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Hi, great write up and very cool project! I was wondering how you arrived at the idea to use OSRM and pre-computing the drive time from every exit to every POI. Was that something …

> “ Three factors were required to join this holy ensemble: the technical expertise to design a capable and reliable microcomputer, a nose for the larger business opportunity laten…

My 7 year old loves it! He likes the animations, how the creatures get the questions wrong sometimes, and the math questions. Questions were - why do we play a wizard guy (he wants…

Sounds like you just need interview practice. (Your post seems more about interview nerves than ADHD issues). It’s a different skill, separate from being a good coder. It’s difficu…

Just to provide some counterpoint to the echo chamber here - as a Dad of a six year old who played with legos as a kid and again now, I can affirm - Legos and the sets they put out…

Sounds like a great hire for the CIA or MI6

No one uses API keys with Copilot intentionally. If you install the VSCode extension and start using it, and you happen to open a file that has an API key in it, boom - it's sent t…

Hi. My team and I have been trialing using Github Copilot via the VS Code extension and it seems to be a huge security hole. By default, it enables itself on all files, and in the …

I just watched the demo and personally thought it was amazing. Don't give up! Keep going!

You haven't really tried everything if you "don't want to hire sales people or a marketing firm of any kind." This might be a self limiting belief. You can learn by hiring someone …

Caprover is nice and convenient but security wise, only a single password field is required on the admin console. (See demo here: https://captain.server.demo.caprover.com/#/login )…

I use TripIt for multi-person travel itineraries. It does allow for sharing and multiple contributors. It is not necessarily for getting consensus on activities, but for centralizi…

This exchange is why HN is great. :)

> We've built it so that our servers never have to see any sensitive information. If true, this is a key selling point and should probably be somewhere near the top of the homepage…

Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.

Regarding your second point, I believe it is still possible to query an external source. Read the docs on “Remote Schemas” - https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/remote-schema…