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aspyct··on Framework Tablet Assembly Manual
I don't have much interesting things to add to this, but I think it's awesome that framework encourages this kind of reuse.

Kudos to the author of this writeup, and kudos to Framework!

aspyct··on For centuries, English bakers’ biggest customers were horses
It's actually a lot more stupid than that: fresh bread can get stuck in their throats or elsewhere in their digestive tract.
aspyct··on For centuries, English bakers’ biggest customers were horses
Important note : fresh bread can kill horses.

Only hard, dessicated bread can be given. But even that is not ideal.

Generally speaking, don't feed animals that are not yours, please :)

aspyct··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
I was merely responding to the parent comment saying that you need a license, which is not the case with this API.
aspyct··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
Probably, yes :) But you'd have to find/build the integration.
aspyct··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
There's Ponto :)

https://myponto.com/en

Disclaimer: I work for them. What I'm saying here is 100% personal and does not reflect the views of my employer, yada yada...

To be honest, we're doing an excellent job of protecting our customers' data. It's one of our core concern, and I have absolutely zero issue putting my own data in there.

We do _NOT_ store your credentials or even receive them at any point. Quite frankly, we don't want them. Any authorisation you would give us automatically expires after some time anyway, enforced by the banks.

The primary offer of Ponto is one API to interact with all your own bank accounts. No license needed, we handle all of that. We also provide a unified interface to all the banks.

The API is well thought out. All of our managers are highly skilled devs, so they understand what it takes to build good software (= time).

Check it out, we have a great support directly via Slack. I'm not answering that myself, but the guys who do it are super dedicated and will go a long way to help you.

Honestly I can't say enough good things about this product and our team! A product you can rely on, long term.

aspyct··on Eating horsemeat in France
Not the case for me at least. In Belgium we can still find horsemeat, I think, though it's hard.

In fact, one of our national draft breeds, the "Ardennais", has been saved because we were eating them after WWII.

No, it's really me absolutely unable to eat friends.

aspyct··on Eating horsemeat in France
Yup, pretty much, yeah...
aspyct··on Eating horsemeat in France
Yeah, I think that's why.
aspyct··on Eating horsemeat in France
It's the first time I see a picture of edible meat and feel repulsed by it.

Interesting.

Bit of background about me: I really like horses. They're friends to me. I see why people eat them, but that just sounds wrong, just writing it.

I... I guess I understand why vegetarians don't like meat, now.

aspyct··on Postgres Indexing: When Does BRIN Win?
Oh nice! I had no idea, I'll try it, thanks :)
aspyct··on Postgres Indexing: When Does BRIN Win?
I don't delete anything in those tables, however I do one update on 9/10 of the rows, at least.

I seem to remember there was a way to reorder rows in a table, maybe that could be useful.

aspyct··on Postgres Indexing: When Does BRIN Win?
Oh nice, I have just the tables for that! Billions of well-compacted rows with a big ol' timestamp on them. Btree indices are almost as big as the table itself...
aspyct··on Nikon to stop making SLR cameras and focus on mirrorless models?
Low light absolutely is a thing in this field, I am regularly working around 4000 - 6400 ISO: indoors in the mornings with shutter speeds of 1/1000 on a f/2.8 lens.

I'm also not splurging a huge budget: the OM System OM-1 is available for half the price of the equivalent DSLR from Canon.

I mean it, mirrorless is fine.

aspyct··on How I clean my glasses
Before the camel hair brush, we typically use a blower on the lenses. The least you touch that expensive glass, the better!
aspyct··on Show HN: Face IO – Facial Authentication for the Web
Noooo thanks. The day I will happily give away biometric data online has not arrived.

Just let me send you a public key instead.

aspyct··on Nikon to stop making SLR cameras and focus on mirrorless models?
I spend my time doing horse sports photography, and I can tell your mirrorless is fine.

Zero latency problem, really. Go for it, you'll love it! It's a game changer.

aspyct··on The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
I love that this is a 404. An explanation on computers? Nah, can't find that. It's all insane.
aspyct··on Ask HN: Non programming professionals, what do you use for version control
Oh, that's pretty extreme. May I ask what job you do and why you need such fine grained history?
aspyct··on Clinically clean lenses are destroying what makes cameras special
Not sure how Lytro worked. Was it a one-shot, fast enough to freeze action?

Otherwise there's what we call focus bracketing/stacking which can also allow us to focus in prod.

However, there's usually only one good focus point, so we can do that while taking the picture...

aspyct··on EU moving closer to Facebook ban
Yeah, death to Facebook :D

No, seriously though. It may well impact my sales, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.

aspyct··on New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force
Are you referring to the adaptive cruise control? Sadly I don't have that one, I would love it. However it's not reading the road signs, as far as I know.
aspyct··on New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force
What makes you think I'm in the US?

I'm in Belgium, and around here we have a lot of poorly organized road works.

aspyct··on YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
Lol, the original video has been removed for violating the terms of YouTube. Too bad, wanted to see it now.
aspyct··on New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force
I have a car with an intelligent speed limiter.

It is dangerous.

I tried it yesterday for the first - and last - time. On the highway, it picked up a speed limit sign that was intended for the side lane, and started reducing my speed fast and unexpectedly.

I love the speed limiter, the dumb version. I think it's a super nice way to avoid accidentally going over the speed limit without having to keep an eye on the speedometer, and therefore off the road.

I would love to use an intelligent speed limiter. But let's face it, there are always cases where those things will fail unexpectedly and dangerously.

That's not even considering voluntary tampering with the road signs. What if I put up a 5km/h sign along the highway. How would the car determine it's bogus?

I wouldn't mind a global limiter that prevents going to unsafe speeds well over the highway speed limits.

aspyct··on YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
But there's "broken" and "broken". If the author explicitly said "not for kids", why the hell would you override that? It's just asking for trouble.
aspyct··on Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods
My personal best is receiving German radio (I'm from Belgium) through my Logitech 5.1 sounds system. Only when the volume was at minimum or maximum.

So odd.

aspyct··on Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
I mean, it's not like governments don't have the financial means to figure something out...
aspyct··on Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
Private key authentication, anyone?
aspyct··on GNU recutils – human readable, plain text databases
Aaaaaah thanks, I was looking for this a few days ago but couldn't find the name!

Also, is it me, or the turtles at the top of the page are... Why?

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