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by bluGill 3mo ago
That is always my problem too. I can see how to prove sort, if I was writing the standard library for my language I might do that (it is hard, but I hope whoever wrote my library did). However sort is already in my library. I'm writi
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by bluGill 3mo ago
See a forester. I would not assume the entire Rockies need the same plan. In general I would say start fires near towns, and let fires that start elsewhere burn.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Maybe. Last I checked Ukraine preferred radio drones to fiber optic - the spool is heavy and a limitation in many ways (not all that I understand). Fiber optics are used only when you can't get something else to works. Advances in AI
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by bluGill 3mo ago
With modern heat pumps and induction stoves getting off of natural gas is fairly easy for most people and saves money in the long run. Meanwhile the grid is switching to renewables so getting off gas is your best investment. You can get o
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Every forest has different needs. OP is in Portugal, I don't know much about forest there, but the plan seems reasonable for there. The Rocky Mountains need a different plan, but it isn't much different.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I have a deeper problem. When I'm calling sort() it is useful that it returns a sorted list. However my program rarely has sorted lists of any sort in any requirement. My requirements are around the features my users care about. Su
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by bluGill 3mo ago
State intervention has a reasonably good history of getting what the state pushes for. It just has a poor history in everything else the state needs/wants but doesn't realize and so doesn't push for. Also people often miss w
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by bluGill 3mo ago
There is concern, but the more I think about it, the less convinced I am. LLMs might produce a snippet, but copyright requires more than that. Last I checked (I'm not a lawyer, this was far enough back that the law has had major chan
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Double is probably a low estimate. There is a lot of engineering required in the robot. Much of the effort is setup, someone still needs to bring it to the site, and feed the blueprints in. Cleanup is also a lot of the cost. Not to mention
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I don't know what you mean by transmitter. I know of one factory that has their own coal power plant. The boiler is from the 1880s, the generator installed in the 1920s. It is horribly inefficient by any reasonable standard and takes
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I know several electricians and they all have been through cycles if they have been around for more than a decade. Things never drop down to zero though, so sometimes they see their buddies without a job while they are still working.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
My company still has somebody working for them who is in his 80s. When he retires his ex gets half is pension - but he isn't retired....
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There are a lot of little towns that have a small factory making some weird widget that you don't think about but society would fall about without it.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
They likely are. However you still need someone to connect the wires to each prefab section.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
“Every time you ask for another dollar in wages, a thousand more robots start looking more practical.” -Roger B. Smith (GM CEO in the 1980s). Factories have been automating for decades. Last factory tour I took they said in 1950 this plant
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The residential buyer has one advantage though: they do not demand as much from those working. You can start this business today, and likely find enough friends and family willing to take a chance on you that you can get started and from t
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Making a brick laying robot is easy. I'm happy to do that if you want to fund my mid-life crisis... Note that I did not promise my brick laying robot can effectively compete with human break layers on cost. I fully expect my robot t
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by bluGill 3mo ago
As an engineer in the US - we already do all the math in metric units. There are conversion functions in the UI layer to transform our units to whatever you want to see. (they also convert metric units if you don't like the units wer
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Both have boom and bust cycles. They are different cycles, but they are still cycles. I wouldn't call either more stable than the other.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
All electric homes existed as far back as the 1960s. Gas heat was generally cheaper back then (heat pump? nobody has air conditioning then) so they were not common where it got cold. Even at that though, the difference in labor for an all
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I've been trying to do something like this for a long time. There are lots of different options, but not many are easially available, and there are no instructions. The big lesson is always "I need a lot more practice". Ha
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Keychron is a real company with a good history so it isn't unreasonable to expect it and thus you shouldn't be too cynical. However don't confuse that with don't be cynical at all - many companies with a good history ha
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I have friends on both sides of the union debate in construction. There are pros and cons. the unions try to tell you that they are much better, but in reality there are pros and cons and you need to figure out what is best for you.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Have they? I'm no historian, but from what I can tell following discussions of real historians they think that alphabet developed exactly once, and then spread (this leaves open the possibility non-alphabet writing may have developed s
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Many ponds have seasonal streams. In spring (when the snow melts) they get connected to the local river system by a shallow stream, then when the water levels go down the stream disappears but the pond remains. Also beavers may flood a la
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by bluGill 3mo ago
That depends on the design. Gas fired plants typically can turn down that much. However many coal plants cannot. The older the design the less likely it can turn down far.
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You are not alone. There are a lot of people who have been confused since the 1970s. Even people who don't care about the environment have long recognized that hypocrisy.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> What will happen is that the local baseline load rises to accommodate the greater supply of power Maybe. Electric companies used to have policies that encouraged that. Most people are asleep between midnight and 6am, so if you used a
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Base load is real by statistics. However it is otherwise a useless concept. People talking about base load are universally wrong - wind and solar work just fine even if they can't provide the base load they are talking about: because w
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by bluGill 3mo ago
That is done, but it is more expensive so it isn't common. In most cases the trade is needed and busy in their local city so why would they leave to a different place. Trades that have niche skills fly all over, but electricians are

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