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by colincooke 4y ago
This bill has a ton of what looks like awesome elements inside it, I encourage folks to peruse the summary to explore a little bit. One part that people here may find exciting is the fusion research funding: > Sec. 10105. Fusion Energy R
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by colincooke 4y ago
This is too broad of a reading. Unfortunately despite the mission statement of organizations they are limited by their own laws and rules. In this case this is a narrowing of a particular reading of a paritcular rule that was used to limit
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by colincooke 4y ago
For those looking to get an objective understanding of this decision I found this article useful[0]. The gist of it is that this is more about preventing future rules to be put in place rather than changing anything that the EPA is actively
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Energy Dome’s approach to long-duration energy storage(canarymedia.com)
49 points by colincooke 4y ago|83 comments
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by colincooke 4y ago
Unless you are being extremelly pedantic than I would agree with the parent. The thesis of the article is essentially "Solar and Wind aren't the way forward, Nuclear is the way". While it is reasonable to acknowledge the sola
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by colincooke 4y ago
Interesting product, I'm curious how the ongoing fees (operations and maintenace, etc.) are managed. Does the provider of the installation take a cut? Does Legends do the O&M?
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by colincooke 4y ago
There is a major difference between long term investments (selling federal land leases) and encouraging short/medium term supply (use of existing leases, encouraging more oil production from existing facilities). I see no incoherence i
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15 Years of Spalten Problem Solving Methodology in Product Development(designsociety.org)
1 points by colincooke 4y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 4y ago
Another good one is the American Tobacco Trail in Durham, NC [0]. A fantastic biking trail in an otherwise car-centric area. [0] https://www.abandonedrails.com/durham-to-duncan
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by colincooke 5y ago
Due to the usage patterns of the bus fleet I wonder if they could be used for some vehicle to grid [1] power bank on weekends/during weekday downtime? It might shorten the lifetime of the batteries themselves but would be a nice addit
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by colincooke 5y ago
Assuming that you're talking about being a generalist in SW, there are many companies (including the one I work for) that has job positions that just state "software engineer". This is sometimes an explicit choice that we are
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by colincooke 5y ago
I can totally relate to this, working from home and having an exercise bike has done wonderful things for my work. One thing I'm curious of (and might be tackled in a follow-up) is if shorter bursts of exercise (perhaps more intense) a
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by colincooke 5y ago
In my experience shaders are one of those things that doesn't really get enough use in data viz because of how inaccessible the langauage is. Sure CUDA is great, but it requires a ton of libraries and specific GPUs. What makes shaders
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by colincooke 5y ago
While cooking for sure, but what's interesting is that because these things leak (parent article) unless you have your range-hood running all the time you're probably pumping at least a little bit of natural gas into your kitchen
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by colincooke 5y ago
Totally agree better than coal, and to each their own on your personal risk tolerance. Although if it's the heat control/speed of gas that you love maybe look into induction? I've heard great things and thats what I plan on u
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by colincooke 5y ago
This is the actual paper the article is based on if you want to read more than the token few sentences Nature doesn't put behind a paywall: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707
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by colincooke 5y ago
On a related note, gas appliances have pretty substanial adverse health effects: https://mobile.twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1481746460... Even if I wasn't against fossil fuel based appliances in princi
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Two doses of Covid-19 vaccine protect against long-Covid(twitter.com)
1 points by colincooke 5y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 5y ago
I'd say so. I've had the pleasure of working with some of the researchers on the applied science team, and they had great depth of knowledge and interest in current problems facing the bio space.
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by colincooke 5y ago
Interesting product strategy, but I can't help laugh at some of the product examples like "barcodeless scanner" or "quality inspection" (I can only comment on imaging as that's my background). First of all the
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A Cleaner Future: The Coming Energy Disruption [pdf](dropbox.com)
1 points by colincooke 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022?
9 points by colincooke 5y ago|5 comments
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by colincooke 5y ago
Fun fact this reserve is actually run by Quebec, not the federal government of Canada. Additionally, this is also the reserve that was the victim of the largest hiest in Canadian history [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by colincooke 5y ago
I totally agree, this is more of a case of simple over-confidence and exessive risk taking than lack of mathematical understanding. Regardless of the quality of the model you are using there are still countless other factors that may impact
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by colincooke 5y ago
While I disagree with the appraisal portion, not hooking up to the grid is understandable. While you may be prepared and willing to live off-grid, future home owners may see that as a downside (perceived/actual unreliability, maintenan
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by colincooke 5y ago
It's nice to see North Carolina attracting people. I moved here in 2019 (from Ontario, Canada), and have been pleasently surprised at the quality of life, abundent nature, and half-decent housing prices (that last part may not last for
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by colincooke 5y ago
There are some statistical concerns with how Israel came up with their numbers, so I would put more faith in other countries results, at least for now. My best guess is that the 64% is for any detectable disease, not symptoms (i.e. you test
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by colincooke 5y ago
I will say that on the vaccine front the data provided by Israel seems to be the worst results of the bunch, and while we can't completely rule out their results there is a good chance it's an underestimate of efficacy. Here are s
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by colincooke 5y ago
A simpler, if perhaps less effective, idea would be to just take advantage of ensembling. Get many estimates from everyone qualified to give them, then just fit a normal distribution to your final results. The average of many estimates tend
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by colincooke 5y ago
Unfortunately you can't recover information that was never captured, which is the main issue with cheaper lenses. They tend to have more abberations [1], which prevents capturing high quality information. [1]: https://en.wik

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