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by tga 8y ago
It looks like the left-pad incident has collectively taught us nothing and has had no lasting effects. One of the things that bothers me the most is over and over casually downloading 1568 independently controlled packages from a free-for-a
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by tga 8y ago
At its core, Google Keep is a relatively simple web app. Especially for a low traffic scenario, literally any web framework/library and combination will be good enough. You need storage, a backend, and a front end, either all from th
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by tga 8y ago
You don't need to look farther than the homepage to get an idea of what Dokku does: Once it's set up on a host, you can push Heroku-compatible applications to it via Git. They'll build using Heroku buildpacks and then run i
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by tga 8y ago
Definitely, only with less functionality and not as pretty.
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by tga 8y ago
How about because it directly works on all platforms, mobile + desktop? Also it looks like it's the platform the author was most proficient in, which is always a good reason when choosing your stack.
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by tga 8y ago
You can find notes on the book (most relevant ideas really) at https://sivers.org/book/DeepWork
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by tga 8y ago
Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe, Chevy Bolt, and the list goes on -- all boring little EVs. The huge displays and app store are the exception, not the rule.
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by tga 8y ago
It managed a local photo library without uploading everything to the cloud.
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by tga 8y ago
Yes, someone with a strong competency developing software in any language should be able to learn to write Assembly/any other language. There will be a learning curve, but the ability to reason abstractly is fully transferable.
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by tga 8y ago
How about a $15.88, small but surprisingly capable, NEXX WT3020? [0] [0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wifi-Router-NEXX-WT3020H-300... [1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/nexx/wt3020
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by tga 8y ago
The board in Utrecht Centraal (the Netherlands) was taken down a few years ago, but you can still enjoy it in all its clackety goodness as https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/blauwe-bord/id474162209 -- developed
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by tga 8y ago
If looking at alternatives, a close project is Lektor -- static web generator with a web interface and easy cloud sync for non-CLI contributors. https://www.getlektor.com
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by tga 8y ago
If you can live with some manual work and no OCR, the digital version of a filing cabinet is scanning everything as (multi-page) PDFs and naming the files like "2018-07-24 #invoice #ACME #business.pdf". Then you can easily find th
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by tga 8y ago
This is a pretty basic to do app that can't even measure up to Wunderlist, that they bought and sidelined ages ago (e.g. last I tried it, it had no comments to allow collaboration on tasks), let alone add anything interesting.
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by tga 8y ago
Depending on the language, they might not prevent anything because asserts can/will be ignored in production. See for example Java, python -O.
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by tga 8y ago
For the washer I don't use the switch at all. The only time so far I used both the switch and the power monitor was on the Christmas tree, because I was curious how much it cost to run ($3 or so overall iirc).
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by tga 8y ago
My solution for this was an ESP8266-based Sonoff POW (wireless smart switch and power monitor), running Tasmota, sending data through MQTT to Home Assistant, scripted to send notifications through Telegram. https://www.itead.cc&#
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by tga 8y ago
I expect most ads are <30s, most songs are >2m.
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by tga 8y ago
How about a third option, ads are by definition short and repeat a lot. No fancy ML needed, after a couple of times the filter gets one of these repeating fragments it should be able to block it. Fairness bonus: you get to hear each new ad
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by tga 8y ago
Consistency is what draws me to material design, despite its usability shortcomings. Unless the goal is to create art, consistency is a great thing for both users, who can eventually learn what's going on, no matter how bad the met
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by tga 8y ago
Contrary to many here, I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly . The Japanese pointing-and-calling technique comes to mind as a good example of keeping drivers engaged
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by tga 8y ago
One example is Open-Xchange [ https://www.open-xchange.com ] They make an open source webmail + drive + docs suite, and sell a commercial version (e.g. to ISPs). The software is great and they're still around, so it must be w
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by tga 8y ago
I think you can have links on Android using something like Termux [ https://termux.com ] (but you probably won't enjoy it that much on a small screen with a touch keyboard).
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by tga 9y ago
It is possible to connect an Excel spreadsheet directly as an ODBC data source to Access. Then you can run SQL queries, views, reports on the data, without having to export or modify it in any way.
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by tga 9y ago
http://djangoframework.com is overall one of the best documented + most stable web frameworks out there. Besides the actual functionality, that you can also get from smaller libraries, you want a framework because it gives you s
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by tga 9y ago
Good news, ZFS also runs on Linux. http://zfsonlinux.org https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS
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by tga 9y ago
It's hardware, not software :-) "The lightboard itself is made up of a heavy duty frame, a 3/8” sheet of low iron glass (commercial name starphire,) and a string of LEDs to wrap the edges of the glass to shoot light inward to
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by tga 9y ago
Chrome apps on desktops are dead. https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
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by tga 9y ago
The HomePod already has eight speakers inside.
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by tga 9y ago
If you want a small, USB-powered wifi device running OpenWRT, and you don't need the card reader, you might have a better time with a NEXX WT3020F[0]. [0] http://www.dx.com/p/NEXX-WT3020F-Portable-Mini-300Mbps-Wire

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