starwatch

7 ms·

31.
by starwatch 1y ago
There's an interesting planet money podcast[0] about SawStop and why it's not a bigger thing in the world. TLDR: the big power tool companies didn't want to pay to licence the tech, so evidently came to some mutual agreement
32.
by starwatch 1y ago
I love the idea of a single source of truth. However, how does your approach handle browsers / plugins that modify the dom? For example, I can imagine Google Translate altering the textContent and some resulting downstream effects on b
33.
by starwatch 2y ago
Sidenote, but I enjoyed seeing the squoosh maintainers talk through [1] how they diagnosed and resolved a memory leak they had a while back. [1]: https://youtu.be/YDU_3WdfkxA?si=n-ZZwRI9V51p-Pxc
34.
by starwatch 2y ago
I found this fun to play, nice work! I like the save word - and subsequent "what does it mean" section. It'd be cool to roll that into Anki or similar.
35.
by starwatch 2y ago
I've had the same experience. My new approach is to do a mental check to see if I could get the same picture from a google search. If not then I get out the camera. That in effect compels me to either enjoy the moment, or to include pe
36.
by starwatch 2y ago
True on all counts. I never got the GPG approach working - though admittedly I didn't put too much effort into figuring it out.
37.
by starwatch 2y ago
yes, exactly right. it's an encrypted binary on github, but locally (provided you've decrypted it) it'll be unencrypted. If you edit the file locally, it automatically encrypts. It's a neat bit of tech.
38.
by starwatch 2y ago
There are varying degrees to this but I'll focus on the early stage, low effort approaches I've found work. For an easy, slightly hacky version I've used git-crypt ( https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt ) wit
39.
Live SpaceX Polaris Dawn Spacewalk(youtube.com)
18 points by starwatch 2y ago|4 comments
40.
SpaceX Polaris Dawn launch – the first commercial spacewalk(spacex.com)
2 points by starwatch 2y ago|0 comments
41.
by starwatch 3y ago
GP has some good suggestions. For implementation of these, Cloudflare is a decent first stop - though they are a little hostile to non-vanilla internet users. Their free plan offers sensible security (SSL termination, WAF, DDOS protection)
42.
by starwatch 3y ago
I can see how that'd be weird for everyone to do it (unless they're themselves reviewing the PR). But in this context I am the engineering manager so it's my job to have oversight - so maybe that helps in my team? One other b
43.
by starwatch 3y ago
I've found that culture is king in terms of governing what's shipped. From day 1 new hires are looking at what their peers are doing, and more importantly what's being tolerated by the manager and the rest of the team. As an
44.
by starwatch 3y ago
I left Google Photos when they included some strangers data in my Takeout backup (and likely put my data in someone elses backup) [1]. Sadly I've not found a self-hosted like-for-like replacement. My photos now move from my phone to a
45.
by starwatch 3y ago
I bought one about a month ago. It's portable around home which is handy. It's quite big so it's less portable outside of home - but I've got books to entertain me there! I agree with the standby / sleep modes. Supe
46.
by starwatch 3y ago
I reckon you could suspend a net above each solar panel. Just make the gaps a bit smaller than the diameter of a hailstone that would cause damage. That'd be quite a bit cheaper.
47.
by starwatch 3y ago
I think the German "green" case (to a degree) comes from the Chernobyl meltdown happening relatively nearby. It is in living memory for those power so it's understandable that they shy away from it. I should add that meaningf
48.
by starwatch 3y ago
If I don my tin foil hat [1]... Nuclear is an ideal green solution for the fossil fuel industry. Why? Well, building a power station is super hard because: it's expensive, takes years and no one wants a power station in their backyard.
49.
by starwatch 3y ago
> 'correctly done' chest compressions are extremely violent. For a good visual of this take a look at a LUCAS machine in operation [1]. I'm a (retained) firefighter and have seen paramedics deploy a LUCAS - it's quite
50.
by starwatch 4y ago
I love this idea - ssh to see the jobs board. Given the current jobs available (events-producer.md, creative-technologist.md) it's good that you've got a regular webpage [0] backup! [0]: https://hackclub.com/jobs&#
51.
by starwatch 4y ago
The one thing that's kept me from SyncThing is the lack of iOS integration [1]. But the changes Apple has forced on Dropbox here is making me reconsider. [1]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues&#x2F
52.
by starwatch 4y ago
I watched this after my Physics degree and took a bunch away from it. It's brilliant in the way it brought theory down to Earth.
53.
by starwatch 4y ago
From what I can see it supports point and click via the mouse? I don't think lynx does. At least the few times I've used it I ended up using tab/cursor keys which gets a bit tedious.
54.
by starwatch 4y ago
Thanks for taking the initiative! Circle CI have also released something similar [0] linked to near the bottom of their blog post[1]. [0]: https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/CircleCI-Env-Inspector [1]: https:/&#x
55.
by starwatch 4y ago
I'd recommend you have a read about the "Sunbeam Radiant Toaster" first released in 1948 [0]! > When you stick a piece of bread into this toaster, it pushes down a series of cleverly designed levers that have just enough t
56.
by starwatch 4y ago
I recall the PayPal peeps were similarly inspired by Cryptonomicon. It's incredible how much influence Neal Stephenson's imagination has!
57.
by starwatch 4y ago
This is part of the plot of my current holiday read: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson (published 2021). Given that the startup was founded in Oct 2022 [1], I wonder if they were inspired by the book. [1]: https://makesunsets.
58.
by starwatch 4y ago
I think there are some instances where it's definitely bad. E.g. weapons that, if used, can by themselves extinguish humanity. Most instances are not that clear unfortunately - lots of sides to the story, extenuating circumstances, etc
59.
by starwatch 4y ago
Yes, the unintended side effects of HESSLA (sibling comment) were a surprise for me to read about. Thank you for the links - I'd not heard of the Hippocratic License but the criticisms are interesting.
60.
by starwatch 4y ago
If only it were that easy to do, and to enforce. Good on them for trying though - at the least it kicks off an interesting debate.

More ›