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I’ve found that I’m far more relaxed when I’m really well-rehearsed.

I have been poring over a large amount of data for debugging purposes recently and discovered “facets” which provides a quick and easy way to compare and explore datasets.

https://pair-code.github.io/facets/

No mention of ocean/sea temperature rise in this paper?

> I'm a back-end developer

> Back-end feels so much straightforward.

Well duh! Practice and experience will do that.

Afaik the period thing is a Gmail thing while the plus thing is in the RFC.

However it appears the IAB UID2 README says to only normalize pluses/periods for gmail.com addresses: https://github.com/IABTechLab/uid2docs/blob/main/api/README....

I figured OP was being sarcastic and got a chuckle out of it. Seems like it didn't land that way in general though, looking at all these replies!

I like the analogy. I never heard it before now, but I instantly understood what I think it meant: build something that is harder to live without. I have nothing to back this up but I’d think most people think of a vitamin as easier to live without than a painkiller.

> For example: was Facebook a painkiller? Hardly.

I don’t know. People without pain do take painkillers. And they can have a really hard time stopping. In that sense, I would argue that Facebook is a lot like a painkiller for a lot of people!

The $40 in Ontario sounds even better tho right? Just as the billed imaginary $12k figure that only exists to make “$500 seem pretty good” sounds absurd.

I wonder what the display's lifetime is with this kind of usage? I see someone asked in the YT comments but it is unanswered.

I can't find any official data (as usual with eink) but I have heard that an eink pixel's lifetime is around 10 million pixel transitions. Not sure where that number comes from or how accurate it is and how it varies from one display to the next. But if true, you'd get only a couple days with this kind of usage.

Anyone know any more on this?

Really nice execution! How is it monetized though? I don't see any ads, only an "upsell" to a native app but it also appears to be free?

Edit: I see the ad sidebar now. FYI on my first visit I played for several minutes and this never opened

Can you elaborate on what the app does and also prioritize your criteria?

If simplicity is your main requirement you might find inspiration in this:

> My focus has been on how to adapt the lessons I have learned working in teams at Google to a single programmer building small business work. There are many great engineering practices in Silicon Valley's big companies and well-capitalized VC firms, but one person does not have enough bandwidth to use them all and write software. The exercise for me is: what to keep and what must go.

> If I have been doing it right, the technology and techniques described here will sound easy. I have to fit it all in my head while having enough capacity left over to write software people want. Every extra thing has great cost, especially rarely touched software that comes back to bite in the middle of the night six months later.

https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17701882

I spent the pandemic in a tiny apartment. Did laundry in the tub for a while (no w/d). Finding space to hang sheets to dry was a fun challenge. Quickly developed an appreciation for easy to wash and hard-to-stink-up items like singlets. Not going to lie, the laundry part sucked. But that is not inherent to urbanism. Most apartments can be updated to have a w/d. Many can be updated to have outdoor space. The parks are still there. From my perspective, the bargain you describe still exists and it was never critically important to own a house or car. Still in the city and not leaving any time soon. To each their own!

Well that's where the Roomba carrying a tray of margaritas comes in.

I did and I also deleted my account and data.

I’ll probably get an Apple Watch but I’d prefer something eink and “dumber” with just clock, heartrate, steps, stairs and GPS, no accounts and no forced uploading to their servers would be ideal.

I love the FitBit device though. If there’s some opensource way to keep using it without Google being involved I’ll probably try that.

> The SOC (system on chip) controller seems to be connected to the flip flop resets, which makes sense as the product powers on with the microphone enabled as default....

It sounds like you could press mute, walk away and it could reset unmuting itself in the process without you realizing. You would need to constantly monitor that LED for assurance it is still muted. It’s not clear to me from the article how the SOC is connected to the flipflop reset. i.e. can the flipflop reset be initiated via software?

A mechanical switch that can’t so easily and unexpectedly lose its state would be preferable. There are probably good reasons they didn’t do that (aesthetics, cost, reliability?)

The M1 MBP does it in in 20m43s[1]. It's more expensive -- or maybe not after you add all those peripherals to your Mini -- and think of what you'll save in chiropractor bills!

1: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/17/apple-silicon-m1-compil...

There is another multi-billion dollar industry who probably would rather people keep paying them for their antidepressants than growing some cheap shrooms in their yard.

You can apply a weight[0][1] to each of the R, G and B components before computing the distance to get results that approximate doing the distance in Lab color space. The main benefit being that this is a lot cheaper computationally than actually converting to Lab, if you are already working in RGB.

0: https://godsnotwheregodsnot.blogspot.com/2011/09/weighted-eu...

1: https://www.compuphase.com/cmetric.htm

The Palm Phone[1] looks pretty cool and certainly ticks the compact box. It's almost enough to make me consider Android but I'll probably just keep using old SE until it dies.

1: https://palm.com/products/palm-unlocked

I would also argue for a short comment in the code for things like this. Code gets shared and the version control doesn’t always come with it. I’m mostly bitten by this when using some vendor’s SDK where they release a tarball of the code but keep the repo private. But even within your own organization, code will get copy/pasted to another repo and the comment is more likely to go with it.

The Whoop[1] does not measure body temperature but it does measure your heart. Several users claim it has detected their sickness before they realize. FitBit too.

1: https://www.whoop.com/

If the demo animation fails to play:

https://m.imgur.com/atQnWj6

Did you ever present that license to anyone though? It could have been them that sold your info. e.g. concert venues who scan licenses, etc. Not that I doubt the DMV did it!

Does deauthing it actually stop it from recording and later uploading?

Wouldn’t the Ring just buffer and send once it rejoined the network?

Minor nit: PCP is a dissociative hallucinogen, not a narcotic.

I always find these kinds of posts motivational. Thanks for sharing!

How long did it take you to build and launch your initial version? How many hours per-week do you spend working on it now?

Good question. Only 3 points. User has 6 karma and is only 65 days old. And there are other posts around the same time with more votes on /newest that aren't on the front page.

At first I thought it may have been a second-chance resubmission by a moderator[0], but it has a recent submission id so that's probably not it.

I guess one of the other two points came from someone with a lot of karma, or there's not a lot of new posts right now?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20206120

Edit: And now it's gone entirely from / and /show, but is still on /shownew ...

Works for me in Firefox Quantum 69.0 on macOS.

To add a couple other thoughts off the top of my head:

Your login link now passes through one or more third parties (SMTP servers) which may or may not use TLS, and which may or may not have their certificates validated by each other. So technically a targeted MITM would be possible that would not have been possible with a normal HTTPS password authentication.

Also from a privacy standpoint, your email host and any relays involved now have a detailed record of every time you logged in.

Yeah the new keyboard is great. I love how they finally got the up and down arrow keys merged into a single key. And how the Esc/F-keys are now impossible to touchtype. The difference between me using the computer and my cat sitting on it is now approaching zero and while for me this is detrimental and potentially career-ending, it is a massive step forward for cats.