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Looking through the Quickstart docs, they have an API that can generate code. However, I don't think they have a way to do "Day 2" code editing.

Also, doesn't seem to have a freemium tier...need to start paying even before trying it out ?

"Our API is currently available through La Plateforme. You need to activate payments on your account to enable your API keys."

Wow - "When I was an undergraduate physical chemistry student 137 years ago" - you really are the oldest guy in this club.

It would be interesting to see the performance of protobuf vs Parquet in this case...not sure if DuckDB supports that...

The elevator dings (1 for elevators going up and 2 for going down) isn't as widely used as it should be... you have to hunt for the light up arrows on a double corridor of elevators (for example 3 on one side and 3 on the other) when the dings will convey the same information without looking up from your phone.

What is unclear to me is why they were never approved for human medical use when discovered/invented in the 50s - did the clinical trials uncover some toxic side effects ? It must be common knowledge to some chemists out there why the entire class of -azenes was abandoned then ?

Sorry, couldn't bother to read that rather long article that started with a reference to Nazis...kind of set the tone for the rest of the article and I would rather save 15 mins of my day.

I had a quick glance through the unusually formatted resume, and saw big glaring gaps in employment. Also, seems like you just graduated from University a couple of years ago ?

Those 2 things would just make me close out the tab and onto the next resume tab.

Looking again, I see the gaps are "filled" in other random spots on that resume, like initially, it looked like before 2015-2016, you worked only in 2008-2010 - thats a big 5 year unemployed gap ! Then, I found the missing parts on the left side, in arbitrary order.

Not me - if I don't want like a website's design, I am going to close the tab.

Similarly, as a hiring manager (mainly software engineers), I come across some very "unique" resumes which I do look through out of curiosity but the maverick-factor is quite high with these candidates, and they usually are a disruption with their constant "unique" approaches to working with the team.

They would want to rewrite large modules your way and take forever to do it, then never actually contribute any productive code in any area...we made some hiring mistakes like that, and rather than wasting just that one engineer, these mishires ended up wasting other people's time, which is much worse.

Sometimes, it helps to be conformant (another brick in the wall, so to speak) to the standard protocol/format to have maximum compatibility.

I got a "Donate" full page blocker popup in my first second of ever visiting this website- really turned me off, why would I donate to a website I barely got a glimpse of ? Immediately hit the back button...

I read his description of the LEDs being powered by brute force looping...even though he uses a buffer IC, the CPU still does the monotonous and continuous looping to keep the LEDs intermittently supplied with current.

I wish he had used a few MAX7219 LED driver ICs - they just need 4 IO pins, can be chained together, and don't need any maintenance CPU cycles unless a change in config is desired.

They also ensure perfect brightness control, and are current controlled LED drivers instead of using 330 Ohm resistors that waste power...all power goes to illuminating the LEDs and none is wasted as heat in resistors.

Maybe I should write him and offer my help in switching for the next spin of the PCBs.

Do you have experience with 3D printers or CNC machines ? Essentially , a laser engraver/cutter just needs a 2D drawing like an SVG or DXF and it turns on the laser once it moves the laser head.

little bobby tables !

OK, so we get the eye machine (OCT?), the woman who can sniff Parkinson's and the lab test for alpha-synuclein in one location and we can get 100% guaranteed confirmed Parkinson's detection !

Not to discount the correlation that matches her progression history, but Parkinson's can progress in fits and starts...a stable plateau can suddenly turn into a cliff with accompanying severe decline in health.

I have recently gone down the solar panel rabbit hole too but I never tried the "fancy portable mini panels" cause they seem to weak and overpriced.

Instead, I acquired two large 140W panels that had been removed from an old installation for the princely sum of $20 (USD).

After struggling with trying to find connectors that I could pair with the MC3 connectors (remember, these panels came off an old installation), I bought a dozen MC4 and just cut off the old MC3 connectors...MC4 is the way to go these days.

Next came the surprise at finding out about "MPPT" - in all my years looking at solar panels on roofs, I never knew they were so finicky about voltage vs current curves...real MPPT charge controllers start at $70 for a Victron 15Amp and I decided to try my luck with Chinese sellers on AliExpress...turns out the charger was a PWM fake sold as a MPPT charge controller.

Anyway, I also needed a battery since the charger doesn't work without a battery source. That's another saga but short story - I built my own 3S battery pack out of 18650s.

The leading zeroes in net.ParseIP change broke some of our unit tests too.

They run a cloud VM with a paid RHEL AMI and use it to pull the sources. :-).

Would Shopify custom shopfronts be the alternative to using Etsy ? Will custom shopfronts be searchable via Google or Pinterest - how do they submit them for indexing ?

Yup.. sounds like they implemented some AI system that misclassified the stores and it is highly likely that they don't even know what the model weights mean or how the model got mistrained.

Very flowery and verbose article... till I ran into the paywall

I am wondering what is the business case for StubHub to do this ?

Flipping for a profit ? Making StubHub look successful and be more active than it really is ?

Lots of steganography techniques are mandated by the government agencies, such as microdots printed by inkjet and laser printers that can uniquely identify the printer, ADC and codec chips that can add modulation signatures to voice calls and video streams and so on. In this case, he probably used TOR - which is notoriously infiltrated by government server nodes- and a SIP relay that might be hosted on Russian servers but might send hidden telemetry that the operator might not even know is going out.

Wonders never cease - truly a strong case for how random evolution can be.

Thank you for saving me from yet another overdone webpage.

Twitter link ? Nope for me

"Not alienated anyone" is too strong a statement... he has alienated atleast one person, me, with his arrogance.

There was a recent crash in Santa Clara where a Model Y hit a tree going down an empty expressway. Very sad as both occupants died.

Let me introduce you to the nightmare that is the Windows Registry...

The background with static noise really bothers me. Will have to skip reading till they provide a disable button.

I need this... although HN should offer it as an option for logged in users.