paulftw

Used d3 on two different react projects. Charts weren’t the main feature but quite big still. When the dust settled I got a feeling React+SVG had made d3 obsolete - there’s some value in d3 zoom and interaction code, but their intricate system of data sources and auto updating views felt out of time. Maybe it was cutting edge stuff during jquery years, but modern FE frameworks do it better nowadays. Without the need to learn yet another api.

Again, I’m not an expert on d3, just someone who spent ~12-18months maintaining couple visualizations (among other things)

why couldn’t it be done on an off-the-shelf 28-byj-48 stepper?

The reason is probably explained somewhere in the article, I just can’t find where

The golden era of being a startup is gone

FTFY What if general demise of startups (due to funding drought, covid, market saturation, bad timing aka world wasn’t ready for our idea, or leave your favorite excuse in comments) also impacted open startups? And what if they weren’t successful because open but because market was easier?

There are actually at least two styles that do exactly that. They are called OpenSCAD and JSCAD. The code above would be simple subtract(cube([h,w,t]), translate([h/2,w/2,t], cylinder({radius, height})))

I don't know why the article makes it sound like cadquery is superior in every way possible. Sure BREP is a lot more powerful than CSG, but with extra power comes extra learning curve. If all you ever design is 3d prints for reprap (and I'd guesstimate 95% of hackaday audience falls into that category) cadquery may be an overkill

I went through is process a couple of times.

Usually they ask you to fill an online form and attach any evidence. After that it always felt like a call center employee decided whether to start the refund or not. If you write something smart, well researched, polite, and long, chances are that poor person will just skim through it and click “accept”.

Then on the other side the company has 30-45 days to object via their bank.

With big companies they probably think it’s not worth their time.

With small companies the bank notices about a new dispute probably go to an inbox nobody monitors.

I simply quoted the original article

Yes, but don't forget that "Ambani family have close ties to the ruling government" and also Jio is "the only firm that won a pan-India 4G license, leveraging the superiority and cost-efficiency of 4G".

I'm super curious what technical reasons mandate that there can be only one 4G license in a country with 1.4 billion people. And how that affects competition in a country that has Corruption Perception Index equal to that of Morocco, Ghana, China or Benin.

edit: formatting

Are they also building AI cars that drive without accidents?

What if China says “we’re sending you a plane with the four individuals you are after. We insist on their innocence and want to see a fair and public trial”

Then DOJ would have to reveal their sources, wouldn’t they?

Scmp website has way too much fancy JavaScript making my iphone lag and not resulting in a better reading experience

Good read, but AFAICT researches still don’t fully understand how birds fly, yet planes fly at higher altitudes and at faster speeds. Computer vision is probably not going to mimic human eye that closely

So you also agree that there's no standoff between AWS and K8s, unlike an article titled "'AWS vs. K8s' Is the New 'Win vs Linux'" would suggest?

It also talks about building a personal data center quite a few times (at least that's how I read it).

K8s is likely to replace EC2, ECS, and all other unusable amazon bloat to become the default AWS API. But it's not going to damage AWS, it's going to enhance it and become part of it.

Software Engineer's fallacy: if all you have is software/programming skills you start to look for an open source linux based solution to holding wooden boards in place, one that doesn't vendor lock you into the iron ore.

With Windows vs Linux the premise was you install absolutely free software on a computer you already own and you end up with a superior computing and programming environment.

With k8s - you switched to it, now what? You have to buy server hardware, rent or build a room, run wires for electricity and broadband, build cooling, physical security, etc etc etc. You will stop paying hourly rate to Amazon, but all the upfront and recurring costs will chew into that saving and you'll question whether it was worth the drill. Foremost, it will all take days and weeks, but with AWS it takes intolerable 20 minutes to spin up the k8s control plane (did I remember the term right?)

Even if you do all of that and blog about your great success, what's your plan for when it goes viral and visitors flow in to leave accolades on your visionary move?

With AWS, you could just spin up more servers to deal with extra traffic. With your own datacenter, you'd have to order new servers, perhaps from Amazon's same day delivery...

thanks, will look into that.