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NoraSector: https://app.norasector.com/ -- real-time police/fire/EMS scanner for the Seattle area. Uses custom SDR software that can capture entire radio systems and streams with s…

Fusion360 is the only thing I run a VM for. There’s a repo out there that sets up wine and installs it but it just doesn’t work very well at all. I’m using VMWare Player and set up…

Extremely wealthy people (i.e. 9-digit+ net worth) have teams of lawyers and accountants that figure out the optimal way to allocate the client's cash to achieve their goals. That …

Sounds like you should contact a lawyer.

Planes are extremely expensive pieces of machinery and you don't make money if you're not flying passengers with them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't in the air as many hour…

It's for delivery.

typo, fixed

Amazon Flex does this as well. I signed up to do deliveries last year to see how it worked, and on a couple occasions gamed it such that I was able to deliver an order I placed to …

We use ES heavily. Most of our queries are basic document filtering plus some geospatial stuff. We could probably have done it with Postgres/PostGIS, but with AWS manages ES, it's …

I wrote up a Medium post about what I do with mine: https://medium.com/@adamargo/how-i-use-raspberry-pis-for-hom... Mostly home automation. 1x homebridge server, ffmpeg transcoder …

There's a pretty simple optimization in the labels you can do, but it doesn't really help that much. The first block of letters is XORing with one set of primes that follow a commo…

This seems like a waste of money on the surface. The concerns over privacy seem a little silly given the hundreds of CCTV cameras that monitor the stores already, though.

One thing I like about their business model is that it isn't just the autonomous/teleoperation tech, but also that they're a full-service trucking company. That kind of integration…

I've been fully remote for the past two years at a company that is mostly distributed (we have to have physical operations in markets we operate in, but the tech team is fully remo…

We have a Peloton bike. We used to be Flywheel members, at $300/mo, and that's pretty pricy. The bike pays for itself quickly if that's what you're replacing. The class content is …

In principle I agree with the author, but some of the patterns these big companies have introduced are valuable for companies with significantly lower amounts of traffic. For insta…

One of my most used tools with pipes on the Mac is `pbcopy`, which copies whatever you're piping to the clipboard. Copying your public key somewhere? `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcop…

I inherited a Canon PowerShot 350 from a dead relative back in the late 90s. I was still blown away that I could take pictures that went straight to the computer with reasonable qu…

The Echo does this with Spotify too, fwiw. I ended up creating a separate account in my Spotify family for the Echo to link to Spotify, which is less than ideal as you lose your pe…

I had a cab driver do this to me once, in 2016 or so. He dropped me off at the destination and told me it’d be $20 or whatever, cash only. I didn’t have cash on me, and said all I …