intrepidhero

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by intrepidhero 5y ago
> For example, pull-request workflows currently require too many manual steps. Supported but not great I guess?
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
When I tell people I swim, they're always like, "Oh wow! That is so good for you." But they don't understand, I'm not fast or a strong swimmer or anything. It's cold, I struggle with my form, I'm slow, I c
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
That's what I've finally settled on in my mind. Since we use imaginary numbers to model and measure real phenomenon, they're not imaginary in the sense that I would usually use that word. There's got to be a better name.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
HN's favorite historian discusses blockchain and NFTs in relation to state power. Best line for my money: > "In this sense, any cryptocurrency faces the same problem all non-governmental actors face: the larger you become and t
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Those rainbow colored DIP switches are sweet! I've got think of a use for them now. https://www.newark.com/erg-components/sds-8-014/dip-switch-8...
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I'm from the US and I was shocked they needed 400A plus propane. We draw more current then you guys because our voltage is lower but still, 200A services are pretty standard for large rural homes.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
And the house has wood siding with a flat roof and grass growing on the roof! Yikes!
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Raskin did ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface ). Good book but that was one point I disagreed with.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I was confused by that statement and the sibling comment that a Dyson swarm would block visible light but not IR and Tabby's star seems to dim in IR. So is it dimming all wavelengths or not? Is it dimming some visible (but not all) and
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm has a neat set of pictures, history, and altimeter data from the Soviet Venera program. I find the pictures from the surface very eerie and awe-inspiring. These seemingly boring
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
And I think the heart of it is that most people working in this space want that. They want the niche back.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
How are the leaves? I've let kale overwinter and it gets pretty tall but any new leaves in the spring are too fibrous and tough for my taste. I prefer collards in most cases. I'd be interested in what cultivar you grow.
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When I first read the headline I thought it meant people were stealing trains and using them to threaten public safety. I'm glad it's not about that but certainly a more exciting story.
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That is a really interesting thought. To me, this: > desperately running from some profound dislike of themselves sounds awfully close to a human universal. The folks in the article are literally running from the ordinary and I think par
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I like the relevant quote from Pascal, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" mainly because it's allows me to feel smugly superior while procrastinating work.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
It's a long read alright, but beautifully written and with a lot to unpack. One of the bolded quotes: > If the soul is like a garden, then it is most often something we prune for the world, worried about the way in which it might gr
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
exercism.org (formerly .io) is a community encouraged to both learn and mentor. I'm not affiliated, just a user who has drifted into and out of the community in both roles over the years.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Yikes. For ages 18-45, since heart disease and cancer still lead overall but still yikes. https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/23/facebook-p...
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I thought of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trimotor , corrugated but as you suspected, aluminum.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Neat! Similarly, I've been using ddcutil on Linux and a stupid python script on Windows to switch video inputs. Janky as it is, it's more reliable than any KVM I've ever used, and I've tested quite a few. Now for my 2022
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
That is terrifyingly awesome! I feel like everyone involved should be wearing helmets. In other words, that project is all the reasons I became an engineer. Well done! Next step: motorized wheels and it follows you.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
This got linked in another front page story. Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering. > The Unix philosophy of “do one thing well” doesn’t actually work that well. Dan Luu explains this better than I could. Usually The Unix Philosop
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The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)(danluu.com)
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Sounds like it has some nice features. Bulk rename is one I'd use right away. My biggest gripe ATM with explorer is that it rearranges the tree while it's opening. At first my favorites are at the top and in focus but about 500ms
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Efficiency drops as the temperature delta goes down. The trick is maintaining that difference. That section of the article is a bit misleading. Even really expensive stoves are only about 95% efficient. You need some heat loss out the chimn
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I think Seebeck junctions are neat. A friend has one sitting on his wood stove powering a little fan. But you're not going replace a solar system. Example systems in the article produce 10s of watts. If you're running your stove a
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Firm fixed contracts seem like the way to go, until you try it. What happens is you get a bunch of contractors in a bidding war trying to undercut each other until the actual bid is below cost. That's not sustainable so what happens th
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
Of all the virtues and vices we humans possess, the stubborn pursuit of a singular, outlandish idea may just be my favorite.
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Definitely. But at the time it was probably the least bad option.
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by intrepidhero 5y ago
I've been thinking a lot about that too. I wonder if we could have tools where the primary artifact is some kind of AST (a concrete syntax tree maybe?) that the tools translate into the language of the programmers choice. Seems sort of

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