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by breischl 4y ago
On a quick read this seems like another name for Change Data Capture. In general the pattern works better if you can integrate it with the database's transaction log, so then you can't accidentally forget to publish something. ht
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by breischl 4y ago
I once spent over a year debugging a furnace. It would run fine, except every now and then on it would just refuse to turn on for a day or two. Eventually noticed it was only rainy days, and was due to it thinking the exhaust was blocked be
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by breischl 4y ago
Even if the Google Hotel Search feature fixed it, it doesn't help for other search results, or if people just run a quick search on each site and notice the prices are much higher on one than on the other. At one point we were sending
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by breischl 4y ago
> Hosts want to show lower prices, so in search you don't see all the fees, but then when you get all the way down the funnel you finally see these completely ridiculous fees (usually around cleaning) of what you'll actual pay.
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by breischl 4y ago
You can do something similar with an appropriately sized & angled awning/overhang. eg the visitor center at Zion NP does that, along with a number of other clever things. PDF: https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn&#x
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by breischl 4y ago
I think I do something similar, though on reflection I read things almost as a distraction. Like, I should be working on something useful, and instead I'm reading about the internals of a change to a language I don't even use. It&
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by breischl 4y ago
To be fair, this article is by a Harvard student, in a Harvard paper. It's very much relevant in that context. But fair to ask why everyone on HN (including the two of us...) are reading and talking about it.
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by breischl 4y ago
Just looking at energy storage/transmission, the experts I've heard that aren't clearly pushing hydrogen seem to think that it's going to be mostly a niche product. Might be used for aircraft, ocean shipping, and other p
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by breischl 4y ago
Make A Really Quite Unreadable Eyesore, Eh?
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by breischl 4y ago
In general you're probably right. Though once upon a time I tried to volunteer about three different times and never managed to get a package. At one point my manager literally said "Shut up, you're not getting laid off so qu
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by breischl 4y ago
But... a tank _is an_ AFV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_fighting_vehicle You may have meant an IFV, and in some cases those work. But that's like saying that a rifle and a machine gun both shoot bullets,
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by breischl 4y ago
But when the line was conceived and built, they couldn't have known Germany would invade Poland first.
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by breischl 4y ago
Interesting point about the economics of Energy Vault. I had not actually done the math before. $80 seems low for current prices but it's about the right order of magnitude. OTOH there is at least one project being built to store 100 M
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by breischl 4y ago
Indeed! But getting ~80% back from batteries or pumped hydro looks even better[1]. Or, the ~90% that EnergyVault claims[2]. I'm very much pro-renewables and pro-storage, but that doesn't mean that all forms of storage are equal. T
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by breischl 4y ago
I'd say the marketing on at least this article is more geared at the electric energy. Heat is a form of energy for sure, but not a big enough one that it could "transform clean energy". Nuclear can be ramped, but typically is
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by breischl 4y ago
It's a cool idea. The big advantage might be in being cheap, simple, and non-toxic, so that it can be easily deployed in less-prosperous areas and with less expertise. It seems probably even simpler than the "concrete stacking bat
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by breischl 4y ago
I think you touched on it in your last sentence. It's not actually innumeracy, it's an example of "lying with statistics" to get attention and/or push an agenda (depending on the source). Tangentially, thanks for br
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by breischl 4y ago
>Where are the prices coming from? Ironically water prices are largely set by government bodies that created water projects (eg, Bureau of Reclamation which made most of the huge dams in the west, various California water boards). Much o
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by breischl 4y ago
Interesting parallel. I think I'd disagree that it's considered "fine" when company's do it, though. What the OP describes is basically a version of a "bait and switch" fraud, which is pretty widely illega
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by breischl 4y ago
>Second, we ask that candidates bring an example of projects they've worked on, starting with ones they led. Just curious what kind of "example" you'd expect someone to bring? Surely not code samples, since most peopl
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by breischl 4y ago
>The rest of the world only cares about what your code does once it's compiled. People in your company (including non-engineers) definitely care, because code quality bears on how easy it is to debug problems and how easy it is to i
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by breischl 4y ago
I could see that happening. My experience is mostly with the awful ones for big companies. The kind that are basically like a 1990's era text adventure game where there's only like 6 things you can possibly do, but instead of list
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by breischl 4y ago
Some people cannot be bothered to (or are incapable of) finding information unless it is spoon-fed to them at the exact time and rate they require. I think this might be the valid use case for support chatbots, even though I personally desp
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by breischl 4y ago
As another example, I used to work on a site that was roughly hotel stays. A regular person might search where to stay in small set of areas, dates and usually the same number of people. Bots would routinely try to scrape pricing for every
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by breischl 4y ago
I assumed that she meant "elusive", but it could also be "illusive" in the sense that it's merely an illusion. :P
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by breischl 5y ago
Oh man, the perils are endless. Back when I worked on an RSS aggregator I wrote a list. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvq67iQpk2C7ufOsefsfKnGC... A few comments on your list: 2. People got suuuuuper confused
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by breischl 5y ago
Try enabling Simple List Extensions[1] on your RSS feed and see if that deletes the old items. Basically this tells the feed reader that your feed isn't a typical "stream of posts", it's a finite list. So it should be tr
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by breischl 5y ago
>If RSS feeds contain both the article and the content, then there's both little incentive for the user to actually visit the site and no analytics for the author to understand which articles are popular. When authors put summaries
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by breischl 5y ago
>Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient and unfeasible to do on most platforms and devices today. 1) It's not that inefficient, especially if you rec
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by breischl 5y ago
FWIW, my impression is that enforcement per se doesn't matter, but it does matter what source of truth the enforcement authority looks at. Somebody puts an entry on the blockchain that says they own my house. OK so what? Nobody cares.

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