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by nelsonic 4y ago
I've been using a RPi 4 8GB as my primary computer for the past 3 weeks and it's been mostly fine. It's occasionally slow when too many programs are running, but rarely. I'd say is totally useable. Only use my Mac for th
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Wow! That's very interesting. Quite the Tax implication! Wonder if it's only in Canada ...
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by nelsonic 5y ago
This makes perfect sense. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Should I use my own device (laptop) or company-supplied one for work?
3 points by nelsonic 5y ago|4 comments
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Firstly, the adoption of smartphones is ongoing there are still people with "feature" phones (for whatever reason). As technologists/early-adopters we have an observation bias that everyone adopted them overnight, it's
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by nelsonic 5y ago
“In all the other games, the world is basically destroyed.“ Should we be rushing to build a nuclear fallout shelter or is it already too late?
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by nelsonic 5y ago
What system do you use for task tracking/prioritisation?
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Great article. If you're interested in this topic, recommend watching "Living Soil" documentary on YT: https://youtu.be/ntJouJhLM48
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by nelsonic 5y ago
We're in the same boat. Wouldn't give up Phoenix on the backend for anything. We are gradually adopting LiveView with great support for components. Have you tried it? Agree Remix looks good though!
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing. Water use is a bit of a misnomer though. It's not like agriculture where the water gets "fed" to plants and mostly evaporates. Tesla plans to recycle/reuse most of the water at the Giga Be
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by nelsonic 5y ago
It's difficult not get conspiratorial when it comes to incumbents protecting their empires; it's a lot easier call-in a favour with a politician than to build better electric cars ... But Tesla did try to rush the process so this
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by nelsonic 5y ago
It's difficult not get conspiratorial when it comes to incumbents protecting their empires. But Tesla did try to rush the process so this is fairly expected. However you would really think that the environmental ministry could fast-tra
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Facebook is rebranding because they can no longer control the narrative around their toxic brand. They have tried with "Project Amplify": https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg
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by nelsonic 5y ago
If anyone else is stuck learning Plug, the Elixir School tutorial is a good starting point: https://github.com/dwyl/elixir-plug-tutorial
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by nelsonic 5y ago
It’s not even attempting to describe why crimes happen. It’s just offering people an incentive to read because literacy is strongly correlated with job prospects. I can’t see a downside to this pilot program. I hope they expand it to includ
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Bloomberg did a great QuickTake on electric car battery recycling: https://youtu.be/xtVE1I1SoRw 1. Use them for energy storage 2. Automated battery recycling 3. Use recovered materials to make new batteries
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by nelsonic 5y ago
YCombinator YouTube is a great place to learn: https://www.youtube.com/c/ycombinator/videos?view=0&sort=p&f...
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by nelsonic 5y ago
Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person/team that is "leaving" Elixir because it wasn't a good fit for them. For the people who understand Elixir/OTP's strengths it's excellent. We use Elixir for
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How can we better structure the school day?(tes.com)
1 points by nelsonic 6y ago|0 comments
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Which Telescope did you end up getting?
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Yeah, $500 seems to be the sweet spot. Obviously you can spend a lot more on a Savoire bespoke mattress, but for most people a high quality multi-material (with memory foam top) mattress is a good choice.
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by nelsonic 6y ago
The best mattress you can afford is the single best investment you can make in your life. You spend 1/3 of your life asleep. Getting more high quality sleep has a direct impact on your mood, general health and personal productivity&#x2
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Yeah, Ruby and specifically Ruby-on-Rails was (and still) is very popular in SV startups. Only one mention of Elixir, I'd expect this to change in the future as Phoenix replaces Rails as the easiest framework to build MVPs.
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Previously shared on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571756
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Respectfully, I disagree with your premise/question. Open Source is about way more than marketing/promotion. It's a means to make the world a better place. Unless something needs to be private because its a state secret (se
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Is there a reason (Security, Competitive, etc.) that the code wasn't open source from the start?
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Hi @muonic, this is a great question many people tech founders face. The short answers to your questions are: a) Don't hire someone else to build the "core" of your App; only you know exactly what you want/need. If you
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Microsoft must have made them an offer they couldn't refuse. The Raspberry Pi based Kano Kit was great and kids loved it!
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by nelsonic 6y ago
Many devs on Upwork report having to install either a Chrome plugin that tracks all browsing activity or a full-on desktop monitoring suite that tracks everything they do while they are "on the clock". It's Orwellian.

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