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laurencei

1,745 karma · joined June 2, 2012

Always working on a few things here and there :)
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laurencei··on Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a penalty if you fail
Can I ask a bit more about your experience with this? My son has ADHD, and I'm rapidly realising that many aspects of my life correlate with the symptoms, especially in adults.

But then I get worried I'm trying to make my square peg/round hole fit the the diagnose.

Are you medicated or having any other treatment? Did it have any meaningful impact/change to your adult life?

laurencei··on Tools we use to make our game satisfactory [video]
I wish DSP had multiplayer built in. I know their is a mod to add it, but it seems like such a great candidate for a multiplayer game at the core.
laurencei··on Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?
Doesnt the HN voting system kind of take care of this problem? If the tweet is low-quality, not important, then it wont get many upvotes.

But if the tweet is highly important, has information people believe is valuable etc - then it gets upvoted towards the top of HN.

An outright ban on tweets also creates a secondary problem; what if there was some single tweet that was extremely important to the HN community. The inability to post it means people miss out on the news/discussion, until later on when it is re-submitted as a news story elsewhere.

laurencei··on Bank transfers as a payment method
I believe it is 24 hours for the first, then instant after that.
laurencei··on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art
Yeah - I wondered about this exact issue too.

Same as all the NFT "artwork" I see around. Why cant I just literally copy and paste the artwork, maybe change one single pixel, and re-mint it?

laurencei··on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art
I read this article just yesterday about why NFT + games does not really make sense: https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-o...
laurencei··on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art
One use case I was wondering for NFTs; would it make sense for photographers?

So if I took some "amazing" photos of stuff, whether it was art, landscape or 'stock' style photos. I could list them on a website to be sold, and sell the NFT of the photo.

Yes - anyone can "right click -> copy" the photo, but we are talking about the licensing side of the photo. This proves the person using the photo(s) in their product or website etc has the "right" to use that photo, in the same way open source projects have licences that people are expected to follow?

The person who bought the photo could on sell those rights at a later stage if they no longer wanted to use my photo (since anyone can sell the NFT).

Basically shutterstock.com or something, but with NFTs? Its about the only genuine use case I can think of...

laurencei··on New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August
Anyone have a similar style list of Scifi/Fantasy but for TV series/movies?
laurencei··on Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
I use Amazon S3 buckets, with the web server having an IAM user key with very limited access that only allows writes.

No reads/listing.

So if the web server gets hacked, the hacker can only write to the bucket, but has no way to know what is already there or access anything in it.

laurencei··on Reddit.com Service Unavailable
Reddit is fine for me.

But a bunch of other sites unrelated are not working.

All of them returning a cache vanish error.

laurencei··on Coinbase outages
Its back now. Started getting Cloudfare errors too, but all fine now.
laurencei··on Coinbase outages
For me the Reddit subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/ wont load either.

I can load the rest of Reddit fine - but that page just loads as a blank white page. I'm guessing its lots of people going there for the discussions...

laurencei··on An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers in Denmark
There is another solution already heavily in us across the UK, US and Australia: https://www.goodsamapp.org/

According to their homepage, 1.5m users globally.

laurencei··on Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
Does the phrase "you are asked" have a legal bearing though? is it something they can just choose to not follow, since they were not "told" or "instructed"?
laurencei··on Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
Those installation prices seem crazy?

I live in Australia, and last year I had 13kw worth of solar panels, with a 10kw inverter installed on my roof for $10k AUD (about $8k USD).

Our federal government does some subisidies, so I believe the raw cost was closer to $15k. But either way, that is substantially lower than what is quoted here?

Why would anyone pay $70k USD for solar?

laurencei··on Why I don't like Tailwind CSS
I'm a "full stack" developer. Largely a backend dev who does frontend as required, including on side projects.

I switched to TailwindCSS a long time ago and I have zero regrets. Its so awesome I can switch to a project that is 2 years old, and make a quick layout UI change without having to look at old CSS files to find classes etc. I also can just find a tailwind class name and apply lots of cool stuff that I've normally found difficult to do via "pure" CSS files.

