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by danw1979 2y ago
Precisely the same number as would have died from terminal disease anyway ?
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by danw1979 2y ago
Microgrids have been making a lot of noise for a few years now. I think it’ll still be common to get your electricity from the grid in most towns and cities in the future, especially in northern Europe; we just don’t have the levels of inso
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by danw1979 2y ago
Nearly choked on my cornflakes at this: > The solar panel is wizardry manifest. It literally prints energy from free shit that falls out of the sky.
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by danw1979 2y ago
I think it’s probably both.
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by danw1979 2y ago
Dude, they are commenting on hacker news… someone brings up Kessler syndrome in basically every post about starlink or even space in general. It’s up there with microplastics and e-ink displays as a HN meme.
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by danw1979 2y ago
Your analogy in 1. sounds off to me. It’s definitely like bringing your own food, but the already well equipped kitchen and chefs will prepare it for you.
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by danw1979 2y ago
YC summer ‘28 entry: V2X-connected kids shoes, that constantly broadcast the position and heading of your child to nearby traffic.
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by danw1979 2y ago
It would be really very difficult to bootcamp the experience of actually having kids before having kids.
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by danw1979 2y ago
I know people who bailed on marriages early and I think, yes, this article has some good advice, but it’s also very important to fail fast where failure is inevitable. If this inevitable failure only becomes apparent after you’ve had kids b
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by danw1979 2y ago
You could stretch the definition of “required” here to include the land required for housing development to fund the railway ? The railway is a common good, and the housing development profits are just a means to those ends.
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by danw1979 2y ago
It feels like the industry is heading towards automating everything using non-deterministic black boxes stuck together with proprietary glue.
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by danw1979 2y ago
Why does this reactor need a higher percentage of U-235 in the fuel than other fissionable isotopes ? I thought the idea of a fast reactor was that it could fission U-238, Thorium, etc ? i.e. why can’t you feed the Natrium reactor the usua
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by danw1979 2y ago
> Investors and founders both tend to think that if employees knew founders were getting liquidity that that would negatively impact employee morale (it wouldn’t) It would. Knowing that founders are cashing out and I’m not able to would
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by danw1979 2y ago
This series of articles is genuinely thrilling to read. What a fantastic and truly worthwhile bit of detective work. Very well written up.
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by danw1979 2y ago
Please enter the passcode “0000” on the device “SATELLITE_2”
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by danw1979 2y ago
I’m 5 miles to the east ! (Dunnington) and was gutted to hear this morning that I’d missed an amazing display here last night. Many people in the village saw the aurora in varied colours - greens, purples, pinks. Incredible photos… it
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by danw1979 2y ago
If you drink ~19 litres (5 US gallons?) of water every day you will not survive long. That’s about an order of magnitude more than is recommended under normal non-strenuous conditions.
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by danw1979 2y ago
Can’t wait to hear what you think of the UK’s “smoke free generation” laws… https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-to-create-... When you ask your government to look after your health, don’t be surprise
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by danw1979 3y ago
Relevant What-If: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
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by danw1979 3y ago
I’m very sorry for your loss. I agree with your stance on being vocal about poor driving. People speeding through the 30 mph limit in my village boils my blood like nothing else and I’m one of those parents who shouts at traffic on the sch
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by danw1979 3y ago
What bottleneck between London and Birmingham exists that is making my journeys from York to Leeds so fraught ? Are you trying to convince me that HS2 is worth my tax £s because it’ll make TPE services better ?? No more capital expenditure
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by danw1979 3y ago
HS2 is only cancelled if you live in the north east and pay no tax.
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by danw1979 3y ago
I wouldn’t want Cody interrogating my local Terraform state or tfvars, for example. There might not be unecrypted secrets in there, but there’s configuration data that I don’t want to disclose too.
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by danw1979 3y ago
.gitignore unless there’s a specific .codyignore ? Or maybe a set of sensible global default ignores, based on the usual suspects from gitignore.io or suchlike ?
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by danw1979 3y ago
The Prius driving experience is excellent. I’ve had two gen 3 prii (one a plug in) for 10 & 6 years respectively and can’t find anything to dislike apart from the lack of acceleration above 45mph. Regular cruise control, buttons for
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by danw1979 3y ago
A Claude 3 system prompt of “Only respond with JSON …” just doesn’t work on Sonnet or Opus for me. The quicker and dumber Haiku will obey it every time !
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by danw1979 3y ago
Claude Opus has really struggled to do code review of a basic Terraform repo for me. I’ve spent longer on “Prompt Engineering” work than it would have done to knock up a deterministic HCL-parser to check code structure.
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by danw1979 3y ago
The lack of API credits for Claude Pro subscribers is also a bit of an oversight. I’d like to be able to consume my daily quota via the API as well as the chatbot.
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by danw1979 3y ago
Andy is acused of buying “options in Acacia using the accounts of a close relative and associate.” Is it possible he passed on information to these other individuals, and lent them the money to make the trades, but he wasn’t intending on pr
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by danw1979 3y ago
I think in the places you’re thinking of, using starlink as backhaul for community wireless is more likely ? There’s always going to be capex to bring the internet to far-flung places, but my point was that starlink means it’s no longer “di

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