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by cduzz 4y ago
Apple wasn't helpless to the whims of the USB foundation; if they'd opened the standard it would have been adopted as "the new USB" Instead they made an improved proprietary connector and the rest of the world made a dif
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by cduzz 4y ago
This article suggests that they started with a marine engine, typically an automotive engine that's been modified for these duty cycles by changing cams, timing, bearings, etc. Probably not all existing automotive engines are well sui
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by cduzz 4y ago
The story suggests they used a marine engine, which in turn is an automotive engine modified to run under marine conditions, which among other things includes "run at full load for hours" or "run at partial load for hours&quo
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by cduzz 4y ago
Long long ago I'd drive around an old toyota tercel on desert roads and fire trails and such. I had a couple jacks, a shovel, and a couple big pieces of plywood in the back, and never got myself stuck in any meaningful way that couldn
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by cduzz 4y ago
Amazon provides AWS with problems to solve that are going to be general problems to solve in 2-3 years. Amazon developed DynamoDB and S3 and handed them off to AWS to operate, for instance. Without Amazon's innovation funnel, AWS will
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by cduzz 4y ago
I believe that if "storefront" was spun off of AWS, AWS would falter less than a decade. Having an anchor tenant with "2014" problems in 2010, or "2020" problems in 2015, especially if they roll up to the same
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by cduzz 4y ago
Is the one on mars able to operate with really thin air because mars has less gravity? A "balloon retrieval bot" using battery powered propulsion, launched by another platform such as a rocket (or another balloon!) might be a fun
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by cduzz 4y ago
This sounds like a classic "small business owner" success story. One can imagine a scenario where a person owning a landscaping, construction, vehicle repair, or similar business starts out with "can do a thing" and als
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by cduzz 4y ago
I believe it's a continuum between "minimal politics / lots of violence" and "effective politics / minimal violence".
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As things stand, where every state votes as a block, the ones where the whole population lands within the 50/50 range is heavily contested. If North Dakota were 50/50 the Bismark media market would be flooded by advertising. Eve
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by cduzz 4y ago
Every 24 months make the existing wiki read only, make a new (different / incompatible) wiki and make users copy what they want to the new one. After 2 epochs make the legacy^2 wiki available only upon request that is active only for a
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by cduzz 4y ago
It doesn't take a lot of "not thing" to make a thing no longer a thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/x1mn7w/s... And pickle juice is just an example of random impuri
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by cduzz 4y ago
There's enormous infrastructure around DC Fast charging. Each one of those pedestals is able to dump 30 houses of energy into a car for 30 minutes continuously. And most sites have 4-12 of those things. It's not a minor engineeri
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by cduzz 4y ago
DRM root kits back in the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Not cool owning your customer's boxes...
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by cduzz 4y ago
I would have thought that the point of these exercises was to drive costs up, not make things utterly impossible. The world, sadly, still needs all that oil from everywhere, to keep the economy / ship of fools from running aground. An
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by cduzz 4y ago
I'm not so sure about this. I support things and I've supported them over absurd growth periods for years. I've lost track of how many zeros are on the number of things per thing; it doesn't matter. The process is: Yo
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by cduzz 4y ago
The future's a big place; there are plenty of use cases for a truck where it's fine to have a 200-500 mile battery for hauling stuff on the last mile or between warehouses. There are plenty of other use cases where you need lots
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by cduzz 4y ago
Data Plumber. Some planning, some building out new stuff (usually clean work), some repairing active geysers of partially processed data that's getting all over the place fouling up the works.
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by cduzz 4y ago
Don't forget the time machine to go back to warn past self about the one time they slip up just prior to when they decide to really go all in on the haxoring. Some parts of the internet never forget, and the anonymous graph is only ano
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by cduzz 4y ago
Yeah, directories with a gazillion files tend to work okay if you already know the name of the file you're working with. ls has a -f flag which turns of sorting and turns off looking at the inode of the underlying files (is it a direc
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by cduzz 4y ago
Didn't our ancestors just use paper for such things? Or cloth? I guess lots of them died of dentistry before getting to oregon, but still.
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by cduzz 4y ago
So -- if you want to say "Where a person lives and works is discretionary for a very small number of people for a small period of their lives" that's a more correct statement. The blanket statement "Where you live and
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by cduzz 4y ago
"Where you live and work is completely up to you" That's a patently false statement for a huge number of people now and the vast majority of people throughout history. There's a kaleidoscope of possibility around people&
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by cduzz 4y ago
Tesla seems to be making bets in huge volumes of cars sold. Possibly with their manufacturing decisions (a couple of really big plants making only a couple of varieties of models, with the models not changing much from year to year) they&#x
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by cduzz 4y ago
Doesn't that count as a feature not a bug? If I install an GFCI/AFCI on a branch and it starts tripping and I look and find that there's some iffy wiring, that seems like a problem averted. If I install these on a branch, dec
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by cduzz 4y ago
Many people in rural New England have or wish they had secondary power generation because you need that local energy more often when there are external events that likely also break the grid (big snow storm). The chain of events is "on
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by cduzz 4y ago
You can't operate a car / tractor / hot air balloon with just an efficient house. Also, you can't run your house on an efficient house + solar over the 2-6 months the sun isn't in the right place (in the sky) for ve
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by cduzz 4y ago
A company culture is a reflection of the company's leadership. The culture of Microsoft has gone through radical changes between gates, balmer and nadella. But a culture isn't _only_ a reflection of the leadership, it's all t
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by cduzz 4y ago
A tree can grow for 300 years. A tree can be chopped down in an afternoon. All it takes is for the next CEO to decide to undo this and it's undone.
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You can certainly pay $10 and still have terrible terrible things happen.

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