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by ajford 4y ago
Or they're people who see the convenience and flexibility of an EV and are comfortable with purchasing a used EV. If you're not a Musk fan, the field is becoming competitive. There's a handful of models with 150+mi range that
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by ajford 4y ago
There's at least 5 models now in that range new, and the number of EV models now hitting that price range as pre-owned is increasing each year. People have been repeating the "there's no affordable evs" line so long it&#
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by ajford 4y ago
Yup! Worked at a gov't funded radio telescope and this is just the right level of jank for scientific progress. Complete with random bits of aluminum extrusion for bracing, random leftover cables no one's cleaned up yet, "int
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by ajford 4y ago
Why are you fixating on the "creating something new" argument? I can confidently say in 10yrs as a programmer, nothing I've worked on has "created something new" according to your argument. Every web-app or scientif
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by ajford 4y ago
We do the same with a 3-person team. The on-call person spends one week of the two-week sprint focused on support, and usually picks up a few smaller tasks/backlog items to fill in the time if it's a slow support week. That works
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by ajford 4y ago
I've been a vim user for 15 years and I still often type `:Q` and `:W`. Everyone types differently and some people make mistakes. Your blaming the victim instead of the software.
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by ajford 4y ago
Intro to Radio Astro Interferometry by Thompson and Intro to Radio Astro by Burke and Graham-Smith are strong recommendations. Those were the ones I used in my Radio Astro special topic in Uni. For some more background info, Essential Radio
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by ajford 4y ago
Wonder how possible it would be to get something similar if you paired a sound engine with a health tracker/automation/ML model? Am I exercising? Pump up the music, I need jamz! Am I at the store? Play inventory music.
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by ajford 4y ago
Same. I let my kids walk about 0.5mi to the park and I'm more afraid of some nosey busy-body calling CPS on them than I am about traffic or kidnappers. When I was growing up in the 90s, I'd routinely bike many miles away from home
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by ajford 4y ago
Though that's basically Google (and other large hosts) breaking the decentralized nature of email in their "effort" to combat spam.
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by ajford 4y ago
> citations must be written in Comic Sans size 11 font with every third word italicized TBH, after having to follow MLA style guides and various other citation styles over my career, I feel like this isn't as out there as you intend
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by ajford 4y ago
True, but one hopes (perhaps foolishly) that there's enough oversight between various parents talking to their kids about what they're learning, other teachers, and standardized testing. It worked for most of us, but politics is c
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by ajford 4y ago
Because early school-age children haven't honed their bullshit detectors yet. Seriously though, I'm currently fighting that with my two kids. They're now old enough that they're becoming netizens of their own and searchi
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by ajford 4y ago
> I think in general a lot of people "sleep" on how much of a game changer just having Level 1 "chargers" aka "boring wall outlets" everywhere would be. Exactly! So many people fixate on fast charging that t
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by ajford 4y ago
> Did those PS3 supercomputers end up being a good investment? Probably not. In our analysis at the time, it was an economical supercomputer that could hit our needs. It doesn't have to be the best investment, just a decent one at t
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by ajford 4y ago
What rock are you under? There's a massive second-hand market for many general purpose computers. Plenty of people, myself included, buy used hardware almost exclusively. Beyond that, many people are creating home theater PCs, home lab
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by ajford 4y ago
Before Sony stripped Linux from the PS3, they were being used to build super computers. Heck, my undergrad program tried getting on that hype train and we got two PS3s running YellowDog linux and were starting to put together a grant propos
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by ajford 4y ago
And you're making the assumption that everyone has to have the same type of vehicle. There's nothing to say that the person who needs to drive 100-200mi per day needs to be using an EV. Even then, those people would likely still b
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by ajford 4y ago
And you don't believe you can do the same with an EV? When I test drove the first EV (a Nissan Leaf) I bought, I took an OBD2 dongle with me and evaluated the data after the fact. I was able to confirm the battery health and capacity,
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by ajford 4y ago
Other than the small range decrease because of the cold weather, how does that differ from an ICE car? His comment was about swapping cars at the charger with cars buried in snow, which isn't an issue when you no longer need to swap ca
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by ajford 4y ago
There's a decently high current power line available from street lights. Not sure if they're still putting them in with high current since so many are converting to LED, but sodium lights drew ~1kW iirc. There's already been
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by ajford 4y ago
There's also no reason cars really need to charge that fast. Most people park their cars for hours at a time, either at home or work or a store. Imagine if every parking spot in an apartment had a slow charger that could charge your ca
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by ajford 4y ago
The solution there would be something like a 110V 15A outlet at a large portion of the parking spaces and some method for metering and accounting for the delivered power so it can be charged to the tenant. And if they charge a convenience f
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by ajford 4y ago
Do you not worry about the transmission, water pump, radiator, or even the engine itself failing? Does that mean you don't buy 2nd hand ICE cars at all? I've had a water pump die on me within 6 months of buying a 2nd hand car. In
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by ajford 4y ago
They do, but in over a decade that I remember him buying and replacing printers for the groom shop, I think he only ended up buying replacement ink (because he actually used all of it in under a year) maybe twice. I think that was when the
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by ajford 4y ago
I've found that second-hand small-business or light enterprise printers tend to be far more reliable than consumer level printers. I have a Dell small-business multi-function color laser and it's run like a champ for about 5 years
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by ajford 4y ago
My dad ran a pet grooming business, and he went through probably a printer a year. I always figured it died because of the amount of pet fur in the air clogging up the printer, so at one point I asked him why he didn't put a door on th
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by ajford 4y ago
Yep. I worked in scientific applications, and when developing some new data cleaning and processing pipelines for our hydrology data, Jupyter was phenomenal. It was easy to use as a presentation, with figures and plots embedded. With contro
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by ajford 4y ago
And this would be the opposite for me. Someone properly thinking out the edge cases and handling them (or at least pointing them out in comments) would be much more useful in the roles I'd be hiring for. I need a stable system that can
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by ajford 4y ago
So "~Gmail~ Google will call the cops on you based on the content of your ~emails~ Google Photos"? It seems like a rather small correction to me.

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