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by alexose 4y ago
Thanks, I always wondered what this was for. Guess I should have expected it was a kludge!
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by alexose 4y ago
It's easier than you might think! These days it's pretty easy to get low volume circuit boards made. Then, with a cheap 3D printer, you could make plastic cases (or plastic molds for silicone bands, etc.). Check out https:&#x2F
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by alexose 4y ago
I think our generation will be remembered for over-optimization more than anything. We keep chasing the best hotel, the best restaurant, the best partner, not realizing that things that give us meaning and happiness are intangible, u
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by alexose 4y ago
On the subject of diet quality, I've always been a "calories in, calories out" kind of person. There are certain foods that will make you feel satiated for longer, of course, which will increase your chances of success. But
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by alexose 4y ago
The situations are quite different. For one, California's laws do actually influence the auto manufacturing sector. They're typically the tip of the spear when it comes to things like emissions standards. Because the state repr
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by alexose 4y ago
I remember a time in the mid 2000s where a 20 hour delay was the norm for the northbound Coast Starlight. I used to catch the previous day's train from Salem to Seattle...
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by alexose 4y ago
Super cool to see someone trying to commercialize this technology. Fun fact is that the JWST cryocooler operates on a similar principle (although the implementation is quite different). Relatedly, I found this fantastic video on to how to
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by alexose 4y ago
Well, I don't make my living off of growing grapes. I just do that part for fun. So my napkin math is basically $1.50 per pound, which is on the low end of what I pay when I buy them from a vineyard. Real grape growers are looking to
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by alexose 4y ago
The short answer is delivery costs. And that's what makes this current era of solar power so exciting, in my opinion! The market is practically begging us for microgrids.
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by alexose 4y ago
Unfortunately, I can tell you exactly how it's going to go in Oklahoma as well. Not great.
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by alexose 4y ago
This makes me so happy. I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually enjoys Lithia water! I'm not the expert, but you might check out Colestin. There was once a resort there built during the heyday of "healing"
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by alexose 4y ago
Hey Ashlander! I'm out in the Applegate (as you probably could have guessed). Thank you for adding some more nuance to my post. I agree with everything you've written here. It matches my understanding of what happened despite m
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by alexose 4y ago
I live on the Oregon/California border, where a lot of growers spilled over from Humboldt County and elsewhere. I've seen a few ups and downs in the market, but nothing like what happened over the last two years. There was a mom
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by alexose 4y ago
This is my read on it as well. I listened to the same interview (it was definitely on the front page, if not at #1 for a while). I stepped away feeling like Karpathy had described a lot of good business reasons for not using other sensors
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by alexose 4y ago
This is one reason I never understood Tesla's vision-based approach. In order to be accepted, self-driving cars don't need to be just somewhat better than humans most of the time. They need to vastly better in every situation,
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by alexose 4y ago
Henry Ford died 75 years ago? Also, for what it's worth, modern-day Ford seems very much like the model of a diverse workforce.
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by alexose 4y ago
It's astonishing. Tesla had such a huge advantage among the wealthy left-leaning individuals that were most likely to spend extra on electric cars. They had a whole untapped market of people who weren't "car people" at
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by alexose 4y ago
My personal theory is that just it's not as hard to build an electric car now as it was in 2012. Remember that back when the Model S was newly released, Tesla seemed like they'd done something impossible. Not only had they releas
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by alexose 4y ago
The full quote is > This historic, first-of-its kind achievement will provide unprecedented capability to support NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program and will provide invaluable insights into the prospects of clean fusion energy, which
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by alexose 4y ago
In this case, I think the earth acts as a heat sink. Or so they claim on their website ( https://www.erthos.com ) Neither their press release nor the article says where exactly in Texas it is, but I bet it would make sense to put
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by alexose 4y ago
Are you saying that regular, mainstream banks have enough crypto exposure that they're in actual trouble? If so, any particular ones that you think are at risk of failing? (Apologies if this is a dumb question. I don't follow cr
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by alexose 4y ago
This seems cool, but I'd definitely focus on explaining the methodology a bit more. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to be using it...
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by alexose 4y ago
> So I don't think you need to worry about being left behind or that your skills are stagnating if you're not directly developing ML models. Aren't ML models kind of the front lines these days? If I'm understanding c
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by alexose 4y ago
That's certainly true! I can use my current skillset to help connect users with new tech. And there have been many minor revolutions during the course of my career, many of which have been incorporated into the sort of work I do. I gu
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by alexose 4y ago
As a traditional "web dev" kind of hacker, I feel like I'm just sitting idly by while a massive transition happens underneath me. I understand roughly why this shift is happening (machine language proving to solve a whole r
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by alexose 4y ago
I'm midway through a deep dive on PEM fuel cells. My first takeaway is, damn , so many researchers have tried to crack this nut over the years. We've been working on this technology since the 1960s. A cheaper and more durable m
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by alexose 4y ago
I loved the commuter line. The first run of them were absolutely perfect. But, as with many things Levi's, they started using cheaper and cheaper materials over time to the point where they were just unwearable. (If anyone at Levi&#x
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by alexose 4y ago
The first application I wrote for Firebase was back in 2015, before it was acquired. I don't remember the specific issues, but I know I spent about the same amount of time trying to keep it running post-acquisition as I did building t
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by alexose 4y ago
From the article: "Being closed-source, you don’t have the implicit assurance that Firebase will always be around (like Parse), nor can you reliably depend on a specific API version." Firebase is amazing, but I'll never use
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by alexose 4y ago
I was excited to play but I couldn't make it past the character creation screen. There's a bug preventing me from spending all of my attribute points.

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