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They weigh 5g. A tonne of them is two hundred million of them. I very much doubt that many will be e-waste.

I'm in Australia, with Globird, and have their 3hrs free plus they pay $1 on days I don't use any grid power between the 6-8pm peak, and another $1.50 if I send them back 10kWh of …

That is hilarious. HackerNews was also the source of my blog's highest day of traffic. IIRC I quit a job and wrote about it and somehow a lot of people read it. I often feel I _sho…

> Protection from what exactly? I think jacquesm is advocating that you have multiple sources of income (clients) to protect from the possibility that you lose your one and only cl…

I'm a self-employed consultant, generally either CTO-style "make your company run better and build better software" stuff or, less often, specific robotics and automation stuff whe…

Please tell me your employees are known as Mother Duckers...

I'm consulting with an Australian group called Control Bionics. They have a US company & office, with CTO and sales team in Ohio, but software engineering is done in AU. Their prim…

I just set up a computer for my own kids and used Ubuntu from the get-go. About the only two things that have led to a bit of frustration from the kids have been that we can't play…

There's a web plugin too. It can issue GET requests. That's enough to probe a lot of interesting things, and I'll bet there's an endpoint somewhere on the web that will eval any ot…

I'll just poke my head in to say hello and thank you for all your blog posts and pod/vid-casts. I've learned a lot about the tabletop ecosystem from you, and I hope to pitch my "bi…

I worked in a product development consultancy and a few of us decided to build our own escape room as an entry into the company's "startup accelerator". The company was thoroughly …

I was coming here to say that the term for a problem which when solved makes people question whether it was necessary after all is a "Wicked Problem"[1], only to then discover that…

not counting appreciation You definitely need to count that. Even with pretty conservative assumptions, it massively changes the outcomes. For those numbers, and assuming 5% growth…

It might be worth reminding Australians in the audience that possession of pornographic drawings or cartoons of figures deemed to be "childlike" is considered equivalent to possess…

For those who've not seen this domain before (although it is showing up more frequently on HN these days), Psyche "is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condit…

I have a first generation iPad from 2010 that still works. It's on iOS 4 or something. We use it permanently plugged in as a photo slideshow thingy, and play Jetpack Joyride and Pe…

You sound like a slightly older version of me. And then I read your profile and you work in precisely the same field. I honestly feel that robotics is one of the few domains in whi…

I agree. The new name never stuck for me and I keep having to google what it changed to (Shortcut, FYI) so that I can find the bookmark to it.

One fun heuristic I've used for thought-experiments in futurology is to ask "what will be to cheap to charge for eventually, and what comes of that?" For example, electricity. Or w…

As an Aussie with Greek friends, I choose to treat this exactly as per the colloquial meaning of 'minimum', as in "minimum chips". :-)

I'm interested by #3, as it is imminently to be my own situation (by choice). The few people who know thus far are all close friends, and even then aren't completely aware that "li…

Just as one counter data point to your observation of your social circles: 2020 made me reconsider things. I also did the maths and concluded I was already the FI part of FIRE. I t…