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zer00eyz
2y ago
USB C mm wave "radars" that hook to home automation are a thing. Priced between 11 and 20 bucks they are fairly feature rich... If you want to roll your own check out what the folks over at ESP home have going on (google esp home
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Verifying that your vendor hasn't done anything dumb is hard. Supporting your customers when they have problems is hard. Debugging issues with a thrird party in the loop is hard. Just because you farmed out auth doesn't mean you g
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2y ago
I'm all in on making things. Cooking, sewing, home renovations, hardware... not just the hands its anything in the physical world that changes the texture of what your doing. Getting a led to blink on a new platform (the hello world of
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2y ago
How dare you look down your nose at the techonolgical magpies. They do love to collect shiny things!
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2y ago
Fair. The point stands that it it is done without thought for consequences... "overly complex" is probably a better turn of phrase (and more accurate)
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2y ago
> shell into containers The problem here is that once your in and need tooling what do you do? Your likely going to have to re-build the whole container with that tooling on board (if its even possible)... Containers aren't problem
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2y ago
> Containers and container orchestration are a NEEDED and REQUIRED piece of the technology stack in the current reality. If you're deploying NODEjs apps to the cloud, they sure are. > if you're going to have teams of people
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2y ago
Candidly, nothing. The cost/performance/value of a MacBook Air is, stupid. Buy it, buy 3 years of apple care, sell it in 2-3 years, and upgrade. The only thing that might come close is the new surface... and thats a personal call.
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2y ago
> The vast majority of web software is comically over-engineered. Im not sure downloading libraries from NPM and adding services till it works is "engineering" Im not even sure it is good or fast. I am certain that it is expens
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2y ago
Its not. The whole ecosystem around it is an example of Conways law and and a Google product. None of the people using it are google. Google, also, runs its own hardware. Shockingly it is a great product if you rent hardware, autoscaling is
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2y ago
> Money was (effectively) free so it was better to increase speed regardless of monthly bills. Jesus this. No one knows where the money goes. If you can't tell me cost per customer, per user then your business is missing key metrics
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2y ago
It's a law that limits what ByteDance, a foreign company run by a foreign government, can own and operate on US soil. Nothing in the constitution enshrines a right for a foreign company or government. This law changes nothing for US Ti
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2y ago
Just so we are clear: your fine with china owning a media company in the US, because it would be "isolationist and supremacist" to do other wise? And you make this statement with full knowledge that China does not let us do the sa
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2y ago
Gertrude Stein said about Oakland, California (fitting its the bay): “There is no there, there!” I think this sums up the state of AI.
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2y ago
People want pickups that are efficient and do work. The old 4 banger shit box 2 wheel drive Toyota that you rode till it turned to rust. Give me something that seats two, has ac and a radio (no giant screen) can fit a tool box and a sheet o
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2y ago
This isn't about morality. Would any of those countries let us run a service with the same scale or influence in their borders? (Is there any non state media in those countries). You're comparing the banality of "corporate ev
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You should look up the laws around television. This concept is not without precedent. https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli ... Were not limiting any ones right to speak, were restricting who can
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2y ago
You mean what china did to Twitter, Facebook, Google.... This move is not without president. Look up the law on foreign ownership of traditional media... extending it to the web in this case, is a no brainer.
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2y ago
> It's also isolationist, supremacist, deeply unconstitutional and categorically stupid. 'You will eat only the info we allow you' has never lead anywhere smart. You should look up the laws around television. This concept
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2y ago
Scrum, as it is practiced, is all the shitty parts of water fall without any of the work being put in on the business side. Candidly what every org is missing: accounting. IN a very literal sense. How much time did we spend on a feature, wh
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2y ago
VC... I think, short of you being deep into ML that VC's are moot now. A small team, or a single person, can solve a problem and ship at low (real dollar) costs. And keep those costs not only reasonable but tied to revenue. Solve the s
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2y ago
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageClaim.htm Do not stop, do not pass go, go right to filing a wage claim. Then start looking for lawyer, you might need one.
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2y ago
I will take the good advice from the future...
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> Yet another example of people blaming chaos This isn't how this works, at all. We are talking about large scale systems on long timelines that have massive momentum and energy. Predicting something 18 months out isn't hard (F
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> Doctors and the FDA etc were straight up lied to Oh please. Doctors, did not believe the preponderance of evidence that ulcers were caused by bacteria. The reason, the person who discovered it was a vet. They had to give the man a Nobe
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> total amount prescribed opioids through time This... Dr were involved too! > long term pain management opioids suck Opioids suck. And the medical profession was complicit. For a class that is supposed to be professional and well inf
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> The idea is to replace TEUs with smaller more manageable standard though. SO a pallet? > proposal is like one cubic meter boxes with max of 100kg. A pallet, the normal shitty wooden ones are rated for 10x that much mass. A cheap pa
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LOL... And then there is Golang. SQLC ( https://sqlc.dev ) becomes a source of truth not a sink... mix in some yaml and you have your json tags and validation mixed in. Candidly good engineers are still using SQL...
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Parallel Systems is a company that proposed to do just that... only it's dumb. (like humane pin dumb)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNvpG5gktM
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2y ago
Sure and the mass of a package is what? 50lbs max? Long distance = High volume = weight/mass. The laws of physics aren't changing any time soon. redirecting a cargo container like a box shooting through a warehouse would not end w
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