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by djcapelis 4y ago
This guy wrote a whole article outlining how bad and unusable the British pipe standards are and you’re surprised the two (ish) continents that don’t use them are actually pretty happy with their standard and don’t want the other? NPT has s
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by djcapelis 4y ago
You’ve articulated a common bay area mistake of assuming what you happen to be aware of is a comprehensive list of what exists in the bay area. There are still many common warehouse and workshop communities through the bay. There will eve
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by djcapelis 4y ago
In Northern California we dialed POPCORN: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-May-Pull-Plug-On-C...
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by djcapelis 4y ago
Almost all EVs come with built in charging schedule settings and people use them because the alternative is throwing money at your utility company to charge during peak hours for no reason. You just plug it in and wake up charged in the mo
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by djcapelis 4y ago
> If the state government was serious about this, they would be installing chargers all over the place. Seen the charger network in California lately? They’re… quite widespread. And the state is definitely helping with infill to keep a
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by djcapelis 4y ago
A coupon is an informal term for a small sample of material, most often metal. It’s perhaps most commonly used in welding where practice welds for people first training to weld are done on pieces of metal often referred to as coupons. :) I
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by djcapelis 4y ago
It definitely has supplanted them in Iceland. Even the most remote places that used to use oil are generally switching to geothermal for heating. Converting the heat to power isn’t always worth it because the island has so much plentiful
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by djcapelis 4y ago
Nah. It’s a standard feature of most battery systems to run when the grid is down. Solar without battery doesn’t, (and the solar itself cuts out) but if you have battery systems involved for storage, you’re already capable of them interop
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by djcapelis 4y ago
If you haven’t yet, try turning on (or up) the micro contrast feature in the picture/display settings. Won’t solve everything, but can make a lot of dark scenes in a bright room a lot clearer to watch.
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by djcapelis 5y ago
I get VHCOL cities, I live in one and bought a home here in 2020. You may not be at the point where you don’t have to optimize for comp yet, and that’s okay. But when you are, I hope you take the opportunity to do so. And I hope you consi
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Because not everyone is a twenty year old second generation immigrant with no family wealth who needs a lifeboat. Are you under the impression the blog post author is? Look if people need money I don’t think many of us are passing judgement
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by djcapelis 5y ago
You’re not wrong at all. A lot of us agree with this but the type of people who write blog posts about their process as if searching for a job is a totally generic thing wholly untethered to someone’s goals in their own life outside of p
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by djcapelis 5y ago
As a general response not specific to this system failure: Train systems are designed to fail safe when not in state and significant safety engineering is done to ensure that if a rail system remains in a known good state over multiple deca
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by djcapelis 5y ago
> The same type of reactor as Chernobyl is still in operation at the Leningrad NPP Along with three units each in Kursk and Smolensk NPPs. Plus I think a lot of people don't realize some of the other reactor units at Chernobyl con
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Like this? https://www.nuclearwarmap.com/
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by djcapelis 5y ago
I don't think very many people can build or operate a siege engine so the real question for our modern times is: is anyone?
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Nope. States vary somewhat in their laws, but in my home state of California, the laws state only: California Vehicle Code (CVC) Section 21452(a): "A driver facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is, by that signal, war
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Offering only a Java installer, of all things from the increasingly distant past, wholly divorced from any semblance on how most anyone wants to install or use software these days, is 100% a choice the freenet project made and entirely that
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Not great. Git and then GitHub ate their lunch and then they ended up so desperate they did this: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3aajjs/what_i... So that pretty much caused whoever still
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by djcapelis 5y ago
I don’t disagree that in comparison to many other nasty byproducts of the U235 chain, most Uranium isotopes are not that “hot” but the danger of HEU comes partly from the increased presence of the U234 isotope, not just U235. So that isoto
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by djcapelis 5y ago
This is pretty much exactly what results when economists just throw numbers at things without context. Pretending that an IT helpdesk job and a systems programmer are the same type of 1 unit of job leads to ridiculous conclusions.
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Thank you for recommending Adalberto's! It was a bit of a drive but indeed, it is the closest I’ve found!
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Yes please. I grew up in and came back to Northern California but San Diego has better Mexican food and we don’t talk about it enough. I uncharitably claim that San Francisco seems to have a reputation for awesome Mexican food more from v
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by djcapelis 5y ago
> [0] Note that switching modes always costs time, sometimes significant amounts of time. In some cases it's time you may not have or may not be able to easily find. When I land at SFO from an international flight, I’m on BART way b
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by djcapelis 5y ago
Apple has state based branches registered in many states that it does business: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C0806592/statemen... These are so irrelevant to the California corporation that Apple
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Amusingly, RFC4 is naturally dated a couple weeks earlier than RFC1.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
The beautiful part of these is they show exactly what happens with these types of files, in that only one of them implements the spec as linked. (Expires isn’t optional in the proposal on the website.)
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by djcapelis 6y ago
It’s not a hard decision. You unquestionably walk away from a situation like this. If your interactions with the team are going this poorly, walk immediately. There’s nothing to be gained from trying to hang on in a situation like this.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Let’s see what happens. :) You definitely don’t get high speed rail if you don’t build any.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
More progress on building a high speed rail network than any other state. If this is what failure looks like other states should try some success, I guess. We’ll just have to settle for keeping up with failure as we construct our new rail

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