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by jes5199 5y ago
the larger cities have been on a trajectory like what you describe - it’s difficult to increase density, home owners are resistant to it, but it happens gradually anyway. but in small cities, there’s just too much empty space available. peo
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by jes5199 5y ago
I don’t understand why China is building so many coal plants - for several years it’s been reported that they run them way, way under capacity.
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by jes5199 5y ago
somewhere I have the bitmaps for Zenith/Heathkit Z100 series system fonts. I guess I should dig them up
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by jes5199 5y ago
it varies from state to state in the US
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by jes5199 5y ago
when I work on old machines, I often get an overwhelming feeling that modern machines are wasteful . there was so much room to be clever and careful, but instead we just kept throwing more hardware at our problems
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by jes5199 5y ago
the other way - S3 could seed directly to a torrent, I think
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by jes5199 5y ago
I actually went through really severe caffeine withdrawal last year, it turns out that the always-ready coffeepot at our coworking space was keeping me way, way more caffeinated that I could reasonably do at home I also spent the year stres
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by jes5199 5y ago
I spent three years working from home in the pre-pandemic era, at GitHub - the king of remote culture at the time - and I was desperate to have an office again. I can code fine at home (better, actually, with more privacy to focus), but I c
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by jes5199 6y ago
oh you assume I still wanted the job
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by jes5199 6y ago
I recently discovered that, in a topgrading-style interview, it’s possible to filibuster! They expect to be able to ask 4+ questions about every job from the past ten years. But I will happily ramble for 20 minutes about minutia for each of
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by jes5199 6y ago
I love this question. I've been thinking about similar problems and assuming that the answer really is video, but it would be very interesting to be wrong about that. also, you might enjoy eurorack modular synthesis. I find that it con
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by jes5199 6y ago
no, those things have never stopped me. What has stopped me is that the default configuration for a Rails app throws intermittent exceptions when I'm trying to save, because concurrent writes fail and Rails (at least as of a couple yea
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by jes5199 6y ago
I've used vim for more than 20 years, but lately I'm finding that now that `prettier` and `black` can just reformat code wholesale, I don't have to care as much about the precise tiny edits that vim is so good at. And when I
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by jes5199 6y ago
most people have never heard of Tor, but by now most non-techies are suspicious of tech. They've noticed that they're not in control, that it does weird things they don't want, that it spies on them, that it sneaks advertisin
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by jes5199 6y ago
“digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm” I think they mean, you could have the same stuff in different video games
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by jes5199 6y ago
can you explain your point about renewable energy? I'm not sure I see how that follows
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by jes5199 6y ago
my friend at Google reported almost exactly that: it's an amazing technical achievement, really pushes the cutting edge of what's possible. And the sales and marketing have no idea how to do anything with it.
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by jes5199 6y ago
Pascal was my first language, and I really miss some things about it that didn’t make it into the popular modern languages
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by jes5199 6y ago
ooh, this hits at some things I’ve been seriously struggling with. thank you for the link
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by jes5199 6y ago
I’ve recently unearthed a copy of WORM.BAS that is written to run on ZBasic for the Zenith Z100 - it’s the version of “snake” I played as a child. I wish I had an interpreter that could run it, but it relies on the Z100’s direct access to t
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by jes5199 6y ago
neat to see this here! I've recently become convinced Flow Based Programming is the ideal that other programming paradigms are reaching for. But in practice, there's a lot that's not obvious to me how it would actually work--
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by jes5199 6y ago
that makes me want to put a sonar sensor into my eurorack modular synthesizer. I actually installed a real theremin module today. Eurorack is simpler than midi, each aspect of a sound is a separate DC voltage, the standard for pitch is “1 v
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by jes5199 6y ago
Every time I work on something anachronistic or artificially constrained, I learn more about the fundamentals of the cutting edge stuff. There's a way that the "default" perspective of the industry tends to emphasize certain
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by jes5199 6y ago
This takes me back! In the 1980s, I lived in a small town, and my Dad learned that the phone company still offered "party line" service for cheap - you could share a piece of copper with everyone on your street. I guess for most o
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by jes5199 6y ago
what’s risky about 3 dudes borrowing money and living in an apartment in San Francisco? hell, they don’t even have to pay the money back if the business fails! they might have to give up and go home I guess, how embarrassing. There’s no ris
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by jes5199 6y ago
I met the AirBnB founders back in 2012, and they didn’t seem particularly charismatic. About average for startup founders, really. I think this is mostly myth building
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by jes5199 6y ago
if you wanna talk externalities, let’s price in the damage done by climate change into fossil fuel costs, and see which one is cheaper
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by jes5199 6y ago
I sure hope so.
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by jes5199 6y ago
this is why rooftop solar, which has the highest LCOE of any power generation, still ends up making sense for consumers. Because it doesn't have to compete on the open market, it just has to be plausibly cheaper than your utility bill
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by jes5199 6y ago
in the past they were cheaper. Now renewables are cheaper. Right now, intermittent renewables actually drives up the cost of fossil fuels! Renewables do wacky things to the spot price of power - sometimes electricity is free or even has

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