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As a EE nerd, I love this project. As a parent, it's the sort of toy I want to smash as the repetition drives me insane. What should I make that captures the awesomeness of this pr…

As someone who has done this to many games over a few decades, I can definitively say: 100% of the time, it ruins the fun of the game. I can't say exactly why. Maybe you feel like …

I run tech at a venture studio (gateway.xyz) and I _rely_ on part time developers. None of our businesses sell software and none have any full time engineering support. That said, …

We use MUX now. They have excellent support (They've helped us fix a number of things that we screwed up ourselves) & a very reliable service.

I've never used imgix but I find Cloudinary (and specifically the Media Optimizer product) to be extremely reliable, reasonably priced, and as close to zero-maintenance as a thing …

We actually switched FROM cloudflare TO cloudinary. CF seemed cheaper, but we found the service, the dashboard, and the service to be wildly erratic. Price went all over the place,…

We have a slack channel, #aws-budget-alerts, where AWS sends a notification any time our forecasted spend reaches certain milestones or the actual spend reaches certain milestones.…

Me too! I've normalized it in our organizations. We use a combination of app scripts and what we call "Single Button Apps" that are web pages that have a text box (paste the URL of…

Fun! It's very pretty. I'd love to see you keep developing around this (same game or similar games). You've got an eye for it for sure.

Good question. Most turmeric roots I've bought aren't nearly as bright orange as the powered stuff. I _assume_ that means they're not applying the same chromate brightening agent b…

If you're consuming it as a supplement it's a lot cheaper (and safer) to just make it yourself. The process is basically: cut it up into thin slices, dry it out in the oven, grind …

I find the pattern of "How are you feeling about X, 0-10?" followed up by "What would get you to a 10?" very useful. Almost nobody ever says 10 and when they do, when you pressure …

The best way to learn is to build something for someone else. When someone else sets the requirements you have to engage in real problem solving and research the best tech to solve…

Can you explain more? It seems like you're arguing with yourself. You say if we ban one substance, they'll just come out with a less tested, less understood, and likely worse new o…

This could be true, but isn't the whole story. Cars tend to be sold more and more as they age, for lower and lower prices. In fact, where I live (Honduras), many of the vehicles we…

Has anyone ever found a great ecosystem for a hybrid-work whiteboard? A few people in the office would have access to some sort of smart board on the wall. Remote employees could j…

Yeah, I would like a test device that could let me know which transfer rates a cable supports. I've got a huge pile of USBC cables (and adapters). A good chunk of them might even b…

yeah! I was looking forward to seeing my score & results and then it was all just gone!

I usually create an abstraction like this in an API to require all returned errors to come with some sort of machine readable code. You either have to classify this response with a…

Pretty much anything engineered (buildings, bridges, electronics, houses, ...) have a death date. Any civil engineering projects I've been a part of have always had a quantified pr…

I've received damaged products from AliExpress a handful of times and found their resolution team/procedures to be fantastic. You can submit a claim which the seller responds to. I…

I agree. It would be much more readable if it simply had a few comments too (something that can't really exist in a 1-liner) and is infinitely flexible (ex: for each match, also ma…

This could be true, or it could recognize that it is running in a VM and change its behavior. This is a somewhat common trait of malware meant to throw off security researchers.

This will ultimately just create a larger market for ransomware insurance. Insurance premiums are likely the lowest cost compared to 1) paying the fines or 2) actually improving se…

Is anyone selling (or open sourcing) a solution like this? I would love to feed our company's reviews into a program that could generate a bulleted list like this to summarize what…