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by etimberg 3y ago
I wouldn't say tesla's software practices should be emulated. Pushing random updates to prod OTA is terrible practice and look at the number of times cars have rebooted while driving
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First Republic Bank headed for FDIC receivership, says report(financialpost.com)
1 points by etimberg 3y ago|0 comments
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by etimberg 3y ago
For fun I tried asking chatgpt to create a simple using an opensource project I maintain. The generated answer was sort of correct but not correct enough to copy and paste. It missed including a plugin, used a version of the project that do
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by etimberg 3y ago
Is this their tumblr moment?
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by etimberg 4y ago
Likely going to go away for a long while
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by etimberg 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_nilly "Willy nilly is an idiom that means "haphazardly" or "spontaneously"."
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by etimberg 4y ago
Yeah, these kinds of tools aren't cheap. I know really high end stuff can be > $100,000 per seat per year
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by etimberg 4y ago
As /u/compumike mentioned the core spice algorithm is an LU decomposition and solve of a large matrix. Not sure what a good resource these days would be; it's been many years since I worked on this. The JS experience wasn&#x2
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by etimberg 4y ago
Many years ago I helped write https://www.multisim.com It's a full SPICE based simulator done entirely clientside
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by etimberg 4y ago
Related, but my prediction is that by the end of the decade internet anonymity will be gone forever. Social will be the first place it falls with governments requiring SSO to a government run IdP that is verified by ID
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by etimberg 4y ago
WPF and XAML are by far the worst tech stack that I've had to work on during my career. It was only for 1 year because my team got added to a massively delayed project, but I still remember the horrors. The node tree could only ever ha
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by etimberg 4y ago
I live in Toronto. It hasn't been that cold or snowy. There have been 2-3 big snows and it's all melted in between
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by etimberg 4y ago
I think it's generally caused by a few issues: 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF, and JS UIs so this isn't a new phenomenon 2. It's
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by etimberg 4y ago
Cool! We did something similar when I was on the team that built multisim.com
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by etimberg 4y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-63953033 shows counts 7 and 8 as - Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering - Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Violate Campaign Finance Laws
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by etimberg 4y ago
Wow that was a heartbreaking read, especially 1 month into being a parent.
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by etimberg 4y ago
Same. I never used it anyway
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by etimberg 4y ago
Yeah, time to delete my account. I haven't used it in years, so now to ensure I don't use it again
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by etimberg 4y ago
Had a lot of problems with cs.github.com yesterday. Seems very unstable recently
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US bars 'advanced tech' firms from building China factories for 10 years(bbc.com)
8 points by etimberg 4y ago|0 comments
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by etimberg 4y ago
In general, after a nuclear plant is shut down, it has to be kept off for a few days to let Xe-135 completely decay. Quoting from Wikipedia [1] " After about 3 days of shutdown, the core can be assumed to be free of 135Xe, without it i
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by etimberg 4y ago
Agreed! Inverter based resources have the ability to respond within a few milliseconds whereas the next fastest response would be from hydro power and that could take as little as 10s. More conventional generation takes a lot longer. [1] ha
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by etimberg 4y ago
There are some pilot projects that have individual prosumers but they all operate at the distribution grid level. There's a concept coming called "DSO" or "Distribution System Operator" where the distribution grid i
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by etimberg 4y ago
No, this is certainly not the first such system. I helped build one at a previous job where we could even value each battery individually in response to near real-time distribution grid conditions. For example, if a transformer is nearing c
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by etimberg 4y ago
The cost increase in electricity is not due to land, it's due to actually needing to buy the electricity from the grid. Sure you can use solar and storage for each charging site, but then you transform the problem into a land one. Othe
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by etimberg 4y ago
Agreed! The data challenges are the biggest blocker IMO. It's so hard to know the quality of models even when received directly from manufacturers. Hopefully companies like SnapEDA can help with a lot of it though I think there needs t
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by etimberg 4y ago
Having worked in the EDA industry, though more on the electronics simulation side, there's a surprising amount of complexity in these tools. I think the complexity is such that it needs more than a single entity supporting it otherwise
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by etimberg 4y ago
I'm surprised this didn't touch on some of the other distribution grid ideas that have been piloted. At a past job I helped create software that valued power from DERs based on real-time grid conditions [1]. The idea was that some
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by etimberg 4y ago
In some ways this feels a lot like http://alt.js.org/
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by etimberg 4y ago
I think it's because redux is quite painful to use with very modern apps. Most of the time you need something like `redux-saga` or `redux-thunk` to deal with async side effects. I'm not sure which is the most popular today, but sa

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