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   by etimberg 6y ago

   https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/ A python implementation of the circuit breaker pattern. Not a new concept, but I did innovate in how the breaker decides to open. I realized that with a normal breaker
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   Lots of these have been abandoned in the wild. One caused an incident in Lia, Georgia in 2001. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...
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   Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video](bbc.com)

   478 points by etimberg 6y ago|251 comments
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   Half the UI uses textile and half the UI uses Markdown. Shipping two parsers & renderers for the app makes it a lot bigger.
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   Is what you consider a driveway actually a driveway legally speaking? In rural areas even if you own all the property around the roadway, the road itself might be a public easement.
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   If you held any other foreign currency you would have to track it like this. For example, I live in Canada and if I bought USD and then spent it over the course of a year in Canada I would be responsible for the capital gain tracked on each
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   Why do you believe there should be no capital gains on it?
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   I'm surprised this doesn't mention things like the poor performance, or the fact that some screens expect text in textile format whereas others use markdown
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   by etimberg 6y ago

   I hiked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundy_Footpath in highschool. Was definitely a fun experience and not too challenging.
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I'm not entirely sure why there needs to be a hierarchy of degrees. There are many disciplines that can lead to careers in software, and IMO they all have different strengths and weaknesses. I come from a very traditional electrical en
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I assume they're using something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux to make it a hard RT system
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I haven't found this years aoc to be too mathematical either. It seems more parsing related, i.e. extract all this info from a line of text is the hardest part.
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I believe the competency at time of death requirement is being changed due to the existing limitations being ruled unconstitutional. Per [0], "This Bill would amend the Criminal Code to allow MAID for eligible persons who wish to pursu
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    What about something like https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs ?
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    In a past job i tried hard to replace an Access database file with sqlite for a c++ desktop application. One big win from sqlite was on the testing front. You can just open an in-memory sqlite database and test against that without worrying
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    Currently writing software for electrical engineers. One example that comes to mind is graph theory. I use it frequently to answer questions about the data I'm looking at. Imagine an electrical distribution network where there are 3 ph
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    Cool, thanks for the clarification!
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    Are you sure? Deck.gl depends on react-map-gl [0] which depends on mapbox-gl [1] 0. https://github.com/visgl/deck.gl/blob/79699960e7e24daef11074... 1. https://github.com/visgl/react-map-g
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I guess we should expect to see a fork of the v1 codebase?
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    A lot of people, myself included, have been quite hesitant to work remotely until now. I've been pleasantly surprised how well it's gone and would consider a remote position in the future but I think it'd have to be a fully r
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    There are two big issues with just having residential consumers pay the spot market price. 1: not all if the costs are energy related. In fact, the cost to build and maintain the transmission and distribution systems is quite substantial. B
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    A lot of renewables are connected into the distribution grid and the markets in general run on the transmission grid. Every jurisdiction is different, but in general the transmission system is run by a neutral party who is usually known as
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    Agreed, I've seen lots of posts about the learning curve so I went in expecting a lot of pain. I've been pleasantly surprised so far.
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    The DEW line has been partially gone for a while.[0] I do recall driving to visit my grandparents in northern Ontario in the 90s and we'd pass one of the old Pinetree Line radar stations. You could see it off on a hill from the highway
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    Something that helps here is distinguishing between bugs & features. As a maintainer of an open source project, I frequently have to say 'no' to features. Usually this takes the form of encouraging a plugin that implements the
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I counted a total of 9. I went back and labelled them as spam. https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo... To be honest, I was expecting a lot worse. There were a few that we allowed in that we
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to deal with a handful of spam PRs this year.
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    An article a few years ago triggered me to do this. I switched to Migadu based on a recommendation I found here on HN. It works reasonably well and my only complaint is that the spam filter is overzealous at times. Another pain point has be
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    It's happened more than once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident is one famous case
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    by etimberg 6y ago

    As an example, see this image of the UTM zones and look at the zones labelled in red. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Universa...