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by durkie 6y ago
I don't understand your last paragraph. On the one hand you're saying OSS in 2020 mostly helps companies, but on the other hand you say this dynamic of company-helping is not one that you can build a sustainable business on. Am I
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by durkie 6y ago
What friction? The "regenerative" part is from the motors being driven in reverse and returning power to the battery.
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by durkie 6y ago
seeing issues with scaling up/down in elastic beanstalk too
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by durkie 6y ago
electric conversions seem like they'd make a lot of sense here anyways. high torque and low maintenance.
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by durkie 6y ago
I saw it here: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/ Pricing was available for Postgres, but I didn't check other database types
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by durkie 6y ago
> My experience (over decades) is I couldn't sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertil
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by durkie 6y ago
Do you know if the old open street map trick of having multiple tile servers (that are each just aliases of the same server) still works? I think this was how they tried circumventing the 6 connection limit
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by durkie 6y ago
Highly recommended to check out the pg_repack extension for this situation. CLUSTER requires an access exclusive lock, preventing anything from reading or writing the table during the cluster operation. pg_repack works around this by creati
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by durkie 6y ago
for what it's worth, i wouldn't trust any sensor in the form of the sparkfun CO sensor (link 0 in your comment) -- there was a fellow in denmark who did a ton of research with these sensors to create an electronic nose that exploi
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by durkie 6y ago
My info is a little out of date (~10 years) but I did a MS thesis on aluminum/carbon fiber composites and holy hell are they impossible to produce. There are so many factors that just make these materials not want to go together (simil
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by durkie 6y ago
Isn't mbtiles sqlite?
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by durkie 6y ago
It depends on the application, but I don't think they're necessarily larger in size. I believe the format is quite compressed (Mapbox Vector Tile/MVT, which I believe is a variant of protocol buffers). Many vector tile encode
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by durkie 6y ago
definitely no history of racism there.
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by durkie 6y ago
What's ridiculous about it? Why is attacking the agency fair game but you can't attack the company?
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by durkie 6y ago
Very cool! Can you expand on the idea that it's just a single IR photodiode? This would get rid of visible atmospheric light, but wouldn't there still be residual IR light from the sun (whatever isn't absorbed by the atmosphe
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by durkie 6y ago
Mostly off-topic here, but it seems like the best place to get an answer: several years ago in my lab at Georgia Tech, a technician I worked with said he had a friend who invented a device for doing celestial navigation, but that it 1) work
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by durkie 6y ago
One issue with using screen for these purposes is that it will silently drop \xFF bytes. In my case I was trying to pull an image off of an Arduino or RPI connected camera, and my images would arrive like 99% accurate (mostly correct header
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by durkie 6y ago
Yes, that's pretty much how you do it. Since there's no frame to mechanically support the comb during centrifuging, you pretty much have to crush the comb and strain the honey from it. Because of the lack of mechanical support, it
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by durkie 6y ago
I think the thought GP was expressing was that it would be a good time for Zoom to make an acquisition of Keybase paid for in Zoom stock since Zoom stock is trading at a very high multiple of Zoom's earnings. Some people would regard t
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by durkie 6y ago
Ah yes, this has gained some appeal in the US as well (we call them top bar hives). I had one for several years and it was really cool how the bees would freestyle their wax comb designs (shape, period, cell size, regularity) since they did
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by durkie 6y ago
Hey qdot! Not sure if we've ever met, but definitely talked a bunch around the Comingle days...glad you're still working to make this happen! - Craig (formerly @ Comingle)
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by durkie 7y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote only I'm looking for an experienced C++ developer that has a strong background in algorithms (stochastic optimization and graph theory/pathfinding in particular) to help me tackle some routing problems.
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by durkie 7y ago
what makes it better?
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by durkie 7y ago
Not entirely sure what GP is talking about, but just off the top of my head, this is the situation for anyone who's ever had chickenpox: you get chickenpox, the sores appear and then go away, but the virus stays in you. If you become i
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by durkie 7y ago
why do you keep doing it if you see no benefit whatsoever?
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by durkie 7y ago
If you're interested in learning more about this, the movie Wasted! (one of Anthony Bourdain's last appearances before his death: https://www.wastedfilm.com/ ) has interesting perspectives on handling food waste ar
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by durkie 7y ago
We've made custom cushions from foam we got from https://www.thefoamfactory.com/ (no affiliation). They apparently do have "mattresses", but also just stock a bunch of foam that they can ship to you and you c
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by durkie 7y ago
You're in luck! This week, via kottke.org: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/
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by durkie 7y ago
Why wouldn't it trickle down? I feel like all new technologies start out with rich people/early adopters subsidizing mass adoption costs (refrigerators, TVs, computers, cell phones, electric cars)
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by durkie 7y ago
Very good comment and thanks for your work on MVT. I use PostGIS's MVT tools on a daily basis. I do an intermediate approach: my queries are sometimes too expensive to run dynamically, and my data change semi-frequently (daily/wee

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