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by pgt 6y ago
I was thinking about The Fall of Google in the shower today and how it could happen while seemingly more evil Amazon is flourishing. The reason I think comes down to Google's unwillingness to let engineers talk to customers. If even 10
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by pgt 6y ago
1. Apple Watch Series 5 w/GPS: - Surprisingly, my iPhone Xs battery lasts longer because I'm checking it less. - Counter-intuitively, I'm spending less time on my phone because I'm less likely to get sucked into my Wat
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by pgt 6y ago
Instant Pot have an Air Fryer adapter now called the Duo Crisp: https://instantpot.com/portfolio-item/duo-crisp/
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by pgt 6y ago
The Gautrain is fine, though pricey. The issue though is with the last-mile travel. How do you get from the train station to your house? Walk and you'll get mugged, esp. if you walk a regular route with expensive equipment on you, othe
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by pgt 6y ago
I haven't, but my roommate from university had to outrun a Toyota Corolla with four guys trying to pull him over on a mountain pass in his Subaru Outback. Since then, things in ZA have gotten worse.
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by pgt 6y ago
The author does not account for the tail risks of driving an unfamiliar rental car long distances, especially in a dangerous country like South Africa where hijackings are super-common, especially in Johanneburg. How certain are you that th
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by pgt 6y ago
Maybe pay for 95% uptime? :) Here is a cached text-only version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:81YCedw...
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by pgt 6y ago
I just used a similar service to move from Apple Music to Spotify. Now I'm thinking I should move back before Spotify tries to hold my playlists hostage. Spotify Developer Platform Team, if you're listening: you're imbeciles
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by pgt 6y ago
I sat next to a guy in the petrol pump business once on a flight from a time before time (pre-COVID), so I asked him how the pump knew when to stop: he explained that the handle contained a rotating cylinder (halved in the middle) with a kn
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by pgt 6y ago
I loved using Firebase & Firestore to build MVPs, but I would advise anyone tempted to use it, to avoid it. Every time I've embraced it, I ended up having to rewrite apps shortly thereafter. Your app becomes unavoidably coupled to
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by pgt 6y ago
Where do you live? Here in South Africa if you rent a car at Johannesburg airport, the corrupt metro police are waiting for you at the airport exit to "fine" you for "incorrect driving" or having the wrong licence. Easy
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by pgt 6y ago
I can corroborate this: "If you take on a problem, one problem, like really take it on and try to develop it, you will find 100 PhDs worth of work in short order. Mind-breakingly hard problems abound when you actually try to solve hard
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by pgt 6y ago
I specifically want to fund Firefox, not this kinds of research. I will also pay something for continued Rust development.
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by pgt 6y ago
I have never heard of the other three.
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by pgt 6y ago
Yes.
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by pgt 6y ago
Long live Word Art!
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by pgt 6y ago
Of course, you also have to check that your vote was not counted for any of the other candidates.
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by pgt 6y ago
It can be verified with a pencil and piece of paper and a calculator, so anybody can do it. As long as you agree about the number of sequential primes issued, you can calculate how many votes are still outstanding and keep voting booths ope
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by pgt 6y ago
This is only a risk if ballots are not issued privately.
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by pgt 6y ago
Issue 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17... up to N for N registered voters. Mix them up and hand out randomly. So let's say you get 5 and I get 7. To vote, you cast your prime for a candidate, thereby consuming it. No two candidates can share a
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by pgt 6y ago
Maybe this is a dumb idea, but what if for each election we issued a ballot containing a unique, random, sequential prime number to every registered voter? Then, when counting the votes for each candidate we display the running product of a
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by pgt 6y ago
One quarter of which group?
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by pgt 6y ago
Safety & performance.
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by pgt 6y ago
Datalog is superior to SQL in every single way, except that very few people know it: http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
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by pgt 6y ago
I think that means no?
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by pgt 6y ago
I recall Jason Fried talking about he uses a fat whiteboard marker (as opposed to a thin marker) during concept design sessions to resist the temptation to start working on details too early.
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by pgt 6y ago
Good on you for launching. I find the percentage-based swipe input distracting. I kept thinking how the exact number is going to affect recommendations and how that is measured relative to my previous inputs. Consider showing two concepts n
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by pgt 6y ago
What is FIRE? Is that a different acronym for FU Money?
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by pgt 6y ago
Microservices are about scaling teams, not tech.
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by pgt 6y ago
I built a smart volume control system out of distributed Kalman filters + classic PID control to track the EBU-128 loudness envelope of an unknown sound source and attenuate the music gain to keep it at a comfortable level: https:/&#x

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