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by oxplot 5y ago
A technique I learnt as a kid from my uncle was to mindlessly use physical interaction to “feel” the state of things and learn a habit of doing it all the time. For the example of locking the door, it would be trying to open it and pull&#x2
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by oxplot 5y ago
What I noticed is the much faster download speed of the offline maps. It pretty much is as fast as my network allows.
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by oxplot 5y ago
https://github.com/oxplot/pdftilecut : tiles a PDF to help with printing on small printers https://fpx.oxplot.com/ : Tiny module that allows powering anything with USB-C Some small scripts: https:&#x2
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Ask HN: Experience with Moving from Arch Linux to Mac
7 points by oxplot 5y ago|9 comments
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by oxplot 5y ago
> Two years ago I looked into it and rather then having an abstraction from cloud providers This is a misrepresentation I've seen multiple times and I don't know how it's come to be. Terraform doesn't abstract resourc
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by oxplot 5y ago
> for example you can't create a kubernetes cluster then add a resource to it Of course you can! DM me if you want details.
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by oxplot 5y ago
Gotta realize that 99% of people like drama, love to see others fail and say they said so, and that's OK. Much like how Tesla no longer has a press department, we should just focus on the work and people will catch up eventually.
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by oxplot 5y ago
> Pick any random apartment complex in the US and pretend 80% of the residents there own an EV To pretend that, you'd also have to pretend that it's 20 years or so (if not a few more decades more) in the future. EVs are not gon
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by oxplot 5y ago
A secure cookie would be of no use for a site whose only secure page is the login page, which is what the parent post I replied to was talking about.
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by oxplot 5y ago
That only protects the user's password. The auth cookie will be sent in all subsequent requests in plain text. EDIT: that's how firesheep ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep ) hijacked sessions for e.g.
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by oxplot 5y ago
Lots of misconceptions about how power delivery works over USB-C. Here are a few facts that may help: - USB-C power is negotiated over USB-PD protocol. Dumb devices are going to get 5v at low max. current. - The sink device (laptop) must co
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Victoria’s ridiculous tax on Electric Vehicles has passed, starts July(techau.com.au)
3 points by oxplot 5y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 5y ago
> It's just nearly impossible to memorize. This can be trivially implemented in CI for code and docs and have links to this doc. No need to remember it.
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by oxplot 5y ago
These screens are awesome. I did a design a few years ago, aiming for super low cost and easy build. Made a few units but it needs more refinement: https://splapr.com/
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by oxplot 5y ago
See my other comment. It's not about a single resource working across providers, but the ability to reference resources across providers and linking them together. Think Cloudflare pointing to AWS endpoints.
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by oxplot 5y ago
> nah. i’ve heard the cross-cloud argument multiple times and it does not hold any water. You misunderstood. I'm talking a single terraform project provisioning resources across different providers. We have AWS resources referencing
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by oxplot 5y ago
> use whatever the cloud you are using has built it (cloudformation, deployment manager, etc). Not applicable if you're deploying infra across cloud (we do that across a dozen cloud providers!). Without terraform, it'll bring u
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by oxplot 5y ago
I've just recently started to use 1password and here're my thoughts: - Amazing support and fast response on their forums from the reps - Works across Linux (my desktop), Mac and iPhone and Safari and Chrome browsers - Has CLI - Sy
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by oxplot 5y ago
Note that one can use any router with the dish. Basically the dish provides you with a NATed private IP which you can assign to the WAN interface of your router of choice and go from there.
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by oxplot 6y ago
I've recently started developing unix tools with config passed entirely as arguments with a special argument called `--args-file` which takes a file or stdin and reads one arg per line. This is of course nothing new, but such a powerfu
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by oxplot 6y ago
I'm super disappointed by recent update to Unify Controller on their CloudKey Generation 2. It now requires access to Internet and a Unifi cloud account in order to setup a local controller. I, like many others, have downgraded to the
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Spack Package Manager(spack.io)
2 points by oxplot 6y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 6y ago
I hate it when the websites try to disable autocomplete on login forms and I'm actually happy for browsers to override this anti-user behaviour.
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by oxplot 6y ago
I have RSS feed sent to my email , so I don't check anything twice. Just a linear stream of emails that I have become exceedingly efficient at scanning. i currently go through 400 articles a day and it takes me about 10-20 minutes to f
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by oxplot 6y ago
I run rss2email on a schedule on Github Actions and get feed right in my inbox.
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by oxplot 6y ago
USB-C cables that support high current (> 3A) have a chip inside that communicates with the power source to let it know it can carry high current. Only then does the source advertise the higher power profiles to the consumer.
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by oxplot 6y ago
- Stop animation - Use with larger screen as a thin client to cloud
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by oxplot 6y ago
I get very excited every time I write in Go like I don't in any other language.
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by oxplot 6y ago
The arguments for number of death seem to always miss an important part: quality of death. One cannot ignore the difference between dying in a hospital bed, most likely next to loved ones and under some kind of drug to alleviate as much pai
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Victoria to fine drivers blocking EV chargers(carexpert.com.au)
17 points by oxplot 6y ago|22 comments

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