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by Shog9 2y ago
Second this recommendation. They also publish a bunch of their software on GitHub: https://github.com/victronenergy - makes it much, much easier to figure out what the hardware is capable of even if you never venture beyond
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by Shog9 2y ago
If you get a chance, try WineCrisp. Loads of flavor and stubbornly crisp. The things keep for months, even in less than ideal storage (such as a fridge), and even after losing a great deal of moisture retain a snappy bite. Only real down
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by Shog9 2y ago
I don't know which "early days" you're referring to, but I remember these complaints already in the very early '00s. ...and then I tried Photoshop for the first time. It was every bit as clunky, but made up for that
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by Shog9 2y ago
The extra irony here is that both apps built their own, entirely custom UIs rather than settle for dependencies on existing kits... The big difference with GIMP was that its toolkit was built to be separable from the rest of the app and eve
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by Shog9 2y ago
You're being pretty generous toward the "phone companies" here - their reputations have decades of bad press and shady behavior to shoulder as well. The big difference being, in addition to their roles as data brokers and fig
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by Shog9 2y ago
Then you also remember all the other companies that threw money down the well in '99 and didn't pull a rabbit out of their hats in time. Throwing money away isn't the clever bit in the Google story.
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by Shog9 2y ago
Interesting. My first thought was of Google Notebook, a service that died well over a decade ago and I still remember only because I used it to bookmark recipes. Online recipe sites tend to either be horrible ad-clogged messes, have unrelia
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by Shog9 2y ago
Please stop pretending that "data hording" didn't / doesn't happen on IRC. There's nothing inherently friendly to security or privacy in the protocol; if anything, it's quite the opposite. That you can, wi
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by Shog9 2y ago
The jobs, and in many cases the expertise held by the people working those jobs. I think this was the angle epistasis was coming from: not just that chips are physically being formed within the boundaries of the US, but that citizens are in
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by Shog9 2y ago
So many of the responses here are effectively identical to complaints folks had about Stack Overflow 3 months, 6 months, a year after it was launched. They were valid complaints then, and they've valid now. But... They don't answe
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by Shog9 2y ago
Pretty much the only benefit I've seen of running prettier on Markdown is to highlight mistakes in formatting that otherwise wouldn't be apparent without viewing rendered output (which it highlights mostly by trashing the file i
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by Shog9 2y ago
As the essay and this discussion repeatedly try to emphasize, thinking of Markdown as a "superset of HTML" is missing the point - it is meant to be read. It has both meaningful and collapsible whitespace, and both allows and encou
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by Shog9 2y ago
> Has the Congress ever responded by actually passing a law? Yes. Despite appearances to the contrary (and the exceptionally lethargic behavior of the current (118th) congress), Congress does actually pass laws (and revisions to existing
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by Shog9 2y ago
I vaguely remember DLNA... Which is to say, I remember it barely working at best and mostly just wasting a lot of time debugging configuration and network nonsense. Arguably the biggest advantage of Chromecast was just not having to deal wi
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by Shog9 2y ago
My team ran into this early on when attempting to adopt a rebase-preferred workflow for feature branches... ...then we got used to it. A few workflow changes were necessary: - configure pull.rebase=true. This is kinda just nice in general
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by Shog9 2y ago
Probably not water. Purpose is to dampen vibration, making the needle easier to read and possibly protecting the mechanism a bit. https://tameson.com/pages/liquid-filled-pressure-gauge
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by Shog9 2y ago
Generally grid backfeed capability for these systems is predicated on the presence of a stable voltage and frequency already on the grid - this is both a safety measure and a practical necessity, as the inverter needs to synchronize with th
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by Shog9 2y ago
I'm writing from a US perspective; we generally don't buy ranges per-hob (or call them hobs). Stand-alone range + oven is the rule, and that combo runs from a few hundred (basic gas or electric) to a few thousand dollars. You can
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by Shog9 2y ago
Price is coming down, but still much higher than standard electric. Standard electric being somewhere between annoying (open coil) and infuriating (glass top) to cook on when compared to even very inexpensive gas ranges. So most folks movin
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by Shog9 2y ago
This is an insightful observation, and a problem we struggled with for years on Stack Overflow: if you keep moderation quiet and anonymous, there's a lot less criticism, seemingly less hurt feelings... But also very little correction.
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by Shog9 2y ago
These exist as camping fridges (ex: https://www.amazon.com/DOMETIC-75-Liter-Portable-Refrigerato... there are also a few different full-size deals floating around. From what I've seen, these are a terrible idea for n
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by Shog9 2y ago
This is also true for a lot of the "kits": they're not particularly inexpensive for the floorspace (especially considering the labor needed), and often require a lot of finish work to be livable. If you have the land, manufac
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by Shog9 2y ago
Here you go: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/108509/2020/5/26 For some reason, you'll need to be logged into Stack Exchange to view that. Screen-grab: https://i.stack.imgur.com&
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by Shog9 3y ago
Then you don't remember those days at all, because there were plenty of areas the monopoly refused to serve where residents had to cobble together their own service and fight to be connected.
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by Shog9 3y ago
They're really great for drinking while driving without spilling your drink on bumpy roads.
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by Shog9 3y ago
The gp here was referencing a weird little bit of accountant jargon that uses a corruption of roman numerals to indicate million as a product of thousands. It's a terrible idea, but crops up in software circles occasionally due to the
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by Shog9 3y ago
The original title sez "millions" and is clearly distinct from both "Minnesota mining and manufacturing" and "millimeters".
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by Shog9 3y ago
This is where Python's GIL bit me: I was more than familiar with how to shoot myself in the foot using threads in other languages, and careful to avoid those traps. Threads spun up only in situations where they had their own work to
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by Shog9 3y ago
I think atoav was crediting Bauhaus with the modern kitchen, with the Frankfurt Kitchen as an early success story. Which is both fair and faintly damning, as what has been lost along the way (functional design that makes good use of limited
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by Shog9 3y ago
Yes, that's why I used C++ as an example. It's very easy to create a scenario where the memory layout your logic (and your type-checker) assume exists just... doesn't. Core dumps from the field with "impossible" v

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