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lsowen

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About lsowen

Head of Engineering at HCG Funds (hcgfunds.com) Contact: logan

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    A very good YouTube video from Munroe Live (an engineering firm specializing in "design for manufacturing") explaining it: https://youtu.be/dCO633KE7RA "Axial Flux Motors Explained…

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    Comment #48279492

    Have you tried the FUTO keyboard? I actually find I prefer it to gboard now. https://keyboard.futo.org/

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    Comment #47729767

    Super interesting approach to build a custom productivity suite. Anyone else done anything similar or know of projects to build something like this?

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    Comment #46534287

    Passkeys _may_ be synced, but that isn't guaranteed. For example a "device bound passkey" isn't synced.

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    Comment #46411332

    I use a similar model to this extensively. 1. Hotels where you have to pay a "connection fee" you only have to pay once 2. I travel with a chromecast that can connect to my private…

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    Comment #46350233

    And also didn't know how to work thr radio? Surely autoland doesn't disable communication

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    Comment #45805983

    Only the GET requests are metered. An anti-bot/anti-AI scraper measure?

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    Comment #45493357

    Generative pretrained transformer, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

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    Comment #44422186

    I'm not sure I agree with Karpathy's "the next wave of programming languages will be natural language", but I'm even more concerned about The Big 3 consulting firms message of how …

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    Comment #42474984

    FYI, the FAQ link in the footer ( https://grayjay.app/faq ) appears to be broken (throws a 404)

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    Comment #41802947

    Has anyone tried openobserve ( https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve )? How does it compare/contrast to Quickwit as an "Elasticsearch for logs" replacement?

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    Comment #41363757

    The purpose for internship programs generally are to grow the interns skills and establish a talent pipeline, _not_ for their immediate "code lift". Unless you think that AI is goi…

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    The situation is not as dire as it first appeared. While the messaging wasn't handled very well, where everything is settling out is good, with pluggable auth and an open source re…

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    Comment #41061999

    I'm also wondering the same thing. It has a bunch of very nice capabilities, but taking away such a basic piece of functionality to push people towards the paid options is very con…

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    Comment #41061805

    Received an email from treeverse.io today: >You might have noticed in our documentation that Access Control Lists (ACLs) will be deprecated in an upcoming release of lakeFS OSS, sc…

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    Comment #40307550

    It might be rare, but it _can_ happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIclqha014

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    Comment #39850495

    I think they likely meant "trawling": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling . (ie casting a net and "fishing" for open ssh)

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    Comment #39055258

    A good resource, with all the broods listed, including the two that are going to emerge this year (North Illinois Brood and Great Southern Brood) and the typical ranges of each bro…

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    Comment #38641133

    It is a reference to a TV show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Greed

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    Comment #37974474

    It took THREE YEARS (August 2020 - August 2023) to fix the vulnerability? I'm not sure the size of the Harvest team, but that still seems insane.