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steve918

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steve918··on ASCII Paint
How. It's truly amazing and wonderful how unchanged and frozen in time this website is.
steve918··on How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method
I’ve been doing this for 25+ years without knowing it had a name
steve918··on Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
I built a 36x24' Tuffshed with a 650sqft loft above it in the grambrel roof. Took me nearly 2 years to get all of the utility work and drywall and stuff finished.
steve918··on Deep dive into plastic monomers, additives, and processing aids
Lets just do away with paper receipts.
steve918··on An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
Or how to not be an asshole. YMMV.
steve918··on Java for Everything (2014)
If you think cross platform Kotlin isn't ready for mobile then rust certainly is not.
steve918··on Solar and wind can meet world energy demand 100 times over
There are a lot of ways to generate lots of power, what we're generally lacking is ways to _store_ power to handle things like peaks.
steve918··on Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
steve918··on Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
Daily Mail can fuck themselves. They published an article a complaint I filed with the Oklahoma coroners office in 2012 because it was taking 12+ months to get results when my 5yo son died. They also spun it as parents in "outrage" to get clicks and refuse to take the article down even now that there is no way it is producing revenue for them.
steve918··on Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
Same. I would buy, but I don't use Google Calendar and I'm getting sick of services that only support Google / Apple.
steve918··on IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run
Somewhat unrelated IKEA has been brought to it's knees during the pandemic and it has made their online ordering completely useless. For a company shifting focus to online only I would think they would want to be able to ship some things purchased online.

Stock is also low in the Portland store, but even the few items available can't be purchased online and shipped to me. I've tried to order a number of things recently and they won't ship anything to my house.

steve918··on 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
Proposition 65 is such garbage that pretty much any manufacturer wishing to sell ANYTHING in the state of CA just puts a blanket warning on things. It's a real problem that they want to address, but a really lazy solution that doesn't accomplish anything.
steve918··on ADHD-resistant sticky note that changes color and font often to not disappear
item.transition() if you want to see the effect without waiting.
steve918··on U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid
Because it's the definition of anti-competitive actions.
steve918··on Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
Look up Contextual Electronics on YouTube
steve918··on Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
I'm not sure how this is different than OpenDNS?
steve918··on I made a smart watch from scratch
We've possessed the technology and resources to solve the first two for at least a decade, but it's unclear how doing so would increase share-holder value.
steve918··on Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take over the world (2018)
Power efficiency for one.
steve918··on I lost my domain and everything that goes with it
It's hard to have a lot of sympathy here.

1) Namecheap sends out renewal notices, if he wasn't getting them it's likely he didn't keep is email with them up to date.

2) Auto-Renew

steve918··on The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
100% of the public parks and ~80% of the remaining greenspace in downtown Portland has become permanent homeless camps. Anywhere there is a 5x5ft patch of grass there is a tent.
steve918··on Tulsa Remote
If you're into Meth I guess it's not.
steve918··on Tulsa Remote
As someone who grew up in Tulsa and have lived outside of Portland for almost 15 years, I feel confident saying that Portland has gone down the drain in the past few years and is completely overrun with heroin camps covering every inch of public parks and green space. It's still better than Tulsa.
steve918··on HiFive1 – Arduino RISC-V Dev Board
"like Attiny3214, has a DAC"

and is also not supported by any Arduino libraries to my knowledge, even with additional board support packages.

steve918··on Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them
I published https://makersatwork.com/ It's a great book, but not because I'm a talented writer. It had moderate success, but I didn't tell my story. I took other people's stories and compiled them using a model proven by Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. It's a book of interviews of interesting people and industry experts. You don't have to be a fiction writer to be a published author. You don't even have to be the story teller.
steve918··on IQ scores have been in decline for cohorts born since 1975
There seems to be a lot of negative bias around IQ tests based on social stigma. IQ tests are far from perfect and I think everyone agrees they are a woeful indicator of success.

However, I think improving IQ testing for the purposes of documenting human evolution is just as important as documenting fluctuations in disease, addiction, obesity and the like.

For example, there has been considerable scientific research that points to a noteable increase in IQ in America in the twenties due to increased iodine intake. If we are in-fact getting less intelligent, I think it would behove us to purse potential causes.

steve918··on Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Once accused of a crime and it gets printed in the local news paper you're always a criminal on Google. Doesn't matter if you were innocent or not even if the court dismisses your case.
steve918··on Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
The problem I've seen with the current system is that Google is the record of truth even when the accused is proven innocent or the case is thrown out completely. Perception is reality and all people see are news stories about false claims. Someone being accused of a crime is great news, but rarely is an acquittal worth printing.

Then anytime a new story comes out with that persons name, the news outlet links to every other related story about them so they get more traffic and ad revenue at the person's expense. If Google and shady local news outlets are going to be the record of wrongs and control peoples careers and destiny, there needs to be some checks and balances.

steve918··on Why are diapers so expensive?
Maybe you should have read the article. Maybe not expensive for a software developer making 6 figures a year, but that's not most people. For people living near poverty levels $1k a year is a lot of money.
steve918··on CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations
This comes up every single time they are mentioned. Fighting an up hill battle, but they're committed sticking with the poor choice of name. Also always someone who wants to explain why it's called that like it's not obvious. Doesn't make it a good name for a product you're trying to sell people.
steve918··on Study shows the top 0.01% of Scandinavian households underpaid taxes by 30%
They also hold over 40% of all of the wealth so it's not that out of proportion. The bottom 90% also have close to 75% of debt. It's not a super convincing counterargument when you look at more than that single vector.
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