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by S201 3y ago
Tangential: A few years ago a coworker of mine suddenly died in a tragic accident at way too young of an age. Every once and a while when I see his name pop up in a git blame from code written many years ago I'll click into his GitHub
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by S201 3y ago
Anecdotal: I've been quite happy with T-Mobile's coverage for many years now. At least where I'm at they have just as good, if not better, coverage than Verizon does.
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by S201 3y ago
The zero API quota on GCP hits close to home for me too. Last year I wanted to write a little script that would use the YouTube API to find video URLs from a particular channel. The details on it aren't important; it was something I wo
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by S201 3y ago
There are also many studies demonstrating the negative health effects of living within a similar radius to a highway or any other major road, which encompasses most land in every major city. It's not like car emissions are perfectly cl
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by S201 3y ago
You have a funny notion of "the 1%." Unless you're in a very low cost of living area $60k in the US is barely scraping by, even $120k/yr in high COL areas like the Bay Area is basically a poverty wage. At large, somethin
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by S201 3y ago
Maybe you should read a study before citing it: > On the basis of distance to airport coefficients, children living within 500 m, 1,000 m, or 1,500 m of an airport had average blood lead levels that were 4.4, 3.8, or 2.1% higher, respect
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by S201 3y ago
> Is it fair that 1 person out of 10 gets to fly while the 9 others will have to pay the same consequences? This isn't an aviation unique topic. You can replace "fly" in that sentence with countless other activities and th
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by S201 3y ago
Alright, here we go yet again with the "leaded gas from GA is going to kill us all!" scare mongering. First, the GA fleet worldwide uses 500 tons of lead per year. Compared to 5,000,000 tons when leaded car gas was in use. That&#x
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by S201 3y ago
> is asking the world’s 1% to give up their cessnas really too much I wish this "only the 1% fly planes" crap would stop already. Yes, GA isn't exactly cheap, but there are many upper middle class families with RVs, boats,
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by S201 3y ago
Pretty much, yeah. And from my personal experience, uship is useless. Lots of independent people that charge too much due to small economies of scale (one guy with a goose-neck truck vs. a car carrier). The few times I've had to ship a
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by S201 3y ago
In this case you would likely do a 15 year term loan. The previous comment is misleading or incorrect in stating that you have to do a new 30 year loan always when refinancing.
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by S201 3y ago
So in other words, more clickbait doomer-ism titles. It's disappointing to see this type of junk "journalism" be submitted to, and upvoted on, HN.
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by S201 3y ago
Wonderful! With investment into SMRs hopefully the technology can mature and achieve the economies of scale needed to be cost competitive for replacing oil and gas. We need all the investment we can get into next gen nuclear in order to dec
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by S201 3y ago
> I was a skeptic for years, as it was based on Atom/Electron, which I found really sluggish, and it was Microsoft. This pretty much still sums it up for me.
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by S201 3y ago
> Apple seems to be the only sensible alternative. My Arch box has never once tried to display an ad to me, or coerce me to use any particular piece of software for that matter.
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by S201 3y ago
> For 24/7/365/30 constant airborne capabilities? I'm not saying it's necessary (or even a good idea, see the "accidents" section in the linked to article), but it also wouldn't be the first time:
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by S201 3y ago
Cool, I'm in the Seattle area and didn't know of that one either. Do you have any background on it? I run a similar website to catalog all current airports, but also collect info on closed airports for historical purposes. I added
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by S201 3y ago
> In before “how do we believe you?” A company trying to weasel out of its warranty obligations is hardly something I'd cast doubt on anymore (unfortunately).
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by S201 3y ago
If society agrees that eating during workplace meetings is acceptable, then so be it. My point was that "it's a biological need therefore it's acceptable" isn't an excuse to use for eating in a meeting (working lunc
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by S201 3y ago
People also gotta shit. Should I do a Zoom call while on the toilet? It's a matter of where is your attention. If you're eating you're not fully focused on the other participant you're interacting with and not being full
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by S201 3y ago
Meanwhile I'm 10 miles from a city of 100k people and I have no cellular service at all. Trees suck for phone signals.
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by S201 3y ago
For what it's worth, I only buy Android phones that have unlockable bootloaders and I can root so that ultimately I have control over my own device. But yes, I agree on how letting Apple and Google assert a level of control unparallele
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by S201 3y ago
> The single biggest deficiency of Kagi is Apple’s exclusive control over the list of selectable default search providers in iOS Safari. Seems like a deficiency of Apple products to me. I know it's beating a dead horse, but this is
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by S201 3y ago
Right, because there's surely no scientist in the US interested in pursing something like this as well. Generalize much? Keep riding that "US sucks, China good" train for absolutely no reason.
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by S201 3y ago
Is there anything left to really "figure out" about carbon capture? The tech works, it's just too expensive. Given a sufficient amount of cheap enough energy it could be scaled up as far as I understand. As a layperson, it&#x
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by S201 3y ago
True, but home prices are also much higher than in the past partly thanks to that long period of low interest rates. Taking on these huge loans with corresponding (comparatively) high rates is a different ballgame than it was in the past.
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by S201 3y ago
You're missing a huge difference here: A captcha works on top of the existing web. I can use it on any platform to prove that I am a human. Whereas the proposal/implementation here effectively locks out any platform not explicitly
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by S201 3y ago
As usual, the difference is energy density between hydrocarbon fuels and Li-ion batteries. Power the drone with gas and it becomes a different story. But then you just re-created the helicopter and all the problems which explain why no one
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by S201 3y ago
I don't see why not as long as the Adafruit libraries I used still work on it (or you swap them out with something else). Overall it's a pretty simple project that just reads values from sensors and prints their values over a TCP
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by S201 3y ago
Yes, I keep mine indoors so I made a small wooden box with a cutout on top covered with a piece of window screen material to allow for airflow inside. I figured I'd leave the enclosure as an exercise for the reader since you'd lik

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