gertlex

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by gertlex 1y ago
FWIW I found the report's summary (a few days ago when this was also discussed) essential for clarifying for me what the linked "article" was talking about regarding "anode overhang" and "edge alignment".
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by gertlex 1y ago
I think your comment and claims would be much better if you at least gave some example spitball numbers.
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by gertlex 1y ago
Kayak.com does it... it's very much a UX choice of whether to show combinations of flights at a given "level" (economy/main/1st class) or instead dedicate the space to showing the prices at all levels, and only show
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by gertlex 1y ago
Oh yeah, definitely. Great for my own "throwaway" or rushed projects that I want to revisit, too :D
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by gertlex 1y ago
This issue with READMEs in particular has driven me nuts for the decade I've been doing ROS related robotics stuff. So many repos where the only surface clue (i.e. before diving into the code) of what it does is your interpretation of
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by gertlex 1y ago
What I think of as the classic teardown style by iFixit is not a service manual, e.g.: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+2+Tear...
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by gertlex 1y ago
Ok, seems I rubbed the wrong way there; I was not trying to take away from that key point of your post.
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by gertlex 1y ago
Something called Nexstar, which owns a subset of ABC whatevers was maybe first? I stopped trying to understand it after a while; notably, the yahoo article which (I skimmed/searched before I came to HN) doesn't mention this I gues
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by gertlex 1y ago
Thanks for the numbers! I had no idea taxes were such a large fraction elsewhere. Good to know/consider. I'm most familiar with California. (and actually can't give a % that is taxes offhand) After the first year of having PV
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by gertlex 1y ago
Curious where you are roughly located; Does that 80% include the distribution of the electricity? Should I interpret the 20-25% returns as being, your annual savings on the utility bill are 20-25% of the cost of your PV install?
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by gertlex 1y ago
Depends somewhat on if your hardware moves around or not :)
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by gertlex 1y ago
I wonder what the relative fraction of those doing software development that also have to touch hardware is.
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by gertlex 1y ago
I'm not a font person, but the font on the article site makes the zeros look like lower case o; feels like a decision trolling those with a peeve about fonts where 0O look the same. (this was particularly noticeable in the comments wh
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by gertlex 1y ago
Sure, but not relevant to a post countering > Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.
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by gertlex 1y ago
Gotcha! When going back to sanity check before my comment, I clearly was skimming too lightly to pick up on that.
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by gertlex 1y ago
While the bug is how soon the cutoff occurs and the prompt is shown... Comparing the dialogs; did the 15-day expiration dialog have a "purchase" button at the time of the bug? (its screenshot in the write-up does not.) Making the
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by gertlex 1y ago
Only 2 GB iso! Smaller than Ubuntu! ... I remember when Ubuntu 14.04 was 1 GB ISOs... oh that was a decade ago :(
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by gertlex 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Wild to me I didn't know this external lock button was a thing (my car's 16 years old... but I drive a rental a couple times/year...).
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by gertlex 1y ago
I'm probably completely missing the (presumably relatively common) scenarios you have in mind where stolen cars are used for violent crimes. (I'm assuming reckless joyriding isn't what you're referring to as "violen
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by gertlex 1y ago
To offer an anecdote: I've been used to doing `:e!` with vim. I recently finally had a reason to move to nvim... and it's been auto-updating my buffers when I do stuff in `aider`. Very much a, "oh, ok that's nice!"
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by gertlex 1y ago
I also am a fan, and find it much easier to successfully suggest byobu to others with its simple "F-key to action" mapping of common actions. I work with a bunch of non-developers, so the lower barrier to use is important :)
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by gertlex 1y ago
Aww, they ~~paywalled~~ login-walled(?) the calculator since I last used it (my saved link of https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... also redirects to your 2024 version)
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by gertlex 1y ago
What I think they're referring to is their sheer size (ratio of customers or $ invested to staff) has meant historically the annual % fees on mutual funds and other investments have been lower than at other institutions. It's... l
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by gertlex 1y ago
I seem to recall a bunch of folks lost jobs around that time. Hard to invest in that situation. Extra so as a new grad without a job.
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by gertlex 1y ago
I'm also like this. Have never been like this with email though (but email is much higher volume/more individual things to click on... and less interesting :D)
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by gertlex 1y ago
And I suspect there's plenty of money at the top to profit off this, reducing the likelihood of such declines, too.
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by gertlex 1y ago
Especially with academic papers where publish dates are often not easy to find in a super-quick skim. (there's a copyright 2007 at the bottom of the linked page, which isn't explicitly "published in 2007" in my mind)
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by gertlex 1y ago
Agreed, I'd add to the statement, "you're basically screwed, often, without investing a ton of time (e.g. weekends)" Figuring out 'make' errors when I was bad at C on microcontrollers a decade ago? (still am) C
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by gertlex 1y ago
I meant and left out a key word; "most recent". Whoops! I'm used to seeing yearly or every-other-year streetview updates for locations I look at regularly. That said, might be mixing up my broader impression with the interval
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by gertlex 1y ago
Aside to the offtopic: I'm surprised the google street view footage is 13 years old.

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