buzzy_hacker

An interesting idea and a good example of the EA/rationality community's unfortunate obsession with putting numbers with little practical basis on everything. The scores may as well be gener…

AWS CDK can generate CloudFormation templates, it’s pretty cool: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

Devastated they increased the size, but saw it coming. It’s the same as an iPhone 8, which is too big.

That’s a good point I hadn’t considered, they are fairly niche

If you're already looking into Stripe for payments, you should check out Stripe Atlas: https://stripe.com/atlas It might be too much for what you're looking for, but could g…

Thank you! Appreciate the kind words

Yeah it could probably do without it, but initially made this for a hackathon so it’s by no means perfect

I use YNAB ( https://youneedabudget.com/ ), which requires inputting every one of your transactions by hand or importing them from your bank. The downside of the import is it takes a fe…

If you use macOS check out https://selfcontrolapp.com/ It's quite hard to unblock once started

Well your VPN has a commercial interest in keeping your browsing private.

There's this popular conception that the average person doesn't care about privacy, but I think that's wrong. I just think that to really get a handle on what it means to be private in …

I don't understand the argument this article is making. It goes from establishing that the cost of child care has increased much faster than other goods/services, to advocating that the gove…

https://www.arqbackup.com/ is great, you can choose your own backend store, like S3 or Backblaze B2. And there's https://www.arqbackup.com/arqcloudbackup/ i…

You're actually reinforcing the OP's point. Coding to an interface is ideal but we are reluctant to do so because it involves more boilerplate that is a pain to manage.

I recommend Luminar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_83opqLxyU

I love gambits. I play the King’s Gambit, Smith Morra, and Benko. I also like the Wing Gambit in the Sicilian, but haven’t looked too closely at it. But perhaps my favorite, in response an attempted F…

Thanks! Glad to hear others are getting use out of this idea. Feel free to ask any questions if you run into stumbling blocks setting it up.

Nice! I use YNAB and have an AWS environment set up that logs all my credit card transactions instantly. My bank sends me an email with the transaction info, which I receive with Simple Email Service.…

Yes, but as a contraction of "he is", not as a possessive.

How does your model of metaethics account for guilt then? I can appreciate your sentiment, I'm a pescatarian for ethical reasons, but I still believe your claim to be untrue.

> Unit test suites would break all the time for silly reasons, like someone optimizing a function would mean a spy wouldn't get called with the same intermediary data, and you'd have to s…

> widening the road after a few years. Widening roads usually does not alleviate congestion. For one of many links, see https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/21…

I’ve been working on something similar[0] aimed at your average technology user. To that aim, it’s very opinionated, which I also like about this list. [0] http://www.pepperparadox.com…

This site was indispensable for when I traveled throughout Europe. Most useful was the detailed information about reaching Pompeii from Rome https://www.seat61.com/places-of-interest&…

> Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute for people's social needs. I've wondered about this for pod…

I really liked riding them until I realized how expensive they were. When you use them everyday, it adds up quick. Hundreds of dollars a month. I now bike everywhere instead and wonder why others d…

I used to run Firefox with resist fingerprinting enabled. I believe it was causing chat time stamps on websites like WhatsApp to be incorrect, which was annoying but I don’t know if you consider that …

But it continues > The Texas Supreme Court reversed, ordering a new trial, stating that it was abuse of discretion by the trial court to issue a spoliation inference instruction in this case, that …

I agree it seems sketchy. NYTimes writes, “Unlike virtually all other air purifiers—and all we’ve tested—Molekule is not HEPA-rated and does not claim to eliminate micron-scale particulates with a fil…