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by com2kid 2y ago
> Yes, rooftop home solar doesn't make a ton of sense at this latitude and especially not adjacent to this much hydro power. I know people in Seattle who run their entire house off solar for 6-8 months on the year (important now tha
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by com2kid 2y ago
Once a helmet takes a serious hit, it is considered used up and it needs to be replaced. The interior protective core has been compromised.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Games pays badly, big corp IT pays badly, and unfortunately despite the difficulty, embedded tends to pays poorly unless you are at one of the big tech companies.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Also, I have been noticing that Spring have become synonym of Java (Most of the time when I apply for a Java Developer job they ask about Spring), I can grasp it on the job. If you are applying for a senior Java role in a Spring shop,
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then? > To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer. When I worked at Microsoft, one team I was on, very ironica
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Me and my bicyclist friends have never injured a head while falling down from bike Back when I did bike, I'd fall off and hit my (helmeted) head once a year or so. I was always thankful for having a helmet. Granted it was typical
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by com2kid 2y ago
> This can actually make sense - why not make Electron a shared part of the OS instead of so many apps bundling it. Microsoft did this ages ago, they lost a big anti-trust trial over it. Aside from that, people ship electron because it w
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by com2kid 2y ago
> How often does the average programmer need to care about the underlying mechanism a map? How often do they need to care about struct alignment? Etc. It is important to know the big O performance of an underlying data structure if it is
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by com2kid 3y ago
Software engineering is a field full of neurodiverse people. Trying to police each other's language around mental health in a field where, at least historically, the majority of practitioners are going through some sort of mental healt
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by com2kid 3y ago
Brains have to have repeated exposure to a stimulus before they find it pleasurable. This is why you may need to try a new food a few times before you develop a liking for it, and the same goes for new music genres. If you purposefully go o
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by com2kid 3y ago
> Consumer co-ops saw popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, but have largely faded from view. A niche they had occupied, "natural food store" is now dominated by Amazon through its Whole Foods subsidiary, though there are some ind
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by com2kid 3y ago
> No, the most realistically sustainable design is one where the software is built into the durable item and not connected to the internet, so it never changes and doesn't need to worry about security issues. You can keep using the
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by com2kid 3y ago
Heck simple bluetooth audio playback has degraded year over year in my car. After an android update a few years back I don't get to see the track name any more, pause/play sort of works, and thankfully audio still comes through an
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by com2kid 3y ago
Bill Gates when he was at Microsoft. Tablet PC (first iteration was in the early 90s!), Pocket PC, WebTV and Media Center PC (Microsoft first tried Smart TVs in the late 90s! There wasn't any content to watch and most people didn'
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by com2kid 3y ago
I broke my big toe sparing once when it hit my partner's kneecap. That was my worst injury to date. She said last time that happened with someone during sparing it broke her kneecap instead, so I guess I was 50/50 on that one. Peo
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by com2kid 3y ago
I've been training different martial arts for little over a decade now, but of course YMMV. So #1 is you like the gym and the vibe. That means you'll keep going back and stay with it. Either BJJ or Kickboxing (or any striking art)
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by com2kid 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain :-D It's a topic that has been explored quite a bit in science fiction literature.
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by com2kid 3y ago
> I thought we agreed that all of these “AI” systems are fundamentally just making shit up, and that if they happen to construct coherent sentences more often than your phone’s predictive-text keyboard then the difference is one of degr
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by com2kid 3y ago
File systems are databases. Different file systems choose different trade offs, different indexing strategies, etc. Git is also a database. I got into this argument with someone when I proposed using Github as a database to store configurat
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by com2kid 3y ago
In that case, bug report! Three times now I've been going along and after 5 or 6 back and forth it just starts ignoring all commands, long pause, lots of dots, then nothing. Sadly no errors in the console. :(
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by com2kid 3y ago
> Monthly condo fees could range from $200/month to $4,000 a month or more. Older high rise buildings have much higher fees, this is unfortunately true. (Soon as you have interior hallways and elevators...) But as you alluded to, in
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by com2kid 3y ago
> When I was a kid, it was pretty normal to get stung by a bee when out playing/picking dandelions/making clover chains, and just a walk around one's neighborhood would have more bees covering various flowers than one coul
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by com2kid 3y ago
Hot take, solving housing prices on the west coast would provide a huge boost to the US economy. The nightmare that city councils in the Bay Area and the Seattle metro have caused are detrimental to America as a whole.
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by com2kid 3y ago
I suffered for years from massive razor burns and ingrown hairs from Gillette. Then I went to DE, full on badger hair brush for lather, the works. Life was better but not perfect. On one vacation I had forgotten to bring any shaving gear, a
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by com2kid 3y ago
So demand rail service that drops you off inside the airport right at the security line. Demand baggage pick-up and delivery services be offered. Having someone pick up your checked luggage the day before you fly out, walking off a train ri
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by com2kid 3y ago
> I don't want to carry 4 big bags in the train when I travel international Japan has this really cool service where you can get your bags picked up from your hotel room and taken to the airport or from the airport to your hotel roo
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by com2kid 3y ago
An uber from Sea-Tac airport into Seattle can easily reach $80, and almost $100 with tip. Given how far NRT is from Tokyo, $200 doesn't seem too bad...
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by com2kid 3y ago
They should have been spun out with a few billion dollars budget, no oversight, and Google having 90% (or some other very high %) ownership and rights of first purchase to buy them back. It is a successful model that has worked again and ag
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by com2kid 3y ago
> It is typically very hard for a company to change what they actually do Microsoft started out selling BASIC runtimes. Then they moved into operating systems. Then they moved into Cloud. Satya seems to be putting his money where his mo
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by com2kid 3y ago
My toddler was amazed when I introduced him to edible bugs (grasshoppers in our case, but we have a jar of ants around as well). His eyes lit up, it was like a toddler dream come true! Bugs he could eat! Related, recently I accidentally ord

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