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by brk 3y ago
I've done these calculations, particularly after putting an 11.6Kw solar array on our last house, which was in St. Petersburg, FL, one of the sunniest places in the US. We sold the house after having the system for ~6.5 years, but we w
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by brk 3y ago
You may also find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxe4mlsQos&t=120s
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by brk 3y ago
>I imagine it's pretty hard to get seriously injured or die when not on the freeway. I don't have data handy, but it seems like an awful lot of fatalities occur in and around intersections (which imply not-a-freeway). Freeways
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by brk 3y ago
Your gut is right. That is horseshit. I’ve built many comp plans and hired several sales teams. I’d never offer that structure to any sales person I wanted to retain. These kinds of gamed comp plans are for people that don’t really know h
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by brk 3y ago
A glorified FTP service with an army of moderators. Still good margins I would suspect, but not just passive income.
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by brk 3y ago
Peace has always come at a high cost. But if it's available on Amazon that still seems like progress.
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by brk 3y ago
>It's a good thing I wasn't making airplanes! Although it appears you would have been immensely qualified to do so.
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by brk 3y ago
I was mostly talking about building maintenance and upkeep. Somebody has to pay for that. Truly vacant buildings are often mothballed to the extent of having water shut off, hvac disabled, etc. Filling a building with homeless adds to costs
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by brk 3y ago
Aliens maybe. Humans have understood, and enforced, "property rights" for quite a while now. Unused buildings are not just automatically ideal for homeless shelters, and even if it were for some reason a perfectly usable vacant ap
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DIY Reverse Engineering Tools – Decapping chips with homemade acid [video](youtube.com)
2 points by brk 3y ago|0 comments
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by brk 3y ago
It’s already a thing for dead drop data exchange. Has been for about 20 years now. First with ad-hoc WiFi networks.
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by brk 3y ago
Not yet (in development), but there are literally 10's of millions of these powering common commercialized devices at this point. I have several controllable LED light bulbs that are all ESP-based, bought on Amazon. Lot's of senso
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by brk 3y ago
Generally speaking, I would think senior employees would have less need for daycare.
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by brk 3y ago
It is a transformation issue. However EV's are being promoted as a viable alternative to ICE vehicles generally speaking. The reality is that this is far from true. For many people/families, an EV could be viable. For an even larg
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by brk 3y ago
>How did we get to the point where this is acceptable? IMO, bad actors. 40 years ago we didn't need much in the name of cyber security, restrictions, controls, etc. You most likely personally knew the vast majority of other people t
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by brk 3y ago
That was my initial thought as well. The "creator" pitch and visuals immediately turned me off. It gave me the impression that this was kind of a gimmicky thing intended for an audience the polar opposite of what I would want.
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by brk 3y ago
This just saved many people years of therapy and self-doubt.
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by brk 3y ago
Same, FWIW. Just the other day I was thinking how it would be great if we could get back to real keyboards, now that smartphones have gotten so big, we have options for folding screens, etc. The pure touchscreen format made sense in the da
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by brk 3y ago
How deep are you in the ESP32 dev? I've found image rendering (the display is LCD, not eInk) to be less straightforward than anticipated. In my case, massaging images into a specific size and format prior to sending them into the ESP32
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by brk 3y ago
My father (and I for a bit) worked in IBM field service. The answer is all of the above. You’d carry some common things with you, but most parts needed were picked up at local parts depots that IBM stocked. For larger clients (like the K M
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Reminiscing CGI Scripts(rednafi.com)
2 points by brk 3y ago|0 comments
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by brk 3y ago
Possibly at shorter ranges. Those devices are essentially ‘bag of water’ detectors. You can get some data out of most of them that pertains to distance and approximate size of the ‘bag’. They generally suffer from exact counts of objects.
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by brk 3y ago
I recall it was also not unheard of to have floppy drives that could be incompatible with each other. A drive that was a tad slow might format a disk that would work for itself, and other drive, but that disk might not work in a drive that
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Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive(floppy.cafe)
218 points by brk 3y ago|87 comments
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by brk 3y ago
None. Stuff like the post you are replying to is common "good luck with insurance" trope. Insurance protects you from stupidity, errors, and negligence. It doesn't protect you from fraud or intentional malice, but using an un
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by brk 3y ago
I like the form factor of some of the Govee string lights. I’ve thrown out their controller and hooked them to ESP32’s with WLED. Best of both worlds that way.
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by brk 3y ago
American buyers shifted towards SUVs in the 90s, and that trend just accelerated. These large body-on-frame sedans simply weren't popular enough for the automakers to keep investing in the platform. The Crown Vic in particular had some
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LA Sheriff Still Has 429 Ford Crown Vics in Service Because It Stockpiled Them(thedrive.com)
47 points by brk 3y ago|52 comments
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by brk 3y ago
You're extrapolating far too much from my post. But for starters, it would be perfectly viable for people to be waiters, and to even have tips be a component of their wage. But there needs to be the recognition that the tips still need
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by brk 3y ago
>Pretending that every person in the world can work whatever job they want is worse than sugar coating reality. Sure, except I did not say or indicate anything remotely that extreme. Many people equate being a server at an average restau

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