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FounderBurr··on Building a computer in the 90s (2019)
What an absolute hell scape of a site. There were 4 video ads playing over each other at one point.
FounderBurr··on SFPD refuses to say where they've placed 400 automated license plate readers
Spray paint
FounderBurr··on The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
It probably has to do with the boiling point of pine resin. There are probably other less noxious substances that boil in the 300c range that would produce similar results without the risk of fire or poisoning.
FounderBurr··on p5.js
I’m not convinced about the inclusiveness claims made here, can you offer more proof?
FounderBurr··on Taco Bell is going all in on artificial intelligence
Taco Bell here gets orders wrong about 95% of the time. How is anyone still giving them money?
FounderBurr··on SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant
I’m sure the flake/snow/water euphamisms are very clever but any ideas what this actually is or does?
FounderBurr··on Mozilla acquires privacy-focused ad tech company Anonym
Next up: ad-Blocking is old and gross and hard to maintain so we removed it, oh by the way totally unrelated here is Pocket(tm).. err Anoym(tm)!

Mozilla has become a bunch of ad supported grifters. Time to fund a real replacement.

FounderBurr··on Phalanx: A 1332-core RISC-V Processor Cluster Array (2019) [pdf]
Kinda anemic for a $100,000 chip.
FounderBurr··on What We're Working on in Firefox
I stopped donating when they declared ‘rss is too complex to be maintained and is also old and gross and stuff, so we removed it’. Oh by the way totally unrelated here is Pocket(tm)!
FounderBurr··on Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
Nope.

Sort setup, short teardown, same as PayPal

Stripe is a minimal to no vetting payment processor. A real merchant account will require contracts and pre-vetting that includes a review of your payment processing history and suitability to the rules of the card networks in question.

FounderBurr··on Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
I’m sure we could spot what the high risk behavior in question is with your business if you provide us with the url.

But truth is, stripe decides who they want to be in business with. They have decided they don’t want to be in business with you. Tough, but they also aren’t placing you on the MATCH list or other common nightmare senerios many non-compliant businesses find themselves in when dealing with violations of payment processing guidelines.

My advice is to cut your losses with stripe and get a real merchant account.

The pre-vetting process will likely be quite clear with you about what and why your business is considered too high a risk, or you’ll end up with a less frangible business relationship you can depend on to not rug pull you in the future.

FounderBurr··on I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
A project that isn’t someone hot gluing arduinos to everything?! Nice work!
FounderBurr··on Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
Zzzzzzz
FounderBurr··on Launch HN: Just words (YC W24) – Optimize your product's copy for user growth
Have we considered a/b/c or even a/c c/a testing as hero optimal interval payouts yet? Think outside the box with me here.
FounderBurr··on Yuzu (Nintendo Switch emulator) is dead
Don’t worry, there’s an unlimited supply of keyboard warriors dying for the chance to convince the world they are noble freedom fighters by forking the code.
FounderBurr··on USB in a Nutshell (2010)
Reading and understanding documentation is a true waste of time. I just press the ‘I can has usb?’ Button and it lays works well enough for me to sell to people.
FounderBurr··on US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack
lol couldn’t happen to nicer people. Take their money then tell them it’s ’not Covered’ and just keep plowing away.
FounderBurr··on An Easy to Build Real Homemade Computer: Z80-MBC2
Hot glue and Ali express orders, software by whoever. Yeah, you ‘made’ this.
FounderBurr··on React is actively harmful if your website is static
Thank god this man has one consulting slot available!
FounderBurr··on Coqui.ai Is Shutting Down
Yay!
FounderBurr··on Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
It kept Phil in booze money.
FounderBurr··on Hiew Hex Editor
Except demanding political allegiance to its ‘license’.
FounderBurr··on Hiew Hex Editor
Your work is valueless, mine is priceless.
FounderBurr··on Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular?
This site is an unusable mess
FounderBurr··on Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
So much cringe, I can’t believe this wasn’t written as satire.
FounderBurr··on Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea
Internet archive could have stuck to not intentionally violating copyright law but choose not to. They made this bed, let them sleep in it.
FounderBurr··on ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule
I’m sure they have zero difficulty enumerating fees and what’s passed through when the irs asks.
FounderBurr··on Add PayPal to your Stripe integration
Getting ganked by one processor for excessive risk/chargebacks and ‘instantly switching over’ to another is guaranteed to get you some real quick ‘fuck around and find out’ business lessons.
FounderBurr··on Caffeine Half-Life Calculator
Actual stimulation is much more limited than the half life of the substance would suggest, as it is with most other stimulant drugs.

Even if much of the substance remains unchanged by the liver the stimulation effect is front loaded. After a short time, typically 2-3 hours, physiological stimulation decreases rapidly unless even more stimulant is added.

FounderBurr··on How the PicoCray Was Made
‘Made’
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