jaggederest

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   by jaggederest 1y ago

   There are at least a dozen new databases in the market making decent money that were started this decade. They're just not competing with Oracle.
2. 692.▲
   by jaggederest 1y ago

   Reminds me a lot of AngelList, which was initially nominally just a mailing list that connected angels and early stage startups, but eventually found that the restriction was in special purpose vehicles and automated the hard legal work of
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   by jaggederest 1y ago

   I treat everything I find in code review as something to integrate into the prompts. Eventually, on a given project, you end up getting correct PRs without manual intervention. That's what they mean. You still have to review your code
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   by jaggederest 1y ago

   Your intuition is wrong here. Check out the Kelly criterion and do a little math - by my math, when you have modest personal assets <$1m, if you expect a 200x return from today, and you think there's a 1% chance that'll happen,
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   by jaggederest 1y ago

   I've always been confused by the insistence on storage. Saturate 100% of the daytime loads with solar, curtail at peak, it's still cheaper than just about any other source. Save all the hydro power, gas, and other standby sources
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   by jaggederest 1y ago

   My family is in this group. We are poor absorbers of vitamin D, some of my elder relatives need 5 times the "safe upper limit" to have healthy blood levels. As long as you're checking your blood values routinely (and for both
7. 697.▲
   by jaggederest 1y ago

   The best policy is to have a lock that is resistant to cutting and destruction, with a trivial key. Nobody tries to pick a lock, and if they do, they're winning. Most or all breakins happen through brute force not technical sophisticat
8. 698.▲
   by jaggederest 1y ago

   Agreed, watching the rate of changes to timezone databases will rapidly disabuse you of the notion of any constant. It's rare that a day goes by without an update to some definition somewhere, which is astounding.
9. 699.▲
   by jaggederest 1y ago

   https://www.blm.gov/visit/sunstone-collection-area Among others, but this one is one that is well known among gemhounds/lapidarists.
10. 700.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    I suspect for extremely large batteries or seasonal shifting (summer->winter) flow batteries will still have a place, but I could be wrong.
11. 701.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Well we're probably going to see flow batteries take over in fixed position arrays which will mitigate the risk of fire pretty substantially, being low density and liquid. It's challenging though not impossible to light salt water
12. 702.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    This has been my impetus to do Home Assistant things and I already can tell you that I'm going to spend far more time setting it up and tweaking it than I actually save, but false economy is a tinkerer's best friend. It's pre
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Only for Earth. We already have materials that can do it on the Moon (Zylon, for example), though not with great tether-to-payload ratios (200:1 or more), and Mars isn't too huge of a stretch (huge like the mass of the tether, which wo
14. 704.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Even the Maverick is GVWR 5100. The original Ranger was around 3200 GVWR, which these days almost makes it a kei truck.
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    You also have to charge a fee/pigouvian tax on the renewals. When renewal is free, there's a substantial deadweight drag on society as a result from everyone renewing by default.
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    But it's basically the same size as the F-150 from the 80s, and double the size of the Ford Ranger from that era. By no means is it a compact truck any more.
17. 707.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Wait until you find out about the proper trucks that use a 7 to 15 liter turbocharged i6 and get 5-8 mpg.
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    The businessman and the fisherman seems relevant https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the...
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Also "safe" and "unsafe" have very specific meanings, not the more widely used meanings. It's not inherently dangerous to call unsafe code that is well written, it's really more a statement about who is taking
20. 710.▲
    by jaggederest 1y ago

    > the time and effort to process those PDFs occasionally exceeded the revenue from the entire transaction with that counterparty. I'm interested in what the conditions were that didn't let you reject those kind of transactions,
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    We've also been doing machining in the modern sense for at least a hundred and fifty years. The GPU as a concept is about 30 years old, and in the modern sense much younger than that. Innovation occurs on a sigmoid curve, we're st
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Ultimately this is what management is at least nominally supposed to do: decide values, set standards, and ensure that people down the chain are strategically aligned and have an environment where everyone is working together. That includes
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    By analogy, I'm reminded of a skit that we did in school: A man, on his hands and knees, searching diligently for something on the ground. Another man, walking by, stops to help search. After a few moments he asks "what are we sea
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Dang and the other moderators here are incredibly scrupulous. If you browse with show dead on, and find an account that is posting regularly but banned, and go back through their history, you'll almost always find multiple warnings and
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Chris Marshall lists substantial time at Nikon on his LinkedIn. I suspect you've probably heard of them.
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    This is really a non-problem. Curtailment is easy and doesn't cost anything, it just needs a slightly better feedback mechanism than the current grid supplies, but honestly even a 24hr timer and ammeter would do it.
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Well, many years ago you could use CFEngine, Puppet, or Chef, or Ansible, or Salt/SaltStack, and then later Terraform, Otter, Pulumi, and now we have Nix, and a Terraform fork as OpenTofu. Not all of those tools do identical jobs but t
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    I wasn't deeply involved in the Ember.js ecosystem as a user or maintainer, but the impression I got was that, for frontend purposes, clearer abstractions and simpler code was much more critical than "batteries included" fram
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    And not only do they explain, they'll confabulate motivations and reasoning and continually deny that they don't understand. There's a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLzP1VCANo
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    by jaggederest 1y ago

    Tagging on for something irrelevant but very silly: https://chatgpt.com/share/fc175496-2d6e-4221-a3d8-1d82fa8496... 4o spirals incredibly when asked to make a prolog quine. For an added bonus, ask it to "read it a