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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
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apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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This is heartening.
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I love C for it's simplicity, but I'm super excited to see Rust get a foothold in embedded as well.
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I've had a couple false starts over the past 2 years or so as well. This time I'm determined to reach "critical mass" where I'm comfortable reaching for Rust when I need to ha…
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In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?
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Dialup? Lucky. I had 14.4k through my dad's Startac until I was about 15.
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Have you heavily used C++11 or newer on a "modern" codebase? I consider myself a more than competent C programmer but the complexity of modern C++ is non-trivial in my opinion.
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Excellent. I can and will soon. That's actually how I started out, but had some other performance issues. After a bit of googling I realized I'd need to read a bit more before running my own…
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yeah sorry if that wasn't clear
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Love it. I think there's plenty of room for innovation in this space. I'm currently in the process of porting a ~700 line bash script (I didn't write it) to Python. Although longterm I …
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Personally, if I'm willing to copy my vimrc over to some machine I'm logged in to, I'm willing to copy a couple meg binary as well.
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I forget who said it, but I once heard something along the lines of, "if we get into a situation where the value of gold goes through the roof, it'll be because things have gotten really bad…
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Good to hear. I was hoping that would be the case, and obviously it's not bothering me enough to do more than a cursory google search.
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Been using Riot for a couple months. The web app can be a bit sluggish, but I can't think of a single complaint about the mobile app. My biggest concern at this point is that messages seem delaye…
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Yeah I think the potential is there, but Riot will probably need features like Push to Talk and other gaming-oriented stuff.
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Basically this. One of my favorite insights from an episode of Masters of Scale about Slack[0] is that products like Slack don't necessarily have to achieve huge network effects in the traditiona…
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But if the primary purpose of updating your kernel is security updates (which is the case for some people), shouldn't you be making the effort to do all that flashing? (honest question) I realize…
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Anyone running Quantum on Linux with a 4k monitor? I switched from Chrome for a couple months but the lag/jank/choppiness (especially when scrolling) finally drove me back to Chrome. Still l…
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Advertising is definitely a big part of it. A common angle is to release commercials basically saying, "we shouldn't be spending government money on fiber when we could use that money for [i…
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Honestly since I removed the app from my phone my usage has dropped drastically. Haven't missed it much
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Yeah I'm not sure if there's a way to do it on Android. Honestly I don't care. It's more about why the software was designed at this point. Notifications are a symptom.
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I've been working on this lately as well. Not finished with the process but here's a few things I've tried: * Read part of a book before starting work. * No HN/reddit/etc unti…
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I like this. The inability to permanently disable Facebook Messenger notifications is what finally pushed me over the edge to remove it from my phone.
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> 10 mpg Your mileage seems a little low ;)
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Huh, I don't think I've seen a reference to that story in years, but just emailed it to a coworker a couple hours ago.
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Honestly at this point it's half philosphical. I want to limit my interactions with companies that makes software like that.
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Chrome only (recently switched to Firefox). But it looks awesome. It's incredible to me how effective the post at the top of the timeline tends to be. They know exactly how to suck you into scrol…
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I removed the FB and Messenger apps from my phone about 2 weeks ago, and I've mostly managed to not open it on my desktop until after 6PM, which has drastically reduced my usage. What finally did…
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Ernest question: If it supports the platform you're targeting and you're not missing any critical libraries, what other reasons are there not to use Rust over C++ for new projects? Assuming …
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I worked as an RF engineer for a few years and one of the senior engineers once told me a story about how they launched Voyager (I think it was Voyager) with a Viterbi encoder, even though we didn…
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Very nice. I actually hadn't realized Tensilica wasn't an Espressif technology. That would definitely be sweet if they switched to RISC-V