breischl

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by breischl 3y ago
Tangentially, this makes me think about how much recently-introduced slang is for basically-random reasons like "it happened fit well into the rhyme and meter of a popular song" or "somebody attractive/famous said it&quo
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by breischl 3y ago
I was using it, though I _think_ it was causing intermittent hangs and crashes on my Win 11 machine. It's hard to be sure, because it was so hard to repro, and could've been due to something else just interacting with FF badly. Bu
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by breischl 3y ago
The problem is that all the "do what I mean" examples become part of the spec, and then have to be supported forever. Whereas "prints an extra-informative error" is much easier to change. Even for low hanging fruit. eg,
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by breischl 3y ago
Sorry I stated my original point poorly, and it wasn't exactly what you were saying. My bad. Demand response for A/C tends to look more like pre-cooling before the hottest hours, then reduce demand during the hottest hours. So it&
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by breischl 3y ago
This seems like a special case of the general concept that matching electricity demand to supply is important, and whereas a fossil fueled grid has enough dispatchable power sources to match supply to demand, a renewable-powered grid has to
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by breischl 3y ago
>we might be able to even do this for air-conditioning, washing machines, or car-charging (if you have a PHEV or EV). No _might_ about it, this currently happens for A/C, and is just getting going for car charging (see EV Managed Ch
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by breischl 3y ago
I know many people love video, but I personally think this is only slightly better than not recording it anywhere. Video is much harder to search and nearly impossible to skim, so it's difficult to use for anything other than a classro
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by breischl 3y ago
It is my default, but keep a Brave install around just for the ability to "fake" a site into being an app. ie, it gets a separate launcher shortcut, a separate icon, etc. Very useful for sites I use constantly so they're not
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by breischl 3y ago
>big lakes are used for recreational boating This is a great point. Many of those reservoirs included recreation benefits in the accounting that led to them being funded in the first place, so it may not be trivial to impinge on them. &g
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by breischl 3y ago
>having thieves steal their money if they got too rich Money attracts that kind of thing, even in the real world. There's a reason rich people have guards. Also bodyguards - I was just listening to a podcast about how a fairly rich
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by breischl 3y ago
News articles frequently say that lack of aircrew availability is a major cost and constraint for air travel currently. Wouldn't moving to smaller aircraft exacerbate that issue? Or do you think it won't be a problem?
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by breischl 3y ago
>aimlessly wandering/engaging people looks like productive work. Indeed, even though it might actually be _negative_ work, if one of those people would have otherwise been productive. Which was one of my major gripes with being in t
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by breischl 3y ago
As a cyclist that sounds great, but don't the plows for the roadway then push snow back onto the bike lanes? That would happen with the designs I'm familiar with but maybe they have a different layout or something.
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by breischl 3y ago
I'm not in illustration, but isn't it already common to hire someone to create a "style book" of what it should look like, and then have other illustrators follow that? eg, I recall animated shows working that way. Doesn
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by breischl 3y ago
That solution is a bit like the game theory solution of "I cut, you choose". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_choose
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by breischl 3y ago
"Looking over your shoulder" was just a figure of speech, not a literal description. And I suppose I could have grabbed the keyboard, but there's social niceties to navigate, everyone likes their keyboard & IDE set up dif
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by breischl 3y ago
I think it can work great for some people. I did it for a few weeks at one point, and found it thoroughly unproductive. 90% of my time was spent waiting for somebody else to type something, or trying to verbally communicate something that w
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by breischl 3y ago
I was not trolling, I actually dislike MongoDB aggregation syntax and it seems like PRQL is something that could potentially replace it or go on top. Admittedly I only took a quick glance at PRQL though, so perhaps I misunderstood something
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by breischl 3y ago
Having spent more time in MongoDB aggregations than I'd like to lately, I really wish they'd support this. So much more sensible than the madness they've got going on.
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by breischl 3y ago
I've come pretty close to keying "FIX YOUR ALARM" into people's doors for this. In the end left them notes about it, which did result in it getting fixed, so I haven't had to actually do it. Someday, though. I still
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by breischl 3y ago
>Speeding is mostly enforced everywhere. I disagree. Everyone I've talked to in the US considers 5 mph over the limit to be perfectly safe from tickets (enforcement), and 10 mph over to probably be safe from enforcement. The few tim
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by breischl 3y ago
They go into airplanes, not the Pentagon, which is right at the beginning of TFA. So they are probably weirdly shaped.
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by breischl 3y ago
They all need to agree how it's done though. And gas cars were the same - did you think the size and shape of the gas pump nozzle were handed down from God or something? Everyone had to agree on that at some point. Apparently that was
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by breischl 3y ago
The problem is the "future" part. It's hard to sell "I'll be great someday!" especially in a dating profile or anything like that, and particularly since people lie a lot in such situations (the infamous "
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by breischl 3y ago
You attract what you advertise for. If you're advertising flashy, high-spending lifestyle, that's who you'll attract. But the women who are looking for long-term stability will stay away. And vice versa. Of course, if you wan
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by breischl 3y ago
Fair, but the sandstone and clay in that area is generally pretty awful. TBH most of the ancestral Puebloan structure are crumbling apart despite being protected by overhanging rock "roofs".
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by breischl 3y ago
In those conditions even plain, untreated wood lasts a long time. Many of those structures still have wood beams in pretty good condition. ie, the durability of those structures is more due to where they are, than what they are made of.
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by breischl 3y ago
Sibling comment is a good point. Also there are lots of other battery chemistries available that use less, or no, lithium. Or approaches burning hydrogen, or ammonia, or methane. More broadly, this is a class of complaint that you can'
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by breischl 3y ago
You didn't cite sources for the critical pieces of that (the first three numbers). You also assumed that the battery is 100% lithium, which is obviously wrong. A random Googling says closer to 62kg. And now I'm tired of bothering
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by breischl 3y ago
command: lift left leg to ~horizontal thigh control: lift right leg to ~horizontal thigh So command+control => midair splits?

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