jes5199

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   by jes5199 3y ago

   planets only, but I spend a log of time playing with the NASA JPL Horizons system: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   you can either fall back to natural gas peaker plants or grid-battery. Batteries keep getting cheaper, too
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I get where you're coming from but in 2024, solar is the cheapest source of power on earth, and wind is second-cheapest. Economics and survival are aligned for once, we just gotta actually build the new system and deprecate the old
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   cloudflare comes off as absolutely cowardly in this: they don’t even have the person’s manager on the call, they claim it’s a personal performance issue but when pressed it’s actually the whole department getting canned. It’s a bad look
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   should have bought Dorsey’s other company
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   maybe we can ask the AI to filter it
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   thanks, I couldn’t remember where I had heard it
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I’ve heard variations on this story a few times, successful company swallows failing company and gets infected by failing-culture. Isn’t that what happened to Netscape?
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I don’t see how fossil can be considered efficient when you have to consider digging it up, shipping it around, refining it, shipping it around again, burning it, piping the electricity for long distances. and if you want to argue that sola
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’m convinced that “density” is not a helpful metric here. There’s plenty of diffuse energy, and it’s advantageous to collect it near where it’s used, rather than make big pipes and ship it around
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I am hoping that the modern world is not one single system that can crash all at once, but is rather many systems, such that a crash leaves room for new things to grow bigger
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    combination of two things; first, we came up with new ways to get oil out of the ground, so it extended the deadline considerably. second, economic growth and oil burning decoupled, so instead of needing more and more oil we hit a steady nu
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I've been thinking about this a lot, and I have two solutions: * distribute on Testflight and never actually do a real release * make an HTML app that works well on mobile, and can be cached for offline Gradually I think I'm comin
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bb...
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I love Bluey but my kid won’t actually watch it. I wonder how common that is
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’m glad we have the web for this. the app stores would never approve this, even as a free app
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    the time of cheap energy is about to begin! solar power is already cheaper than oil ever was, and prices continue to drop
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    this is one of those "nobody wants a smartphone, the sound quality is shit" kind of articles
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I have a 2021 Chevy Bolt, it is not a luxury car, it was hella cheap. My sister-in-law drives for Uber/Lyft and bought a Tesla model 3 because the total cost of ownership is lower than any gas car
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    sounds like a feature
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    commit messages are a code smell. If you need to commit code, then you’ve already made a mistake
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’ve got a similar one, yet to be written, about “cold computing”. How do you compute if you’re on a limited solar+battery installation? what if your CPU wakes up and you have only a couple of hours of runtime? What if you only can turn on
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    to me, using sigils for scoping rules is a completely different idea from using sigils to declare types
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I think the ruby answer is “just use symbols”
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    that’s not the bug here. they got caught by precedence rules
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    when Ruby was up and coming, people compared it to Perl a lot, but I never saw the similarities. I guess they both have first-class regexp. But ruby has very standard semantics, almost interchangeable with Python and Javascript in most case
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I used Ruby professionally in the early 2010s and that sucked all the joy out of it. Gigantic Rails monoliths in that era were just unmaintainable brambles. I probably would rather write Ruby again for side-projects but the ecosystem just i
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    it's not like we have room in the jails either, we still routinely release people due to lack of space
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’m on a mailing list from fourdayweek.io and they managed to find a few companies to feature every week. No one that I’ve been excited to work for, yet, but YMMV
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    still is. Nikola's CEO, Trevor Milton, was convicted of fraud and is awaiting sentencing.