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by jjcob 11mo ago
I looked up that Impulse Labs induction hob. Holy Shit, 10kW peak on a single burner is ridiculous! I already managed to ruin a pan with just 3.7kW (heated it while empty), and I tought that was a lot. However, I think the cost is probably
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by jjcob 11mo ago
> So you are looking at powering DC only appliances! Is there anything you actually need AC for? The big advantage of AC is that you can easily transform it for long range transmission. If you don't need that, AC is not really neces
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by jjcob 11mo ago
It works best if you don't reply immediately. I recommend successively increasing the response delay. Keep it short enough to make sure that they don't start bugging you on other channels, but long enough to make sure they have ti
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by jjcob 11mo ago
You don't approve it. You just slowly grind the submitter down with minor feedback. At some point they lose interest and after a year you can close the PR, or ask the submitter to open a new PR.
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by jjcob 1y ago
What are you talking about? Food safety regulations like requiring milk to be pasteurized? I think that's just common sense, but at least in my home of Austria you can still easily get un-pasteurized milk if you really want. I'm n
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think people seek out these restrictions on their own. Almost everyone I know has some sort of belief about what's healthy and what isn't. Some people become vegetarians, some people become vegans, some people believe eating big
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by jjcob 1y ago
Door locks, heating and household appliances should probably not depend on Internet services being available.
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by jjcob 1y ago
For someone complaining about tribalism, it seems odd that you focus so much on which of two political sides we should put a shooter.
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by jjcob 1y ago
The only indisputable fact about the Kirk assassin was that he had access to a bad ass rifle and knew how to use it. Like many shooters, he was a gun nut with psychological issues. You claiming that he was "a leftist" is exactly t
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by jjcob 1y ago
I was a self-taught software developer who already made money with programming for ~10 years before I took my first computer science classes. Those classes unlocked a whole new level of programming for me. I just didn't know what I did
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by jjcob 1y ago
Rice syrup + corn syrup are used in pretty much every savory dish, subway stations often have a bakery that sells sweet pastries (filled with bean paste), Starbucks style coffee drinks are also popular, people snack dried octopus (loaded wi
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by jjcob 1y ago
I went on a trip to South Korea recently. There are very few overweight people there. But the food that people eat doesn't seem healthy at all. - every meal is served with white rice ("empty calories") - every meal is served
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by jjcob 1y ago
Is Python still that bad? I remember the big problems were during the Python 2 -> Python 3 transition, but in the last few years I've managed to get away with a single Python install and haven't really had any compatibility iss
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by jjcob 1y ago
When I ask ChatGPT how to solve a tricky coding problem, it occasionally invents APIs that sound plausible but don't exist. I think that is what people mean when they talk about hallucinating. When you tell the model that the API doesn
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by jjcob 1y ago
https://support.hp.com/de-de/drivers/hp-color-laserjet-pro-m...
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by jjcob 1y ago
I have an HP All In One and I was quite disappointed when I first used it to digitize photos. It's nowhere near 600DPI. The quality I got from the scanner was worse than taking a picture with my phone! Of course taking a picture with t
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by jjcob 1y ago
I hate it when I look at some code, wondering why I added a refresh call at that point, I do a git blame to find the commit message, and it says "add refresh call".
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by jjcob 1y ago
Maybe it causes too many issues? POP is pretty unpredictable when multiple clients access the same server.
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by jjcob 1y ago
You could use the same argument to argue that Basic Economy passengers should be punched in the face when boarding. Then there's a group A of wimpy rich kids (who pay to prevent getting punched in the face) and a group B who don't
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by jjcob 1y ago
I've long accepted that Airlines charge for "better" seats. I don't care for the "good" seats. I'm happy with whatever seat they put us in. What you seem to be missing is that some airlines have started to
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by jjcob 1y ago
It's a benefit of "Economy" vs "Basic Economy". I saw it on an international flight. You pay 20% more and are allowed to sit with your family. At least that's how I understood their marketing. There also seem t
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by jjcob 1y ago
I have no issue with airlines offering reserved seats for money. Let people buy their aisle seats and window seats and exit rows. Most people don't give a shit where they sit, so most seats are not reserved. Traditionally, airlines tri
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by jjcob 1y ago
> If you want to sit together, pay for that privilege This is evil. There is no cost to the airline to put people who booked together next to another. It's seems like Mafia-tactic to seat people apart from another unless they pony
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by jjcob 1y ago
If you park your car on a bus stop, you deserve that fine. I wish my city fine like this.
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by jjcob 1y ago
How?
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by jjcob 1y ago
All these algorithms arent going to help if user A changes a headline from Arial to Helvetica while user B changes it to Helvetica Neue. There is no way to tell which of the changes should win. That's why most applications decided to r
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by jjcob 1y ago
> you can tell the average person to try editing a file with the web interface Yes, but then you are not using a "local first" tool but a typical server based workflow.
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by jjcob 1y ago
IMAP works fine until you try to continue working on a draft email that you started on another computer... somehow it always gets broken and I end up with 5 copies of the message in the drafts folder...
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by jjcob 1y ago
It's not a technical challenge, it's a fundamental problem. When multiple people work on a document at the same time, you will have conflicts that will become very hard to resolve. I have never seen a good UI for resolving non-tri
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by jjcob 1y ago
Git works, but it leaves conflict resolution up to the user. It's good for a tool for professional users, but I don't see it being adopted for mainstream use.

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