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by jakewins 3y ago
You can pull up at MO Wind and Solar off of MO 60 and grab 600W panels for $195/ea today: https://windandsolar.com/risen-595-watt-mono-solar-panel-bif... That's ballpark where you say, about $65/200W. They al
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by jakewins 3y ago
Yeah agree - if a website doesn’t respond I immediately open google in another tab; if google doesn’t respond I blame my internet and swap to my phone. We’re all on redundant internet connections now.
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Thanks for adding that context!
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That last paragraph is different though, it’s using stem cells to make liver cells, not using the patients liver cells directly.. I have no idea why not, but my wife does a lot of work growing different cell types from stem cells, and my un
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Yeah this just seemed like people making rude (“designed by monkeys”, really HN?) unspecific statements about a standard while the examples were about a library they didn’t specify..
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My experience with using Datadog at (some) scale was that they focused on making it really, really easy to integrate their agent with your apps, and then once they had a large base of users with high switching costs they started rapidly ra
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by jakewins 3y ago
Maybe I’ve not used DuckDB enough but: How would you set it up to consume, say, a Kafka stream, apply some transformations or windowed aggregates and continuously output the result? In my experience DuckDB is a batch tool, vs this thing whi
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by jakewins 3y ago
It makes a lot of sense for them to try though - the obvious reaction here is to switch to VSCode, devs using JetBrains can’t wait for Oracle to fix this. I imagine JB are churning a lot of users because of this
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by jakewins 3y ago
This is a different use case - DuckDB is large queries over your entire dataset; Arroyo is continuous queries executing over a live data stream. So if you have a stream of sensor data from a bunch of IoT devices, you might use Arroyo to run
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by jakewins 3y ago
Yeah the trick is if they can lock you into a stack that sits everywhere in your apps, it’s very expensive to switch vendors, letting them extract high rents. This is what happened with the Datadog agents. In that context, OTEL is an exis
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by jakewins 3y ago
To deliver a cross vendor narrow spec , you mean? Given my experience with Datadogs pricing lock-in-and-switch, yeah 100% I’d rather run agents that allow me to pick the collection backend than another tool from Datadog.
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But this is a vendor specific forwarder? Isn’t this just Datadogs attempt at slowing down community focus on OTEL?
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What aspects were you missing from OTEL? We swapped the agent side out from New Relic to OTEL in NodeJS, .NET and Python - I’ve not found any major missing feature? Or are you thinking more on the UI/analysis/collection side?
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Separate logical databases, within the same RDBMs, so sharing CPU, disks, RAM etc
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The problem - conceptually - is made much simpler this way; we make use of this at work. However you will still have shared resource problems - some rogue query destroys IOPS in one tenant now ends up bringing down all tenants etc. There ar
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by jakewins 3y ago
I think this is just a thin wrapper around GPT-4 or similar? Parents I know have replaced colouring books by just asking GPT-4 , and the colouring pages it generates look exactly like the example outputs here.
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by jakewins 3y ago
Agreed! I’ve similarly had good experiences with Rust on the rp2040, using embassy which builds on the rust HALs.
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by jakewins 3y ago
Not sure what the poster above was thinking of, but it seems kinda the same as every other language that’s adopted it - powerful, but footguns abound. I ran some async C# in a debugger - in Rider - the other month, and the debugger just goe
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by jakewins 3y ago
This was part of some “testing in production” type scheme? Are there any talks or blog posts on how y’all wired this up, lessons learned etc?
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Germany cut grid balancing services in half while increasing wind+solar 5x(linkedin.com)
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by jakewins 3y ago
The thread that proposed this change may be a better source of context: https://lobste.rs/s/ttmyvf David mentions as an aside “this place has other mechanisms for dealing with [spam]”. A lot of the complexities around
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by jakewins 3y ago
One of my first tasks at Equipmentshare was automating invoice generation, and we did a lot of that basically pair programming with one of the back office specialists that did that work manually - it was super, super fun, we made really goo
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by jakewins 3y ago
> Python and TypeScript by definition don't have a concept of const generics the way it applies to C++ templates or Rust. Can you help guide me where I'm misunderstanding the type system aspect of const generics that's mis
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by jakewins 3y ago
Sorry - can you put the snark aside and answer the question then, it seems given my lack of understanding here as a mere Go simpleton it should be trivial for you. The question I responded to said: "Better static analysis, for one.&quo
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We have services in Python and C# at $dayjob, and my experience is that Python has mostly left C# behind here - what is something you can express in the C# type system that MyPy cannot statically check? Conversely, I find myself constrained
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The author is ex Microsoft, Google and was a senior staff eng at Twitter; i don’t know them but my experience with their blogging over the last decade is that they seem generally very well informed. To me it seems unlikely “the penny hasn’t
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by jakewins 3y ago
I’m being unnecessarily confrontational because I’m having a bad day, sorry, that’s not helpful. I would say this: I agree with you that massive faceless monopolies with no accountability are terrible, and often a direct consequence of econ
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Sorry I’m having a crap day; you’re totally right there’s a ton of gradients between “one mega factory makes all t-shirts” and “we all make clothes ourselves with hand made cotton thread.” I think my argument was mostly like - don’t throw o
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Tailored vs ready-made is a rounding error in the economies of scale involved in making clothes - both will use factory made fabric, dyed with factory dyes, woven from factory thread, made from factory farm cotton, grown from factory fertil
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by jakewins 3y ago
> In the sense of benefit to the overall economy, to the society in which that economy sits, or to humanity in general, virtually all economies of scale are actually harmful You had me until here. Economies of scale in commodities is t

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