timdorr

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by timdorr 5y ago
Is there any place on your site to see what this actually looks and functions? I see a lot of descriptions of the problems and generalities on what you're doing to solve them, but little of the actual specifics. I'm getting the se
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by timdorr 5y ago
They use this package under the hood: https://github.com/jdxcode/smooth-progress It uses glyphs of boxes that have varying widths. When joined together, they appear as a solid bar.
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by timdorr 5y ago
It's like Show HN and Reddit combined. Comments and upvotes on brand new products and services. For founders/makers, it's obviously a great source of traffic, leads, and exposure for your product. For users, it's more ab
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by timdorr 5y ago
QSBS caps at $10m. That's a drop in the bucket, relatively speaking. If Ben and Dan split it 50/50, that's $6b each and they would each be looking at $1.2b in capital gains tax.
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by timdorr 5y ago
Also, only the backend is written in Rust. The desktop client is an Electron app: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop
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by timdorr 5y ago
The current Model Y already gets 594km of range: https://www.tesla.cn/modely This would only be a 8% increase.
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by timdorr 5y ago
What's kind of bonkers here is that IndexedDB uses sqlite as its backend. So, this is sqlite (WASM) -> IndexedDB -> sqlite (native). The Internet is a wild place...
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Absurd-SQL – Use sqlite3 on the web with storage in IndexedDB(github.com)
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by timdorr 5y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/all-pricing
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by timdorr 5y ago
Here's Facebook's blog post about this situation: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/research-cannot-be-the-jus...
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by timdorr 5y ago
But it is not personal data that would identify you (PII). If someone was able to determine who I was based solely on my browsing activity on Amazon, then they've already obtained my personal information.
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by timdorr 5y ago
Most of the discussion behind this decision, including feedback directly from Evan You (author of Vue), is here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180 It's pretty interesting to read through.
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by timdorr 5y ago
Yes, the Quest 1/2 and Rift S do "inside out" tracking. They have 4 cameras (5 on the Rift S) on each corner of the front face plate that tracks the headset and controller positions in 3D space (in addition to internal accele
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by timdorr 5y ago
I think you can keep it focused as long as there is good isolation between each startup. So, my thought is this: - Make each startup have a top level comment. - In the OP self text, include the company name, tagline, and intro paragraph. Be
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by timdorr 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27863941
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by timdorr 5y ago
You don't need a Steam account if you're not using the default Steam Deck install. Wipe it and install TempleOS. > Do I need a Steam account to use Steam Deck? > The default Steam Deck experience requires a Steam account (it
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by timdorr 5y ago
I wonder if they will list themselves on their IPO access offering: https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/ipo-access/ It's going to be interesting to buy Robinhood with Robinhood...
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by timdorr 5y ago
It's the software engineer's EGOT
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by timdorr 5y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27296014
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by timdorr 5y ago
Did you see the demo on their home page? https://sli.dev/
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by timdorr 5y ago
Aditya's advisor [1] is one of the co-authors of the paper. He at least knew about this work and was very likely involved with it. [1] https://adityapakki.github.io/assets/files/aditya_cv.pdf
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by timdorr 5y ago
It's not a rental fee for the device, it's a subscription fee for the content that can be used on it. You can still use the bike as a plain exercise bike without a subscription. It's the same thing as buying a Roku and paying
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by timdorr 6y ago
https://vectorized.io/redpanda/ is a more useful link, since the main domain appears to have some JS errors right now.
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by timdorr 6y ago
Is there some backstory on this? It looks like it's modelled after a real person. Perhaps one of its creators?
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by timdorr 6y ago
That would be the case if PD were the ones manufacturing the bags for Amazon. They do not. Amazon is certainly allowed to make their own bags that fulfill the same function as PD's bags. What they're not allowed to do is to copy a
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by timdorr 6y ago
It isn't. This is just the CLI client to their API service. All scanning happens on their servers based on data extracted by the CLI.
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by timdorr 6y ago
Fun fact, this is running on my watch right now. Fitbit (by way of their Pebble acquisition) uses it to power their watch faces and apps. It let's developers use a high-level language like JavaScript to build for their platform, which
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by timdorr 6y ago
Well, that would be what they're doing here, no?
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by timdorr 6y ago
Yeah, the React parts of this are very minimal. I'm not really sure what using it gets you, since it just manages a single div. The _actual_ library that does all the work is here: https://github.com/felixpalmer/pr
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by timdorr 6y ago
Google has claimed they will bump it to 300K for Chrome 89: https://9to5google.com/2020/12/09/chrome-88-beta-extension-m...

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