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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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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
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I'm so excited that we're feasibly within a year or two of being able to develop embedded devices in Rust[0] on RISC-V microcontrollers [1] running on open source RTOSes also written in Rust…
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https://riscv.org/2014/10/why-not-build-on-openrisc/
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I've been using syncthing for my keepass file and media sync. Love it.
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Had a similar issue recently. Reinstalling the app seems to have fixed it.
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Didn't see any previous discussion of this product. It's similar to something I was getting ready to build myself, for personal use if not an eventual product. The key feature for me is havi…
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What would you ask the test subjects though? Seems to me as soon as you say anything regarding realism a lot percentage would notice things they wouldn't have before. I'm sure a clever exper…
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This would certainly work as a storage format, but would require custom parsing. It would be nice to have a format that automatically expanded that into a sequence of maps.
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Right. I'm looking for embedding functionality like that in a richer object format like YAML. So you could still use the other datatypes and functionality YAML offers, but also have succinct tabl…
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Have you used Firebase before? In my (rather limited) experience, the development speed increases from not needing to manage your own Mongo store, not to mention implementing all of their real-time fe…
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You could do X forwarding
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Not nearly as turnkey, but for a little extra fun you can also build your own battery bank from reclaimed laptop batteries. Search youtube for 18650 battery bank.
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Why did you feel your roommate being a gay ex-mormon was relevant to the story? Not sure I have an opinion on it just thought it was an interesting detail and genuinely curious.
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Saw this after I posted.
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I would expect the mutation rates of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA to be about the same, unless the mitochondria have additional repair proteins not involved with nuclear DNA, or the shorter length of…
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Arizona State University has a ton of long-boarders. There are board racks with built-in lock rings in front of most buildings from what I can tell. Every once in a while I see someone zipping around …
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I think lack of an OSS alternative with a solid mobile app is the only thing keeping me on Trello at this point.
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I'm hoping to build a similar system in the next year or two. Biggest difference is I plan on building battery banks out of lithium-based 18650 cells. You can salvage them from old laptop batteri…
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But there's far less urgency to just studying the climate. I suspect a lot of conservatives view it as an alarmist conspiracy designed to give liberals more power.
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This. They've started saying things like, "The earth goes through natural cycles. How do we know this isn't normal? There weren't any humans around to cause the last ice age."…
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Conservatives say the same think about the "liberal scientists", at least with respect to the financial incentives. Basically they say that the only reason so many scientists claim climate c…
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I'd say the ESP8266 is famous. ESP32 is still pretty new
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large
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I'm still waiting for an open source self-hosted alternative to Google Drive. Even just the basic functionality of a file browser, image thumbnails, photo gallery, and video player would be fanta…
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I dabbled with ownCloud, Seafile, etc and came away disappointed. At the time I was trying to run them on a raspberry pi and ownCloud at least was too heavy. Eventually I found Syncthing and that'…
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Just wanted to add my voice to the author's plug for Rainbows End (book). Although I didn't find the story especially engagin, the technological ideas and perspective on VR were inspiring. B…
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Yeah this has definitely been nice.