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by newswangerd 9mo ago
Western auto makers are getting slaughtered by Chinese competition outside of the US (and maybe the EU? I don't know what the EU tariff situation is). I have a Chinese EV. It was half the price of an equivalent Tesla and better in ever
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by newswangerd 10mo ago
Yeah, I'm implementing a couple of things to make my life easier in the future. I don't use any github APIs and I'm setting up my clients to load the plugin repo URLs from my server so I can change them later if I need to. I
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by newswangerd 10mo ago
It’s always humbling when you go on the front page of HN and see an article titled “the thing you’re doing right now is a bad idea and here’s why” This has happened to me a few times now. The last one was a fantastic article about how PG No
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by newswangerd 10mo ago
As someone who has been stuck with an email address I created when I was 13, this would certainly be a welcome change!
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by newswangerd 10mo ago
I’m curious about this too. I’d worry about a local burglar having this information, but what can a Chinese tech company do with this data that I should be concerned about?
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I was counting the ESTA. I don’t have any experience with it, so you’ll have to pardon my ignorance.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. A very weird assortment of countries, aside from Canada. https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyDestination.php?p1=us...
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I’ve always argued that the US is the most powerful passport despite not granting access to the most countries for one simple reason: it’s one of only half a dozen passports that lets you visit the US visa free.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I'm so impressed by how quickly this team can ship new features. It seems like every few weeks there's a new major update!
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by newswangerd 1y ago
The funny thing is that I would be totally willing to pay for a license if in exchange for no ads and no needing a Microsoft account.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
Huh, I submitted this article last week when it came out and it didn’t get any attention at all. This demo is super cool! I’ve been dreaming about a game with an engine like this for the last 5 years. Super happy to see people experimenting
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by newswangerd 1y ago
Would it be possible to do both on a single panel? In other words, put photovoltaic cells on the sunny side and thermoelectric generators on the shady side.
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Blocky Planet – Making Minecraft Spherical(bowerbyte.com)
5 points by newswangerd 1y ago|0 comments
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23andMe Sold to TTAM Research Institute, a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation(finance.yahoo.com)
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by newswangerd 1y ago
This is very cool! I'm going to take a look at your code. I've been playing with the idea of creating a "protobuf db" library that would allow you define schemas in protobuf and then query them with something akin to an
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I've never heard of ConnectRPC before! Will check it out.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
Yeah! I'm using a gRPC daemon on PC and go mobile bindings on mobile.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I guess a better term for it would be frontend and business logic. On iOS and Android the business logic (backend) is run using go mobile bindings and are imported directly into the native framework. For Windows, Mac and Linux, it runs as a
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by newswangerd 1y ago
I've been doing something similar to this, except with go. In my case I have a flutter frontend and a go backend that's built using go mobile. Instead of trying to figure out how to make all of my go functions use data types that
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by newswangerd 1y ago
The best use case I've found for tiny models (<5bn params) as a reference tool for when I don't have WiFi. I've been using qwen on my MacBook Air as a replacement for Google while I'm writing code on flights. They wor
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by newswangerd 1y ago
This is why I love hacker news. I often find myself falling for this stuff and thinking "yeah, that makes a lot of sense". It's always good come back to the comments and get a good old fashioned reality check.
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by newswangerd 1y ago
It feels like the problem is that we've drastically improved people's lifespans, but not their healthspans. Back when these systems started getting implemented, you could reasonably work up to the retirement age without too many i
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by newswangerd 1y ago
Does anyone have any idea what this looks like in practice? How do you put a tariff what essentially amounts to information?
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by newswangerd 2y ago
I've been developing in Django with Django Rest Framework for 10+ years and just recently built my first FastAPI project, so I may be a little bit biased here. Django takes care of a lot of common functionality for you. The biggest thi
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by newswangerd 2y ago
> All models are automatically imported in the shell by default. This is a huge usability improvement! We end up having to install shell plus in the dev environment on every project I've worked on, and it's not always available
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by newswangerd 2y ago
I learned React back in the class component days. I recently picked it back up and found functional components and hooks to be absolutely baffling. Does anyone know why they went down this route?