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gilthelander

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gilthelander··on A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon
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gilthelander··on A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon
> You should fully own and control your home security cameras. Right now many homeowners are shipping their data to national datacenters.

In practice it's difficult to do and offer remote access.

gilthelander··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
I don't understand the overwhelming praise. This product is just bizarre. Who is this for?

What's with the giant numbers and tiny symbols? I know where the numbers are from muscle memory. I don't have the symbols memorized.

Haptic feedback when you use the command key? Why?

No number pad or page up/page dn, which would be something useful.

This is like The Homer of keyboards. Does it play La Cucaracha out of the speaker if you push the knob four times?

You clearly have the technical capabilities but the product requirements are bonkers.

gilthelander··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
> That’s wild, where do all the people from Aurora work?

Last I checked, Aurora had a large blue-collar Latino population, many of whom are successful tradespeople.

These people commute to construction sites elsewhere during the day, and perhaps your own neighborhood, where HN posters snitch to the town if they use a leaf blower within 1500' of their home office.

gilthelander··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
All of your complaints are true of present-day Reddit.

It has become completely unusable.