cobookman

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by cobookman 5y ago
Yes and No. What percentage of the rain ended up back in the ocean? Suspect a very small percentage of rain actually ends up being used by humans. You just need enough for the water that ends in taps or in the garden/farm. I'm not
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by cobookman 5y ago
Currently in the bay area its 60-80% humidity. It also hasn't rained for weeks. In the summer, certain parts of the Bay Area still has high humidity levels without rain for months on end.
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by cobookman 5y ago
Lambda (at least the non-@edge version) comes with 512MiB of /tmp directory storage And "The same Lambda execution environment may be reused by multiple Lambda invocations to optimize performance. The /tmp area is preserved
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by cobookman 6y ago
How many XXB/year companies start off making XXB/year or have clear visibility to XXB/year near-term? For example, I doubt the AirBNB founders early-on and/or 5-10 years ago even imagined they'd have multiple billio
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by cobookman 6y ago
Sounds like they were driving at consistent 65 mph. Where-as optimal speed for maximizing range is likely closer to 45-55mph. They also ran the AC/heat with cabin set at 72F. With them doing the driving not on a track but real life (st
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by cobookman 6y ago
But does the 1 million dollar missile cost 1 million to build a second one? Often times military cost per unit factors in a fixed R&D cost. It doesn't necessarily mean it literally cost 1 million in parts and labor to assemble the
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by cobookman 6y ago
Wouldn't that require an understanding of physics to properly make his landing :D
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by cobookman 6y ago
I once joked with a colleague that my sqlite3 install is faster than his Hadoop cluster for running a report across a multi-gig file. We benchmarked it, i was much, much faster. Technically though once that multi-gig file becomes many hundr
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by cobookman 6y ago
Wonder what will happen when fish isn't enough to sustain those who depend on it. Could totally see wars being waged over food sources
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by cobookman 6y ago
Toronto is expensive given the amount jobs are paying in the area. SF a condo might be 1M, but getting paid 250k+ for a job is fairly common. In Toronto the condo might be 1M (CAD), but getting paid 250k+ CAD is not common. By all accounts
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by cobookman 6y ago
Israel also just signed a bunch of peace deals. With this network easily expanded to those countries. So long as Israel plans for a future where such arrangements get rescinded, they could safely operate an energy market across the middle e
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by cobookman 6y ago
That and certain states will force the transition. California being one of them. After 2035 the USPS wont be able to register a new diesel van.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Not that crazy to have a pipeline from California to Ariz/Nev. With Ariz/Nev supply Cali with their excess solar to the desal plants.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Cheap solar in the west (California, Arizona, Nevada) coupled with desalination plants. We'll be fine for *urban/residential* water needs for the foreseeable future.
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by cobookman 6y ago
You assume the store wouldn't replace the grocery clerk with self-checkout machines or install an amazon go like-system. Robots & specialized technology solutions are year-over-year going down in cost. If labor continues the upward
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by cobookman 6y ago
The cost of manufacturing 10,000 lidar units is much different than the cost/unit for a batch of 10,000,000 units. Just look at EVs and the drop in battery cost over the years. Lidar being cheap at scale is just a matter of when, not i
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by cobookman 6y ago
If the person wears a mask...the camera & lidar footage wont do much good. You also assume the SF police force will bother hunting down the perp even with a picture for a crime which likely will go unpunished in SF with its effective de
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by cobookman 6y ago
The executives are still beholden to supporting teams. Want to launch a new feature that depends on GFE. Looks like the current GFE is end-of-life, but the the new one still isn't ready yet. Let's connect with GFE team on if they&
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by cobookman 6y ago
Consensus Building really sums up the issue. There's no clear decision maker at Google. There is no Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos. Instead it is a collection of teams in a department. It is like a democracy, but differs in that you need every
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by cobookman 6y ago
There is little to no fine for stopping service during the high wind events. The incentive pushes them to shutoff, its simply cheaper than repairing the grid.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Not even Bay Area prices. A Jr. SWE after overhead (benefits, HR, laptop, office-space,...etc) is easily costing the company 150k+/year in most markets.
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by cobookman 6y ago
This is why I like android auto / apple car play soo much. The car just becomes the speakers & display for your phone. Genius idea, and works great
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by cobookman 6y ago
GME could issue shares and get a large cash infusion into its business. GME could sell some of its shares to get a large cash infusion into its business. Their market cap 19x'd up to ~19B. Having a 1B cash infusion into the business is
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by cobookman 6y ago
They offer a 2Gibps fiber optic plan in certain locations for ~299$/month. https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how...
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by cobookman 6y ago
I highly doubt we'll have an exponential curve for manufacturing supply. Even a 2x increase is incredibly difficult. Just look at n95 manufacturing, a much easier problem to solve. We never saw exponential curve in its manufacturing.
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by cobookman 6y ago
America has ~330 million people. Let's assume the 18.7 Million was just in the month of january..not 100% acurate, but not 100% inaccurate. That gives us a timeline of more than 1 year at current rate to vaccinate the entire US. Even v
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by cobookman 6y ago
I'm not convinced that it needs to be internet controlled. Hopefully it uses protocols like BLE or Zigbee requiring proximity. That way such an attack would require being physically near the device.
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by cobookman 6y ago
Decentralization is also in the National Security interest. Makes it much harder for an adversary to take down large swaths of the US Grid.
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by cobookman 6y ago
NPM is not trusted by major fortune enterprises. Many of the tech companies I've worked at banned using NPM in prod. And instead created their own NPM Clone with source code pinned into a private repo, which security audited. Adding a
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by cobookman 6y ago
In particular remotely denoted "Kill" devices. Which destroy the entirety of the laptops contents. Encryption by itself is likely not enough to secure the contents from a nation state actor.

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