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by dhotson 2mo ago
Hah nice! I made something a bit like this too: ssh paint.dn.ht It's using kitty/iTerm2/Ghostty image placement + pixel mouse reporting support for drawing. ..and for more fun: ssh ski.dn.ht :-)
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Show HN: ssh paint.dn.ht
3 points by dhotson 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 2mo ago
Unrelated, but I highly recommend this short sci-fi-ish story by Robin Sloan :) https://www.robinsloan.com/stories/sleep-consultant/
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C Craft(www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
7 points by dhotson 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dhotson 2mo ago
Yeah, it's tricky because basically all solar arrays (rooftop and utility) all come online at more-or-less the same time so there's a huge influx of supply which drives the price down. You can get a sense of it if you look at the
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by dhotson 2mo ago
Yeah totally, nice to be able to put the AC/heater on "for free". I even got a negative power bill once! In my specific case, I barely use much power so home solar covers basically all of the usage, my bill is dominated by th
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by dhotson 2mo ago
Yeah, it's been great to see the uptake of rooftop solar in Australia. One downside is that large scale solar projects aren't profitable any more. It kind of sucks for the investors that adopted green tech, that they aren't g
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by dhotson 3mo ago
Heya, fellow Aussie here. Have you ever tried contacting your local MP? I was cynical at first like you, thinking why bother. But when I tried it, turned out I was wrong and I actually had a pretty good experience! The way I see it now, is
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by dhotson 4mo ago
I work at Influx ( https://influx.com ) which is human powered customer support. We've found that inevitably AIs have some error rate and customers want to escalate to a person. Our strategy has moved to: - Let humans do the
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Dog Spinner(pigenpalace.com)
2 points by dhotson 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 1y ago
Good to know.. if you defraud the Australian government and misuse tax payers money... the consequences are: partial refund.
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by dhotson 1y ago
Can you do a reverse pushup? i.e. start in a plank and lower yourself down? Doing it like that (especially if you can do it as slowly as possible) can help get you strong enough to do one normal pushup.
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by dhotson 1y ago
Now that AI has ruined the emdash for punctuation enthusiasts like us... I've been thinking of switching to the double emdash (⸺) and worst case, fellow humans, there's always the triple: ⸻
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by dhotson 2y ago
I'm just catching up.. can someone please explain why this part is unreasonable? - WordPress code is open-source. - WP Engine is entitled to use the source code. I don't see how that entitles a for-profit entity such as WP Engine,
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Australian Energy(dn.ht)
3 points by dhotson 2y ago|2 comments
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by dhotson 2y ago
Yeah nah, for me it's exactly that: plain html/js/css files. For simple things, I copy/paste.. not a big deal. If it's getting more complicated, I'll abort and upgrade to rails to use layouts etc. The middle gr
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by dhotson 2y ago
Most people's expectations of what a "basic website" should do have gone way up over time. Even as a programmer, I've fallen into the static site generator trap a few times. It's annoying to start a side project wit
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by dhotson 2y ago
Yep, exactly! I don't ask this question because I want to know the answer. The questions I'm trying to answer are: - Are you intelligent? - Are you diligent and well prepared? - Are you self-aware? - Have you put any thought into
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by dhotson 2y ago
I'm not sure if it's helpful, but if you want some perspective from someone that's interviewed a few hundred software engineering candidates.. I ask this question to every candidate I interview. My expectations for this quest
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by dhotson 2y ago
Anecdotally.. - Working from home for long stretches.. feels more like "living at work" for me. Hybrid is good. Some boundaries in my life are healthy. - Most people hate their commute. I ride my bike to work and it's the bes
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Most common PIN codes (2012)(datagenetics.com)
127 points by dhotson 2y ago|88 comments
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Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner(tenderlovemaking.com)
1 points by dhotson 3y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 3y ago
Yeah, that's a great demonstration of the technique. One tiny tip.. :) you can pass a block to `.to_h`, so instead of using `.map` + `.to_h`: h.map { |k,v| [k, v] }.to_h .. it can be simplified to: h.to_h { |k,v| [k, v]
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by dhotson 3y ago
Influx | Lead Engineer | Remote | Melbourne/Malaysia/Indonesia | Full-time | https://influx.com Influx provides customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. Influx enables companies to deliver consistent and
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by dhotson 3y ago
Influx | Lead Engineer | Remote | Melbourne/Malaysia/Indonesia | Full-time | https://influx.com Influx provides customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. Influx enables companies to deliver consistent and
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by dhotson 4y ago
Influx | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Melbourne/Malaysia | Full-time | https://influx.com Influx provides full-service customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. Influx enables companies of all sizes to
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by dhotson 4y ago
Hey yeah, we're open to it—are you in Kenya? We're open to folks in most locations as long as there is plenty of overlap with the Melbourne timezone.
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by dhotson 4y ago
Influx | Software Engineer | Remote | Melbourne/Malaysia | Full-time | https://influx.com Influx provides full-service customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. Influx enables companies of all sizes to deliver
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Tumblr Announces Important Blue Internet Checkmarks(staff.tumblr.com)
52 points by dhotson 4y ago|9 comments
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by dhotson 4y ago
Influx | Software Engineer | Remote | Melbourne/Malaysia | Full-time | https://influx.com Influx provides full-service customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. Influx enables companies of all sizes to deliver

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