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by _adamb 10mo ago
As a EE nerd, I love this project. As a parent, it's the sort of toy I want to smash as the repetition drives me insane. What should I make that captures the awesomeness of this project without the insanity? Hmm...
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by _adamb 2y ago
As someone who has done this to many games over a few decades, I can definitively say: 100% of the time, it ruins the fun of the game. I can't say exactly why. Maybe you feel like you haven't earned it. Maybe it's the idle na
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by _adamb 2y ago
I run tech at a venture studio (gateway.xyz) and I _rely_ on part time developers. None of our businesses sell software and none have any full time engineering support. That said, there are lots of little tools that have been custom built t
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by _adamb 2y ago
We use MUX now. They have excellent support (They've helped us fix a number of things that we screwed up ourselves) & a very reliable service.
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by _adamb 2y ago
I've never used imgix but I find Cloudinary (and specifically the Media Optimizer product) to be extremely reliable, reasonably priced, and as close to zero-maintenance as a thing can be.
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by _adamb 2y ago
We actually switched FROM cloudflare TO cloudinary. CF seemed cheaper, but we found the service, the dashboard, and the service to be wildly erratic. Price went all over the place, we'd get double billed, the dashboard would stop worki
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by _adamb 2y ago
We have a slack channel, #aws-budget-alerts, where AWS sends a notification any time our forecasted spend reaches certain milestones or the actual spend reaches certain milestones. It's a really easy to set up app!
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by _adamb 2y ago
Me too! I've normalized it in our organizations. We use a combination of app scripts and what we call "Single Button Apps" that are web pages that have a text box (paste the URL of the Gsheet) and a "go" button. The
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by _adamb 3y ago
Fun! It's very pretty. I'd love to see you keep developing around this (same game or similar games). You've got an eye for it for sure.
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by _adamb 3y ago
Good question. Most turmeric roots I've bought aren't nearly as bright orange as the powered stuff. I _assume_ that means they're not applying the same chromate brightening agent but it's not impossible. I guess I'l
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by _adamb 3y ago
If you're consuming it as a supplement it's a lot cheaper (and safer) to just make it yourself. The process is basically: cut it up into thin slices, dry it out in the oven, grind it up. If you're not taking it in supplement
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by _adamb 3y ago
I find the pattern of "How are you feeling about X, 0-10?" followed up by "What would get you to a 10?" very useful. Almost nobody ever says 10 and when they do, when you pressure test it, "So, everything is 100% pe
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by _adamb 3y ago
The best way to learn is to build something for someone else. When someone else sets the requirements you have to engage in real problem solving and research the best tech to solve the problem. This keeps you from following just the easiest
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by _adamb 4y ago
Can you explain more? It seems like you're arguing with yourself. You say if we ban one substance, they'll just come out with a less tested, less understood, and likely worse new one. I probably agree with this! Then you say we ha
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by _adamb 4y ago
This could be true, but isn't the whole story. Cars tend to be sold more and more as they age, for lower and lower prices. In fact, where I live (Honduras), many of the vehicles were "totaled" in the US, sold as salvage in th
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Ask HN: Smart Board and iPad App
2 points by _adamb 4y ago|3 comments
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by _adamb 4y ago
Yeah, I would like a test device that could let me know which transfer rates a cable supports. I've got a huge pile of USBC cables (and adapters). A good chunk of them might even be USB 2.0! It seems like a device capable of acting as
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by _adamb 4y ago
yeah! I was looking forward to seeing my score & results and then it was all just gone!
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by _adamb 4y ago
I usually create an abstraction like this in an API to require all returned errors to come with some sort of machine readable code. You either have to classify this response with an existing code in the list or add a new one. That list then
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by _adamb 4y ago
Pretty much anything engineered (buildings, bridges, electronics, houses, ...) have a death date. Any civil engineering projects I've been a part of have always had a quantified project lifetime. We _could_ build things that lasted hun
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by _adamb 4y ago
I've received damaged products from AliExpress a handful of times and found their resolution team/procedures to be fantastic. You can submit a claim which the seller responds to. If the seller doesn't respond fast enough, AE
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by _adamb 5y ago
I agree. It would be much more readable if it simply had a few comments too (something that can't really exist in a 1-liner) and is infinitely flexible (ex: for each match, also make an API call).
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by _adamb 5y ago
This could be true, or it could recognize that it is running in a VM and change its behavior. This is a somewhat common trait of malware meant to throw off security researchers.
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by _adamb 5y ago
This will ultimately just create a larger market for ransomware insurance. Insurance premiums are likely the lowest cost compared to 1) paying the fines or 2) actually improving security. Most businesses already have some form of insurance
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by _adamb 6y ago
Is anyone selling (or open sourcing) a solution like this? I would love to feed our company's reviews into a program that could generate a bulleted list like this to summarize what our customers are saying.
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by _adamb 6y ago
I was hoping they would charge me a nickel to view the site...
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by _adamb 6y ago
It can see through clouds and take pictures at night!
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FCC Votes to Open 5.9GHz for WiFi [pdf](docs.fcc.gov)
2 points by _adamb 6y ago|0 comments
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by _adamb 6y ago
My guess is that lots of the no-status ones there are chugging along just fine. No exit, no death. I'm part of Tovala (W16) and in our case, no-status means still in business. I can confirm that's the case for a handful of others
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by _adamb 6y ago
I just visited, post 50% volume adjustment (I love this sort of thing!), and immediately my speakers crunched with sawtooth grunge and other sounds. I don't think I've ever closed a tab faster. You really should take parsecs'

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