VBprogrammer

177 ms·

2191.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I completely agree with you but would also point out that the tiny home / alternative lifestyle movements have, at least in my perception, grown out of this ugly dichotomy. I on the other hand chose to buy a house that needed a lot of
2192.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
It is not anti-science to allow people the freedom to determine their own gender. There is a difference between being a man or a woman and being biologically male or female. All it requires is a degree of enlightenment and perhaps empathy.
2193.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Isn't there an element of survivor balance there though? It worked for amazon but how many dozens of companies raised heavily and still failed to "capture the flag" on the other side?
2194.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Yeah, I can definitely see the argument for having a war chest. Building it by exchanging a chunk of your equity for it in the hope that on the other side of the storm (what is that old fable about economists correctly predicting 11 of the
2195.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
That statement made me feel uncomfortable. Isn't it exactly this type of attitude that creates financial bubbles in the first place? Without a plan, or even a good reason, for that money how does it contribute to making your business m
2196.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> This is absurd. Of course companies need to enforce some form of morality among its employees, for instance by having an anti-murder policy or by firing employees who shout racist epitaphs at quarterly meetings. The question is just wh
2197.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I care about companies not making moral judgements on behalf of their employees. I guess this particular restriction aligns with your morality closely enough that you are happy to give it a pass. What if instead, a company morally objected
2198.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
My house built in around 1880 still has lath and plaster ceilings (wooden battens with plaster applied over the top of it). The lath is made from riven oak because it needs the strength at quite small dimensions.
2199.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> you can try to min/max the health insurance available to you to fit your needs. How do you do that though? The video which started this discussion is a young healthy woman who suddenly discovered she had a brain tumour. It could h
2200.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I think the exponenciality of the growth there shouldn't underestimated. Kill one innocent person; disillusion dozens of people.
2201.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I mean this in the nicest possible way; the casual way Americans talk about these things makes me wonder if they aren't suffering some form of Stockholm syndrome. The percentage of the population who don't have anything like that
2202.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust policy.
2203.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
If a company I worked for introduced that I think my response would be subterfuge. "Hey buddy, I'll have the steak but can you do me a favour and put 2 beetroot and feta tarts on the bill instead."
2204.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Last time I drank Japanese Whiskey it ended in a sleep waking incident and urinating on my flatmates feet. I tend to avoid it now.
2205.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
While that's true. It also means you are only one grant away from sharing database tables. Maybe with good discipline you will be ok but all it take is for one dev to take that one shortcut.
2206.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
That architecture is commonly known as a distributed monolith. If you put two services on the same DB you can guarantee that someone will be joining onto a table they shouldn't have before the week is out.
2207.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Not even as smart as that. What they do is apply a delay between taking the bet and accepting it. We don't have information at a millisecond level. Most sports data is supplied by people watching the game in a room, or using a bespoke
2208.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Aircraft engines had an "simpler solution" to this problem, they geared the output of the turbo charger down to the crankshaft speed and directly recovered the power into mechanical energy. This was known as a turbo compound engin
2209.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Yeah, checking wikipedia the efficiency of TEGs are ~5-8% so I guess that is why this idea isn't used. It would be hard to justify the cost / weight at that limit.
2210.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I wonder if this could be used to power an electric recovery generator in a Internal Combustion Engine in hybrid applications. If my back of the envelope calculations are correct a typical 2 litre engine exhausts over 1000 litres of exhaust
2211.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I've been watching this series recently. It's got quite a bit of statistics, mixed with some code and real world applications. It's certainly refreshed my memory on some things; some of them I'm not sure I really appreci
2212.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Given what it takes to turn vegetable mass into something resembling a burger, if it came down to it, I'd rather stick to real vegetables. I think its fair to say that processed food is generally not very good for you. I don't see
2213.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I stayed at a hotel which had Amazon echo in the room a few weeks ago. It was awesome to ask it to play various kinds of music while we lounged by the pool. Or to check the weather forecast for the next day. I enjoyed it enough that we boug
2214.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
As a red-green colourblind male. I'd temper that statement to don't mix red and green for encoding information. Ideally don't use colour as the sole means of encoding information anywhere. The experience of colourblind people
2215.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I'm hoping I'm just a little bit ahead of the curve. Doing a bit of reading it seams Honda and Yamaha have electric motorcycles being released in some form or another this year. Hopefully they find a market for them and the compet
2216.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Yeah, that is a possibility. I'd have to avoid the most direct route though as that is fairly fast moving (Chertsey to Hammersmith in / around London). From memory I think the limit is only a few hundred watts. There is an ebike s
2217.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Nice. The main part of my journey is on a 40mph road though so it would need a little more get up and go. I also ride a 650cc motorcycle so the temptation to get a faster one is hard to resist!
2218.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
A BIC pen can be 5 orders of magnitude less expensive than a nice Caran D'Ache. Anyway, I just though someone might be interested in discussing the merits of electric scooters rather than arguing about how different the two types of sc
2219.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Yes, that is why I clarified of the Vespa variety. I'm aware they aren't the same thing, but it's two wheels and an electric motor. They aren't that different.
2220.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I keep being tempted by an electric scooter (of the Vespa variety) for commuting . I'm moving a little closer to work which would mean I only need 30 miles per day plus reserves. Unfortunately, the named brand ones are ridiculously exp

More ›