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by qrohlf 4y ago
I also wrote my own system for pretty much this exact purpose, although instead of emailing me reminders, it just lets me record notes on a map and then I skim that map whenever I am planning a trip to a given country or region. It's o
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Responding to the (surprisingly passionate?) comments below – this word choice was poor, I should have probably said something along the lines of "this is one of the products on the market that is least subject to major thermal thrott
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Funny that they clearly use a macbook as their "generic spinning laptop" image in the product video since this is sort of the one category of general computing device in which thermals seem to be more or less a solved problem due
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Off-topic, but what do you use for your "geographical address book"? I would love to have something that showed all my contacts on a map, but haven't run into any software that does this ever.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1976 version of “Tron.”(nytimes.com)
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by qrohlf 4y ago
I both agree and disagree with this take. I started out hand-coding static html pages, graduated to Drupal and Wordpress php stuff circa 2009 (glad that's over!), then worked on a largely server-rendered Rails SAAS in the APM space tha
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Seems like a half-baked agency-built version of htmx[1], no? I'm actually very intrigued by the whole "let's take a step back and move a lot of our logic back to the server" approach to modern dev, but IMO when you need
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by qrohlf 4y ago
One thing that folks may find interesting about this project on a technical level is that it's fully stateless including the backend that's responsible for interacting with Stripe Checkout, processing payments, and sending emails
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Author here - interesting to see this pop up on HN again! Since there are a lot of questions in the comments that might be answered by prior writing/discussions, here are a couple relevant links: 0. Trianglify.io is a GUI for my GPL-li
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Basically, yes! Since the fundamental functionality is powered by my (free) open-source library, trianglify.io is a time-saving tool for those who want a quick GUI instead of having to download and learn the npm library. It's part of a
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by qrohlf 4y ago
As a small business owner myself, this resonates. I would love to be in a position to be able to confidently pay money to other professionals to make problems go away. Unfortunately, my overall experience has been that hiring any “expert” i
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Appreciate the response. One thing I've struggled with in threejs is what coordinate system to use when pulling in data sources. Obviously UTM and lat/lon are inappropriate when you're dealing with a slice of terrain in 3d li
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by qrohlf 4y ago
I was actually just sharing this site with some coworkers last week as an impressive example of 3d activity visualization done right! Map nerd and FKTer here working in a very similar space, I have a ton of questions! I'd love to hear
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by qrohlf 5y ago
I experienced this in the extreme recently. I'm a very experienced dev in a very in-demand field. Money is not a huge priority for me in my career. Flexibility is. I have a proven track record of success in part-time roles after conver
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The Volumetric Efficiency of Trekking Pole Shelters (2019)(intocascadia.com)
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by qrohlf 5y ago
There’s a really good podcast about why you can’t get middle eastern mangoes in the USA, and the resulting smuggling operations that have sprung up to serve this niche - “Underground Aams Trade”. Highly recommended. https://podca
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by qrohlf 5y ago
My favorite example of this is the fact that in the film "Knives Out", the looming oil painting of Harlan (the murdered patriarch) was actually just a green square all throughout filming - the oil painting itself was digitally com
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by qrohlf 5y ago
I run a design asset generator based on my open source library, Trianglify: https://trianglify.io/ It currently does about $500/mo from a combination of asset purchases and ethical (Carbon Ads) non-tracking advertising
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by qrohlf 5y ago
This is an unusual thing to find myself typing in a HN thread, but this could use a spoiler tag, as I did not expect to have tomorrow’s challenge ruined for me by a technical blog post.
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by qrohlf 5y ago
This particular rabbit-hole of irrationality goes deep; some audiophiles go as far as to have a private power grid connection to improve the "quality" of their music (paywalled WSJ link): https://www.wsj.com/arti
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by qrohlf 5y ago
> Recruiters love phone calls and don’t like doing things over email or text. This means that it is very easy to get overwhelmed by the number of recruiters trying to call you, and we will explore time management a little further down th
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by qrohlf 5y ago
Interesting how you can see the chromatic aberration on the bomber but not the ground. I guess that this implies that the optical and/or software correction that they're doing only works within a _very_ narrow focal plane, given t
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by qrohlf 5y ago
Not entirely dissimilar to my own pattern generation tool, https://trianglify.io/ How are you doing the color palettes? Is it fully random or using some kind of picker algorithm?
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by qrohlf 5y ago
They changed it, you get a total before ordering now
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by qrohlf 5y ago
Oh man. I wish I had the pages of manual PID tuning notes from when I was doing work with autonomous quadrotors in university to show what this thing replaces. Something like this would have saved me a massive amount of time, thanks for mak
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by qrohlf 6y ago
Matt Levine’s Bloomberg column applies a similar savvy dry humor to finance topics, I don’t actually care much for finance but I read it because it’s great writing and illustrates how to make dense and uninteresting topics approachable and
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by qrohlf 6y ago
I’ve had some brief run-ins with R, and it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t have a versioning story for packages, and that the patched-in system described here is based on dates rather than something like a SHA or version number... My
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by qrohlf 6y ago
I was a very happy Codekit user way back in my undergrad days when I hand coded html landing pages as a side hustle. Glad to see Bryan is still making useful, well-marketed apps
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by qrohlf 6y ago
This is obviously marketing disguised as satire, but in the interest of maybe providing some info that's useful to someone in the comments section I'm going to jump in here with a middle-of-the road story. I make ~$500/mo off
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by qrohlf 6y ago
A lot of people here are recommending stacks that have worked for them, or cautioning against over-engineered stacks that didn't. All of that is useful, but I'd boil a lot of this down to one simple axiom: If you're a profess

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