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This is incredible. The amount of embedded and mobile systems that can utilise this is big. Think vehicle (car, ship, etc) tracking, IoT devices, remote sensors in the field, even …

Thanks for sharing this. It creates a clear picture of its use cases and roll out plans. GPS is such a critical infrastructure component to modern society- knowing that a redundanc…

There doesn't seem to be any mention of 2006's Sid Meier's Railroads! which seems to be an evolution of Railroad Tycoon. I've played "Railroads!" for countless hours - it's an incr…

Same same but different

Given the size of the booster, what corrections would placing GNSS sensors in multiple places provide to increase positional accuracy? Eg if you space sensors 20m’s apart.

If you have the option to consider both, which visa would be the more seamless (and faster) path to green card? L1A or O1? (Coming from South Africa, running SaaS company with hold…

Every time an article on this subject pops up, I tend to wonder if the 2 astronauts will ever just 'call it' and go "this is enough, please send the Dragon and get us home"

...and the websockets!?

Quick shoutout to slhck for helping me debug and resolve this issue. Thank you! tl;dr: Ran into issues because the DB was expecting a profile picture URL from Google auth (string) …

I do see it in the logs now. So weird, as dozens of people successfully signed up without this issue. Have added more logs now again to double down on that specific area where this…

Thanks for the useful feedback! Totally forgot that pricing was never added to the landing page → have added to the todo list to fix up. Where in the process did that error occur f…

Correct! :')

Haha, exactly this. I've built and successfully been using Unspam[0] for this reason since about a year ago. In corporate/business world, anything where SDR sales are involved this…

For solo-private projects, I constantly catch myself writing full commit messages even though I never read it again, and `git commit -m "."` would suffice.

That tweak would make many people happy.

Good questions. Firstly, this is specifically designed for business users (founders, ceo's) that are already using Google Workspace for email. Using SpamAssassin (afaik) is not pos…

Hi HN! I'm Louw, founder of the enterprise insurtech scale-up Root[0]. Over the last 8 years, my inbox has been flooded with unsolicited emails, especially since early 2023. Recrui…

I would suggest checking out PowerSync ( https://www.powersync.com/ ) for this. I've built various React apps (and iOS apps before that) in the past on a bunch of stacks. My experi…

The book The Shortest History of England by James Hawes opened my eyes to how French and Danish (Viking) England used to be… repeatedly over time. https://www.goodreads.com/book/sh…

What's your thoughts on keeping a separate Gmail password (that's not stored in the password manager, vs keeping it inside the password manager? Assuming Gmail account is the core …

Curious, would Gmail’s standard interface not be top-class when it comes to accessibility compatibility?

If this passes and non-App Store app downloads take off, then the biggest hit could be taken by Apple’s App Store revenues… and the UK gov will loose even more control when people …

If a few lines of code can easily achieve this, then why would some of the big exchanges not have a team (of even 1 engineer) apply this tactic against all the other exchanges? Thi…

Also curious!

Worth checking all the tax implications for one’s situation. Trusts are typically taxed quite high in relation to humans.