Any good Speedmaster homage recommendations?
Seiko SSC819 is a good Speedmaster homage. And it's solar powered so you never need to open the case.
Readit Newschrismaeda commented on Mechanical Watch: Exploded View fellerts.no/projects/epoc... · Posted by u/fellerts
There's a certain irony in the idea that Hawaii has interstates, given that it's an archipelago. It's great that H1, H2, and H3 exist, and Hawaii deserves the same road funding as any other state. But there's some lesson about naming conventions, or emergent properties, or maybe something else to be had here for sure.
The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor with other military bases on Oahu.
- The H-1 goes from Barbers Point to Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head.
- The H-2 connects Pearl Harbor with Schofield Barracks.
- The H-3 connects Pearl Harbor with MCBH (Marine Corps Base Hawaii) at Kaneohe.
chrismaeda commented on Bench accounting services shutting down bench.co/... · Posted by u/knuckleheads
Agreed, but how do you protect yourself against quickbooks/xero/wave going under? Especially with Wave being mostly(?) free
Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies.
(H&R Block owns Wave.)
chrismaeda commented on Bench accounting services shutting down bench.co/... · Posted by u/knuckleheads
It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders:
Your accounting stack is
1. accounting software
2. bookkeeping (ie operating the accounting software)
3. cpa / cfo (ie for tax and financial planning)
In contrast, the minimal risk approach is to source your accounting stack from different vendors:
1. accounting software (eg quickbooks, xero, wave)
2. bookkeeping (hire a person or use a service)
3. cpa / cfo (hire a person or use a service)
chrismaeda commented on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine axios.com/2024/06/28/supr... · Posted by u/wumeow
One of the issues that led to this decision is regulatory overreach. Standard example is the clean air act which regulated air pollution. Years later the EPA decided that green house gases were air pollutants that could be regulated under the act. Then they tried to say that CO2 was a pollutant, and businesses started to fight back hard.
No build in hardpoints for weapons?
Otherwise amazing. I love how value engineered the aesthetic is.
Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.
Too bad they don't have Toronto listed. There was a place called Il Gato Nero on College St that had been in a couple locations in the area for about 50 years. The family has a new and different location in Etobicoke, but I spent probably 20 years drinking coffee at its College bars and they were an anchor for the street and neighbourhood.
If you were from downtown, it was where a lot of our stories and memories happened. You knew legends about people who you saw there but might not have talked to much. I left the city shortly after it closed because there wasn't anything to replace the life it made possible, where you could spend a saturday morning with a newspaper at the bar that served real food and make small talk with strangers. You might learn their names and what they did after a decade of seeing them, but it didn't matter. I still pop into the new place once in a while to pick up the coffee that is like nowhere else and it's worth the trip, but the downtown chapter is closed.
Same with La Hacienda on Queen St. Those two spots were landmarks of the city and its culture, and when they went, they took a lot of the coherence of the stories of people who grew up in them with them. Brunch tables full of punks, goths, and rockers wearing last nights makeup at La Hacienda usually with some awful local hardcore blaring over the speakers and farcically hostile service were what defined Queen st. People there were legends too. You'd see them and hear stories about them even if you'd never been introduced, and everyone would always talk about how they knew each other when.
Pandemic policies killed those places and also destroyed the culture of the city, so I left. I'm sure new people will make new memories, but it takes generations to make anything like that again.
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chrismaeda commented on Ask HN: What is a good book about how computers work? · Posted by u/baalduct
This is what we had to read in grad school. I remember the sections on how they designed RISC architectures as especially good fun.
https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/henness...
Prolog is cool but has exponential complexity which makes it impractical for real world use.
The rete algorithm was supposed to be a solution but has anyone applied rete to a prolog implementation yet?
chrismaeda commented on Ask HN: How does one make an effective pitch without 'giving away' the proposal? · Posted by u/mattwilsonn888
Execution is harder than you think.
1. Ideas alone can get funded, but only when pitched by entrepreneurs who have done it before. e.g. the last idea-stage company I invested in was a new crm company pitched by an entrepreneur who had already built a huge successful crm company once before.
2. For the rest of us, you have to show you can execute by building a team, some technology, and demonstrating customer traction.
For any given idea, you have to assume that 10 other people have thought of it, so why are you special?