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by davedx 3y ago
https://catchthatdruid.ytmnd.com
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by davedx 3y ago
React and TailwindCSS for everything now. I'm fed up of churn, fed up of the constant stream of new UI toolkits and static site this and Next that and Svelte the other. I spent my "new technology budget" on upgrading most of
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by davedx 3y ago
At least it’s not Zurks… shudder
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by davedx 3y ago
I quickly moved to more trusting clients thankfully, and have never considered doing this to people working with or for me. :)
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by davedx 3y ago
HN can be strangley luddite about new technology actually. It's the same with self driving cars - there's a large, vocal crowd on this website who are highly critical of it. And god forbid you put a touchscreen in their car... I t
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by davedx 3y ago
Ha I got started on the freelancer websites like Upwork where you have to install spyware that takes a screenshot every 10 minutes. Kind of depressing way to work but it did get me started with freelancing.
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by davedx 3y ago
Subjective. I much prefer written interactions to spoken
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by davedx 3y ago
Not necessarily AI at all. Collision avoidance can work purely based on range finding. Self driving that actually does use AI is all over the place
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by davedx 3y ago
They were hella spammy about devmode too, spamming me with marketing mail about it and denying it was marketing. Shady
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by davedx 3y ago
Sounds like the Hertz CEO and his Tesla fleet. I'm an EV proponent but that was a huge strategic shift and in a short time it became obvious it wasn't well thought through or prepared for at all.
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by davedx 3y ago
My point was just that startups can still make rockets and planes, therefore this isn't "absolute nonsense". As far as "turning a good profit", well, you might be right but that very much remains to be seen at this
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by davedx 3y ago
Have you heard of SpaceX?
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by davedx 3y ago
Underrated comment. Grids need less upgrades, less congestion, less curtailment of other renewables can add up to billions in savings for a country
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by davedx 3y ago
It means more consistent energy output, higher “capacity factors”. It will always be intermittent but taller turbines reduces the intermittency
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by davedx 3y ago
Wind is just different too. There are subtle advantages to scaling up wind: fixed costs increase but capacity factors do too (taller turbines means they’re turning more % due to more consistent wind speeds at higher altitudes).
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by davedx 3y ago
Ask the copywriters and logo designers
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah. The shocking speed of progress on AI - especially for coding - tells me quite clearly what the future holds for much of software engineering. Despite the human factors (yes, requirements gathering and specification is messy) our profe
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah the Belastingdienst would never do anything naughty with powers like these. Let them in on it too!
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah this isn’t just Boeing, it’s the senators who don’t want Boeing jobs to be risked in any serious consequences is my interpretation of how this seems to work
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by davedx 3y ago
Useful! Wish I had this when I started reverse engineering pbf map tiles a few months back.
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by davedx 3y ago
From 2023
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by davedx 3y ago
Quality of life, work-life balance, good schools, good transport, lots of consumer protections, human rights & rights for minorities, 70 years of peace. Economic growth isn't great but could be a lot worse if I look at the rest of
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by davedx 3y ago
Ha damn, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.
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by davedx 3y ago
The SEC doesn’t protect investors in private companies. OpenAI isn’t a public company
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by davedx 3y ago
Well I definitely disagree on that. I fall more on the side of “use them for regular errors too” because IMO anything that reduces boilerplate is a good thing. But I also don’t like “magic” so it’s still a bit in tension in my head
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by davedx 3y ago
Yup that’s how it works in NL. My wife uses the Tesla app to start a supercharger session with her Mach E
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah, the amount of bike shedding and yak shaving I've been pulled into over "how exceptions should be used" is pretty dismal. The worst thing is, I've still not even 100% decided myself. I think that does say something
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by davedx 3y ago
There's some really cool ideas in this, and I love how you're straight into the documentation with examples. Great job. I raised my eyebrows at this part though where the type constraints part was being explained: > Coming from
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by davedx 3y ago
F9 landing is not trivial, and despite all the comments on this thread trying to back up the claim this is the “first commercial spacecraft to land on US soil” ludicrous.
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by davedx 3y ago
How was the spacecraft in this video "more orbital"? Did it reach orbit itself?

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