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by gehsty 10mo ago
To be blunt you do not get it from eating cookies in sand. You get it from ingesting pinworm eggs, you ingest them by someone touching their bum (where the worms lay eggs) and then touching something that you then touch and touch your face&
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by gehsty 10mo ago
Asymptomatic infestation is very common… no one likes to talk about pinworms but it’s pretty likely any kids you meet have it.
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by gehsty 10mo ago
https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/threadworm/background-informa... NICE estimate 20-30% of kids 4-11 have an infestation. I have three kids in this bracket and yeh this tracks
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by gehsty 10mo ago
A Junior Dev is not just for Christmas, it’s for life. But more seriously are there CEOs out there who think they can replace the people starting off in their industry with AI? Who do the think will be the senior devs in 5-10yrs?
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by gehsty 10mo ago
On the cables I worked on they would use a separate fibre, but power cables tended to overspec the number of fibers massively so was never an issue. Some even have two bundles of fibers. A supplier played whale song they recorded from cable
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by gehsty 10mo ago
A note to just be a bit careful passively monitoring ocean acoustics, it’s easy to fall foul of military / security forces, they don’t like anything that can fingerprint a vessel. I worked on DAS acoustic monitoring for subsea power ca
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by gehsty 10mo ago
You can do 1GW with a single 525kV hvdc bundle (maybe 300mm across). The market seems to be settling on a 5 cable setup and 2GW power transmission (Tenet & other European TSOs have a 2GW Platform build out…).
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by gehsty 10mo ago
From Gruber’s footnotes - both company’s average IQ increased.
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by gehsty 10mo ago
It certainly generated more revenue, so this is not surprising?
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by gehsty 11mo ago
Only in the size of model it can run, not speed of token generation.
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by gehsty 11mo ago
I guess what I mean is that if the likes of huge defence contractors / automotive industry etc put weight into developing a open kernel and tooling at a volume similar to that of paying for licenses to Autodesk, then they could build t
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by gehsty 11mo ago
I’d really like to see something like blender come for the 3D CAD industry, at the moment it feels like the only people who would lose out are AutoDesk. The amount of money that flows in and out of 3D cad (as subscription and then value cre
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by gehsty 11mo ago
Blame the workers, it’s absolute bullshit (apologies for language). My view is privatization opened up the British market to globalization, and fundamentally once everyone is trying to get things for the cheapest price the domestic supply c
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by gehsty 11mo ago
Eat healthier (less processed foods, more fruit and veg, healthy carbs, low sugar and alcohol), exercise regularly and get enough sleep. Take a blood pressure measurement every week / month or so. Track your weight. React if either sta
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by gehsty 1y ago
A fun thing to do is remember why you liked the low end, for me and coffee it was instant coffee with too much sugar, in a big mug, on a building site. It hits totally different to a fancy coffee. I can still drink that now and enjoy it as
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by gehsty 1y ago
I don’t like the friction of forcing a specific messaging app or protocol on people so just default to what everyone is using (WhatsApp) TBH I don’t really get the moral outcry over using it (or any other messaging app).
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by gehsty 1y ago
20 miles is a long way to move power, on land you have huge issues over getting permits for construction as it’s so disruptive, offshore specialist vessels that serve a global existing supply chain.
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by gehsty 1y ago
I don’t think that’s possible with large scale power infrastructure, and specifically grid infrastructure is so tightly regulated. Closest that I’m aware of was TSMC buying the output of an entire offshore windfarm for 25yrs (largest power
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by gehsty 1y ago
Some more context, Nuclear power stations can be up to 2GW, offshore windfarms are seemingly hitting a plateau at ~1.5GW, individual turbines in operations now are 15MW. Grids are already strained, 525kV DC systems can transmit ~2GW of powe
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by gehsty 1y ago
I cook every day, and I’m also a mechanical engineer, I’ve never understood where the sideways force comes from. I’ve also never had a board slide away from me. Tbh I thought this came from chefs chopping on stainless steel worktop. I’d lik
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by gehsty 1y ago
People pay for how they look (which is fine) not what they do.
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by gehsty 1y ago
True, I’m very interested in understanding how secure the open source alternative is, I struggle to believe it is as secure as there are so many layers, and the surface seems much bigger. I guess if you are worried about being hacked then t
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by gehsty 1y ago
Does this mean that open source is more important than privacy to people of this mindset? Again from my layman’s perspective I would expect the hardened iPhone, using iMessage and key verification, to be more secure.
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by gehsty 1y ago
As a layman in terms of security and operating systems, is this actually more secure or private than using iOS in lockdown mode and communicating via iMessage? Feels OTT for anything you might talk about in a personal relationship
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by gehsty 2y ago
I took this as he did t have a valid opinion on screen sizes, or one HN would want to read. “ Does that mean his take on smartphone screen size or Blue Sky vs Threads is anything HN in general needs to hear? Probably not.”
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by gehsty 2y ago
I don’t understand the criticism - he is a journalist who has released very impactful software in his career. I don’t see why HN wouldn’t want to read his take on it, I think you could make the same statement about any career journalist?
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by gehsty 2y ago
He created markdown, does that not tick the programmer / technologist box? Few people will create anything quite as impactful.
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by gehsty 2y ago
No expert but there is segmentation in terms of network costs to generators (tnuos), which come out of the CFD generators are awarded, so while bill payers have a single cost the utilities that generate their power do feel the effect of whe
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by gehsty 2y ago
That’s like saying we need a policy where every country agrees to be friends. If cables are cut as part of some clandestine operation by who evers security forces, they aren’t going to stop it because of some treaty. (There are all ready gu
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by gehsty 2y ago
Living in abject chaos and constantly being surprised how little sleep you actually need.

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