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by pc2g4d 10mo ago
We still doing BGP update typos?
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by pc2g4d 10mo ago
Meanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean. My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do
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by pc2g4d 10mo ago
Does requiring proof-of-work in order to connect accomplish 99% of what Cloudflare does?
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by pc2g4d 10mo ago
I was reading up on home lab server racks, and every single site is down with a Cloudflare error. So much for DIY!
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
I live by myself and "charge" calories to an account whenever I buy raw foods at the store or eat out. Then, whatever is in my house, I have already "accounted" for in my caloric budget. The strategy comes in figuring ou
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
None of this would matter if there were real competition in the insurance market, instead of people having to change jobs to change insurance, and not getting a direct say even then. As it is, this is a dumb law, and prejudiced against deci
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
They claim one resolution to the Fermi paradox is that civilizations tend to evolve toward a state that resembles nature (non-industrial or non-civilizational, I'm not sure). So the idea of a highly advanced civilization requiring so l
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
Media profit from our outrage. And we go along with it. Politicians derive power from our outrage. And again we go along with it. We must befriend our political rivals. Consider their viewpoint long enough to appreciate it. See that the oth
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
If one could, say, solve this problem, which is apparently quite difficult, then it could be the basis of a premium product?
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
U.S. manufactured microcontrollers can be had for < $100 for instance. With the parts, the assembly per unit must take on the order of minutes. How do you get to $10,000?
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
The last steps I still can't fathom. When everything is outsourced to China, it is inevitable that you, now a mere middleman, will be cut out. So by maximizing profit at each step along the path, the company destroys itself. Which ulti
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
It appears that Valetudo is an alternative firmware for existing robot vacuums. The OpenWRT of robot vacuums if you will. I don't think it's accurate to say that it is simply us wanting cheaper things. There has been a deliberate
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
No... I ask this question in all humility... but also frustration---my ignorance of hardware is part of my country's ignorance of hardware, because we don't make things here anymore, broadly speaking.
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Ask HN: What would it take to make a robot vacuum in the USA?
13 points by pc2g4d 2y ago|18 comments
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
I lived in Provo for 17 years and the legacy of WordPerfect was still in the air - not to mention the development and gardens at Thanksgiving Point which was an Ashton project, IIUC. Anyway, I wasn't aware of Bruce Bastian specifically
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Ask HN: Where are human/resident/citizen-only online convos available?
3 points by pc2g4d 2y ago|1 comments
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
You can use libtorch directly via `tch-rs`, and at present I'm porting over to Burn (see https://burn.dev ) which appears incredibly promising. My impression is it's in a good place, if of course not close to the ecosys
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by pc2g4d 2y ago
When I set out to learn Rust about a decade ago, I chose to write a game - a clone of "Empire" that I call Umpire. It's a different task to re-implement an already-designed language rather than designing and implementing at t
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
I learned programming on QBASIC in the 90's, aged 11 or so. My brother and I had dabbled with GW-BASIC, which a more knowledgeable friend used to draw cool-looking rainbows and whatnot on the screen. That same friend taught me the &quo
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
One way to say "none of your business" is to abandon their OS. Did so at the beginning of the year and haven't looked back. (Linux Mint on workstation; Debian 12 on laptop; Proton via Steam for games) The more I hear about th
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Valve's work is what let me ditch Windows completely earlier this year.
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Ask HN: Electricity Rate Arbitrage?
4 points by pc2g4d 3y ago|10 comments
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
"There are no figures available on how many Salvadorans have taken up Bitcoin." Doesn't this contradict the headline?
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Should the permitted traits by which the state and employers discriminate be a whitelist rather than blacklist?
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
What's the multithreading story? tch-rs's (and libtorch's) lack of real threading support was causing problems for my async code - at least, I haven't found a way to work around it yet, given my level of rust knowledge.
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Perhaps an unrealistic test environment?
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
I'm glad to be a paying Protonmail and Kagi user right now.
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Recommend subscribing to "The Flip Side": https://theflipside.io Gives me a summary of the leading issues, from multiple angles. Not an endless stream of murder-suicides. Disclaimer: I'm a very small time investor
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Too bad corporate operations are so smooshifyingly bland, robbing properties of their soul. Profit is nice, even vital, but a bad thing to maximize at the expense of all else. Or maybe it was the colonialist taint that just doesn't sit
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by pc2g4d 3y ago
Recently went all-Linux on my new workstation, and news like this makes clear that it was the right move to give up on Windows completely. I dual-booted for... 20 years? Just not worth it anymore. The disk storage reclaimed, the file system

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