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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This is really great, thank you for doing this. Tangentially, while browsing through your blog I found this: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/machined-pen/the_plan.jp... This illustrates beautifully an idea tha
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The academic paper analogy is interesting, because code and papers are meant to do the exact same thing : communicate ideas to colleagues. Code written by a small group of competent programmers with a clear, shared vision is therefore a lo
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50HP, 600mph, Suicide drone with 2000 km range(forums.x-plane.org)
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Two dump trucks can't pass eachother in a 5m tunnel. That'll put a restrictive upper bound on material removal rate which isn't present in the larger tunnel.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Seems like the ex dodged a bullet
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> no good reason for you application environment not to query the invariants from there and test or prove your code around them As a developer who primarily builds backend web applications in high level languages like golang and java I r
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It's so great to see this: > I took my first baby steps in Blender back in 2017 I believe I took mine in 2001-2002. Coincidentally, this was my introduction to the concept of "open source" software. The idea that such a po
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I've often been tempted to make an "id service" also because you can potentially get compact integer ids that are globally unique. That'll likely save you more than a factor of 2 in your ID fields given varint encoding,
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I prefer MangoDB from an operational standpoint. But I'll concede that, as you point out, MongoDB is after all WebScale.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The database is often the thing that enforces the most critical application invariants, and is the primary source of errors when those invariants are violated. For example, "tenant IDs are unique" or "updates to the foobars a
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Another absolute gem: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I should have been more specific--what I mean by nontechnical managers is managers who don't commit code regularly.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
IME this is much more prevalent in organizations that hire "nontechnical managers". I personally will never work in such companies again, the experience of having your boss have literally no clue what it is you do for a job is not
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Are you signing up to point your panels north and take a 30% efficiency hit? Or east/west for a 15% penalty? People point them south because it's the most efficient fixed orientation north of the equator. A more efficient solution
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The Navy medical corps that deployed with the Marines in Korea deliberately used pure (not denatured) ethyl alcohol because they knew if they put stuff in it the soldiers would drink it anyway. Better not to poison them.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Wouldn't you? Why not??
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Imagine being that guy though, so few humans will ever have such an awesome portrait
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
According to the nukemap calculator if you're ~1km away in the open you'd be fine, and firing from cover (e.g. behind a berm or hill) you could be as close as 200m away with hearing protection and make it out alive so long as you
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
We're going to run the experiment sometime. The equilibrium has miraculously held since 1945 but it's not stable, and someday there will be a nuclear exchange. There's no way to put the genie back in the bottle.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
that's what a 1992 lemons racer is for ;)
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Firing isn't the worst possible consequence by a damn sight. Not all consequences need to work within some legal framework.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It's not only a question of qualifications, they're complaining about a quantity which is not measurable. The auction concluded with a certain maximum bid. Now prove to me there could have been a higher bid. You can't! We mea
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
OK but you still need a grid cutoff--you absolutely can't put power into the grid when it's down. It's not a huge investment, but it's not nothing.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> ZIRP led to all sorts of unsustainable businesses...The company needs to recapture some of that value to remain in operation. Absolutely 100% agree with all of this. VC money got real silly for a minute there, like actually investing d
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I've seen people wreck super hard trying to cross the streetcar rails at too shallow an angle in pdx multiple times. But that's an optional behavior. Just the other day I saw a moose crossing the road over in Twin Mountain, and I
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Sure, but if you're already going to make the investment in the grid cutoff, inverter, etc then the fact the car could in principle act as a battery/generator is a little gimmicky. Might as well also get a generator (or battery if
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
They've been shouting it from the rooftops: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/11/24318651/cruise-robotaxi... https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/03/22/why-ford-and-vw-
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Right, what I'm saying is in such a scenario I only actually need power if I'm not home and it's below freezing.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Take a wild guess.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm not super convinced about the V2H stuff, tbh. I only need backup power at home to keep the heat on when I'm not there. If I'm not there almost certainly my car isn't either. When I am there I can light a candle and r

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