spotman

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by spotman 1y ago
Having worked at multiple IoT companies with many millions of connections. This is the way. People tend to overcomplicate things with K8S. I have never once seen a massively distributed IoT system run without a TON of headache and outages
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by spotman 3y ago
If you are open to sharing, what is your business? Otherwise, "it depends"... If you get a job, you can also be laid off. But if you are able to get a job, while also keeping your business going, this seems to be the best way to f
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by spotman 5y ago
Yup, same here. If you have any moderately large data set and do manage to get it loaded , then it will break with only a light graph traversal of 3 layers deep. Played with this for a couple weeks but eventually realized this is not for a
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by spotman 5y ago
Yes agreed. Oatly is horrible for you. It's one of the worst Oat milks they sell in my store. (when comparing by nutrition facts). It is so bizarre this alternative milk that goes around. I am totally onboard with finding an alterna
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by spotman 5y ago
It’s happened multiple times for me, all with extremely well known VC backed companies. Once at later stage, but applying for a very senior role, and another at an early stage, where there was a good fit. It can be a tough sell, and recruit
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by spotman 5y ago
Not really true. Have achieved multiple companies removing the 1 year cliff for me.
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by spotman 5y ago
Telegram is one potential answer. I find it to be the fastest messaging platform , and super reliable. Not to mention their desktop apps are not bloated, and message history, drafts, etc sync really well. (note - there is also a secret m
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by spotman 5y ago
Makes sense that some people will not be a fan of this. Personally however this would be awesome. It is extremely rare I don’t have my phone. already any passport control area is digitally scanning my passport so there is not really more pr
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by spotman 6y ago
Hi - very cool idea! Will probably try it out. Apologize if this is on the site (could not find it) but do you plan to offer any features to "meet" local runners in person? I am always trying new run clubs, and some have stuck
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by spotman 6y ago
Most major automotive and ev companies use tools such as environmental chambers to do phases of R&D. (quite possibly all do but obvs can’t confirm, but do have first hand knowledge of several major companies adopting this) Even companie
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by spotman 6y ago
Ally Bank
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by spotman 6y ago
Ya same here. The name issues, the killing of the ability to auto mail paper checks (bills), and seemingly over time extremely strict policies on everything from deposits, to addresses, Simple has already been going down hill for awhile. Pe
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by spotman 6y ago
Often products with batteries in them. But also products with chemicals or generally products that cause could health, safety or fire concerns if not handled properly.
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by spotman 6y ago
Good for Strava. In my community of athletes Strava is the gold standard and there is really nothing else quite like it that is compatible with more than one brand of device and offers a similar feature set. Probably about 1/2 of my f
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by spotman 6y ago
and less strong systems , also, become black boxes for other systems...
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by spotman 6y ago
Slack. Frustratingly slow and bloated. Company is addicted to it.
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Librem 5 Update(puri.sm)
4 points by spotman 6y ago|0 comments
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by spotman 8y ago
Agree. My sixth gen happily runs fedora daily. I have had it for about a year, no complaints.
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by spotman 8y ago
There is some beginning work being done to have libhandy wrappers in rust. I have gotten their qemu environment up and running and will be tinkering on rust+gtk apps which I hope has a future in this ecosystem. But yea by default it appear
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by spotman 8y ago
regarding date and supply chain uncertainty i would tend to agree. in this case however, they do sell laptops. so, they aren’t completely incapable of supply chain. depending on if the laptop is really an in-house design, or not, they may b
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Librem5 Hardware Update(puri.sm)
292 points by spotman 8y ago|105 comments
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by spotman 8y ago
> and the BOM cost is way less than I used to pay for Arduino one would hope so, arduino is a retail packing of other chips into a kit.
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by spotman 8y ago
Sounds like a good time for a fork of bundler.
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by spotman 9y ago
can you comment on ease of operations between NDB cluster and aero spike? from my experience NDB cluster is pretty difficult. curious if aero is the same.
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by spotman 9y ago
Writing your own QT sounds like a long road however that would likely not be as fast as making work arounds or providing bug reports or patches.
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by spotman 9y ago
Worth noting AT&T has great partnerships in these areas and I get 5 bars of LTE in all of these cities for 10 bucks a day when I am here. Also there is plenty of places to buy sim cards if your phone is unlocked.
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by spotman 9y ago
drink lots of carrot juice, it’s high in vitamin A
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by spotman 9y ago
I came for the incredibly useful touchbar and stayed for the cascade of un-exit-able menus that occur when you try to combine the awesome powers of the fingerprint reader and keychain.app
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by spotman 9y ago
Pretty sure that its not limited to js: https://gist.github.com/ErikAugust/724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9... Its a technique, not a flaw in js, from my understanding
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by spotman 9y ago
welcome to basic audio design practice in place for commercials and marketing for about 30 years. the approach hasn’t changed only it gets easier.

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