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by beachy 3y ago
I particularly enjoyed his modest self-eulogy: > I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or
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by beachy 3y ago
The usage patterns are entirely different. We only charge our EV at home unless going on a long range trip. For the few occasions we do charge on the road, I have no problems waiting a bit longer to charge than it would take to pump gas int
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by beachy 3y ago
I'm not familiar with the UK tax but here in NZ, new car tax has become a political football. The current opposition party tagged it the "Ute tax", which seems to have resonated with the more easily outraged members of societ
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by beachy 3y ago
More like source code vs object code in a compiled computer program.
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by beachy 3y ago
I guess smithing might be different again from wood working. I get the impression that each hammer blow can only do a little bit, so perhaps you wouldn't wish for a backspace key for smithing.
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by beachy 3y ago
I believe that having a side hobby like wood working makes you a better developer. A key aspect of physical hobbies is that there is no backspace key. If you've been working on a piece of wood for an hour, and you muck up and make a cu
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by beachy 3y ago
I've only seen it work poorly. In my experience, the new top guy brings in his old lackeys because they complemented him, and made him look good, in the context of the top guy's previous company. Hence they often turn out to be on
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by beachy 3y ago
> Arguably it's a good description because it automatically filters out audiences who don't know what it means; if you're building a distributed system and looking at different consensus algorithms then it's a simple
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by beachy 3y ago
History repeats itself endlessly in the database world. Late last century Oracle felt urgency to compete with the new hotness back then, object databases. The guys in charge of the Oracle database itself pushed back, not too much was done,
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by beachy 3y ago
Without being able to see the flagged comment, I'd venture the authors had a quiet chuckle when titling this piece.
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by beachy 3y ago
> The biggest advantage to owning your business is that you can optimize it solely for what's best for you. Another great advantage is being able to fire bad clients. It's not something I've done more than once or twice bu
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by beachy 3y ago
For decades, banks, insurance companies, airlines, multinationals and generally the entire world ran their entire IT operations on databases less powerful than a single SQLite running on a modern PC. Makes sense that it's all you need
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by beachy 3y ago
Sounds like you're happy in a cocoon of "Nobody knows". Personally I think it's insane to increase CO2 levels by that amount in just a few decades and expect there to be no bad consequences.
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by beachy 3y ago
> Development of an automated driving option is a safety-critical context, and that requires real-world deployment experience. All the more reason not to fuck things up at this stage. Precautionary principl is very appropriate with new t
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by beachy 3y ago
CO2 levels have gone up by a third just since I've been alive. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out that that's an enormous problem that must be solved. To be honest, with the house well and truly on fire, who
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by beachy 3y ago
I don't wish to minimise your frustration, nor to imply that the following is easy. But, unless the job search has consumed all of your free time, 18 months off work to pursue your passions is quite a gift. The lack of income is a down
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by beachy 3y ago
I don't think this is so, as demonstrated by people usually quoting the guidelines themselves, almost biblically, when chastising someone else on HN. I don't often see people quoting Dang's comments. I prefer to think instead
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by beachy 3y ago
> Amazing that we are watching all these other species go extinct but think we will somehow survive. Far from watching them all go extinct, we don't even know how many species there are - most people only pay attention to the cute a
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by beachy 3y ago
I believe you are responding to some rather lame sarcasm.
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by beachy 3y ago
And how the HN code of conduct (well, these guidelines being the nearest thing to) doesn't describe or even mention "hurtful or harmful conduct", nor "gender" or "behaviour". Unlike more turgid efforts: h
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by beachy 3y ago
> There are some cases where legitimate cell towers will be moved to deal with a temporary increase in demand, like a sporting event, but this is relatively uncommon. My understanding is these are quite commonly used for concerts, sporti
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by beachy 3y ago
This is a good analysis and touches on the issue of entitlement. All of the company's work to date remains available free and in perpetuity. The complaint can only be that the company has changed course and will not commit to providing
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by beachy 3y ago
> if everyone is blasting ads to users, the effectiveness of each ad goes down, and thus an advertiser need to blast even more ads. Things have really gone full circle now. If I visit a site (happens rarely) that has a clean design and p
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by beachy 3y ago
Yep, people toss the word fraud around, and lawyers love to use it to scare the shit out of the opposition, but it's a very high bar to meet legally. An automated tool that clicked randomly on web page elements for no financial gain to
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by beachy 3y ago
Yes it jars to see a vendor quoted verbatim. But the concept is interesting and sounds reasonable, and is novel (to me anyway). I'm assuming Krebs deems this worthwhile to share and he has sufficient cred not to instantly assume this i
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by beachy 3y ago
We have an off-grid cabin with 4 x trojan lead acid batteries and they have worked flawlessly for 8 years so far and still going strong, despite regular over-draining by solar-ignorant guests (who would bring their own bar heater to plug in
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by beachy 3y ago
I scanned our family 35mm slides on a good scanner a few years ago and the resolution, even after scanning, is incredible. It took a long time for digital cameras to catch up.
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by beachy 3y ago
Good luck, I am just starting on the research, though we live on rainwater already so have quite a bit of infrastructure to support that. In our case we have 3 x 25kl tanks (so about 20k gallons), with the tanks all concrete and buried whic
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by beachy 3y ago
A battery that can drive a decent water pump for any length of time is going to be big, not so much cheap. And you also need metal pipes and sprinklers unless they're buried, or they'll melt in the heat. And those "few 50 gal
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by beachy 3y ago
How many points should there be to simply pay for your parking?

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