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What do you call people that hang out with Nazis? It sounds like you are nitpicking that adjacent white supremacist groups with their own iconography (and merch) are somehow different.

My Canadian startup was acquired by a silicon valley company. They definitely did not pay US rates. They referred to our office as Bangalore of the North.

Solaris is good memories for me too but only nostalgia in 2022. First job out of school was writing device drivers for Solaris.

I remember playing this game in the early 90s. My main memory is hacking it by editing saved game files with a hex editor. :)

Earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30703817

It's half and half. The privacy suggestions are fixes for sure.

Not mentioned so far is the ClearURLs extension [1], which removes tracking elements from URLs and adds other anti-tracking functions.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clearurls/

In the past this was true. Now some providers look for a minimum volume of emails to establish a reputation. It's diabolical.

I use Postfix for SMTP. Inbound emails arrive directly at my server without any intermediary. Outbound emails use Postfix sender_dependent_default_transport_maps, which routes outbound emails via mailgun. I use this method because I host multiple domains and it lets me use domain-specific credentials with the SMTP relay. Outbound routing could be done using the same credentials for all domains but that causes some unnecessary pollution in message envelopes.

I've been running my own email since forever (and over UUCP before that) and always considered it easy too. However starting this year I'm paying for an SMTP relay so my outbound mails share transit with other relay users', making them less likely to be IP blocked by Microsoft.

Absolutely. Needs no changes for this application.

Marketing to motorcycle mechanics is one of my growth ideas but I'm focused on bicycle wheels for the moment because that's the niche I come from.

I like to think Brandt would approve. But he would probably have some thoughts and not spare my feelings haha.

Thanks for your contributions about wheels elsewhere in this thread (I've restricted my comments to the tooling). You demonstrate knowledge that is uncommon even among people paid to work on wheels.

It's possible I have a Canadian accent.

But now that I think about it, Turing Stand is a name with great potential. ;-)

The product is aimed at shops/mechanics that make money building wheels. Time is money so building a little faster is more profitable. Or a better result can be delivered in the same amount of time. If you like it will give you PDF output as receipts for your efforts, for example to show before and after snapshots of a wheel under repair (essentially for free). Little things like this can differentiate one service provider from another and/or help justify shop rates.

It's a standard industrial pedal. We have a pile of them, maybe a dozen different samples. The shell is a starting point. Final manufacturing happens here where the internal wiring is completed, internal components are added, and the output cable gets installed.

Thanks. It uses WebSockets.

Very much on point. Wheel Analytics is designed to supercharge skills rather than replace them.

Appreciate your comment. Now fixed. I'll add a cron job to check links in the future.

A naked indicator shows alignment at a single point. Wheel Analytics puts this number in context by relating it to the readings for every point on the wheel and adds analysis to help improve alignment.

I appreciate your comment. This is a B2B product and I feel comfortable the ROI is there for the right customer. Keep in mind 50% of the price pays for premium digital indicators from Mitutoyo. On the Islandix blog I explain how to source cheaper Chinese indicators for customers wanting in at a lower pricepoint.

To answer your question in the last paragraph, Wheel Analytics does not require an Internet connection. There is no phone home, no telemetry, no checking for software updates, etc. There are no cloud components that can fail or be withdrawn/changed.

I'm not sure I understand the question. Wheel Analytics augments traditional methods, for which I have great respect (and hundreds of wheelbuilds of experience). Care is taken to preserve traditional ways of working, for example the UI is controlled by foot pedal.

Its benefits reside chiefly in the process and I argue better process leads to better wheels. Wheel quality depends on knowledge, time allowed, and concern. By capturing and presenting wheel information this way, you can get the most from your knowledge and skill. By working faster, you can do a better job in the same amount of time.

Good for spoked wheels of every type. The speedup factor for repairs is one of the main benefits. The display highlights the most deviant parts of the wheel and shows these deviations in the context of the whole wheel. Mechanics can use the tool to take before-and-after snapshots (essentially for free), which can be helpful on the customer interaction side.

That's one of the features. Live Tensio, one visualization in Wheel Analytics, shows live tension as you introduce your tensiometer to the wheel. A live reading can be recorded by pressing the foot pedal. Tension distribution is then presented in bar graph form along with min/max/avg. A printable version can be generated for record keeping or sharing with customers for marketing purposes.

You are 100% right that tension is a critical wheel dimension.

Do bitwise shifts instead of dividing by 2. (BRB going to the patent office.)

I run all my own services but just relented and setup mailgun as an outbound SMTP relay. It works well and solves the deliverability problems associated with low-traffic IP addresses. The only tricky thing was making sure my outbound SMTP requests authenticate to mailgun using domain-specific credentials depending on which address I'm sending from (I have 5 different domains).

I make visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding and I'm making >$500 profit but not enough to live on. My site is https://www.islandix.com