abetusk

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by abetusk 4y ago
I agree about the services that keep getting shutdown and I also use the moral equivalent of a command line utility to store bookmarks but there are still benefits to "social" bookmarking, no? There's the potential of discove
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by abetusk 4y ago
This is internet content at its finest. Why did this fall off the front page so quick? Was it flagged?
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by abetusk 4y ago
I mean, I agree somewhat but I found it interesting enough. Note that this is also in the context of startup culture and a pushback to the 'zero-to-one' idea, so in that sense it's novelty is highly context dependent.
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by abetusk 4y ago
I think you're being overly critical. This blog post had much more signal than many of the "business advice" posts that I see on HN. Here are a few: > ... Moiz Ali did ... Native Deodorant (acquired ... for $100 million).
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by abetusk 4y ago
Maybe the fundamental disagreement is what constitutes the epsilon and whether a straight "copy" is actually dishonest/bad/immoral? In your example, say the comedian is testing the joke on a new demographic (christian vs
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by abetusk 4y ago
That's a kind of ungenerous reading. Another, more generous reading, would be to say, "stand on the shoulders of giants and reach further".
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by abetusk 4y ago
FTA: > Here, we simply copy an existing and functioning machine and then focus on modifying one or maybe two of the moving parts. Here "machine" is understood to be "business model". This is in response to "moons
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by abetusk 4y ago
Doing a quick Google search, I see a paper by Stroustrup that looks to support your argument [0]. From the paper: > One aspect of the exception handling scheme ... is that the default response to an error ... is to terminate the program.
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by abetusk 4y ago
I don't really know what to say. It's not that you're wrong or couldn't' be right, it's that there's a whole ecosystem of language and tooling, culture of idiomatic program design and human psychology at p
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by abetusk 4y ago
The point is not that you're handling an exception with some function, it's that knowing which function is being called to handle the exception becomes difficult to reason about. This is the relevant line in the article: > Th
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by abetusk 4y ago
Personally, I've found that things tend to take a lot longer than I expect. There are a few tactics I use to help: * Prepare myself mentally for the task and understand that the task is going to take as long as it's going to take.
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by abetusk 4y ago
Over the course of 10-15 years, I don't think you're correct. Solar is (in my opinion conservatively) expected to drop by 34% by 2030 [0] and, though I'm having trouble finding anything that spells it outright, demand and pro
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by abetusk 4y ago
Turing Machine Equivalence is the norm, not the exception.
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by abetusk 4y ago
I don't know if it's too conspiratorial but this does seem like a sideways attack to "embrace, extend, extinguish" FOSS. By couching it in terms of FOSS being "unethical", FOSS licenses can be whiddled away unt
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by abetusk 4y ago
Nebula genomics claims 30x coverage for $299 [0]. [0] https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
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by abetusk 4y ago
Sorry, I'm not quite sure I understand your point. There are places that have so much cloud cover year round that it makes solar adoption there effectively impossible? The frequency of these places is such that their energy needs requi
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by abetusk 4y ago
I think the underlying idea is spot on, if not the specifics. Biology, sequencing, health, bioinformatics etc. is going to be huge business. As of this writing, I believe whole genome sequencing is in the range of $400 with the cost (slowly
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by abetusk 4y ago
People do all sorts of home renovation with lighting, fuse boxes, outlets and the like. I don't want to dismiss safety concerns but at the same time this is well within scope of many home owners. > I don't understand why commer
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by abetusk 4y ago
There are 'ground mount systems' for solar panels that are popular if you have the space. A cursory look on YouTube gives many results [0] [1] [2]. There are fields of ground mounted solar panels in the country side where I live.
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by abetusk 4y ago
Do you have a writeup of your setup? Do you use lead acid for your batteries? Besides the money issue, the biggest concern I have are balancing the batteries, getting the right inverters, keeping the panels clear and figuring out what ineff
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by abetusk 4y ago
I would like to see a more in depth treatment than what I've seen (or what I've thought about). Certainly cross country electric lines aren't going to needed as much because the energy can be produced by a relatively clean fa
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by abetusk 4y ago
> Why can’t we solve that? Maybe this is the next big thing.
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by abetusk 4y ago
Yes. It wasn't that the code itself was badly or well written so much as the concepts of how each process was isolated from each other, the communication protocol was well established and the external dependencies were kept to a minimu
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by abetusk 4y ago
Almost completely unrelated but I have long wanted an in-browser/real-time/javascript/FOSS 'synthwave screensaver' in the style that you sometimes see on YouTube [0]. Maybe I'll use your code as a baseline for
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by abetusk 4y ago
The $0.08wh is something that you have to hunt around for. Just a cursory look on Aliexpress gives $0.12wh for LiFePo4 batteries [0] [1]. Looking on Alibaba, I see some potential sellers that might get below that $0.12 but it takes looking
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by abetusk 4y ago
I"m not sure I'm really the person to answer this but I would guess inverter and/or buck/boost converters are in the 90%-95% range. So, chaining DC -> AC -> DC gives about anywhere from 15% to 30% losses. I think t
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by abetusk 4y ago
Why is this hard to believe? Not for nothing but there are solar bitcoin farms that are popping up for precisely this reason. In the region where I live (upstate New York, USA), there are solar panel fields where just five years ago there w
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by abetusk 4y ago
I did qualify that this was not including labor and the other hardware and electronics needed for such a system. The (relatively) high cost is most likely because of labor and (in my opinion) inflated hardware costs of battery and solar pan
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by abetusk 4y ago
The idea being that consumer items will, more and more, be able to take DC directly instead of expecting AC. For example, any device that takes in USB power with a 120VAC "wall wart" plug can just be used with a buck convert plug
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by abetusk 4y ago
Apologies for responding to my own message but I wanted to add that we can also put a timeline on it. The dropping price puts the rollout/adoption within the next 10-15 years. So it's not just a matter of 'if' but we hav

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