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by richardw 6y ago
I don’t always know which are important messages until a while later. Someone mentions a useful service or name, so I search WhatsApp to find it. Moved phones recently, iOS backup was screwed up, and I lost some great covid memes and was lo
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by richardw 6y ago
Sure but each bit isn’t obvious before you’ve seen it. Lots of people you know would just chew the grains after boiling because that’s what we’ve always done. Every so often someone stops and thinks about trying to crush it. How many remote
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by richardw 6y ago
If your Roomba was programmed to hurt me I’d surround myself with power cords. This looks like us so it’s easier to see how we’re threatened by it. It’s more visceral. My cats don’t care about my vacuum but if it walked and jumped their neu
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by richardw 6y ago
I’ve wondered how extremely bright ancestors figured out the basics. Carrying water. The benefits of cooking food. How rocks or logs rolling could become a wheel. How you actually kill a large animal the first time. How to try berries in a
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by richardw 6y ago
I’m significantly more interested in saving the planet for my child than I am in driving a car with a specific powertrain. I’m pro-BEV because it seems to be a good way to move in the right direction. I drive an ICE VW but will move as soon
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by richardw 6y ago
Aside from whether it’s possible, it seems inevitable. Light does not experience time. There is no time between the emission and absorption of a photon.
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by richardw 6y ago
And which links to a kinda-recently-planned one: “ If it entered service, it would become the new largest airplane in the world.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-2500
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by richardw 6y ago
Note apps and todo list apps. There are a million ways of thinking about personal information and no chance that we’ve explored the full space (UX, focus, features, integrations) yet. - I made one around 2007. Perfect for a niche, but there
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by richardw 6y ago
Cloudflare in front of S3 and Google storage for me. Interesting that is so slow. I did some CF performance tuning while I had a page on HN and found tweaks improved the outcome hugely. (How to get the caching mechanism to actually properly
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by richardw 6y ago
One option for ADSL: power timer plug. Turn off from 3am for 5 min.
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by richardw 6y ago
There are a lot of big tech products where the megacorp has lost interest. Google has websites dedicated to listing their abandoned products or services.
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by richardw 6y ago
It’s the cost for some. If you’re rich enough you pay far less tax because you have access to an army of people whose job it is to help you do that. They leave us suckers to pay. That’s not right. I think more of people who pay their fair s
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by richardw 6y ago
Any society whose primary mindset is competing for resources will off itself long before it gets to affect anyone else. If you don’t transcend that primitive instinct, you’re already doomed.
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by richardw 6y ago
You think if Hillary went up against Trump, America would choose her 19 times out of 20? I’m not sure that makes the mental calculation any better than 95%. 95% is “Obama vs a dog”. Maybe in another country. Every 20 elections, Obama is bi
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by richardw 6y ago
I said let’s think it out. That’s an invitation to consider possibilities that might work, not a declaration that I’ve found the perfect example. Brainstorm, not argue. But hey, argue gets your rocks off, go right ahead. Feel smarter pointi
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by richardw 6y ago
My money is on e.g. Alibaba eventually doing the same to Amazon. One of them has a market that provides an obvious cost leadership advantage.
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by richardw 6y ago
I never mentioned bulk goods. I mentioned items that are time sensitive. Most e-commerce is latency sensitive. I recently started getting groceries on an hour delivery. It’s a game changer. Amazon could probably power a network like that by
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by richardw 6y ago
Let’s think it out (as in: add your thoughts). If it’s for goods, you don’t need a human size pod. You can scale pods to a size that represents goods that make sense to transport quickly. Obviously you want benefits that come from standardi
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by richardw 6y ago
Question 2, he says the CDC should be the face of the pandemic response because they’re the experts “by a lot”. He gets listened to so he does interviews. This wouldn’t be on HN if it were Fauci. And he gets to say the unedited. He can call
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by richardw 6y ago
Joburg :)
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by richardw 6y ago
I’m looking at using fiber and media converters to connect 7 houses and 2 entrances in a security estate. Main reason is to get IP cameras (and shared access to them) at various points but reduce the impact a lightning strike would have. We
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by richardw 6y ago
I was active from very early on but lost trust in SO when my best answer got turned into a community wiki. It’s an amazing resource but now I mostly consume.
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by richardw 6y ago
I’d say throw it up to the appropriate height. You don’t need exactly 10m and it’ll replicate the drop event perfectly.
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by richardw 6y ago
Very good chance most of the money is made from very few people. If you got a cut of money from advertisers targeting you, my guess is it’s be quite a bit over 5 bucks. Especially in an election year.
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by richardw 6y ago
If you’re not a woodworker, try it. I watched a bunch of YouTube and spent my December leave building my daughter a kitchen step. Such a nice experience to work with something physical. Creative and exacting. Start with a plank and an idea,
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by richardw 6y ago
Serving from S3 with Cloudflare adds tiny marginal cost to both of those companies. I moved a few static sites to that setup. Cost is in compute, storage, etc. not hosting static pages.
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by richardw 6y ago
I think it would take a lot of mosquitoes to take down a human. > True, this tiny insect does not do the job on its own. What makes it so dangerous is its capacity to transmit viruses or other parasites that cause devastating diseases. I
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by richardw 6y ago
Your friends provide you with the content, not Facebook. You only need Facebook now because you don’t have a 24/7 agent swapping content on your behalf and presenting it how you like it.
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by richardw 6y ago
I wanted this article from years ago: https://gizmodo.com/a-gasmask-becomes-the-most-terrifying-sh... Googling “gas mask shower head” gave me a Pinterest dump for pages
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by richardw 6y ago
You can’t catch cancer or Alzheimer’s, and the hospitals are set to handle the predicable case load. This is a situation where you can prevent a massive increase of simultaneous cases on top of all the cancer so people are trying to do that

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