Malcx

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by Malcx 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV ne
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by Malcx 9mo ago
Really difficult puzzle books that will only be available in dead tree format. Extreme killer sudoku, very hard wordsearches etc. Was hoping to have these ready for Christmas season, but life as always gets in the way!
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by Malcx 2y ago
Magic links are so useful in specific circumstances. We have a client with hundreds of users that infrequently need access to a bespoke tool. Setting up and managing user accounts for them is out of the question, but a magic link letting th
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by Malcx 2y ago
That brings back memories. I entered a 2d duckhunt game in JavaScript, lots of nice comments, but no judges recognition.
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by Malcx 3y ago
No this nitpicking is people wanting to know the specs of something they might buy. What most people on HN probably think of as e-paper is not the same as and LCD tech.
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by Malcx 3y ago
You forgot the /s right? Most of the world doesn't have that kind of connection.
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by Malcx 3y ago
Gdpr means data out of my control is someone else's liability. If they want to play fast and loose, that's their look out.
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by Malcx 3y ago
I know you're /s but it's not even about privacy, it's the cost of mitigation after $cloud_service_x has a data breach and we then have to assign resources to account for _our_ clients data etc.
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by Malcx 3y ago
I can assure you 99% of my data/files never see the cloud other than as encrypted containers for backup. That's good practice for most business is it not?
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by Malcx 4y ago
Looks very nice - I see there is the ability to edit metadata, but I often have a need to strip/delete _all_ meta data from a document. Having that as a single option would be very useful...
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by Malcx 4y ago
I posted my experience in another thread a few weeks ago. No, it's not ready to wholesale replace human illustrators, but it's certainly nipping at their heels. https://malcx.com/blog/I-too-made-a-logo-using-A
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I too made a logo using AI generated images. (MidJourney rather than DALL-E 2)(malcx.com)
2 points by Malcx 4y ago|0 comments
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by Malcx 5y ago
The author, Paul Joseph Watson, is not the most honest reporter/personality out there and usually has a pretty obvious bias. Without additional, reliable, sources I'll keep this in my skeptical folder.
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by Malcx 5y ago
That sill is Google's fault as far as I'm concerned as an end user.
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by Malcx 5y ago
> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.
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by Malcx 5y ago
$1 per image? That's going to be a really tough sell based on the quality of the sample images. Without a free trial I'll never get to see if this is any good for my own stuff. ("free" means no account creation needed ev
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by Malcx 6y ago
There are plenty of us, not sure why we'd be an interesting group though?
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by Malcx 6y ago
Have you got a site/email list/github/twitter I can follow for a release announcement?
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by Malcx 6y ago
A happy user here, thanks for building it. It enforces discipline on future me.
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by Malcx 6y ago
> Batteries are consumable parts like tires and ink cartridges Then let users replace them like other consumables.
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by Malcx 6y ago
>> I mean if the jews feel attacked because their families get gassed so much, maybe they should take a closer look at themselves. Yeah I'm being facetiously inflammatory there, but c'mon you can make a better argument than
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by Malcx 6y ago
Loved that as a kid on the spectrum, a great sequel to chaos. Iirc you could actually hot seat 4 players on some maps? Check out chaos reborn on steam for a reasonable modern update.
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by Malcx 6y ago
The marketplace has some really good deals on it! Thanks for sharing.
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by Malcx 6y ago
Out of interest who are your servers with? That seems a good price and might be something I'm interested in...
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by Malcx 6y ago
Hmm it might be worth you checking out capacitor, I've shipped a couple of full featured fairly complex apps under 5mb that use the same codebase for iOS and android. I steered clear of ionic and angular developing my own framework and
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EU touts importance of ‘data for common good’ amid Covid-19 privacy concerns(euractiv.com)
4 points by Malcx 6y ago|0 comments
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by Malcx 6y ago
How many of those experts were epidemiologists or virologists? Iirc there was 1 microbiologist there but mostly people from math and physics departments. 20% or so were still PhD students...
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by Malcx 7y ago
> the community already exists, you just create a communication platform for it That gave me a minor epiphany, it flipped my understanding of communities and their relation to tech. Thanks
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Impossible Alarm Times(malcx.com)
2 points by Malcx 7y ago|0 comments
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by Malcx 7y ago
Using it to run an order scheduling system in store of an automated coffee chain startup we're developing.

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