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by zkirill 3y ago
Me too. That would be very cool and I'm surprised nobody is offering this as a service.
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by zkirill 3y ago
Yes, Apple would have probably replaced it with a new one on the first visit. It sounds like the "repair shop" is milking you.
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by zkirill 3y ago
Engine mechanic on a yacht in the Mediterranean. It may just change your perspective on life, and the golden tan won't hurt.
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by zkirill 3y ago
I am curious if there is a market for a "get things done" phone that runs a RTOS like the old BlackBerries and prioritizes LTS and operational efficiency above all else. Given startup cost I assume it would be in the US$3,000+ ran
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by zkirill 3y ago
Is it realistic/practical for amateurs to collaborate on sending up a telescope on a balloon so as to elimine the lack of dark sky as a factor?
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by zkirill 4y ago
It looks like boot ROM source code is not available [1], and looks for blobs during initialization [2]. This thread makes it sound like ARM is a complete write-off in this department. [3] [1] https://community.nxp.com/t5&#x2
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by zkirill 4y ago
I was researching open source hardware and was surprised to find very few offerings: SiFive (RISC V) and Raptor Computing Systems (POWER9). Are there any other ones?
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by zkirill 4y ago
I took apart too many mechanical watches to count. My reward were the coveted rubies inside the jewel bearings. I learned how far I could take the disassembly before it would be too difficult to reassemble it back into a working watch.
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by zkirill 4y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to write and run unit tests in Rust?
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by zkirill 4y ago
I'm not sure if these are the same trains that are typically accompanied by a team of 10-15 railroad workers and a whole electric lights orchestra. It's such a treat to see them working diligently through the night, dead quiet, pa
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by zkirill 4y ago
Hi Gabriel! Thanks for the feedback. Those are all good points. We experimented with several approaches to this over the years and this one sucked the least. Our constraints are: 1) Keep things simple and easy to test and maintain. 2) Follo
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by zkirill 4y ago
I'm surprised that raw ingredient sourcing wasn't mentioned or maybe it was but I missed it. To me, reducing your intake doesn't make as much sense as paying for traceability and certification.
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by zkirill 4y ago
I am feeling relieved that there's a shiny new thing out there to distract investors, opportunists, and potential competitors, so that the rest of us can continue building in relative peace, solving immediate problems that sound less s
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by zkirill 4y ago
This is my understanding as well and my favorite protein, p53 [1], is responsible for hunting down cancerous cells. From what I remember reading in Robins Basic Pathology, it takes many steps for a cell to evolve into cancer and our body ha
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by zkirill 4y ago
Would it be legal for merchants to band together, share a pool of cards with a history of chargebacks, and block payments from those cards?
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by zkirill 4y ago
Don't think about it too much. Most of the web still runs on plain old PHP and HTML. New technologies pop up every now and then but most people who do this professionally just want something that does the job and don't talk about
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by zkirill 4y ago
python -m http.server 9000 And Bootstrap, if I'm feeling generous. When you're trying to validate a product, the last thing you should be spending your time on is fiddling with anything more complicated than this.
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by zkirill 4y ago
Good reply, thanks.
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by zkirill 4y ago
The enemy's gate is down. If a CTO brings the surface area of "built in-house" down to zero while accomplishing all of their objectives, ad infinitum, they win the game. Obviously, it would be impossible to maintain such an a
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by zkirill 4y ago
I think that the job of a CTO is to minimize the surface area of "built in-house" so that your team can focus on things for which your customers actually pay you. Sure, PostgreSQL can be used for sessions, but Redis has solved thi
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by zkirill 4y ago
Sorry for what is most certainly a naive question from someone who hasn't studied much chemistry or physics. This line stood out to me. > Locock’s rapid identification was possible because the two minerals had been synthetically cre
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by zkirill 4y ago
I always thought the term "10x engineer" was only used in job ads. Nobody I know refers to themselves (or even thinks of themselves) as a "?x engineer", unless it's for marketing purposes in which case you might as
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by zkirill 4y ago
We switched to distributing our own APK after Google forced Android App Bundles. Definitely sleep better at night because of that decision.
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by zkirill 4y ago
I’m curious how to tell if an icon pack passed any kind of i18n testing. If I remember correctly, Material Design team did lots of i18n research for their icon pack. I assume Bootstrap icons also score well, owing to the diversity of contri
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by zkirill 4y ago
Xenophon's Anabasis [1] has been on my reading list for a while but it was difficult to find a particular translation that I was interested in. However, I just checked again and saw that Loeb Classical Library now offers individual sub
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by zkirill 4y ago
I was thinking of Diageo but Heineken also fits. Festivals, clubs, and pubs often sign distribution and marketing deals with megacorps or their resellers. Pubs that stock local products or brew their own are becoming increasingly rare.
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by zkirill 4y ago
I suspect that most young people in the developed world are introduced to alcohol by megacorps who just want to sell you as much fun as you can walk away from. That is quite different from being introduced to alcohol at an early age as some
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by zkirill 4y ago
1. Have a dedicated Apple machine for Xcode. Don't put anything else on it. 2. Reformat (clean install) machine every 1-2 months. 3. Upgrade machine every 1-2 years. * Regularly export and back up your Xcode developer profiles and cert
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by zkirill 4y ago
Sure, the following challenges come to mind: * Must maintain a deep understanding of RxJS, which is its own beast. Angular team sometimes uses it in "creative" ways that change between versions in creative ways. * Must not go off
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by zkirill 4y ago
Angular markets itself as a tricycle but comes with a manual in which the first chapter after the introduction instructs you to swap out your wheels for jet engines. The learning curve and hidden complexity is absolutely insane and I would

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