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by sowbug 1y ago
The cost-benefit analysis has changed. It's now easier to build something indulgently complex -- something of larger scale than a "side project" -- for just a few people.
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by sowbug 1y ago
People have been buying subscription cars for years. Buy a car on credit. Stop paying the installments, and the car goes away, just like a subscription. The analogy isn't perfect. But the way the money moves, and the effect of not payi
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by sowbug 1y ago
> its Muphry's Law strikes again.
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by sowbug 1y ago
I think the point was that streaming services freak out if you connect from a disapproved IP address.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Any remote control's microcontroller would be in deep sleep most of the time, and computationally expensive key exchange would be rare. I have a few of these ESP-8266 remotes, and battery life is fine. https://github.com&#x2
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by sowbug 1y ago
If you already have a Framework laptop, it's nice to be able to reuse the extra cards that you might have lying around. "Leveraging the benefits of the Framework ecosystem," as a marketing person might say.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Read the original quote for full context.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Garlic takes a long time, but it's easy and doesn't take up much space. It also repels some critters that might otherwise help themselves to your crops.
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by sowbug 1y ago
The electrical is relatively easy. It's not much harder than replacing a frayed power cord on a lamp (with an extra wire if the unit is 220 rather than 110). Managing the lineset is the scary part (though it's not that hard). You&
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by sowbug 1y ago
> I think it's a reasonable stance to not want other companies to profit from my hard work For me, the dividing line is whether someone else's profit is at my expense . If I sell a book, and someone starts hawking cheaper phot
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What am I falling in love with? Human-AI relationships no longer just sci-fi(cnbc.com)
2 points by sowbug 1y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 1y ago
It doesn't infringe any kind of intellectual property. This isn't copyright infringement; it isn't based on the original assembly code or artwork. A game concept can't be copyrighted. Even if one of SI's game mechan
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by sowbug 1y ago
Some recent work here: https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic4119999.html At least some Della mini splits are manufactured by Align, and they use a Tuya networking module.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Anything similar for Della? I don't even know who their OEM is.
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by sowbug 1y ago
See Rust's golden rule: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/rusts-golden-rule
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by sowbug 1y ago
Even well-written code can be hard to understand -- practically impossible, even -- if what it's doing is sufficiently complex. Cryptography and certain areas of graphics have humbled me, for instance. I followed the flow, and I apprec
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Increase of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis(theguardian.com)
9 points by sowbug 1y ago|1 comments
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Fintech platform Wealthfront files for IPO(reuters.com)
3 points by sowbug 1y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 1y ago
Flat Stanley was mailed to California. If I recall correctly, his parents saved on postage because he was flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley
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by sowbug 1y ago
Your project is vastly more specified than a toy project, because it has a real customer (you) who will expect it to work after it ships. That expectation is what separates toys from real tools. I bet you could write a word processor in an
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by sowbug 1y ago
You're conflating determination of factual and legal questions (out of scope) with modeling the decision tree (in scope and useful). The function you ask about would be "getDeductiblePercentage()," and the unit tests would re
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by sowbug 1y ago
The interpretation aspect isn't solvable in code, but it's representable. That's what I was getting at with the Boolean comment. A branch point might be "bool answerUnanswerableQuestion()" and the unit tests would m
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by sowbug 1y ago
Imagine this source code becoming the unit tests for the legal code. Future tax-code changes would be accompanied by corresponding changes in GitHub. Inconsistencies would surface as new code and tests break the old ones. As courts introduc
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by sowbug 1y ago
Big Clive, too. https://youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom He buys cheap crap, takes it apart, and usually infers a schematic. He also admires or critiques the designs. After a while you'll notice patterns.
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by sowbug 1y ago
The size and cost are easily solvable. Load the software and hardware into a space probe, along with enough solar panels to power it. Include some magnets, copper, and sand for future manufacturing needs, as well as a couple electric motors
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by sowbug 1y ago
Those of you who have used psychedelics might have personal experience with this question. There can be moments of lucidity during a psychedelic session where it's easy to think of discrete collections as systems, and to imagine those
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by sowbug 1y ago
Greenlancer will draw up code-compliant plans that you can submit to your local building permit agency, and they'll revise if anything needs it. It cost less than $400 last year. You've done enough research that they'll be ab
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by sowbug 1y ago
OT: someone please make a RPi image that "prints" a page to an eink display. I want to duct-tape an RPi Zero and a rechargeable battery to the back of a display, then be able to print recipes to it while cooking. Other people migh
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by sowbug 1y ago
Coinbase is a bridge between digital currencies and the traditional world.
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by sowbug 1y ago
You say this as if the domestic seller wouldn't also raise prices.

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