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How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works(youtube.com)
1 points by mik3y 3y ago|1 comments
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by mik3y 3y ago
Berrypatch: https://github.com/berrypatch/berrypatch The pitch: Want to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, but dread having to remember how to set it all up again when the sdcard fails? Try this homebrew-like interface for com
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by mik3y 3y ago
Ah, right you are! I completely missed that.
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by mik3y 3y ago
Propublica has a nonprofit explorer (similar to Guidestar, but free) and tax filing viewer here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460... According to their FY2021 990 filing, they had $442k
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Open Letter to the Board of Directors of Gitlab Inc(medium.com)
4 points by mik3y 3y ago|1 comments
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Generative agents: LLM-driven interactive simulation “inspired by The Sims”(github.com)
5 points by mik3y 3y ago|1 comments
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Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash(verticalmag.com)
295 points by mik3y 3y ago|174 comments
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by mik3y 3y ago
Agreed! Thanks for sharing.
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Django-spicy-id: “Stripe-style” self-identifying row IDs for Django(github.com)
2 points by mik3y 3y ago|0 comments
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LinkML – Linked data modeling language(linkml.io)
1 points by mik3y 3y ago|0 comments
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by mik3y 4y ago
I rememember going to a talk at the computer history museum given by Apple old-timers Chris Espinosa and Larry Tesler in the early 2000s. One of the things they talked about was System 6 or System 7, and an example of how it was different f
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by mik3y 4y ago
Wow. So it seems there are two key moments in the fraud. First, while shopping the company, the CEO represents to potential suitor JP Morgan that they have 4.25M “users”. JPMC bites and asks for proof eg during diligence, and so CEO asks a
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Former Startup CEO Charged in $175M Fraud(justice.gov)
28 points by mik3y 4y ago|6 comments
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Gazex Avalanche Control System(youtube.com)
1 points by mik3y 4y ago|0 comments
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“Awesome ADS-B”: A curated list of ADS-B tools, projects, and so on(adsb.cool)
2 points by mik3y 4y ago|0 comments
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Anatomy of a Bank Takeover (2009)(npr.org)
8 points by mik3y 4y ago|0 comments
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by mik3y 4y ago
Or maybe I just wrote too much - I always wish I could be more concise. It's all good!
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by mik3y 4y ago
(author here) Fair feedback, thanks! I wrote that with myself as the listener in mind -- I often need the reminder that is the post's title -- but I can see how the delivery would sound abrasive to another reader. Gave it a light edit.
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by mik3y 4y ago
(author here - oh gee, hi hn!) Yes, those things are always important (if not critical); it's not meant as a defense of bad architecture, merely to try to make those decisions through a product/customers-first lens. (I did try to
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A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan(magoo.medium.com)
66 points by mik3y 4y ago|30 comments
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by mik3y 4y ago
No, I didn’t mean it that way or in reference to a specific company - although I can see how it read that way! Your comment made me laugh. The point was more that layoffs can take out big slugs of staff without considering the individual, i
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by mik3y 4y ago
Yes, it's normal for layoffs to be planned and executed by a very small group, typically to avoid leaks or creating hysteria ahead of decisions being finalized. This in turn means less-than-perfect information is available, and so less
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Fake Books(lcamtuf.substack.com)
5 points by mik3y 4y ago|0 comments
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macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR codes?(twitter.com)
213 points by mik3y 4y ago|85 comments
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by mik3y 4y ago
Good advice here. > If you hit a ceiling (without growth) then you may want to consider looking for/accepting outside capital. One other option at this point is to sell the whole business. For bootstrappers allergic to VC or lacki
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by mik3y 4y ago
I’m doing the same (small, bootstrapped SaaS, 10k MRR), previously leading tech from seed->C at a VC startup. It’s definitely okay to stay bootstrapped! Main question to ask is whether you have considered the overall potential threats to
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by mik3y 4y ago
1) We would love an equivalent to the HEROKU_RELEASE runtime variable: A strictly increasing int that is incremented with any change to the environment (deploys or env/secrets). It’s nice to have a single roll up for all of the knobs —
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by mik3y 4y ago
I was stunned to hear this today. Nick was an amazing engineer and an even more amazing character and generous human. One of those low key, behind-the-scenes, hidden masters of silicon valley (and silicon design more specifically), Nick had
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An InstantNeRF (neural radiance field)(twitter.com)
1 points by mik3y 4y ago|0 comments
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by mik3y 4y ago
We decided to focus on other online acquisition channels, FB and Instagram working best. For this product, it turns out offline channels convert better anyway - so it was a suspension we could live with, despite not understanding it. But I

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