grandinj

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by grandinj 6y ago
It's pretty easy - the fireworks were probably a pretty small shipment, and were loaded along with a bunch of other shipments into an anjoining warehouse. I realise this seems weird to people living in a country which has all sorts of
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by grandinj 6y ago
Probably because "they" is a group of people/teams and knowledge is not evenly distributed, nor is responsibility concentrated in the right places. This is a classic example of "normal failure" and I am sure will jo
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by grandinj 6y ago
SQL was designed by COBOL / NATURAL people and was intended to be used by "normal people". That was part of a larger movement at the time to make programming more accessible. Unfortunately (a) that experiment mostly failed (
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by grandinj 6y ago
Sorry, don't remember, was a throwawy project
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by grandinj 6y ago
yeah. In my situation (a) the file was 10x RAM (b) when this library parses a JSON it creates an in-memory tree representing the file which is approx 16x the size of the JSON file. Consequently it swapped so hard I was never going to finish
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by grandinj 6y ago
not when you exceed the size of the pagefile/swapfile :-) But it's a good project, otherwise.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Just noting that this library requires that you are able to hold your expanded document in memory. I needed to parse a very very large JSON document and pull out a subset of data, which didn't work, because it exceeded available RAM.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Not necesary to make that requirement. The way stuff like this works, is that with a fairly simple set of end-point power controland some pretty simple monitoring, and then some central smart software, you can effect pretty dramatic improve
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by grandinj 6y ago
I could be entirely wrong as to the substance(s) involved :-) I'm quoting from a memory of an article I read about 6 months ago, sorry. googling for "specific heat high energy storage material" seems to indicate that rock-typ
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by grandinj 6y ago
Thats not a narrow range at all for a very well insulated fridge.
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by grandinj 6y ago
You heat up a big block of concrete during the day. Insulated of course. Then at night you run water through it, and pipe that (now hot) water to radiator around your house. Already being deployed in Germany.
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by grandinj 6y ago
We're in the process of doing that - our design team periodically moves things around, and tries to do that. But as you note, we have very limited resources, so a lot of the design teams suggestions get parked. We're also fighting
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by grandinj 6y ago
Try the latest releases, and maybe try switching themes. We have quite an active UI design team, but for every person like you who hates the "old" look, there is another person that hates the "new" looks. <shrug> w
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by grandinj 6y ago
(LO Dev) what is LO missing?
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by grandinj 6y ago
That would be true on another continent. But when your neighbour has an economy 100x the size of yours, and hands your cartels several billion dollars a year, you really have not realistic chance at all.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Mexico’s only real chance is to raise a middle finger to the USA and legalize drugs in their own country. How can you enforce law and order when a foreign country is funding criminals in your country with more money than exists in your own
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by grandinj 6y ago
The IP is mostly in the production process, not the circuit itself. They need to get (relative to logic chips) very low failure rates to turn a profit, which requires very extensive tuning of the manufacturing process.
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by grandinj 6y ago
My theory is that there is too much money seeking to be invested, because too much of current society revolves around time-shifting money (which is essentially what investing does).
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by grandinj 6y ago
(LO-Dev here) It is one of those "death by a thousand cuts" situations. We have fixed a ton of issues, but there are still a ton more. Sometimes the formatting changes between versions of Word. Sometimes the formatting is off be
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by grandinj 6y ago
Executive summary - the LibreOffice ecosystem is trying to find a path that ensures and improves the commercial viability of the various commercial players (who account for >90% of the actual programming work that goes into LO), whilst r
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by grandinj 6y ago
Ouch! :-) Yeah, it's the unloved step-child of the LibreOffice suite, we fix stuff sometimes, but there is no commercial user of it to fund development
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by grandinj 6y ago
LibreOffice Base is an Access-type program
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by grandinj 6y ago
The idea is to entice Enterprise and similar customers to pay for support, spending a small fraction of the money they save from not buying MS, to help keep the LibreOffice eco-system going. So still much cheaper than MS :-)
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by grandinj 6y ago
(LO Dev) We actually have quite an active ui-design sub-group, which tries it's best to refresh the look and feel. Feel free to join in :-)
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by grandinj 6y ago
(LO Dev) Unfortunately, mac has the least interested programmers available to debug issues, and there is some weird interaction going on with our rendering on macOS that we can't track down.
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by grandinj 6y ago
probably a combination of DSP and deliberate peaks and troughs in the chamber design.
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by grandinj 6y ago
More like - that community leader takes an unbelievable amount of flack and is still generately polite and helpful in most of his interactions. How about we cut them a little slack for occassionally being human?
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by grandinj 6y ago
But working with fluorine compounds is seriously dangerous, and the process requires literally hundreds of centrifuges working day and night for months to produce the required amounts of 238
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by grandinj 6y ago
Baltimore is a basket case, so no surprise there. LA is probably too big for a single company. Normally when these tenders fail it is because the terms need to be tweaked. Probably want you really want is simply to allow individual suburbs
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by grandinj 6y ago
That's great for techies like us, but terrible for the 1000x more people who want stuff to "just work". As an example, Windows partially exposes that with my current setup and it's a right pain, when some apps (e.g. Zoom

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