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by elihu 5y ago
Some suggestions: add an index or search engine to find existing cafes if there isn't one already. Also, provide a more terse way of navigating posts that isn't basically a single item fill the whole screen. (Something I like ab
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by elihu 5y ago
I don't know, I'm just familiar with what the motor controllers do because I'm trying to do an EV conversion. I would imagine that the people working on parts for the conversion market have a somewhat different development pr
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by elihu 5y ago
Most conversions have regenerative braking nowdays. Most AC motor controllers support regen as a basic feature. A lot of the old series-wound DC motor conversions didn't have it because it was hard to do on that kind of motor (simila
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by elihu 5y ago
I like the Ergo Proxy references.
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by elihu 5y ago
Most of the complexity of EVs is just generic modern car complexity, though. EVs don't have to be any more complicated than ICE vehicles, and EV conversions especially are usually really simple (though to be fair a lot of the vehicles
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by elihu 5y ago
I think Tanenbaum will win the argument in the sense that the way high-security OS kernels will be written will look like programming a microkernel, but when you look at what the hardware actually executes it'll look like a monolithic
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by elihu 5y ago
It's not just about ads, it's also about marketing data and privacy: if people are able to watch a local copy whenever they want, they don't even know how often it's viewed, or by whom. (Unless they're watching on
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by elihu 5y ago
> Yeah, Agile is not the OP's problem. Agile might not be my problem, but even so what the comment you're replying to kind of sums up the situation: > I remember when my employer adopted agile. One of the first things they d
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by elihu 5y ago
If the software cannot be used for its intended purpose without some special knowledge, and that knowledge is not available to everyone who uses that software, then the people who don't have access to that knowledge are going to be una
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by elihu 5y ago
> Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs. The impression I get from hanging out a bit in the welding subreddit is that a lot of people get into welding thinking it'll be a lucrative profession (because
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by elihu 5y ago
Institutional knowledge is an okay thing, the problem is when it's passed down by oral tradition or actively kept secret unless you email exactly the right question to the right person.
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by elihu 5y ago
I think there's something else that's necessary that doesn't align well with the things in the article, and which is currently lacking in my current work environment, but which is kind of hard to describe succinctly. Basicall
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by elihu 5y ago
As far as I know, the advice that wearing a mask doesn't protect you very well from getting Covid has held up pretty good; they're a lot better at protecting everyone else from the mask wearer. The logical flaw then was that telli
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by elihu 5y ago
In my (probably flawed) understanding, I think the drawbacks of Roman concrete in a modern setting is that it takes a really long time to cure (like a year or so) and it uses salt water, which would not interact well with regular steel reba
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by elihu 5y ago
The way I would define it is that if a person is told to do some job and they literally aren't allowed to quit and/or are physically disallowed from leaving the premises, then they're slaves. There are also what are called &q
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by elihu 5y ago
In the U.S. it's mostly kids that aren't vaccinated at this point. Among people over 18 years of age, 73.3% have at least 2 doses and 86.4% have at least 1 according to the CDC. Two shots and a booster is obviously better, but t
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by elihu 5y ago
I don't think that's a realistic expectation. If millions of people have a highly infectious disease, then it's very likely to spread to any wildlife (that aren't naturally immune) in the same general area as those infe
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by elihu 5y ago
I think that sums it up pretty well: people would be more tolerant of the CDC changing their minds on things if it was clear how they arrived at their decisions in the first place and they say what data they base their decisions on and what
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by elihu 5y ago
> The unreliability of solar and wind plus the state of modern batteries means that nuclear and coal are still better choices for large scale baseload generation. I'm not convinced that's true. Lithium iron phosphate batteries
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by elihu 5y ago
I think EVs will quickly overtake ICE vehicles once they're price competitive and battery manufacturing scales up to the levels needed, but that's a separate issue from government bans. My point is that several governments now hav
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by elihu 5y ago
> "Looking further afield: it seems likely that the end of internal combustion engines will be in sight. Some countries are already scheduling a ban on IC engines to come in after 2030—electric cars are now a maturing technology wit
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by elihu 5y ago
I've been using dvorak for a long time. I kind of wonder if not having a keyboard with the correct dvorak keycaps actually helps learn it faster than it would if you had the correct keycaps? If you can't look at the keys to kno
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by elihu 5y ago
I wonder at what point would these be unsafe to look at without eye protection because they're too bright?
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by elihu 5y ago
On some level, that's sort of like asking whether we can be 100% sure that the solution to a math problem is correct. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 2+3=5, but what if I made a mistake somewhere? What if I'm falling prey to s
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by elihu 5y ago
I suppose there's a kind of hierarchy: Can I get paid to work on this software? Will customers buy this software? Is this software fit for some purpose? Is the software correct according to what the customer expects? Writing correct so
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by elihu 5y ago
Presumably it would have happened more slowly, as the world population was less then. Though, maybe that wouldn't have actually made that much difference, as the rapid population growth of the last few hundred years is probably largel
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by elihu 5y ago
An interesting caveat is that ray tracing has a high up-front cost, but rendering time is less sensitive to scene complexity than traditional polygon rasterization. Beyond a certain level of scene complexity, ray tracing can be faster, it&
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by elihu 5y ago
Isn't the airport in Dubai barely above sea level anyways? I mean, if the difference between ground level and sea level is less than a hundred feet, then it seems like it wouldn't account for a plane thinking it was at 4,000 feet
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by elihu 5y ago
I think approval voting ballots have a pretty reasonable interpretation: if you would tolerate this person in this office then vote for them, if not then don't. The winner of the election is the one with the highest approval rating. I
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by elihu 5y ago
Yep, I tried it before reading your comment. I think that's great. Approval voting is awesome, and probably a better default for a lot of things anyways. Even mundane things like "where do you want to eat lunch" with first-p

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