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by belval 3y ago
Interesting I had not heard that existing ducting could be incompatible with heat pumps. For the wall units, one of mine has a better placement that the other so it's not all bad, but the one that is between my living room and dining r
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by belval 3y ago
The article lumps a lot of things together and lacks nuance (I have two heatpumps). Wall mounted heat pumps are definitely not great to heat your house because of their placement higher on the wall means that your head is getting blasted wi
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by belval 3y ago
It's not because I want something that I actually need something. I've wanted to build a UPS with lithium batteries for a while, my ads are all BMS, lithium cells, etc... This is definitely good for advertiser, but as one of the &
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by belval 3y ago
Well the inherent framing of neurodivergent/neurotypical really lends itself well to those kind of arguments. If it's a spectrum and we are all on it with only two words to describe it then we are bound to get that kind of low-qua
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by belval 3y ago
I meant photography skills, clearly most people can strike a match.
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by belval 3y ago
To my untrained eye I don't understand why #1 is #1, #2 has more interesting details and demonstrates much more skills. Perhaps I don't understand the evaluation parameters though, #1 is probably a bigger technical achievement.
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by belval 3y ago
There can be several reasons why they (and their employees) would want that though. Being very honest is not a positive in this case. Duplicate work and ambiguous ownership is fuzzy and unclear. They won't come out and say "we ove
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by belval 3y ago
I'm all for criticizing empty corpo talk, but that quote is actually pretty reasonable and not empty. They are just saying that they are simplifying their organizational chart so that they don't have teams with overlapping respons
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by belval 3y ago
It's wild to think in a way they bought fighter jets with bitcoins.
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by belval 3y ago
In my experience it's: battery goes bad after 2-3 years and then you replace the laptop after 5 years because you are tired of using your laptop as a desktop computer because it shuts down as soon as you unplug it. Sure after 2-3 years
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by belval 3y ago
While I understand that Apple is a PC manufacturer for analysis purposes, I think their cycles are likely different than the regular consumer cycles. Even the analyst cited in the article mentions Windows 10 being deprecated in 2024 as a dr
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by belval 3y ago
In my experience, administrative process that was previously done by a bunch of administrative assistants and then "computerized" around the year 2000. The original stakeholders are long gone, the system is too valuable to be repl
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by belval 3y ago
With HA it doesn't help that their installation docs are a mess with solutions that don't provide the same features. I've had HA for +4-5 years too.
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by belval 3y ago
Personally these can be the best bugs though because you have an opportunity to learn something new (your work environment is everything though). Compare that to a ticket in an older codebase with hard multi-cause bugs that are just painful
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by belval 3y ago
As with most topics in software engineering I'd say you will be have to keep learning as you go. They keep coming out with larger models that require fancier parallelism and faster data pipelines. Nvidia comes out with a new thing to a
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by belval 3y ago
> What's hard about AI that requires special expertise? AI is ill-defined so the premise of your comment makes it difficult to answer. For small well-known tasks (image classification, object detection, sentiment detection) that is
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by belval 3y ago
> There’s something else going on, too: Scientists are shielding the public. They say: “We don’t want people to give up,” or “We don’t want the island nations to feel abandoned,” or “We don’t want people to lose hope.” This is called out
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by belval 3y ago
You and me both, this and the "AmazonBasics is creating cheaper copies of best selling items". That's literally what Walmart (GreatValue) or Costco (Kirkland), and basically any brick and mortar store has been doing to impro
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by belval 3y ago
Did you miss the "Best approach would be not to do it at all"? The first sentence is basically only a variation of "don't write it in an email if you wouldn't want to read it in the news". If the article was ab
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by belval 3y ago
If you are going to be that brazen about it, perhaps having a quick meeting instead of just laying everything out in an email like that is the better approach. Best approach would be to not do it at all but I guess that's too much to a
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by belval 3y ago
I wish we had a Bret Devereaux for more topics, but then I might never get things done.
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by belval 3y ago
This has the be the funniest trend to come out of Tiktok. My SO point blank asked me how many times I thought about the roman empire and I replied "I don't know, once or twice a week". Little does she know we get a post from
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by belval 3y ago
You don't want government-mandated security specs for software projects, that would be an absolute nightmare with prescribed "sanctioned" languages and checklists applied with zero understanding of the underlying subject matt
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by belval 3y ago
Frankly once you go down that rabbit hole you have to make sure that you aren't prone to anxiety. I wrote a tool (not sure if open-sourced) that just crosses the output of 23andme with dbSNP and the number of possible diseases that cam
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by belval 3y ago
Wrote a quick script for those who have their 23andme data and are curious to see how their original dice roll went: https://github.com/Belval/AlphaMissenseCheck % Mutated genes: 1.97% % Mutated genes that are benign:
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by belval 3y ago
> The museum provided about 532,000 krone (£61,500) from its reserves to recreate artworks as well as an artist’s fee of about 40,000 krone. But when staff unpacked the newly delivered works, they found two empty frames with the title Ta
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by belval 3y ago
I mean development on Windows got better by literally offering Linux through a subsystem. if you can't beat them, be them
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by belval 3y ago
I think the commenter you are responding to does not have enough faith in humanity. Most people I know (anecdotal and biased sampling I know) do check that number when shopping, especially for interchangeable items that don't have a we
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by belval 3y ago
The $340 million is from the last quarter, you were probably looking at yearly revenue.
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by belval 3y ago
> Mobile game display ads seem like a very, very low value business to be in Might be much less prestigious than selling games that aren't predatory, but Unity does in fact make a lot more money from selling ads in mobile games than

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