lancewiggs

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by lancewiggs 2y ago
Your long distance speed is mainly a function of how frequently and quickly you stop. Never think you can outrun a professional long haul driver.
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
https://www.liquium.nz/ is working on reducing the energy (a lot) required for the Haber-Bosch process.
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Surprise: Tesla's New Model Y(stuff.co.nz)
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You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase(consumer.org.nz)
396 points by lancewiggs 2y ago|250 comments
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
If you want a challenge, there is one that exceeds and trumps all others - the climate crisis.
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
The account with your handle is following only a handful of people, and is broadcasting content rather than engaging in a conversation. Consider the reverse.
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
However if you double click and it zooms in there is no way to zoom out to actually see both sides of the notebook.
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
Thanks for participating here. While others are stating that you should not, the court of public opinion delivers results (including to Wordpress) a lot faster than the formal court system. So get ahead. In general it’s better better the he
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
If that’s the case then (and this is for any company) give customers the option of a lower price than today’s without the (generally invasive and poor) AI experiences.
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
I'm a New Zealander who lived in the US for ~5 years amongst other places, and have been back here for 20 years. I worked or studied in a new location, used the money earned to travel for a few months (up to 2 years), and then started
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
Love the ambition. The auto-handing to get freight to destinations is big advantage. This is not about delivering from one end to the other, which is better done by ship, but about sending materials to and from entities within the intensive
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by lancewiggs 2y ago
Flip it around - it becomes a condition of the deal happening imposed by investors, who themselves are motivated to present the best deal to founders, and to have founders less economically stressed. No secondaries - no deal, and that doesn
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
MGA Thermal uses tiny aluminium droplets in carbon matrix material to do heat storage with 1: constant temperature storage and 2: at much higher temperatures and energy density that allows for steam generation etc.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Read Superforecasters. Look at the two linked-from-article forecasting sites. Look up Adam Braff's blog - he runs an annual forecasting contest. Enter prediction markets. Read up about Brier scores. Try, fail, try and learn.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
And one easy way to give yourself time out is to go on a long adventure. Walk some ridiculously long track. Cycle North and/or South America. Motorcycle around Europe then to Asia. Spend a year in India. Live in a fishing cabin, or mor
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
I’m in New Zealand if that helps. Generally (please) don’t assume location dictates formatting, while Excel’s assumptions are often incorrect and so custom formatting is a requirement.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
You'll also need formatting to be the same to get adoption. e.g. I wanted to format numbers as currency, and got USD$x,xxx as a result, and no obvious way to change that to $x,xxx.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
If Wal*Mart (and everyone else) sold great TVs without the spy/spamware then this would be a great deal for everyone. However from the article: "But in buying the company, Walmart touted the potential to boost its ad business thr
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
And it's also how recognition of revenue works for accounting for all companies.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Read "The Fund" - an entire book on the matter.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Rooftop is generally on site. Ground is generally in large arrays owned by power companies. Being on site and owner-operated means not incurring the expenses of lines and various markups (sometimes extreme) from power companies. And it mea
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
And stop using streets for car storage, opening them up to people and plants.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
I'm told that Movebot can do this in time - getting the archives to s3/wasabi or Backblaze etc.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Good on you for the product. Yes please update the site. I want to see if the ability to take spatial videos actually appears in local (NZ) iOS* before committing, and sending emails is a right pain versus a buy-now button "Some featu
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Pocketsmith has been around for years, and built a properly sustainable business with essentially no funding. We've seen Mint refugees too, but also suspect there is a lot less there than the vanity metics might show. In this space we&
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Rocketlab is doing this at about half the rate.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
"As announced on April 20, 2023, we brought together part of Google Research (the Brain team) and DeepMind to significantly accelerate our progress in artificial intelligence (AI). The group, called Google DeepMind, is reported within
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Try asking about cities rather than time zones.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
Shenzhen made all its busses electric in 2018, and transitioned its taxi fleet to EV by about 2019-2020, while mopeds were also largely moving over in to EV in early 2019. It's the future.
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by lancewiggs 3y ago
I'm in NZ, and I don't even trust Xwitter under Musk to re-confirm my phone number or email, let alone a credit card. Much of the vibe here has migrated to Bluesky.

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