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Lol, I'm at the point where anything > 4 days per week is a hard no.

What happens if the 2nd signal (after the 200ms delay) is never received? Would keeping the relay closed like that cause any issues? I wonder if a more "robust" way to handle this …

Yeah, that's definitely true. I find that I'll often be excited about an idea and immediately start putting in the time to build a rough prototype. Once I realize the true scale of…

Nice to see that they're just using EC2 + S3 instead of a whole suite of niche cloud offerings that we see these days. Maybe this is mentioned in the linked presentation ( https://…

How did you bail without losing your deposit? I would have thought if you were the highest bidder you'd either be on the hook for the full purchase or lose your deposit.

Do you see the deposit amount and all the details of the escalation from the triggering offer in that case? Say I saw that the triggering offer had a measly deposit and I suspected…

> putting down $500 earnest money on a $300K house would look suspicious enough to get you ignored by the buyer Assuming you mean the seller here? If I were the seller I too would …

Not really related to the article but something I've been wondering... In recent years the housing market has been so competitive that escalation clauses are often written into off…

Yeah, this is exactly what I do as well. I'd be curious to hear more about your deployment process, specifically how you get your Docker image onto the VPS. Do you just push to a r…

Does this use the battery? Not clear to me if the Kindle program is running continuously or if it just periodically starts up, refreshes the screen and then powers back down.

Is there something about the actual profiler that differs from existing tools like pyinstrument [1] or py-spy [2]? I know pyinstrument has various output options and I wonder if it…

Me too! I've seen PaulHoule mention it a few times and it sounds really interesting.

Any book in particular?

I've never used Elm or interacted with the community but reading some of those posts remind me that the B in BDFL is quite important.

> but humanity has closed the doors to the kinds of futures I was working toward Curious to hear more about what you mean by this.

I feel the same way. I've been doing web-related stuff for about 13 years now and have lost much of my interest. Started dabbling with electronics and embedded systems about 5 year…

I've been using DBeaver ( https://dbeaver.io/ ) and I think it's pretty good

I totally agree, they're really great for simple hobby projects! I've mostly used the ATTiny85 and it's easy to understand the datasheet, easy to program, battery efficient and com…

Fantastic write up - thank you! I also love hearing about why each part was chosen. As an electronics hobbyist I often mimic portions of others' designs but I'm not always entirely…

Does anyone have any recommendations of books or other resources that go over the theory behind full-text search? i.e. language processing, data encoding, on-disk storage and retri…

Could you point me to some documentation about this? Is this something that's built in to Apollo? Or just that Apollo enables building this sort of architecture more easily?

A frontend application that I work on has each component making separate tiny GraphQL queries to render just what it needs. The result is often 5-10+ GraphQL requests to render a s…