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New comment by traviswt in "Tennessee Awards $5.5M to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure"

traviswt — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:54:37 +0000

> The _current_ regulations favor the established.

Which is why de-regulation is the answer in this case. If a regulation is bad, roll it back, don't put another layer of complexity on top. Complexity, again, favors the incumbents. They have more resources to deal with all the nuances.

New comment by traviswt in "Tennessee Awards $5.5M to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure"

traviswt — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:48:01 +0000

No. The regulations aren't in place to protect consumers, they're in place to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone to compete. They're lobbied into existence by the market incumbents to stifle competition.

Regulations favor the established.

New comment by traviswt in "Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic"

traviswt — Sun, 26 May 2024 00:36:37 +0000

This would be absolutely perfect for a Riven remake.

New comment by traviswt in "Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS"

traviswt — Thu, 23 May 2024 21:55:05 +0000

Obligatory link to Swyx's Spark Joy repo: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy?tab=readme-ov-file#drop-...

New comment by traviswt in "Pluckable Strings"

traviswt — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:19:52 +0000

This is fantastic, and with the vowel has another dimension. Love it, thank you!

New comment by traviswt in "Pluckable Strings"

traviswt — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:17:21 +0000

Scroll down.

New comment by traviswt in "Pluckable Strings"

traviswt — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:02:35 +0000

Really wish this wasn't so... nsfw. My kid would love it, but there's no way in the world I'm sending him this link.

New comment by traviswt in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

traviswt — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:45:23 +0000

If you go listen to their CEO's testimony, he clearly states that the one single original patent behind the idea is now open but was expiring anyway. He brags about them spending a lot of money on R&D and needing to recoup that, reiterating that they have many other patents that aren't being opened that cover the exact implementation. He talked about them exploring those other methods, choosing not to patent them, and only patenting the best solution.

All his words. He's trying to explain that sure, the patent is open, but companies are still going to have to work harder than Sawstop because they have many more patents they refuse to open that cover the best and most logical implementation of this idea.

You're asking for a "cynical" take, but it's not really cynical! The CEO is trying to tell everyone, openly, and they're not listening. They are NOT altruistic, otherwise they would have opened the entire suite of patents. They are openly saying this singular patent is open, because it doesn't matter and that they will doggedly defend their other patents. Now, every other manufacturer will now need to navigate a minefield of patent litigation, and follow the path of subpar implementations that Sawstop ruled out during their R&D.

I don't know why everyone is ignoring his testimony and thinking the company is giving anything up, it's wild!

New comment by traviswt in "A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022)"

traviswt — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 19:32:42 +0000

You're probably confusing Fluoride which is actually quite difficult to remove, often needing expensive and complicated filtration such as Reverse Osmosis, with Chlorine which is trivial to remove with charcoal filtration.

New comment by traviswt in "Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)"

traviswt — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:19:07 +0000

I've had mostly a positive experience with Jellyfin on AppleTV. Have you tried it? Curious what's considered a dealbreaker for you.

New comment by traviswt in "The road to hell is paved with asphalt"

traviswt — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:23:42 +0000

The alternative to reclaiming would be to leave it in place and pave over the top (asphalt overlay). That has limits, though, so reclamation will be a requirement over time.

The claim and wording is valid and correct, though. You cannot recycle asphalt if you leave it in place. And what is removed is recycled at a rate of 99%.

If you don't reclaim the asphalt, then it's still in place, and technically still in use.

New comment by traviswt in "Semver 2.0.0 Released"

traviswt — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:56:47 +0000

Semver has been 2.0.0 for 10 years, look at the date of the assets. Multiple releases created today where none existed before. Not sure why someone is creating releases now, perhaps just some housekeeping/cleanup.

https://github.com/semver/semver/releases

New comment by traviswt in "Firefox on the brink?"

traviswt — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:15:23 +0000

> Mozilla spending too much time/money and other crap over the years

It seems like a pretty bit conflict of interest when the #1 money source for Firefox comes from Firefox's only real competitor.

New comment by traviswt in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

traviswt — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:19:23 +0000

Would invites be a solution? Anyone can sign up if they provide a number, otherwise you need an invite from someone with a number linked. It would clump the identity/legitimacy for all invitees into origin number, but still allow disparate accounts.

New comment by traviswt in "Bitwarden adds support for passkeys"

traviswt — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:19:29 +0000

Bitwarden is underrated. Passwords run everything in our digital life. I will gladly take a UI compromise here and there for more trustworthiness.

New comment by traviswt in "Black 4.0"

traviswt — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:25:18 +0000

They were one step further than just reflecting heat, they were tuning emissivity to actually give off heat and cool the surface underneath. Extremely impressive from a heat transfer perspective to cool a surface passively!

The idea is basically "sky is really cold, give it your heat." Fascinating.

New comment by traviswt in "Vectorpea: Online Tool for Vector Graphics"

traviswt — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:29:51 +0000

With a large 4K monitor, I just tolerate the ads.

New comment by traviswt in "Vectorpea: Online Tool for Vector Graphics"

traviswt — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 02:26:00 +0000

Photopea has completely replaced my Photoshop usage, and now that I have an Illustrator equivalent, that monthly creative cloud subscription isn't looking too appealing...

New comment by traviswt in "Nearly half of non-Tesla EV owners want to go back to ICE"

traviswt — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 01:31:57 +0000

Internal Combustion Engine

New comment by traviswt in "DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app"

traviswt — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:28:38 +0000

I might do this, but the servo still works. So long as I can still drive the servo, I think I'm good. It's open loop, so I'll need to watch something to determine when the door is fully shut.