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SimonDorfman

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About SimonDorfman

http://simondorfman.com

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    Show HN: Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range

    A fork of Solar System Live that generates animated videos showing planetary orbits over any date range. Tracks orbital statistics (how many times Earth was lapped by Mercury/Venus…

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    The tidyverse folks in R have been using that for a while: https://magrittr.tidyverse.org/reference/pipe.html

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    Good question. Rewards vary because: “Ethereum staking APR is mainly affected by the number of active validators that dilute staking rewards and by the network activity paying out …

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    Learn how I used money from my retirement account to buy 32 ETH and set up a solo Ethereum validator node (a server that helps run the Ethereum blockchain and earns an ETH reward f…

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    Would you consider adding an RSS feed? I tried adding it to Feedly and it didn’t find an RSS feed.

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    Interesting. Instead of just using shades or green and blue, would you consider displaying numerical values too? I was confused about how close the tiles were to flipping to my col…

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    Trying to find more info about the creators. Looks like there is a Delaware Corp but no officers publicly listed. Hmmm. Anyone else know where to learn more about the creators?

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    https://rocketcrab.com/game/justone

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    I like this app (voice dream) for text to speech: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674 Buy books wherever you want, then put them into voice dream to listen…

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    Comment #25997820

    Even after logging in, the link doesn’t work. It says “ You must be logged in _and a member of this blog_.”.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20210201025158/https://www.shirt...

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    I agree, hard to find. I found this, which I think should be in the readme: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/intro.html Symbolic computation deals with the computation of mat…

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    I believe Kickstarter and Dreamhost reorganized their companies that way when it became possible.

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    I love this one: https://xkcd.com/974/ It questions whether one should automate something that will only need to be done a few times.

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    Azure Data Studio (which I like for Microsoft databases) has an extension to connect to Postgres. Maybe worth trying. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/what-..…

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    Ask HN: Could we create a Tor-like system for debit/credit cards?

    Idea: stop merchants from tracking all your purchases by creating something like the Tor network for credit/debit cards. Maybe it works something like this: create a co-op financia…

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    Comment #22011479

    Thanks for sharing this info!

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    Comment #22006592

    I'm intrigued by this setup. Do you by chance share your scripts somewhere online?

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    Comment #21416266

    The pdf command printed a Wikipedia link to the resume page. Are you making a joke (that I’m not getting)? Or is this a bug?

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    Thanks for the reply. > Sell me on why I would use your credit union. > I don't know why I should be concerned about my bank or credit union and use your credit union. Here’s an ar…

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    Ask HN: Would you switch to a privacy- and security-focused credit union?

    The Problem: I care about privacy and security. I live in the U.S.A. Where should I do my personal banking? The idea: Start a credit union with a focus on privacy and security. Bui…