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gregsadetsky
9,926karma·1,663submissions·November 7, 2010
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hi@greg.technology
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.
Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.
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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).
Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/
See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M
And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0
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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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Shameless plug - a blog post re: LLMs and Mikrotiks from days ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927915 …
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Take a look at adafruit and sparkfun You can find kits that have a selection of sensors - enough to get started and experiment https://www.adafruit.com/product/193 …
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My parser is unfortunately not fancy enough to detect optional steps - but it's a great point!
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(OP) thanks for this insight, truly - I took another look and ikea.com reviews actually include a whole dedicated "ease of assembly" value! some very easy-looking products do actually rate q…
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the comments on ikea's site seem to agree with you - lots of extremely negative ones about the assembly I did not do sentiment analysis on the comments (to modify my fudge factor mentioned elsewh…
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Feel free to give me some real assembly time values - happy to adjust my very simple formula of steps x number of parts x fudge factor :)
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It’s rather a very simple math formula based on the number of steps and parts. I adjusted the formula by researching online what people reported as the time it took them to build some of the items. ie…
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Sorry to hear! The products are from the US site, and I’m hiding products where the extraction pipeline couldn’t get all of the information (steps, parts count) reliably. What are the missing products…
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Also see: - https://bernardgreenberg.com/Subway/ - https://github.com/BernardGreenberg/NXSYS - and the incredible pages on the nycsubway.org site such as h…
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Have you tried poking at the unifi api?
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What was your FirstClass server / where was it? Mine was used by a large-ish (2.5k people at peak) Macintosh User Group in Canada. It was definitely formative - I still have friends from back the…
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had the same error - it worked when I switched to desktop safari fyi