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wavesplash

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About wavesplash

"And you run and run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again..."

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    Fender makes a whole series of Strats at different price points. The challenge is even at the high end Fender has inconsistent QA, so the 'knockoffs' are sometimes way better quali…

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    Comment #46747934

    Terrific writeup. Massive congrats to the whole team for all that creative thinking in flight and all that was achieved. (Add a note about updating FPGA's in space!) Looking forwar…

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    Comment #43406431

    This Serum release significantly exceeds Vital's feature set. Vital is awesome but the developer hasn't been working on it for a while (maybe they'll return).

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    Comment #42425630

    Impulse buy: https://www.amazon.com/Donner-N-25-Controlle-Velocity-Sensit... and if you want to get fancier with sliders and drum pads: https://www.amazon.com/Donner-Keyboard-Contr…

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    Comment #39835787

    If you want an out of the box USB spinner solution, check T-Sticks' USB spinners: https://thunderstickstudio.com/collections/spinners

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    Comment #37266100

    Check out Optery (YC Alum) removes ~250 data brokers (continuously). https://www.optery.com

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    Comment #30439112

    a) awesome. b) please increase the default font size of that doc. c) please consider moving the exposition to the end and just jump into the good stuff about how it works and what'…

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    Comment #29572969

    For patents on physical things/devices, he's giving very good advice. You need to file within the 1st year you've used the item in commerce. The internet is littered with great pro…

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    Comment #29276765

    Um, really? Why are unicorns like Shopify or Github are still using Rails if that's the norm?

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    Comment #29181523

    The scrolljacking on your site makes it nearly impossible to read. Please ask your web team to find a native scroll friendly solution.

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    Comment #27232281

    If it helps, skip to section 6 for the conclusions (spoiler: Angels are). The section you've quoted is academic signaling (in 'entrepreneurship research') to context and differenti…

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    Comment #26776551

    Consider using the regular Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/ (the Jekyll Now fork is no longer maintained)

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    Comment #26687089

    Again, I fail to understand that math or extremist rationale. You're comparing existing significant energy waste to an artificial scenario where all drive space is hoarded - and if…

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    Comment #26684563

    Hardly. It's not about scarcity for PoS+T. The pollution, heat, and energy waste of Proof of Work far outweigh and minimal change in the cost of storage that PoS+T might bring.

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    Comment #26680745

    The founder of Chia.net has doubts PoS is sound. Check out Chia’s low power Proof of Space + Time.

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    Comment #26558820

    Hey, thanks for the article. The goal of Hotwire is to remove Ajax calls and minimize Javascript client coding as much as possible. That starts with Turbo as the foundation and the…

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    Comment #26557941

    The author just used Stimulus, not Hotwire - if you add Turbo (the main part of Hotwire) you can remove all the ajax calls. See thread below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…

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    You’re on the right track, but there’s a big difference between under patent and post-patent expiry drugs. Patents last 20 years, so if you invent a drug, patent it, then go throug…

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    Comment #24914055

    If I recall correctly, Figma's entire UI is C++ compiled down to webassembly.

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    Postgres used PostQUEL. SQL was added to Postgres by one of Stonebreaker's graduate students (Andrew Yu) around '95. By '95 Stonebreaker's lab was already working on a new distribu…