DamonHD

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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   I designed a consumer product based on a respun Uno, that has sold >500k units. The toolchain and hardware remains pretty capable, and can run super low power with care (~1 microamp most of the time).
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Would much prefer it to start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush (32--126) from which the output would work in more places and would be in better alignment with the name. Having said that, yes, fun and interesting, thank you.
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Same here. Self hosting (STMP, DNS, etc) for ~30Y.
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   https://www.myenergi.com/product/libbi-battery-storage/
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   I would really like to see one of these for brotli. Also for zopfli vs level 9 compression with this tool as-is.
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   Feed Reader Behavior Project(rachelbythebay.com)

   2 points by DamonHD 1y ago|0 comments
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   UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards(petition.parliament.uk)

   313 points by DamonHD 1y ago|350 comments
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   OK: it looked like a paid-for service that you were plugging. As you were...
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   by DamonHD 1y ago

   Please prefix with "Show HN:".
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I use LibreOffice for when I have to interoperate with people using Word. It is OK. I use vi and plain text (or marked up, eg HTML or Markdown) where possible. I don't wan't to get into opaque binary formats with possibly limited
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I used LaTeX extensively at uni for my BSc/MSc then took a 30Y+ break to earn a living, now I am back using LaTeX for journal papers for my PhD. I didn't stop caring about good typography and typesetting, eg I edited a supercomput
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    For the Google AdSense slots I run I have attempted* to turn off ALL ad personalisation for ethical reasons, hoping that G reverts to purely contextual clues like in the GoodOldDays(TM) when my revenue from Google ads was >1000x higher a
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    Why every Sankey diagram you've ever seen is wrong(mliebreich.substack.com)

    3 points by DamonHD 1y ago|0 comments
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    How much carbon is in your coffee cup?(roastinghouse.co.uk)

    1 points by DamonHD 1y ago|0 comments
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Agreed. And I'm not sure the paid-only part is the only reason to try to avoid being drive-by SPAM.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    It seems that I had already opted out, but I turned some off extra nags and unwanted features in settings also while I was checking. I am trying to signal to the marketing droids that each attempt to add drivel like this reduces engagement
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    You can work on climate fixes quietly within a current role (eg write more efficient code, scheduling non-critical stuff away from demand peaks towards generation peaks, ... #frugalComputing) or maybe move to a role which has some explicit
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Let's not add more pollution to public spaces for grandstanding, please.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Retired - sort of - when the remains of my last two start-ups died (in the same month!) after the pandemic and were sold for OK money. Now doing a part-time PhD working fixing the climate. Coping - generally fine - helped by building up a
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archive...
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    0) Please prefix your title with "Ask HN:" 1) Make the site static (ie less/no JS). 2) Several MB (including >>100kB CSS) for a page that I can't even see most of because NoScript blocks it, is silly. 3) 141 reques
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I have used it and had a response within the last week. Maybe mail from your provider is being silently rejected? Do you have a different email address and provider that you can use?
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Salt caverns seem good. And a bit of leakage is likely OK (the pass through storage via hydrolysis is far from 100% efficient anyway) and the only piping might be from hydrolysers and to turbines very close by, so should be manageable...
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Places where we already store natgas / methane interseasonally are good candidates, and more are available.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I think that I probably average < 1 listener by any sensible metric! B^> (The podcast where I capture primarily audio material such as voice or sonfification that might as well also be presented in this alternative channel form...) I
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    My only Atom feeds are already short, and the paging mechanism would I think be hard to do in my static site, but yes, thanks for the reminder!
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Yes indeedy. My one-update-per-month feed gets pulled over 10 times per hour by Podbean for example: https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-99.html#202...
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I really really really object to being tracked in emails with poisoned links (without being told or having a sensible opt-out, usually, so also illegal under GDPR I believe) and it is one reason that I will not sign up to them.
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    I only put a summary of each item in my RSS feeds because I do not want to be redundantly sending the same body data over and over but I do want a complete history available easily in at least some versions of the feeds. And some of the pr
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    by DamonHD 1y ago

    Please use the "Show HN:" prefix.