But I also feel that this is likely to be a thing that half prefer A, and half prefer B, and there is nothing wrong with either. In this thread is likely to be a 50/50 split between both camps, with different "ideologies" on how the front end should be done.

As the author of this article says - give it a go. If you like it, awesome. If you dont, switch back to another tool, there's not a definitive "right/wrong" answer to any of this.

laurencei··on Signal Is Back
Hi - yes, this looks very close like what I was after. I've starred the repo, and will def check it out. Thanks!!
laurencei··on Signal Is Back
Is there any way to send messages via Signal using an API to a previously approved number? i.e. someone accepts my chat, then I can send messages via an API?

I cant find much (good) documentation on it..?

I have a system that needs to send alerts from an enterprise system, and we need a more secure way than Telegram...

laurencei··on Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
Ironically Reddit ruining the mobile experience and pushing to use their app so badly forced me to download a 3rd party App to read Reddit (Apollo).

By doing this I no longer see any Reddit ads.

If they hadnt pushed so hard to use their app and ruin the entire Reddit mobile experience, I would still probably just be browsing on their website (which would give them some ad eyes).

Now I'll never switch back - Apollo is just awesome for Reddit.

laurencei··on Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more
which country was this?
laurencei··on Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more
Does anyone know if anything like this, but for emergency vehicle responses? In some cases, routes that are not suitable for a normal car are exceptional quicker for an emergency vehicle to use (because perhaps they can do a right turn at an intersection that normal traffic cannot).

There would be restrictions, because you wouldnt want to go down a wrong way street etc, and some "no right turns" have physical reasons etc (such as median strip that would physically prevent you from crossing).

But there would definitely be a market for this to improve response times. In my country at least (Australia); most emergency service vehicles I know of use a standard GPS routing system that does not take this stuff into consideration...

laurencei··on Congressman's phone password is 111111
If you knew the location of "the site" (because you drove to it) - what benefit was the blindfold for the site?
laurencei··on How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
Yep - I kind of understand that. Thanks.
laurencei··on How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
Can you ELI5 - how can we observe something 93 billion light years away, if the light has only been traveling for 13.8B years? Shouldnt the "observable" distance be the the age of the universe?
laurencei··on The new Dropbox
Drop.io domain is for sale? Did FB close it down when they purchased it?
laurencei··on Credit cards automatically providing updated card info to subscribing merchants
I renewed two credit cards recently, and both included a new CVC number in addition to the expiry date.
laurencei··on GCHQ Cracks Frank Sidebottom's Codes
"The country's top codebreakers too seemed flummoxed until Sievey's son Stirling recalled how his dad would get the children to fill an outer row with random symbols, while Sievey would insert real code into the inner row."

Is it really that hard to fool some of the worlds top code breakers, simply by including some random digits?

So a code where every {x} symbol is random, and suddenly you've got an uncrackable code? Surely it cant be that simple?

laurencei··on I Now Have a Cardiologist
If you put a popular device, with a medical detection tool into the wider population, it would be logical that the device would pick up on patients who would other not notice the symptoms (at least initially, if any).

So then the question becomes what other daily device(s) could be made to do automatic health checks of certain specific indicators, which would give an early indication to the possible condition, thus improving life expectancy and quality of life, while lowering associated medical costs.

i.e. toothbrushes that detect cavities, sunglasses that check your pupils for certain symptoms, hats that monitor your EEG. These are obviously extreme examples, but you get the idea...

laurencei··on Gmail is having an outage
same - I'm in Sydney - no issues (so far).

Perhaps it's user based, rather than location based?

laurencei··on Monorepos: Please don’t
Can anyone here explain to me how a monorepo like Google or Facebook handles security?

If I pull the repo - I have the entire contents of Google or Facebook? Is that right?

Surely that lacks the normal security measures around what must be highly sensitive information, so there must be more to it than I know of?

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