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by daotoad 3y ago
There are some really handy databases with detailed insolation data available for sizing your solar projects. https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/ is one place to find this stuff. Years ago I worked on environmental monitoring systems
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by daotoad 3y ago
Speaking as an American the bit that seems over the top is the ""5, 1, or 0 meters" bit. It comes off as condescending. At least from another American. I've known a few Germans and this sort of comment seems much more
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by daotoad 3y ago
If you like `z`, you should check out my `tutu`. https://github.com/daotoad/tutu
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by daotoad 3y ago
I go to Cash and Carry (well, they've renamed it about 15 times in the past few years, so it's actually US Chef's Store or something dumb like that) for wholesale pricing on meats. Costco near me is pretty much the same price
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by daotoad 3y ago
Pork loin (the stuff boneless chops are made from) is really lean and is pretty inexpensive, cooked properly, it can be delicious. But it can really easily dry out. * Brine your meat before cooking to help it retain moisture * Cook the min
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by daotoad 3y ago
If I go to a massive conglomerate store, Albertson's, Fred Meyer, etc, those are the sort of prices I expect. When I go to the restaurant supply store, I can get bulk packages for $1-$2 a pound. Granted, these are often big, but not m
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by daotoad 3y ago
Based on all the love people are expressing for "Shorts" here, I feel like the feature should be renamed "Pants". This joke only makes sense if you understand UK-type English.
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by daotoad 3y ago
Two things I hate about youtube these days are: 1. Subscriptions are essentially useless. The UI focuses entirely on recommendations and doesn't show me videos from channels I am subscribed to unless I actually dig into the `library&
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by daotoad 3y ago
I have terrible luck with Spotify and Siri. These kinds of specific requests fail. I tried it with your prompt and Spotify started playing the whole album. Which is better than my usual outcome. Of course, it took three tries. The first
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by daotoad 3y ago
How do you get Siri to actually work with Spotify? When I try to use it I get consistently laughably bad results. `Play songs by Albert King on Spotify` yields something like "Playing songs by R Kelly on Spotify". No, thanks. Ev
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by daotoad 4y ago
I got a similar Brother in 2020 after my Epson inkjet MFC became unusable. The Brother is reliable, simple, and was cheap, even when printers were thin on the ground. Before the latest in a series of Epson inkjets, I had a Brother laser t
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by daotoad 4y ago
For book chapters this is probably fine, but if there's any chance you might have a lot of things to deal with at once, you probably want to manage a pool of promises. You might be okay in normal usage, but if a backlog accumulates, yo
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by daotoad 4y ago
I agree 100%. I've worked on some big TypeScript code bases that make heavy use of sort of FP the article promotes; dealing with stack traces and debugging the code is incredibly painful. Jumping around between 47 layers of curried wr
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by daotoad 4y ago
> no amount of legislation will change that Programs like SNAP, the earned income tax credit, subsidized child-care, and refundable tax credits for children have an immediate impact. Legislation could also provide a universal basic incom
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by daotoad 4y ago
We need to write code that is optimized for communication and clarity. We have a number of tools we can use to craft communicative code. 1. Variable and function names. These should be descriptive and never deceptive. For example, I&#x27
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by daotoad 4y ago
I got my first Zojirushi rice cooker over 20 years ago. The only reason I'm on my second is that my ex-wife claimed it in the divorce, she's still using it. I'm still using my "new" 12 year old model.
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by daotoad 4y ago
My understanding is that a star is a star regardless of what is or isn't in orbit. A sun, however, needs to have planets to be a sun.
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by daotoad 4y ago
I'm pretty sure I've said this on previous mentions of htmx, but I'll say it again: this reminds me of the old SPF framework youtube published. http://youtube.github.io/spfjs/ SPF was a bit more focused
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by daotoad 4y ago
The reason was shared hosting. Most of the really good Perl options for application building used mod_perl which did not play well in shared hosting environments. If you could find a host, you were still somewhat at their mercy for gettin
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by daotoad 5y ago
Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
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by daotoad 5y ago
Excessively complex DSA questions are not very useful for me as an interviewer. I prefer to offer a fairly simple test problem that has room for elaboration. For example, when evaluating SQL skills, looking how the candidate would model m
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by daotoad 5y ago
JetPens actually has a guide for this, too: https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Lefty-Friendly-Pens-an...
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by daotoad 5y ago
You might find this presentation interesting: https://thenewstack.io/perl-programmer-pioneers-coding-by-vo...
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by daotoad 5y ago
It is the Secretary's job to (have their department) write regulations. Regulations are the implementation of the specification laid out in law. When the law is ambiguous, regulators have to choose an interpretation. Congressional pa
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by daotoad 5y ago
If you accept that the law is ambiguous and that the current Secretary of Labor is effectively making law by choosing an interpretation, you must also accept that the existing regulatory structure also derives from a choice made by a previo
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by daotoad 6y ago
So an unenforced convention that does the same thing as a sigil, but worse. It can't be relied upon because it's not enforced. I've lost count of how many times I've seen streams without their trailing $ in codebases w
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by daotoad 6y ago
I believe this is a major reason. Demographic shift. Perl grew to prominence when being a creole of C, shell, sed, awk, and lisp was an advantage. Anyone who might reasonably use it would be familiar with at least a few of these tools. No
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by daotoad 6y ago
The advantage with sigils, that little bit of standardized extra information means that I don't have to do any work to distinguish a verb from a noun. It makes it possible to use names that are just a bit shorter, on average, without
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by daotoad 6y ago
I have played with Raku a bit over the years, but haven't taken it up for any major projects. But I have found the experience incredibly useful. Using Raku is like working with advanced alien technology. My experience with it changed
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by daotoad 6y ago
The the distinction in Perl is context. If I want to flatten that pack of dogs into a collection of individual dogs, I'd use the `@` sigil. If I want to operate on the pack as a whole, I'd use the `$`. Context and list flattenin

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