DamonHD

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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Yes
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Who has done thermal imaging at home to help improve efficiency?(mastodon.energy)
3 points by DamonHD 10mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
No /favicon.ico
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Prefix your title with "Ask HN: "? I spent my whole 'career' creating small start-ups, usually with no money, and made it to (early, kinda) retirement, so it can be done. I often did consultancy on the side to help. I a
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Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns (2023)(crookedtimber.org)
13 points by DamonHD 10mo ago|3 comments
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Unless you normally use electric resistance heating (or some kind of fossil fuel with higher gCO2/kWh) then you don't get necessarily a free pass on the global warming thing! Our whole home is heated with <500W on average: at t
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
That's been elReg's normal human-powered house style for ~30Y years, albeit slightly calmer recently and with en_US spelling. I know because I have written for it and pushed my style that way to do so - again entirely human power
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
The best code, eg for embedded systems, is as simple as it can possibly be, to be maintainable and eg to let the compiler optimise it well, possibly across multiple targets. Sometimes very clever is needed, but the scope of that cleverness
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
The company often does/did not get to make the choice, at least in my case.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Currently about* 4 or 5 on separate domains (self-hosted, and with third-party providers). At least one is a role acccount that I look after along with the org that it is for.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Really needs the "How" at the start of the title.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
...and maybe it's gone: #time-e-b.nist.g .NIST. 1 u 1071 1024 377 125.260 1.314 0.280
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
So far I think I'm still seeing one of them in my peers list for my public-ish NTP server: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter =======================================================
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I am doing a PhD (by publication, self-funded) because I want to improve how we are decarbonising home heating in the UK, and one target audience is academics, and those papers also support communications with policy makers and industry. A
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Authors may NOT be paid at all for their work, or may even pay to do it. I am a self-funded PhD student and no one paid me for the work that went into my open access paper. As it happens in this case the journal waived the publication fee,
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'Wrong trousers' to help rescue teams on the fells [video](bbc.co.uk)
1 points by DamonHD 10mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
1) Maybe edit "Ask HN: " into your title? 2) As a low-level C++/C/asm/hardware guy I'd like to get into Rust but haven't yet got started because I haven't had a recent project that would benefit. Not
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
There has been a lot of very aggressive SPAMming here over the last few weeks, and it would not astonish me if things had been tightened up to mitigate it. But the forum I was an admin for, for many years imposed a "no links in a hurry
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
https://codepen.io/fimion/pen/WNmwJWJ https://github.com/jqueryscript/new-css-features
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I find that aggression and unpleasantness and threat of violence a total turn off and did not make it to the end. Also, I think that some of the numbers were probably badly wrong , but I'm not going to pick through the abuse to check
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I spent a long time working in finance one way or another, including as a founder/director of a small e-money issuer, and I have at least from this time ASSUMED that gift cards carry a very inflated AML risk. Plus I have no desire to c
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
IMHO "efficient" isn't really the right term in your second para. The PV generation per W incoming is actually a little lower at higher ambient temperatures, but is otherwise fairly constant. I assume that you mean higher kW
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
In the GB (UK mainland) grid only ~2% of energy is lost in transmission; distribution is more typically ~5%. And we did put most of our big thermal power generation in the middle of the country, which is now causing difficulties as we need
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I do.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Please prefix with "Show HN: "
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
If this is your thing, at least prefix the title with "Show HN: " please, else it's just drive-by SPAM.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I really want to do the "this is a Wendy's" thing, but...
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
I went to Tokyo a couple of times for different reasons, and was frequently amazed by the people in the street or behind the counter in a restaurant, etc, who would stop and take the time to help me, often in perfect English, do whatever it
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
It seems to work, especially when I explain why.
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Signal is almost the only thing that I strongly trust. Originally set it up to discuss patent stuff which had to be kept pretty secret, stayed for the lolz. For small but sensitive items of data, such as bank details, I split over a couple

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