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by sink 3y ago
I would say don't buy this -- but if you had $45k to spend on astronomy, you'd either be extremely passionate and know what you were doing, or you wouldn't care about that money. Some of the fun of amateur astronomy is that y
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by sink 4y ago
With all due respect, I think it's strange to critique something as deeply personal as a technique used in creative writing.
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by sink 4y ago
Are there any inhabited and lively MUDS/MUSHes/MUXes still around? I miss those.
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by sink 4y ago
Just wait, someone will want to tell you about a lisp they wrote in Ruby, soon.
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by sink 4y ago
As a former head of engineering for a mid-sized IoT company with many tens of thousands of devices deployed in the field using a competing product (no, not the AWS one), seeing this made my stomach churn. This was my second biggest fear aft
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by sink 5y ago
cloudynights is a wonderful community for astronomy of all kinds, including astrophotography.
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by sink 5y ago
This is something that has been a source of frustration for me. There are many wonderful and incredibly in-depth communities on Reddit. They only get that way with substantial investment by passionate volunteers who spend the time to modera
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by sink 5y ago
re Argument definition: I don't think this person is trying to debate you. That's sort of the core of my point. You're giving a really forceful reaction to someone I perceive to be asking clarifying questions. But, since you
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by sink 5y ago
> I am as equally as surprised by their surprise about how much R&D is involved in making a "simple" lamp. I think your surprise is justified, especially since you've been in this world for a while. But I think there i
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by sink 5y ago
I'll add one more thing to my sibling comment. This person is clearly unaware of whether there is ongoing R&D in the realm of hobby astrophotography mounts. They mentioned they're just considering getting into it. They're
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by sink 5y ago
I don't think this person is trying to argue this. They're asking a sincere question about a non-intuitive aspect of open source company business models, and they just keep getting answers that indirectly answer their questions in
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by sink 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're so hostile to the GP. Their questions are sincere. Your comparison to the M1 is not appropriate, and you're not actually paying attention to what they wrote. They wrote that they are surprised that R&a
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by sink 5y ago
I think in general your point is correct. However, this is not a fair comparison. In astrophotography, a primary consideration for the price point of a mount is its instrument weight capacity. The EQ6-R has a weight capacity of 44 lbs. This
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by sink 7y ago
I'm not sure I would agree with that. Measures are being taken, and the Japanese government believes that the rate of infection is still very much growing [1]. Schools have been shut down in Japan. And while the government is not activ
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by sink 7y ago
True! I missed that. Digging into it, they also had an incredible testing network, which is claimed to be a key differentiator. In the US, the government is actively telling people not to get tested on their own judgements. I too would pref
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by sink 7y ago
It's fairly easy to reason about the factors that go into the spread of the disease. We have diligent data from Japan, Korea, Spain, and Italy. All show infection curves with very similar shapes along the same timelines. What's mo
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by sink 7y ago
Dwelo | San Francisco | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE Edit : I want to add that the slogan, 'Target cancer, not ads,' in 10x Genomics' posting is the greatest thing I've seen all month. https://news.
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A practical guide to Rust FFI without getting your knuckles bloody(medium.com)
1 points by sink 7y ago|0 comments
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by sink 7y ago
I've never worked with them directly, but I've been looking at making a little game using Rust for some time. This site has been really helpful for library discovery and examples. I'd imagine there's a good amount of ima
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We Rewrote Our IoT platform in Rust and Got Away With It(medium.com)
4 points by sink 7y ago|2 comments
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by sink 7y ago
Dwelo | San Francisco Bay Area & Draper, Utah | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our IoT platform is the infrastructure enables the owners and managers of multifamily proper
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by sink 7y ago
Thank you! I found your site long ago and I’ve enjoyed every article. I often wondered what your plan for it was and would be. This puts a little closure on it. I feel the same way about advertising and wonder what alternate business models
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by sink 7y ago
Dwelo | San Francisco Bay Area | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our IoT platform is the infrastructure enables the owners and managers of multifamily properties (think, apartm
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by sink 8y ago
Dwelo | San Francisco Bay Area | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our IoT platform is the infrastructure enables the owners and managers of multifamily properties (think, apartm
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by sink 8y ago
Dwelo | San Francisco Bay Area | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our software, hardware, and service platform enables the owners and managers of multifamily properties (think,
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by sink 8y ago
Dwelo | Quality Engineers / Site Reliability Engineers | Full Time | San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City | Full Time Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our software, hardware, and service platform enables th
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by sink 8y ago
Dwelo | Software Engineers / Devops / QA | Full Time | San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City | Full Time Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our software, hardware, and service platform enables the owners
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by sink 9y ago
Dwelo | Software Engineers | Full Time | San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City | Full Time Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our software, hardware, and service platform enables the owners and managers of multifam
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How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App(productforums.google.com)
264 points by sink 9y ago|139 comments
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by sink 9y ago
This isn't really about Ruby. It's about the other things in the title. I suppose that calling out Ruby by name was necessary to make this blog post concrete, and to make it easier to relate to. The author also mentions Haskell, b

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