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by grecy 2y ago
Brilliant. About a five year payback period, similar to a larger rooftop setup. I look forward to a future where every outdoor surface is made of solar panels .
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by grecy 2y ago
I didn’t say anything about simplifying the tax code, I said NZ ease of filing is something to aspire to.
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by grecy 2y ago
For a generation or two “recall” meant “take it in for an important fix”. If I have to take it in and be without my vehicle for x hours or days that is much more disruptive to my life and makes the vehicle less useful. When it updates overn
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by grecy 2y ago
> A 5kW solar system is about $25k to 35k in my area before batteries. Do you live on the moon? Earlier this year I installed a 7.8kW system in Canada for $13k CAD all in, inc the inverter and labor. (Then I got a $5k subsidy to bring
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by grecy 2y ago
“Recall” being a free software update that has already been pushed OTA. We really need a better word.
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by grecy 2y ago
It is something to aspire to, something to aim for. Once you know it has been done, then you know it’s possible. The US has vastly more resources to draw on than NZ, and benefits from economies of scale. The goal is constant improvement, no
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by grecy 2y ago
You should look at how other countries do professional sports. The teams are not franchises, they can not simply "buy" whatever players they want, etc.
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by grecy 2y ago
After working for a few years as a software engineer I just didn’t want to sit inside for my life. So I saved for two years, then quit and spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina. Hiking, camping, exploring. Basically doing whateve
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by grecy 2y ago
If you’re measuring money and the stuff it buys, I am very happy to be dead last by a very wide margin
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by grecy 2y ago
Sorry I wasn’t more clear. When it is sunny I go hiking. When it is snowing I go snowboarding. When the fall colours are out I go mountain biking. Then when it’s dark I write articles about that stuff, working the least amount possible.
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by grecy 2y ago
> It has a terrible potential to corrupt sport That ship sailed a looping time ago. Sports teams in the US are franchises. Like McDonalds. They exist to make profit. Lots of it. It has nothing to do with sport.
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by grecy 2y ago
Hitchhiking to Alaska is very cheap. In fact driving a 4x4 from Alaska to Argentina only cost me the same as it did to live in a city and go to work everyday ~$1200 per month for everything
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by grecy 2y ago
Along similar lines, I never really pictured what being a software engineer would be like. I like solving problems and working with smart people, but sitting inside all day at a computer just isn’t for me. Sunny outside? Sit inside all day.
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by grecy 2y ago
So it seems like the magic here is the "patcher". I'm looking at the repo [1], but it doesn't give any technical details on the what/how of what it does. Does anyone know more? [1] https://git.sr.ht/
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by grecy 2y ago
Statement from the FAA directly: "The FAA is aware an anomaly occurred during the SpaceX NASA Crew-9 mission that launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on September 28. The incident involved the Falcon 9 second st
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by grecy 2y ago
‘Slight under burn’ on the second stage sounds like it may have run out of fuel..
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by grecy 2y ago
I assume you would cut power to theses big players so that stuff like A/C, freezers and heart rate monitors keep working for regular folk. While your suggestion is the morally correct thing to do, you’re forgetting the other option mak
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by grecy 2y ago
Space man Elon bad.
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by grecy 2y ago
I worked at a telco that served a few tens of thousands of customers in a huge remote region. There are so many systems held together with baling wire it was rare to go a day without a significant outage, usually multiple. Everyone who was
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by grecy 2y ago
My last company offered me a “promotion” that included more accountability, mentoring young staff and on-call with zero clarity of what that looked like. Zero compensation change. Needless to say I declined and left soon after.
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by grecy 2y ago
> If suddenly a massive number of cars are stolen, that's the government's problem. I have no idea why you jump to that conclusion. The problem is clearly the person breaking the law. But anyway, going with what you said... &
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by grecy 2y ago
For their 3rd Birthday the daughter of a friend just wanted to ride the bus. So all our friends and their kids got on the right bus at the right time and place so we were all on the bus by the time the Birthday girl got on. We had a riot of
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by grecy 2y ago
> It's fair to say that a company which makes cars that can be stolen with only a USB socket bears significant culpability for car thefts. WHAT? I don’t have my wallet on a chain, do I have some responsibility if I get pickpockete
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by grecy 2y ago
And it will get a lot better quickly. Ten years from now it will not be slop.
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by grecy 2y ago
Eh, like everything in life you can choose what you spend your time on and what you ignore. There have always been human writers I don’t waste my time on, and now there are AI writers in the same category. I don’t care. I will just do what
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by grecy 2y ago
Plenty of people pay money for smart tvs, Netflix, etc.
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by grecy 2y ago
Here’s the deal: if anyone cold-calls you ever , there is a very good chance it’s a scam.
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by grecy 2y ago
Sure, and some of those things were made up thousands of years ago and have proven to work well since. Others were made up in the last 30 years by global corporations trying to extract maximum profit as fast as possible, future be damned.
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by grecy 2y ago
.. and plenty of urinals are completely water free...
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by grecy 2y ago
Whenever I’m in the states and see the urinal “American Standard” 1 gpf (gallon per flush) I cry in Australian.

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