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gregsadetsky
9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
recent activity (1,664 total)
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Many years ago, a car racing sim friend and I built a very DIY no frills rocking chair that I hooked up to a sim. The racing sim was open enough that you could output the lateral acceleration via seri…
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Congrats on the launch! Very small thing, but I didn't initially see the database icon in the sidebar. Trying to `from replit import db` in Python and using the `db` resulted in an unclear error …
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Good point. The terms[0] say that "The cards must be used in person at a physical point of sale. They will not transact eCommerce purchases." but a square terminal might/should work (yo…
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Agreed, I was first perplexed at what was going on, starting to not see where it was going at all with the low-level explanations, and then when the enemy positions turned out to be assembly instructi…
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Congrats! Very small note: when changing any of the colors, the URL changes presumably to reflect the new state. The issue is that these "stateful" URLs don't work when accessed directl…
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Small typo: “fight software” instead of “flight software” :)
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Oof, you're right of course. My bad! Thanks
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I only found one soil pH sensor on Adafruit, but it's currently sold out: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026 …
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Some more microcontroller-friendly pH sensors here -- https://atlas-scientific.com/ph/ Their datasheets are spectacularly well designed and clear! https://www.atlas-sc…
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Stumbled upon Atlas Scientific's pH sensor (via an Adafruit tutorial) and was very surprised at the clearness of their datasheets. It's colorful, informative, has clear do's & don&#…
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Ooh, this reminds me that I saw a file being included straight from github.com on flyporter.com (Canadian regional airline) Actually, extremely weirdly, they didn't include the "actual"…
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That’s very encouraging, thank you!
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Sorry, I didn't follow the launch. Does anyone know whether App Clips can consume/produce audio? I'm working on a musical app -- is there a way for us to "demo" our app in App…
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That hyperlink did not work for me -- I think that you wanted to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4QPz52Sfo&t=4511 ? (just listened -- great story) :-)…
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There is a bit more information on Aristides De Sousa Mendes on Yad Vashem's site: https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/mendes.html His Wikipedia page is fascina…
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If you take a look at page source, you'll see that the YouTube videos are embedded with a few extra parameters that make the interface (what sometimes used to be called the "chrome" bef…
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Just to make sure I understand, which "whole thing" is misleading? The ACLU's test? Amazon's response? As for the test, you say it's not a fair test. The point / conversa…
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In the ACLU's posts, they say that they used the "default match settings". In their response [0] to Amazon's response, the ACLU links to a guide published by Amazon [1] intended to…
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Related discussion on an unrelated thread about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23329537 …
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The first URL doesn't seem to work, and the second URL brings to an "empty" project. Just to make sure -- maybe it's just me?
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Side 1 of Switched on Bach on IA:
https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 Side 2:
https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 I also (weirdly?) found th…
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You're right, thanks. `dig www.amazon.com` for both `@8.8.8.8` and `@8.8.4.4` return no IP addresses. Same for CloudFlare's `1.1.1.1` ... ouch.
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AMZN's revenue is about 10k / second.
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When I do `dig amazon.com @8.8.8.8` I get a number of round-robin IP addresses. But `nslookup` returns SERVFAIL. Why are they showing different results?
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aws.amazon.com works here while amazon.com does not, over both my home internet connection and mobile (via my carrier's LTE connection). Which continent are you on out of curiosity?
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To which URL are you connecting? amazon.ca is up for instance.