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by craz8 7y ago
* batteries not included - that’s an extra add on for about 50% more!
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by craz8 7y ago
I have a quote to add 13kw system to my house with a flat roof for about $40k Then I’d get 30% back from the government - and my state has no sales tax on this (which would have added 10%) So, net cost to me of about $28k for a 13kw system
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by craz8 7y ago
It’s possible to hedge some of this risk, but eventually you’d have to raise your prices in Pounds, which will decrease demand and if you’re already on the edge with debt payments, it all falls apart
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by craz8 7y ago
It probably doesn’t help that their revenue is in pounds and their biggest costs are in Euros and Dollars when your local currency crashes due to Brexit For a business with small margins, just this currency swing is a disaster
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by craz8 7y ago
Many, many* forms in the US ask this information so they can do later analysis on how they are racially biased in their decision making, so they can Do Better Next Time (Tm) Since I can answer in the Best Possible Way - old white guy - I do
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by craz8 7y ago
Some people still are - mine now works. I think it depends on your Linux server binding to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 I’m currently working on cross host code, so being forced to use the Hosts file actually helped me out! I haven’t tried going f
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by craz8 7y ago
I’m loving WSL2 on my Insiders build. But there are issues with local host networking and file updates to Windows apps right now that need to be worked around But it is very fast! The Insider build also green screens less often than the mo
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by craz8 7y ago
So, as someone who’s been out of school for a million years, after my name and contact info, my education info is the second most important thing? I don’t think so Maybe this should be titled “Just Graduated? Some Useful Tips”
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by craz8 7y ago
It’s never a zero sum game - we can try many things at once, some will work well, some will work poorly, some won’t work at all Trying things helps us move forward
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by craz8 7y ago
Hah! And with not a lot of code and an ActionText integration, you can write some nice looking emails too! I can build my own Gmail in an hour!
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by craz8 7y ago
For my second link to a Fully Charged episode on YouTube today, they did a story about this company in Europe refitting older vehicles with electric gear Their big plan is to have local river barge traffic be managed with electric tugs inst
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by craz8 7y ago
I recently saw this Fully Charged video about a short, but very frequent, ferry crossing that is now fully electric, with automated charging at both ends of the trip The scale here is enormous, and just for a 4km journey https://
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by craz8 7y ago
I hate stories written this way! I feel like I’m about 1/3 of the way through and it just stops. Someone had to write 800 words and, gosh darn it, exactly 800 words were written I’d love to have learned more in this story I know peop
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by craz8 7y ago
I’m rooting for SCSI to make a comeback - I have a box full of cables ready to go!
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by craz8 7y ago
Teletext was big in the UK in the 80s and into the 90s. The BBC Micro (6502 based) had an adaptor, and the BBC would broadcast downloadable software on some of their pages for that computer I don’t recall if that ever happened for the Spec
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by craz8 7y ago
Recipe sites have gone this way - I don’t need your life story for a gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipe that appears about 1500 words in
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by craz8 7y ago
No What he’s doing is building the new version in the same branch as the old, with a simple code switch to use one or the other This is very similar to A/B testing, but not for user engagement but for accurate replication of the origin
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by craz8 7y ago
I once drove 50 miles on the North Cascades highway and saw no-one. Mostly due to fires in the area though, so the air quality wasn’t great We stopped at one point and heard a motorbike come up the valley for 10 minutes before it passed us
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by craz8 7y ago
My only time in Melbourne, I saw a car crash into a tram. This blocked a bit of the road, and the entire tram line for an hour plus The bus behind could have driven around, but the next tram was stuck until the blockage was cleared Now, if
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by craz8 7y ago
In the UK, and likely other places, there is actually a chain called Spar. Perhaps they used to be in that area too, and the name stuck even if the business did not?
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by craz8 7y ago
There was a model railway show in London in the mid 70s that my grandfather took me to. The least decorated layout there was the most interesting, as it was computer controlled. Even better, a small child could program it by writing instru
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by craz8 7y ago
I have 2 Awairs - most of the time the number is over 90 (which is good) but it also measures individual values as well as that overall score My company has a different one in the office in SF, and that one publishes to the net so the resul
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by craz8 7y ago
Seattle has had that two years in a row so far. SF had it last year I now own air testers, 3 portable air cleaners and a brand new A/C system with whole new filters
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by craz8 7y ago
A while ago, this guy found that you could store files in the DNS servers belonging to other people, and created DNSFs that he documented here: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st... It looks l
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by craz8 7y ago
Microsoft help systems were great back then. Which was good, as there was little online documentation, and what was available was expensive to access with per-minute dial-up fees I remember a version of MS C in the late 80s coming with 5,5
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by craz8 7y ago
It was certainly real stuff - less than 5 years later I was part of the team that shipped Windows 95 (but I was a C programmer before QuickBasic, so that helped)
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by craz8 7y ago
It’s interesting that QBasic was thought of as a beginners or gaming language In the early 90s, I worked on a bond trading floor in London, and we used QBasic for production systems. It was quite fun to work with, and pretty powerful with
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by craz8 7y ago
Style sheets for sound - I think BBC radio used to sell CDs for this. Now they can provide Audio Style Sheets with the acronym of... oh, wait Golly - you could make any story sound like it was a Radio 4 play
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by craz8 7y ago
In the 80s I worked with Industrial Apple IIs - which I’ve only ever heard about at that job! They were networked though, as they were not attached to forklifts By the end of the 80s, the floppy disks with the code were running a bit thin!
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by craz8 7y ago
I kind of liked the Branagh movie but it suffered from 2 things: 1: I noticed how good the cinematography was - I was not immersed enough to not see how good they were at setting the scene 2: David Suchet nailed Poirot so well it’s impossi

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