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by mdip 4y ago
> bought the cheapest bare wood door at Home Depot and laid it across two filing cabinets. I'm surprised how many people don't build their own desks (especially those of us who work at home). I spent about $1,200 on
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by mdip 4y ago
Ooooohhh, that's clever . I've never had a need for such a device, but I worked for a company that wrote Skype for Business plug-ins, many of which revolved around "presence". You were considered active on your compute
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm not sure what he made, but it was his first job so I'd imagine it was pretty terrible. Actually, I think he would have moved on from that job a lot earlier except that the owners paid for him to get his pilots license and then
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by mdip 4y ago
I had a few questions if you don't mind answering as I'm doing something similar for a vacation home (and my own, but this is more relevant to the remote one). How many IoT devices are you working with? I don't hav
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by mdip 4y ago
> cloudflared: effortless external access for all my stuff + all other Cloudflare goodies (WAF/Zero-Trust). Good piece of mind to not have to ever open ports on my local network and let CF just take the brunt of the Internet.
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by mdip 4y ago
That's really cool. I had assumed they always sacrificed the bird and I can't imagine everyone being OK with that over time. Regardless of the cost, most people don't relish the idea of killing an animal even if it means th
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by mdip 4y ago
I share some of the concerns of the author, but I think she's failing to "never ascribe to malice ..." -- in this case "when there are a myriad of other, less malicious reasons that are probably the cause." I suspec
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm going to put myself in the "partly agree" category, here. First, to get it out of the way, I hate where things stand, today. Location privacy basically doesn't exist. A permanent license plate reader was just i
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by mdip 4y ago
I found it interesting that one of the things he did differently was to empower the local Barnes & Noble stores to make placement/marketing/merchandising decisions themselves. The way typical retail stores are run these days i
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm going to guess the previous comment was in reference to the GM EV1 program[0]. I didn't read the whole article but I think GM lost around USD$800 million. It's a "fun topic" because you can find an incredible a
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by mdip 4y ago
> In just ten years we’ve gone from the first Model S leaving the assembly line to electric F-150 and Mustang. That’s as mainstream as it gets. I agree with you and I think you make a more important point than the CEO of Toyot
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by mdip 4y ago
Ah, yes. I actually remember the first time I learned what each of those options meant. My Dad had purchased an 8088 earlier that year and it was still a mystery to us (though Dad and I were the most proficient). One late evening while m
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by mdip 4y ago
> Very disappointed by the discourse in this HN thread. The same old quips over and over. "NIF is just a nuclear stewardship program", "it's not actually generating power", "fusion still 30 years away
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by mdip 4y ago
As I was reading this article, that itch in the back of my head kept being triggered. I didn't encounter anything obvious, but I felt like something was missing. Then I remembered a project I inherited at a past job. tl;dr Good idea,
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by mdip 4y ago
Wow, yeah. I'd love to know what the source of that is all about, personally. I mean, my initial thought was "oh, it's a younger crowd here, they haven't shot themselves in the foot enough to be able to empathize with
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by mdip 4y ago
That's it for me, too. And damn it's effective. About two years ago I had an opportunity to run a "for fun" experiment. My family and another family went on vacation together but I had to come home a couple of days e
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by mdip 4y ago
So I feel exactly the opposite, yet having nothing to do with climate denial. I should state that my experience with government lies exclusively with the US, so that should be taken into account to understand much of why I feel this is a
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by mdip 4y ago
For those clicking in, seeing the length and thinking something like "Pages and pages; sounds really alarmist" and are ready to click off, he ends up doing a really thorough job also explaining what advances have been made, what
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by mdip 4y ago
I haven't read the whole thing but I really enjoyed the introduction and agree completely. The RDBMS I've spent the most time with over the years is Microsoft SQL (immediately when 2000 was released) and over the years I've
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by mdip 4y ago
It looks like there was minimal to no lockdown in Sweden: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-lockdow...
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by mdip 4y ago
Seems LoRa is coming up a lot the last few months. I almost picked up a project to do a number of sample implementations/documentation for LoRa-based IoT solutions but I'm not with the company any longer[0]. Permits aren't n
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm guessing there's a fancy name for this phenomenon that I'm not aware of, but a lot of these kinds of advocacy-news pieces fall victim to it: The assumption that a problem that will occur in X number of years, where X
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by mdip 4y ago
It looks quite impressive; guessing the server is getting more traffic than it's designed for (and it doesn't seem to cache tiles, at least not partially loaded ones, maybe?). Is it normally significantly slower in Firefox than Ed
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by mdip 4y ago
Rather insightful on (2) with regard to: > ... we need to start protecting against the person in front of the device My first thought was, "Oh, God, please don't". I'm a parent, if I put that software on the
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by mdip 4y ago
> ... So while Matter makes it possible for Eve, a sensor and device company that historically only worked with Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem, to finally work on Android devices, it also means that Eve’s competitors can work with the s
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by mdip 4y ago
OH how I can relate to the sentiment expressed in "Rise of the Rotation". On the surface it sounds perfectly reasonable. As the author explains, it's falls apart quickly. There's still going to be people that will make
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by mdip 4y ago
Completely, especially if it has the words "Digital", "Online" or "Data". I haven't read the bill or read about the bill but I'd wager a coffee there's also some form of entertainment/cop
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm reading the title and I'm like ... they can't be referring to Liquid Tension Experiment, can they[0]? Apparently, yes and no :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment
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by mdip 4y ago
First, thanks for the info -- you answered my question, too. :) > VR is in my opinion absolutely groundbreaking in flight simulation. I completely agree. I'm not a pilot nor interested in becoming one. My Dad owned his comp
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by mdip 4y ago
I understand where you're coming from but ... > There's virtually no competitive advantage to having unique business processes. I'm not intending to take this sentence out of the context of the rest of your post (o

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