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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I have a browser bookmark script that saves it to an Airtable table. Works like a charm, and I've saved almost 10k links in the last four years I've been using it! I occasionally go back and search for a specific link from months
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Been living in Sydney for a year, and everyone who spends time here thinks "wow the food is just as good, prices are kind of cheaper, and the city is much cleaner" Of course, it might be different if we were actual citizens and ow
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Just having the name "George Church" slapped on there means you can raise $30M and never have a way to make that money back in any way (e.g. revenue, or a business model)
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
surge.sh is very very back to basics, and is amazing for small-ish static sites
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Would be really nice if the UI and UX would be disconnected from Google, but could point to any resource, including a Google Doc or Notion (especially a specific version of those docs). Would also be nice if you could just upload stuff, lik
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Curious, how does this compare/contrast to Formance? (I haven't used either, but looking at Formance right now for tracking "IOU points" between multiple parties
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Whoa what service are you using? I’m on Vodafone 300gb plan and it’s always one bar on 5g. I rarely see speeds that fast too; downloading a game pass game is usually 1MB/s for me
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Having moved from the US to Sydney in the last year, Sydney feels like the US mid-2000's, where generally things still felt more stable, prices weren't terribly crazy (except for buying a house), and the streets are extremely safe
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
With Firebase and the rest of GCP, there's absolutely no reason why those products are as hard to use as they are. Supabase, Vercel, etc. all stepped in to fill that massive void that Google could have taken care of so long ago. IMO th
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If cars were made by bioinformaticians (2015)(blog.thegrandlocus.com)
2 points by yawnxyz 4y ago|0 comments
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Pocketbase is surprisingly easy to use to build prototypes and smaller apps! Love it so much
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I work with a bunch of researchers and physicians on antibiotic resistance every day and I had no idea (though tbf I'm just the "computer guy" here)
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
There's always a virus out there that can kill a bacteria. Or, we can just engineer one to kill a bacteria. It's just... really hard, takes weeks to months (if you're engineering, and then it's GMO, which is another can
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Yay another phage thread! Phages do work, and we've treated a small bunch of people at Phage Australia for our clinical trial. There's a few things about using phages for treatments I think everyone should be aware of: (1) phages
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I'm always put off by a server hearing my American accent and insisting / guilt-tripping that I add a tip, thinking I'm a tourist in Sydney... Yes I do tip sometimes, but only if the service has been fun / great. So off-
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
This is an interesting article that puts words into what I've been feeling and observing for a long time — at first the transition into Academia from tech felt this way (e.g. wow everyone's programmed to follow the PhD track!) to
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Is there a way to simulate a hug of death? Are there any tools or services for that? Seems like they're using Cloudflare, but maybe needs an active server connection to use the product.
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Got laid off in 2017 and never got a real job again. (I have a UX background) 1. I immediately went to Spain to do the Camino de Santiago. Was learning building web apps (Meteor) and launchd a full landing page / swing dance registrati
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I was kind of in the same position, so I found a niche where I'm both a pretty good engineer and a pretty good designer, which is the biotech / clinical trial space. (It's not hard to stand out in biotech if you do software)
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
What's the reasoning for setting the AGI at $73,000 or less? Does it go up as inflation goes up? Why not set it at $100,000 or $500,000?
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I think (and hope) it'll be fairly fragmented communities, spread across lots of apps and websites and forums for various niches. Some communities will be built Discourse, others on new apps and sites built on ActivityPub, others will
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Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Rust’ Killing(nytimes.com)
8 points by yawnxyz 4y ago|4 comments
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I think there's a big difference between "quitting" and "finishing up / wrapping up" in terms of walking away from something. "Quitting" to me implies "abandonment" or leaving before you&#x2
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
that's a great way to show off your use case with Plus Docs! This actually makes me want to check out and sign up for Plus more than the other show HN link.
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
> Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform I was visiting London and took the train in the morning to the airport (this is a really bad idea), and saw that exact
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
> The big idea is to write the comments as static HTML, only when comments change, instead of doing a database query to display them every time I'm using Cloudflare to do this, and any kind of db updates will update the cache. I&#x2
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
I'm very similar to you! I'm a research software engineer at a medical research institution in Sydney. I'm the only engineer / developer type person on my team, and I work with other microbiologists, physicians and bioin
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Is that number in the green circle just counting down way into the negative numbers for anyone else?
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
If you've ever had to deal with REDCap (a clinical trial "CRM") and its atrocious data dictionary system, CUE makes your life much easier! Just use CUE to generate all the configs for you.
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by yawnxyz 4y ago
Well, I just built and launched an HN-like headless forum system running on Sveltekit, Vercel and Airtable. There's not really any CI or microservices or anything cool. Of course it's not scalable. Is it secure? Probably not... Al

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