues I was seeing was tied to SQLite or not though It's certainly doable to serve million-asset libraries with SQLite (PhotoStructure is proof of this). You need to be careful with indexed
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by mceachen 6y ago
Look at the files in the "Detection opportunities" section at the bottom of the article: https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/
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by mceachen 6y ago
Having personally worked on micropayment infrastructure (when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth) and thought about pricing and value and incentives, I suspect micropayments may actually disincentivize product use. Let's say your d
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by mceachen 6y ago
When I researched this last year, some people suggested m-disc, but it's >10x the expense of spinning rust. If you're a home-labber, you might want to try buying a used LTO drive, but researching, sourcing, caring, and feeding
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by mceachen 6y ago
Most hotels will have slow but unlimited wifi. If you use something like resilio sync, syncthing, or photosync, you can transfer the day's photos and videos overnight while you're sleeping. Links here: https://photostru
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by mceachen 6y ago
A FUSE mount, or even a webdav virtual directory hierarchy, wouldn't be that tricky. Stripping metadata is trivial, thanks to ExifTool.
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by mceachen 6y ago
Thanks!
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by mceachen 6y ago
In case you're interested in how much traffic you get from a front-page post on some random Tuesday evening: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/front-page-of-hacker-news...

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