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by abathur 7y ago
Had an app doing fine until about 12 minutes ago, when Heroku tried to move it to a new server. Alas.
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by abathur 7y ago
Not really looking to press this; it seems like you know more about the economics of energy production than I do. But, some examples of why I wonder if it's this simple: - Part of redistributing less time-sensitive forms of consumption
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by abathur 7y ago
Not sure the economics here are this simple? It seems like, if this distinction was meaningful, renewable operators would be turning off generation capacity when prices dropped this low. There's some economic, effort, or technologica
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by abathur 7y ago
I agree that Houston's concrete sprawl isn't endearing and that it's suffering some externalities, but in some respects I also see it as some sort of harbinger for Austin. I like Austin, and would love to live there, but I&#x
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by abathur 7y ago
Well-designed landfills are probably better than loading plastic into confetti cannons, but calling anything in a man-engineered landfill "undisturbed in the earth" is a stretch. Plastics sitting in our landfills are, at human tim
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by abathur 7y ago
I don't think it's a lost art, but it might be a lost profession. I can't imagine the sequence of events between my current life, and a life as even a part-time line editor.
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by abathur 7y ago
I haven't tried any of them, but I've been collecting such things in case I find the time/energy to chase down one specific yak. https://github.com/retextjs/awesome-retext https://github.com&#
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by abathur 7y ago
When reading comments or articles that acknowledge the problem, but have a rosy outlook on technical or market solutions to the problem, I rarely get the impression that they've spent time grappling with how many deliberative entities
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by abathur 7y ago
And another a few minutes ago for the 15th :)
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by abathur 7y ago
Can't answer the small question, but they did send out an email that they're going to tighten their marketing budget for a bit and comp/refund everyone's $9.99 membership fee for the month. Griddy's communication ef
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by abathur 7y ago
No worries. Just seemed like a disjunct somewhere and wanted to make sure to clarify how this model works since very few people have direct experience. He's probably even crankier today :) For additional context for others, our energy
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by abathur 7y ago
Late to the thread, but I'm also a Griddy customer in Houston and wanted to put an asterisk on this. I'm not sure how your friend knows his rate yet. The Griddy interface takes 24-48 hours to update/integrate the smart meter
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by abathur 7y ago
The Griddy rate was pegged at $8.99/kwh for about an hour and 15 minutes.
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by abathur 7y ago
I more generally think limiting your identity-surface is a good idea, because I suspect strongly-held identities do subtly hem you in and shape your choices (which can be exacerbated if your identification was mistaken.) That said, I narrow
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by abathur 7y ago
To unpack a smidge, I think the first N steps all involve developing the perception and language to spot, tag, and catalog instances of this problem. There's a fundamental shortfall in the quality of our thinking relative to the task (
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by abathur 7y ago
I think this is exacerbated by a dual blind-spot in both our thinking and languages regarding the difference between "how something was the last time we checked" and "how something intrinsically/durably/permanently
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by abathur 7y ago
(This rank is just based on points, but it lists total points. I don't see a way to force it to re-sort, but it wouldn't be too hard to re-compare them by volume.)
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by abathur 7y ago
I suspect their record is incomplete since I don't see some pretty hot threads from the past few weeks, but https://hntrending.com/domains/all/index.html does purport to accumulate domains/listings/
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by abathur 7y ago
Churn can be all of the things the post describes, and I think it's good to be skeptical of churn--always looking for ways to avoid it. But it's also hard to tell the difference between churn and maintenance , and I think one of
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by abathur 7y ago
Not sure that's a bad thing. It probably hinges on the unit economics of their ticket obligation to the studios. For example, if subscribing induces people who like going to the movies enough to do it at least monthly to go more often-
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by abathur 7y ago
It's not clear how requiring an ID would intrinsically stop duplicate votes? IIRC a number of countries use an indelible ink pad that voters have to place a finger on.
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by abathur 7y ago
I think GP just means with a laptop available (i.e., the ability to research a bond initiative they weren't already aware of).
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by abathur 7y ago
I assume it's a reference to what inevitably happens to any busy service that no longer has a CDN soaking a significant fraction of its traffic. Presumably posted shortly before midnight, PDT.
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by abathur 7y ago
The article suggests criminality, but I think use varies a little by context. Buying a phone to do crimes? I imagine want to pay cash, get something that doesn't require a global account login, and is cheap enough to toss early and oft
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by abathur 7y ago
> apparently no evidence of a major extinction event at the same time Not a scientist, but I did notice Wiki has a sidebox that gives some very rough indicator of the confidence about this hypothetical impactor. It also lists its estim
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by abathur 7y ago
I've heard the same, though in the version I heard it was executives (I guess at WB?) who thought humans-as-IaaS was too complex.
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm not sure I've ever tried to rename one, but the docs assert support for ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN ( https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html ).
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by abathur 7y ago
You can read them without performing them, no? :)
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by abathur 7y ago
I want to mount a small defense (softly? narrowly? I agree with most of your specifics) of the state of the art(s). Not looking for a fight. :) Procedural art is both new, and it isn't. There's already a reasonably rich (if still
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by abathur 7y ago
This feels like a useful concept. I stumbled into doing roughly the same in my macOS system bootstrap script. I found it from the other side, though--usually only after failing to find a good way to automate a step, or realizing automation

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