scottwick

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by scottwick 2y ago
Lol, I'm at the point where anything > 4 days per week is a hard no.
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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now(theatlantic.com)
10 points by scottwick 2y ago|1 comments
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by scottwick 2y ago
What happens if the 2nd signal (after the 200ms delay) is never received? Would keeping the relay closed like that cause any issues? I wonder if a more "robust" way to handle this would be a custom microcontroller on the receivi
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by scottwick 2y ago
Yeah, that's definitely true. I find that I'll often be excited about an idea and immediately start putting in the time to build a rough prototype. Once I realize the true scale of the effort involved I second-guess my commitmen
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by scottwick 3y ago
Nice to see that they're just using EC2 + S3 instead of a whole suite of niche cloud offerings that we see these days. Maybe this is mentioned in the linked presentation ( https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pinter
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by scottwick 3y ago
How did you bail without losing your deposit? I would have thought if you were the highest bidder you'd either be on the hook for the full purchase or lose your deposit.
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by scottwick 3y ago
Do you see the deposit amount and all the details of the escalation from the triggering offer in that case? Say I saw that the triggering offer had a measly deposit and I suspected it of being fake. Would I be on the hook to prove it? Tec
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by scottwick 3y ago
> putting down $500 earnest money on a $300K house would look suspicious enough to get you ignored by the buyer Assuming you mean the seller here? If I were the seller I too would ignore that kind of offer but first I'd let it push
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by scottwick 3y ago
Not really related to the article but something I've been wondering... In recent years the housing market has been so competitive that escalation clauses are often written into offers. They typically include a base offer of $X and the
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by scottwick 3y ago
Yeah, this is exactly what I do as well. I'd be curious to hear more about your deployment process, specifically how you get your Docker image onto the VPS. Do you just push to a registry like DockerHub and then pull it down on the V
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by scottwick 3y ago
Does this use the battery? Not clear to me if the Kindle program is running continuously or if it just periodically starts up, refreshes the screen and then powers back down.
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by scottwick 3y ago
Is there something about the actual profiler that differs from existing tools like pyinstrument [1] or py-spy [2]? I know pyinstrument has various output options and I wonder if it could potentially output something readable by the Firefox
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by scottwick 3y ago
Me too! I've seen PaulHoule mention it a few times and it sounds really interesting.
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by scottwick 3y ago
Any book in particular?
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by scottwick 4y ago
I've never used Elm or interacted with the community but reading some of those posts remind me that the B in BDFL is quite important.
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by scottwick 4y ago
> but humanity has closed the doors to the kinds of futures I was working toward Curious to hear more about what you mean by this.
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by scottwick 4y ago
I feel the same way. I've been doing web-related stuff for about 13 years now and have lost much of my interest. Started dabbling with electronics and embedded systems about 5 years ago and it completely re-piqued my interest in writ
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by scottwick 4y ago
I've been using DBeaver ( https://dbeaver.io/ ) and I think it's pretty good
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by scottwick 4y ago
I totally agree, they're really great for simple hobby projects! I've mostly used the ATTiny85 and it's easy to understand the datasheet, easy to program, battery efficient and comes in a DIP-8 form factor for easy breadboar
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by scottwick 4y ago
Fantastic write up - thank you! I also love hearing about why each part was chosen. As an electronics hobbyist I often mimic portions of others' designs but I'm not always entirely sure why a certain part was chosen among the va
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Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040(blog.thea.codes)
185 points by scottwick 4y ago|23 comments
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by scottwick 4y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations of books or other resources that go over the theory behind full-text search? i.e. language processing, data encoding, on-disk storage and retrieval, etc.
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Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing(theregister.com)
2 points by scottwick 4y ago|0 comments
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by scottwick 4y ago
Could you point me to some documentation about this? Is this something that's built in to Apollo? Or just that Apollo enables building this sort of architecture more easily?
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by scottwick 4y ago
A frontend application that I work on has each component making separate tiny GraphQL queries to render just what it needs. The result is often 5-10+ GraphQL requests to render a single page. Is this a common practice? It seems like a lot
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by scottwick 4y ago
GraphQL is nice from a consumer's perspective but results in a lot of extra complexity on the backend IMO. It sounds nice in theory for the frontend to just request whatever it needs but there are often performance considerations that
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by scottwick 4y ago
Wow, I had no idea HN was built like that - I'm impressed. I really wish I could read the Arc code better though since I'd love to know more about the details of how data is represented on disk and when things move in and out of
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by scottwick 4y ago
Is there a recording of your talk available? I'd be very curious to watch.
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by scottwick 4y ago
I've been using beancount [1] and beancount-import [2] for a while now and I'm liking it quite a bit. Every month I download CSVs of transaction data from my various accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) and run beancou
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by scottwick 5y ago
I'm very much the same way. For a lot of lower-effort SaaS offerings I look at them and think: "I can't believe people pay for this when I can replicate the parts I need with a few Python scripts or a simple Rails app".

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