DamonHD

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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   By about 30x to 100x per acre (PV vs ethanol)... https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2501605122
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Almost no bot responds usefully to 429 that I have seen, and a few respond to it like 500 and 503 to speed up / retry / poll more.
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Please use "Show HN" else it's just sparkling drive-by SPAM. And fix the first word too?
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Please use "Show HN" else it looks like SPAM.
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   From outside at least, the US administration seems very like a bunch of cruel angry teens lashing out against reality, so various others (eg the bond markets) seem not sure that even if the US administration wants something that it would kn
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   My home's PV produces more energy than we use in a year, including heating. But the ~1:10 swing in generation from my roof in London UK between mid-winter and mid-summer is tough, and the storage to cover that interseasonally would cu
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Standard unimaginative click-bait.
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   There are good uses for block-chain like things, even beyond sprinking in a mention to help raise grant funding, but the headline-grabbers have generally not been those...
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   We shouldn't be dumping pollution selectively in poor places at all. But it is not coincidence: there is a lot of systematic racism (and other discrimination) in the world and in the US on top of that, that keeps not-white (and not &#x
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Many people seem to discount pollution etc that only affects brown-ish people far away that they personally don't know. And guess in which places these kind of stunts are commonly pulled? You wouldn't plonk an illegally fume-bel
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Because it is. Cold marketing drivel without even so much as a 'Show HN' from a relatively new user with previous form. Please cease and desist polluting this place. Scribble on your own home's walls instead.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    > "We all think that AI has taken away the need to write." No "we" "all" don't. Some may think that, but those people also may believe in sky fairies and the Earth being flat.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I use high-level tools to automate things all the time, such as scripts to avoid error-prone manual tasks, and high-level languages rather than writing low-level assembly code byte-by-byte ... usually, when they the right things to do. Howe
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Virtually nothing pays attention to 429s that I have observed. More things pay attention to 500s and 503s. Some however use those as a trigger to repoll immediately.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    You seem to be writing off all HN devs as a homogenous mass and claiming that (a) they think that they will lose their jobs and (b) that that is welcome. Plenty will disagree with one or both of those. Unless you are here to start a fight
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I run simple static sites from a (small) off-grid server at home. It has plenty of capacity for normal use, but cannot fully handle the huge traffic overshoots that bots and DoSes and poorly-written systems of household-name-multinationals
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    And some of the bad bots are snowshoeing across many many IPs (and fabricating UAs). How is that load balancer going to help?
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    You are wrong and coming across entirely pompous. I see what I see on my servers, and you clearly have not seen the same.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Almost nothing pays attention to 429s, at least not in a good way, including big-name sites. I've written a whole paper about it...
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    If you don't use "Show HN:" this is just sparkling drive-by SPAM, especially from a new-ish user.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Also, all Mastodon users' posts appear in their RSS feed.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Arguably the #Junited2005 thing this month has been about finding good blogs etc; most seem to have RSS. Eg see: https://mastodon.social/tags/Junited2025
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I think this deserves another airing! I have built IoT stuff which is not a crock, with security designed in from the start...
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    Remote Code Execution on 40k WiFi alarm clocks(iank.org)

    4 points by DamonHD 1y ago|1 comments
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I have always used (ie since the mid '80s) something like WS layout for C and its descendants. Only much later did I hear that name for it. Often unfashionable, but I have also been a magazine editor, and like the braces to visually
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    late 50s
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    AFAIK, because of protectionism (even pre Trump), US solar is much more expensive than elsewhere.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I don't think it's dogfooding if you don't test your stuff as a customer would experience it. For example, do dogs eat it cold but you only heat it hot and smothered in spices? I attempt as I did way back in the '90s to
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    "eat your own dogfood" or "dogfooding"
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    FWIW the routers I have owned over the last few years have been 12V @ 1A. I run my router + my RPi server off-grid with ~1kWh of usable (lead-acid) battery capacity. So with those and my laptop's battery, I sailed into our last couple