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by oxplot 5y ago
> I'll trend towards lower-level software even if it means more boilerplate This is exactly what 90%+ of people working on frameworks/languages don't get. Somewhere in their education/career they learnt that repetitio
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I specifically avoided mentioning examples as that'll stir up a lang-war.
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Here are my rules for picking framework/languages: - Avoid if specifically mentions big companies as users: Facebook, Twitter, Google, these have as many devs as needed to throw at the most trivial tasks, and then some. I am in a tea
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Nice — RP2040 is cheap, capable (2 cores running at 120Mhz+, PIO, etc) and most importantly available . It can't be overstated just how the global chip shortage affects even hobbyists or those making small runs of some breakout board.
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> You really have to separate your life from comments on hacker news. Except, that's not how human brain works. You learn whatever you see often. That's why it's considered counterproductive to learn by bad examples. The c
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HN is no different than anywhere else. Majority of replies are hot headed, critical, cynical, and negative. You can have the most inspiring news, a huge innovation, big leaps in tech, great new products, and 95%+ of the comments are just sa
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by oxplot 5y ago
> You are missing the point. And you should read past the first line. > The criticism is not about the individual utility of airtags, it's about how it creates a privacy issue for everyone who is not an Apple user. In the same ma
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> much more sensible than trying to live on Mars It's more sensible if you plan to keep a bunch of people there with constant supply from Earth. Elon wants to build a *self-sustaining* city on Mars. There isn't any other choice
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> He is either planning on building thousands of Starships or taking many years. Yes, he does have a plan to build thousands of spaceships. See previous presentations of his from 2016, 2017 and 2019. Starting a self sustaining civilizati
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> I would love to see all the energy put into space exploration to simply be put in rehabilitating existing land. Quote from my past posts [1] on this point: > It's impossible to predict what tech can come out of such efforts tha
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> Fuck everyone else I guess. They do seem to have dropped the ball on their Android app. Majority of reviews on that app is people complaining that it doesn't do background scans! Not sure if there is a technical limitation in doin
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It reads content of RFID tags. Once you have the content, you can write it onto another tag and essentially duplicate the key. Some tags are easier to read than others. But so far, with a bit of digging around the net, I've been able t
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yes indeed — I missed it
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> I'd be willing to pay $120 AUD (or $80 USD) for an umbrella that was seriously good quality https://au.davekny.com/ has good stuff although I haven't had one long enough (only 5 years) to attest its durabilit
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> if you live in an apartment with nfc entry, they might charge an arm and a leg to replace it, even if the actual device is only a few dollars That's just theft — plain and simple. The only half valid argument I've heard is to
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by oxplot 5y ago
$50-ish — but that's not the point. I value my belongings because I spend great deal of time researching and finding products that I love using day in day out (unlike most people who constantly curse at stuff they have). I also modify
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by oxplot 5y ago
Addressed head-on in the press release: > Display alert with sound: When AirTag automatically emits a sound to alert anyone nearby of its presence and is detected moving with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, we will also display an aler
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by oxplot 5y ago
Like sibling post mentioned, you don't seem to be the target audience. I know a lot of people, friends and family, who constantly leave stuff behind, in restaurants, other people's places, on the train, in shops, you name it. 99%
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> This “feature” is garbage for the people who actually buy it. I'm one of those people who has 10 Airtag, who lives with others and haven't had this problem. As far as I (and many others) am concerned, "Apple just raised
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Coins have flip sides :) But tech wise, I think UWB combined with AR is the tipping point for the application you mention. Bluetooth is unfortunately too coarse to be very useful in locating items. It's still useful in locating stores
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Given the pace of innovation and the type of products I've seen from Cloudflare over the past couple of years, it seems like they're on their way to compete with AWS and other IaaS by essentially reducing the need for infra itself
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by oxplot 5y ago
This is a great response - very happy to hear Apple's involvement with various groups to make things better. Some noteworthy bits: > we innovated with the first-ever proactive system to alert you of unwanted tracking If that's
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Global death is 1% in a year. And you won’t hear about it, because it’s rounding error.
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Yes, where I live, a lot of businesses charge you credit card surcharge of 2-3%. That’s $17 for a $16.60 priced item.
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In context of 1700 starlink satellites already in orbit and 30+ launches that put them there, it’s a rounding error. Same goes for carbon impact, etc.
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They are building that - it’s called Starship and one of the configurations will be a cargo ship with a bay and an arm that can pick stuff up and bring them back.
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40 sats makes up about 2% of the current fleet - so a rounding error in cost and time. The important part of this news is how those 40 sats deorbit and leave no junk either in orbit or on earth.
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And they can always pay for storage they use above the new free limit: > Large institutions will be provided supplemental storage later this year and all schools can gain additional storage through Education Plus and the Teaching and Lea
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The whole point of the new dish is to cut cost: - They integrated the power supply into the router. Cuts the cost. - An ethernet port and a physical switch with all its required component costs money. If SpaceX determines that only one digi
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Starlink Coverage Tracker(starlink.sx)
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