I'm seriously considering making a reddit competitor with some significant tweaks to the karma/voting/mod system
Have you also looked at Tildes.net?
Readit Newshandruin commented on YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] youtube.com/watch?v=W0mMO... · Posted by u/lmilcin
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handruin commented on DigitalOcean is laying off staff techcrunch.com/2020/01/17... · Posted by u/progapandist
How is AWS so profitable then?
Perception that they are THE cloud player to use with great reliability and enterprise focus, so people support their protocols and develop their products for AWS and end up with a bit of lock-in. Mid to large enterprise continue to get on the cloud train hype and spend tens, to hundreds of thousands a month on AWS/S3 instance costs and cannot figure out how or why the bill is so expensive. Then they spend internal costs and personal resource time trying to figure out how they spent so much money on AWS. This happens where I work on both the test/dev and also production hosting.
If DO or Linode were an option to consider, we might be able to save so much money but our own customers use and believe in AWS so we develop and test on AWS. It's a bit of a vicious cycle.
Tangentially, for nearly a decade I've been looking for consumer-oriented wireless thermometers.
Something that I can either query over the network (any protocol), or that uploads to some cloud service that I can inspect. This was the original selling point of ZigBee, but it sounds like it only exists for industrial applications. Does anyone know of a $10-$30 network-capable thermometer?
I know they're relatively easy to hack together, as the OP project (and so many others like it) shows, but I'm specifically looking for a turnkey consumer solution, not something I'll have to spend a couple hours and multi-sourced parts to put together.
Have you seen these remote temperature monitors from sensorpush? They seem to do a decent job and there is an internet gateway device to manage them if you want.
why? their machines are now fashion products/statement for (rich) people that socialize via socal media videos. (most people here will disagree while not being that demographic. they will also not have a reason to buy a $50k youtube poser machine)
your argument is like saying a shoes manufaturer should just include the purse.
it should instead offer more expensive stand options! because people will buy those. I mean, the people that is already buying 6k dispays (I.e. spending that much money and not even being technical enough to buy products based on actual resolution, but marketing "Nk" where N>4)
Nope...the argument is more like the shoe manufacture should just include the shoelaces. Shoelaces support the functional operation of the shoe...a purse does not support the operation of shoes. Most people would expect their shoes to come with shoelaces, not a purse.
handruin commented on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub blog.google/products/hard... · Posted by u/alanfranz
Apple did not come out with the notch first. https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-keep-forgetting-that-App...
Thank you for sharing this; I hope more people can see this.
Apple gets the credit for this notch when it was the Essential phone that implemented the idea first. At least in the Essential phone their notch was so minimal to just get the camera to fit that it was not very intrusive. Even though I'm not a fan of a notch, this worked fine.
handruin commented on SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion theverge.com/platform/amp... · Posted by u/bithavoc
> Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone?
Anyone who is away from a good data connection for a significant amount of time. E.g. long haul truckers, rural areas (especially in the western US), mountainous regions. If most of your car time is commuting in the city/suburbs, that may not be an issue.
My podcasts are all downloaded with multiple episodes for each podcast and so is a large collection of my Spotify music. I get what you're saying but it isn't that big of an issue with a reasonably modern mobile device and a little customization of the app to do the downloads for you.
handruin commented on SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion theverge.com/platform/amp... · Posted by u/bithavoc
This just sounds like a problem with your car's stereo. For me, I get in the car, plug my phone in (always have a car-only charger cable), press "Media" on the dash, and it picks up whatever was playing on my phone.
I don't have sirius built into my car, I think this is an american car thing (did sirius pay them buckets of money for this integration? methinks so). If I wanted it, I'd have to have a ugly receiver taped somewhere on my dash.
This isn't just an American car thing. My past two Japanese vehicles and two German vehicles had SiriusXM built into the radio.
handruin commented on SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion theverge.com/platform/amp... · Posted by u/bithavoc
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I've had very few buffering issues with Spotify via LTE over the years when compared the constant dropouts from my SiriusXM in my various cars that have had this service. SiriusXM audio quality is also terribly compressed and tinny in addition to the constant drop outs. I've never had a good experience with their product.
Spotify can also download large quantities of music and playlists...so with minimal planing you will have no buffering issues.
handruin commented on How much energy can you store in a stack of cement blocks? wired.com/story/battery-b... · Posted by u/tzury
The article leaves me with more than a few doubts with this strategy of storing power. One issue that concerns me is the amount of energy that will need to be spent in manufacturing all the concrete and steel drums as well as the amount of pollution this will generate. There will also be the pollution in transporting the drums onto the battery locations. I get that this isn't a unique problem and other forms of "green" power generation also suffer from this such as wind turbines or even photovoltaic panels. Once the drums are onsite there is likely minimal maintenance needed so once the cost of producing is done, there should be a way to figure out how many years or months it would take to offset that.