MichaelNolan

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by MichaelNolan 11mo ago
Go would probably be my favorite language if it just had a few more features around functional programming. Specifically around immutability and nullness, and maybe exhaustive switch statements. Then it just might be perfect. At work we use
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by MichaelNolan 11mo ago
The difference is scale and intent. A mom and pop store owner “remembering” my face versus big tech tracking is like comparing a nosy neighbor to the CIA. One of them might peer out their window, the other will infiltrate every aspect of yo
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Renewable additions in 2025 are once again expected to surge(ember-energy.org)
1 points by MichaelNolan 11mo ago|0 comments
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Does anyone know when the Geely Zeeker and Hyundai Ioniq5 will be ready? I know the Zeeker is doing road testing already. I’m not sure if the ioniq5 is doing road testing yet. With all of these new cities being announced they must be gettin
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
There are some exciting (or terrifying depending on your perspective) developments in the “lab grown/cultivated” space. I had a chance to have some WildType salmon the other day. The costs are still way above wild caught or farmed salm
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Are you sure? I am talking about 60 and 70 year olds who can ride a non e bike 50+ miles without stopping, but who need an e-bike to ride 50+ miles at the same pace as their younger friends. How is that person not athletic? Sure they aren’t
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
A lot of comments are casting doubt on why “athletes” would be interested in this product. In the bike world, electric pedal assist bikes have become very popular. I have some family members who are avid cyclists. They do 100+ miles a week.
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Oh okay that makes sense. Yeah I misunderstood your original comment. I was comparing 48vdc to 24vdc and 12vdc, not 120 or 240 ac.
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
What is the safety benefit of 48v? I am not an electrician, but I just finished diy/installing a 48v system, and when I was doing some research I read the opposite. 48v is *cheaper* since you don’t need as thick wires, but *more danger
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
I guess things are DB dependent. Spanner for instance not only recommends using uuidv4 as a PK, it also stores it as string(36). Uuidv4 as a PK works fine on Postgres as well.
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
The IEA (2024 WEO) has coal peaking in 2027, and all other fossil fuels peaking before 2030. Historically the IEA has vastly underestimated the growth in renewables. The 2025 report comes out soon, so we will see if anything changed in thei
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
I'm curious what they will come up with. For smaller companies, leetcode style tests probably aren't the best, but for large companies that hire 10s of thousands of devs, leetcode style tests have a lot of good qualities. People w
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Might be the form factor. I think most of the big companies have moved away from 18650 cells. The cheapest full packs (not cells) in the US are $800 for 5kwh. Search “Server Rack Battery” on eBay, amazon or alibaba. These things are way che
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Copy from Reddit. (So take with a hefty pinch of salt) Tesla can not legally launch a service in California. They do not have the permits. “”” CPUC requires either an AV Drivered Pilot permit, or AV Driverless Pilot permit. (or Drivered or
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
In addition to food being much tastier than ever before, it’s also much cheaper. Despite current inflation and cost of living concerns, we spend far less on food than any time in history. Food in the 1960 was almost twice as expensive as it
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
> In our case there are no Pr's, we push to master Just to clarify, are you saying there is no code review where another engineer looks at your change before you merge to main? I’ve never seen a TBD project work that way. I can’t im
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
That article's whole premises seems to hinge on the quote: "Energy from non-fossil fuel combustible electricity generation is accounted for on their input heat requirements and non-combustible renewables on the energy content of t
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Anyone have any recommendations for books/papers/articles (math heavy is fine) that give a good steel man argument for why options and derivatives are beneficial? I can wrap my head around why/how options for physical commodi
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
You are one of today's lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
I can’t speak for this specific library, I’ve only use PiTest for Java projects, but mutation testing is a pretty awesome idea. One hard part is deciding which code is worth doing mutation testing on. A lot of “business” code probably shoul
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
> You keep subdividing until you have as many districts as needed. (Sorry, I don't remember the name for this, but it was the best option I could find when I last looked into this topic more than a decade ago.) It's called the
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
The word for this is sortition. It does have an interesting history. I like the idea, but I'd want to see it on a smaller scale before committing to it. Maybe a city or one of the smaller states. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Why car companies should fear the golf cart(fastcompany.com)
14 points by MichaelNolan 1y ago|6 comments
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
Even if they bypass the NRC by having the DOD build/regulate the plants, I'm just not seeing how any nuclear gets built in the US when natural gas, solar, and wind are so damn cheap. Unless the feds pay for the whole thing, nuclea
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
I’d be open to making a prediction (on longbets.org) that in the 2025 to 2034 timeframe, more solar, wind, and batteries get deployed globally than any 10 year period of your choice for nuclear. And if you want to limit that to winter time
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by MichaelNolan 1y ago
I used to be a big fan of cmv. But after a few years of actively using it I've completely stopped posting there or even browsing. Mostly because the majority of topics are already talked to death. The mods do a pretty good job consider
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Updated. Thanks.
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Can you go into more detail about your experience it’s difficult to find negative or critical reviews of MathAcademy. (Well except reviews in the same vein as Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament [1]) I’m taking their Math Foundations 2
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I'm probably a small minority, but I would trade my phone in for a clamshell/dumbphone tomorrow if my Macbook had 5g. Separately, tethering seems to blow through my phone battery.
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
These days hello world in Java is just: ```void main() {print("hello world"}``` And you can skip the compile step as well and run it with just `java yourFile.Java` Since JEP 495 they have made "simple programs" very simp

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