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by clord 9y ago
Replace parts. It’s surprisingly affordable. I got my top case, battery, and display changed through a combination of defect repairs and just paying out to go the extra mile for 500 bucks. Machine feels brand new. Still plenty fast. Everyth
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by clord 9y ago
All the other generators in that grid will drive the out-of-sync station like an electric motor at a faster or slower speed until it's synched up. In effect that's what's happening in the article. Unaccounted load is pulling
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by clord 9y ago
Love doing projects like this, I like the project presented above, I think we'll try it with the next old hen to kick the bucket. We find the hardest part of homeschooling so far is that a lot of the infrastructure for homeschooling is
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by clord 9y ago
This is a really common way for software to become better. The pattern of development: - Make A - Make B better - A now broken because it had dependencies on B - (maybe) Realize a fundamental pattern that unifies A and B.
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by clord 9y ago
It would still have to buy the services of the former owner (or someone equivalent). there are after-all things only a human can do, still, and presumably this corp would have to pay for those things.
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by clord 9y ago
I agree with you but what you describe is exactly what a flick is, except with more stuff thrown in.
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by clord 9y ago
It’s a CO2 emitter actually, since aluminum, glass and silicon all require high heat to make, and we presently do that with natural gas. It may offset its own production emissions by replacing dirtier methods of power but if we switch to al
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by clord 9y ago
I think this is/was a theory on what caused the little ice age — people making charcoal.
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by clord 9y ago
Nice thing about wood power is that as long as you have a sustainable source of wood, you're 100% solar-powered and carbon neutral. That is to say, it's a source of energy that is (can be) non-fossil, nor derived from any fossil
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by clord 9y ago
When this happens to me I SSH into the machine and kill chrome or one of the electron apps. Sometimes it will unfreeze enough to close terminal sessions.
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by clord 9y ago
> - No exhaustible has been depleted yet I don't think they predicted depletion for our current era in any of the models. The only model that even came close to that was the "Business As Usual" model, which predicts a p
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by clord 9y ago
1. You've got some reading to do about how banks are going to deal with bank failures after the fiascos of 2008. start with: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bailin.asp 2. You're right, which is part
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by clord 9y ago
Many things wrong with this: 1. Is money really a precaution? Why is money in the bank guaranteed safety from a bad spell? Can't the government take everything but 100k if they need to? 2. Why isn't having food production on site
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by clord 9y ago
We have hundreds of chickens most years now, and yea the neighbours can take care of them for a week or two. The biggest thing that keeps us from traveling in the summer is our "garden".
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by clord 9y ago
Not worried about it. First, we're not really "boutique". We don't dress anything up. It's all used machines and old bags. We charge more because that's our real cost plus a small profit... I figure thing happe
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by clord 9y ago
We are lucky to have lots of family on the farm here with us, so it was actually a bit of an upgrade in terms of family connections. It's multi-generational. Leaving friends behind was the biggest adjustment. That and Toronto food&#x2F
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by clord 9y ago
We did this. My wife has a masters in microbio, and I worked at IBM on their C++ and for Fortran compilers for about 8 years (yay std::atomics). I still do remote contract work to help pay for upgrades to the farm. Would be nice to get one
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by clord 9y ago
The government should pay back-salary to anyone with a case dismissed in this manner. This would cause queue back-pressure that would focus the system on high-value targets at the front of the queue.
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by clord 9y ago
Of course they are. They’re living closer to what our species evolved for. Civilizational people are constantly having to check their preferred behavior for the greater good. Sure there are perks to having a civilization but there are costs
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by clord 9y ago
Predictably bland and plentiful or unpredictably punctuated and exciting to find? What makes humans happy?
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by clord 9y ago
Have to consider the amount of heat moved, too. It's the same difference as between pressure and volume, or volts and amps. Perhaps it can't move a large volume of heat quickly, but can achieve a decent temperature difference give
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by clord 9y ago
Just finished reading the hobbit and lord of the rings to my 7 year old. I absolutely loved it, and he's a full blown Tolkien nut now. Previously we read through Harry Potter. By the end I noticed I have really developed a voice. He ha
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by clord 9y ago
> we've made incredible scientific progress over the last 650 years with Science and Industry tightly dependent on one another To be fair it hasn't all been rainbows and butterflies. There have been a lot of really bad problems
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by clord 9y ago
I completely agree they're not the same things, but you can sort of see the "linear type" notion of "one and only one use" in RAII. Every construction has exactly one use (destruction.) it's fairly easy to see
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by clord 9y ago
I really like the name "Linear Types" better than RAII. C++ ctor/dtor pairs are a sort of primitive linear type system that forces exactly one (implicit) use for each instance created. Linear types nicely generalizes this so
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by clord 9y ago
I actively try not to "manage" my life. If some part of life is too complicated to manage without a tool, that part of life has to go. To keep track of any temporary complexity I use a hard-cover notebook that keeps track of the c
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by clord 9y ago
You're describing exactly what makes them feel slow. All of that buffering is adding latency. Everything is buffering: the screen, the GPU, the OS, the window manager, the shell. People notice the extra latency though. I sure do. I rem
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by clord 10y ago
With bt, use is down but the plant itself is producing it! I think that's more likely to cause exposure.
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by clord 10y ago
At first I thought the coloured keyboard on most of their systems was useless, but I wonder if I could rig it up to switch colour based on vim mode. That might be fun. Is it controllable from software?
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by clord 10y ago
> Look at the history and origins of family names Governments of the time forced (conspired to force?) people to pick a family name for identification and tax purposes and many simply picked their profession, location, or fathers name.

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