666lumberjack

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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear; I'm not talking about comments on random threads about climate change suggesting it could be solved easily if people just didn't have kids. I don't think it's unreasonable, though, to suggest n
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Yes - it's not surprising to me that few people are willing to consider adopting or living a 'childfree' lifestyle, only that the suggestion that doing so is an extremely effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is recei
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Pointing out the environmental impact of having biological children is always unpopular here. A lot of HN-ers are pretty attached to the 'three kids and a white picket fence' lifescript. Interestingly advocates of veganism (which
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
>I remind them that the video world has to do that same level of work, except x24 per second multiplied by number of seconds. While this is true, video frames only have to stand up to scrutiny for ~40ms. You can take a lot of clever shor
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
The cynic in me thinks the reason fossil energy companies are keen to invest in wind and solar is that they don't believe it can operate independently of natural gas backup any time in the near future and they want to secure some basel
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestions - we ended up using Applescript with Outlook and cURL since that's what he knew how to do and that wound up being much simpler than I expected.
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Ask HN: Options for downloading a small (5mb) CSV file from FTP & emailing it?
6 points by 666lumberjack 7y ago|8 comments
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
The CVR also records other sounds that are audible in the cockpit - alarms, warnings and notifications, but also the sound of eg. a control cable snapping. I'd guess that was what they heard that was especially useful in this case.
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
True, and I'd like to see this corrected with carbon pricing ASAP. My point is simply that whether or not intermittent renewables can ever cost-effectively deliver baseload power is still an open question.
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
LCOE is a poor measure of whether something can deliver baseload power cost effectively because it assumes all MWh are created equal. What would make it clear whether solar + battery at this proportion is a viable source of baseload power i
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
In the short term maybe? A forward shift in age threshold is essentially a one-time reduction to expected future pension expenditures, whereas the triple lock and increasing post-retirement life expectancy are continuous increases.
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
UK state pensions obey the so-called 'Triple Lock' rule where they increase in payout yearly according to the greatest of: 1. the growth in national average earnings; 2. the growth in retail prices as measured by the Consumer
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Not the person you responded to, but according to (my memory of) this[0] video youtube only counts views where an ad plays (excluding adblock users and some views from people in demographics that have low advertiser demand) and it is not im
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
This reminds me of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." It seems like in the case of employees at a company, just knowing that a parameter is being measured can result in it impli
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Not the person you responded to, but you correctly identified some of the serious flaws in this idea. They claim to be using commercially available crane technology, but existing cranes are generally not designed to operate in high winds, s
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Looks like CFR and CLD are already taken, to be fair
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
AMD is using a kind of modular processor architecture which, as I understand it, makes the chips easier / less expensive to fab than an Intel design of comparable size, so it seems like the two factors are intertwined. I don't kno
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Midlands looking to relocate to London, unfortunately, but I appreciate the offer.
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
~1 year of experience. I am also in the UK fwiw, probably should have put that in the OP.
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Ask HN: Better approaches to finding dev jobs that don't require a degree?
7 points by 666lumberjack 7y ago|14 comments
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Currently Opera, because of inertia and laziness. Originally I started using it for the free VPN and internet hipsteryness of using a less popular browser (much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, the latter is something my brain finds v
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
>London has not seen fit to reinstall trams That's not strictly true[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlink
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
London. I like big, dense, multicultural cities with lots to do at any moment of time, lots of different people and high-quality food from as many cultures as possible readily available. On that measure I think the only city that compares (
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Second-hand synthetic diamonds, sure - but buying anything second hand is generally more morally defensible than buying that thing new. Buying a used natural diamond is still worse than buying a synthetic one, because you're propping u
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
https://energypost.eu/wind-solars-achilles-heel-methane-melt... Sources in the article. There's a paper on observed leak rates at different plants too but I'm on my phone and can't find it.
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Denmark gets to use all of Scandinavia as a hydroelectric battery, though. It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that any country could replicate its success without that enormous geographical advantage. Current renewable technology is ve
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Data Analysis with Dr Mike Pound [video](youtube.com)
2 points by 666lumberjack 7y ago|0 comments
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Polymatter - mostly about company / nation scale economics. Possibly too high-level for the average HNer. Mustard - great videos about the history of notable vehicles - mostly planes, with a couple of trains. Mixture of historical foot
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The Freddo Index(vouchercloud.com)
1 points by 666lumberjack 7y ago|0 comments
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by 666lumberjack 7y ago
Aside from the Apple-y-ness and aesthetics of whatever the module attachment system ends up being, how is the expected/desired modular Mac Pro any different from a regular desktop PC?

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