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by scottbez1 1y ago
Two bits of advice: just jump in, and set reasonable expectations for yourself. Robotics is a field filled with layers upon layers of complexity, theory, and real-world problems. Those at the top of the game (think robust dog robots, walkin
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by scottbez1 1y ago
The other good reason to choose congestion pricing as the start to breaking the chicken/egg problem is that, outside of NYC and maybe Chicago, public transit in the US is primarily buses on streets shared with car traffic. It's ha
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by scottbez1 1y ago
You're attacking a strawman; anti-competitive behavior doesn't require that you do exactly the thing you prohibit others from doing. It can be anti-competitive to use your market control to restrict competition in ways that break
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Google has a history of creating first-party-only APIs to give their own Android apps an edge. In 2014 Google split their drive app into multiple separate Android apps for docs, sheets, etc. Obviously getting users to install and migrate to
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Let's do both! In neighborhoods, street design is going to be far more effective than things like electronic speed limiting, speed cameras, etc. But for dedicated rights of way for high throughout vehicle traffic, limiting speeds to en
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by scottbez1 1y ago
Sure. Or if you don't want to have to tow a non-street-legal vehicle to move it on public streets, we could probably include a provision for GPS/vision-based dynamic speed limiting, allowing you to make your vehicle automatically
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by scottbez1 1y ago
In theory, yes. In practice typical insurance requirements are already far below realistic modern-day damages possible from vehicular collisions, and people still routinely drive without even that minimal insurance. Without better mechanism
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by scottbez1 2y ago
I recognize that anti-abuse is a neverending cat and mouse game, and hindsight is 20/20, but it seems like malicious activity like this should be easily detected - how often does a legitimate account suddenly post 300 issues across man
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Tell HN: Beware phishing via GitHub Issues notifications
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Will they be sending all customers "Audio recording in progress" signs to post at the entrance of their homes? Or will the Alexa now say "By continuing to talk to this device you consent to audio recordings" every time t
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by scottbez1 2y ago
But, "we have x million monthly users _in Arizona_" would be using your personal data, from a legal standpoint. And if they provide that aggregate data in exchange for money, they are selling your personal data (but not in the way
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by scottbez1 2y ago
CCPA/CPRA has no private right of action for this kind of thing. Only the CA AG can bring forth claims, and penalties would be paid to the state, not individuals, in that case.
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And if everyone switches to Librewolf, Librewolf will die because Mozilla will no longer make money and won't be able to devote resources towards maintaining upstream Firefox. I use Firefox. I hate ads. I don't love that Mozilla e
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by scottbez1 2y ago
You're mixing concepts. In the EU you'll generally pay VAT on all imports, but there are still often de minimis rules for import tariffs . This is not unlike the US - I have to always pay sales tax on imports regardless of va
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by scottbez1 2y ago
> Maybe you can source from ShenZhen in person but I'm not sure how the Custom office deals with this. I guess it's OK as long as you don't bring in quantity. Historically this was true, because the de minimis exemption me
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by scottbez1 2y ago
I run a tiny (<$30k annual revenue and much much smaller profit, or negative if I paid myself an hourly wage) side business that relies on custom manufacturing of open source hardware products I've designed. So very much not a &quot
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Just got a JLCPCB order this week (below $800) via UPS and it arrived no problem with no tariffs since the de minimis exemption is temporarily still active from the latest of the tariffs EOs. In the past with a DHL order over $800 they just
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by scottbez1 2y ago
And yet, despite the wild west regulatory situation you claim, bicycles kill and injure way fewer people than cars, and don't require insurance because it's nearly impossible to cause the level of damage with a bike as even a mino
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Started on a VPS and then scaled to a single larger dedicated server through a hosting company. It was never doing crazy amounts of traffic, maybe 1-2k concurrent users at peak, and the frontend was just doing slow polling every few seconds
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Yeah. As a high schooler I just wanted to use AIM on it, but all the web-based AIM clients required Flash at the time, which wasn't supported in the PSP browser. So I ended up hacking together a site called AIMonPSP with PHP and MySQL
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by scottbez1 2y ago
The m5stack dial is just a screen with rotary input ring, but doesn't have haptic feedback. They actually just launched a new product the roller485 or rollerCAN that in theory is a nice off-the-shelf BLDC haptic knob, but I haven'
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Haha, I've built at least 5 of them and my problem is that I enjoy the hardware/design portion as a hobby, but writing the software to put them to use feels too much like my day job, so I haven't actually done anything too us
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Oh, hi, creator of the SmartKnob (mentioned in the article) here - I'm continually blown away by how much UX discussion it has generated over the years! One of the things I regret a bit about the prototype and demo I originally shared
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Do you have a citation for that claim? I've not seen a claim that none of the material had copyright before.
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Or the official California legislature site: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Hmm this is really different than my experience with a 2018 Crosstrek, so maybe things have changed? When I bought it, Subaru was among the earlier CarPlay/Android Auto adopters (we specifically ruled out a new model year Prius because
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Top speed, sure, but for typical commuter heavy-rail, a non-express train isn't running at top speed for all that long. Diesel-electric trains take a LOT longer to accelerate compared to a modern EMU, so much so that Caltrain's el
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by scottbez1 2y ago
This is super cool! As a regular BART commuter I always thought it'd be fun to try and build a location classifier based on the screeches in different tunnel locations, but using accelerometer data is probably much more practical.
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by scottbez1 2y ago
I'm building a collator robot [0] to help me pack items I sell for building your own open source split-flap mechanical display [1]. I get custom character flaps printed and die-cut in bulk and then sell them in smaller sets. A full set
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Heh, I never worked on iOS but based on what I heard from our iOS team at the time, I don't think iOS was any better. Though a lot of the frustrations back then were largely app review issues rather than API stability, like trying to p

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