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by akiselev 4y ago
> If it was this easy eveyone would be using RPC all over the place for many years already, and we'd have no HTTP and no train-load of other protocols. People are using RPC over HTTP all the time. Most backend APIs I've seen
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by akiselev 4y ago
Tellers could have gotten twice as efficient and still double in size if the number of transactions requiring human intervention increased four-fold, especially if the move to online banking has driven an increase in fraud and user error. I
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by akiselev 4y ago
> But somehow today more people work at banks than in the past, even accounting for population growth. Why would CRUD apps that make some stuff more efficient change this? Population growth doesn't account for regulatory changes a
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by akiselev 4y ago
> our hypotheses about the "natural" speed of evolution are wrong There's so much to unpack in that sentence! :) In general, a layman's understanding of a complex scientific topic is going to be wrong but if we rest
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by akiselev 4y ago
> No doubt with N carefully calibrated to depopulate the parts of the country you don't like, but not the part you live in. N is carefully calibrated by actuaries with hard data. Insurance companies stopped offering flood insuranc
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by akiselev 4y ago
Literally no one wants to insure those homeowners. They get insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program - it’s subsidized by the Federal government and it’s still incredibly expensive because the NFIP can’t refuse to insure a pro
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by akiselev 4y ago
Your sibling comment has a link with several theories: The color might be a fluke from a small founding population of squirrels that was just genetically more fit in unrelated ways. Or the biggest threat to squirrels might not be predators
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by akiselev 4y ago
IMO it's only safe to A/B test things where the product vision doesn't matter one bit. Stuff like where to place the button on the screen to drive conversions on a landing page or what copy to use to target X market segment.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Lobbying by pilots might redirect some money to upgrade someone's favorite small airport but their influence pales in comparison to long standing national security doctrine. Pilots and airports are part of our emergency infrastructure,
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by akiselev 4y ago
Violet Jessop [1] survived both! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
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Bank of England steps in to calm markets(bbc.com)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Metcal fixed temperature soldering irons use RF induction instead of resistive heating elements so they don't struggle with large copper pours like that. The soldering irons you're thinking of have very poor thermal recovery compa
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think most people don't internalize that fact until the emotional shock of their first big breakup.
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by akiselev 4y ago
I prefer to just use a heat gun with some solder seal connectors (marine grade for free waterproofing).
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by akiselev 4y ago
Flux helps break the surface tension between solder blob and wire so I really doubt the flux in the unmelted solder would have a path to flow to the wire. But yeah, my solution is to just dip the wire in a jar of flux as I’m stripping and t
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's not the thermostat but the power output that matters and a slightly more expensive soldering iron will generally have a slightly better power supply. For example, the best soldering iron I've ever used is the Metcal fixed tem
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by akiselev 4y ago
The OP uses single stranded wire but the solder blob on the PCB creates far more surface area contact for heat transfer from the iron which makes a large difference with stranded wire. When you're soldering hundreds of connections, the
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by akiselev 4y ago
When I saw that this was from the LoC I really hoped to see some photography from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection [1] but this seems to be mostly “iconic” photos from Western media. I’d be a lot more interested to know who the two cossacks
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by akiselev 4y ago
Talk to your lawyers.
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A lot of old industrial equipment used PCs with parallel ports in place of custom controllers. Parallel ports that were on the motherboard and hooked into the southbridge chipset could be accessed by DMA and driven in hard real time which
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by akiselev 4y ago
Sure, in the same way that "surviving to old age" is easier said than done. It's true, but what choice do you have?
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by akiselev 4y ago
For passives, I have a bunch of resistor/capacitor/inductor/etc kits for through hole and SMD. You can buy them on Amazon so they're usually available fast. You don't have too worry much about the specs but definite
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by akiselev 4y ago
This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the
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by akiselev 4y ago
I, for one, can't wait for the first ever Western Interconnect black start, brought to you by an off-by-one error. During a megadrought.
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by akiselev 4y ago
It not really all that odd in retail. “BOGO” (pronounced bo-go) is quick to say on the floor and is less awkward than “BOGOF” which sounds like either a franken-portmanteau of “beef” and “stroganof [sic]” or an amateur spy’s attempt at a co
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by akiselev 4y ago
> the reason Docker saves your ass on reproducibility is emulation of static linking behind the FSF's back Can you expand on this? It’s an interesting perspective I haven’t heard before. I get the gist but even without a Dockerfil
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by akiselev 4y ago
The GP's point applies even more to factory farms than grazing animals because animal feed can be transported across the globe. It's the agricultural version of specialization. The vast majority of feed used in factory farms is in
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by akiselev 4y ago
Actual prison time wasn't on the table until the federal prosecutors took over and tried to make an example of him [1]. Until then, everyone expected a slap on the wrist. I remember those events clearly and even JSTOR, the "victim
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by akiselev 4y ago
The feature size of power electronics is fundamentally limited by the dielectric breakdown voltage of materials. Under a high enough voltage potential, even the best insulator [1] will "break down" and become a conductor The diele
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by akiselev 4y ago
> I don't think any of this goes against the rules or spirit of the community. Others seem to benefit from reading and participating in the same conversations. It's absolutely in the spirit of HN and those kinds of conversati

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