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by layoric 5y ago
I’ve had an obsession with isometric rendering and related art since I first played SimCity 2k and love seeing content like this! I wrote a basic game using MonoGame and my own renderer for Tiled to get a better understanding. I had it runn
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I get stuck on it as well, I'm probably wrong but to me "data" is the collective noun like "team" or "family". This is why I think it sounds wrong to use "Data are" when it is being used as the s
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by layoric 5y ago
Fitter.. Healthier.. More Productive..
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Another option is (if possible) not to have a release cadence in the first place. If deployments are happening regularly everyday as a part of small PRs, you just get a backlog of code reviews. Sure some releases will require orchestration
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At this size, it is likely acting as a grid stabilizer rather than any kind of backup. Even 'drop in the bucket' size batteries can have a very positive impact on a grid when used in this way that bring down costs for network oper
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by layoric 5y ago
Really? I did about a year of it and I must admit it was not a fun year (~2014, so a while ago). Styles and binding were so overly verbose, and I felt like I was constantly fighting the tooling. The dev loop was horrible compared to anythin
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Are there any sources you know of regarding the related African countries selling their allocations?
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by layoric 5y ago
I think the efficiency of pure EVs is too good to ignore. I'm not disagreeing that we have to have hydrogen to hit zero emissions, but lots of factors related to personal vehicles where pure EV makes sense. I don't think they will
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by layoric 5y ago
> Possibly, but as more renewable energy sources come online, the problem is going to change from "can we produce enough energy?" to "is the energy available at the right time and place?". This is the most important p
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Even if you ignore the integration part and just leave it as a marketplace to trade/sell items, as yourself and others have pointed out, don't need a decentralized, public, cryptographically verifiable database (aka crypto/bl
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by layoric 5y ago
No worries! It was such an easy win for our docs site, I really think this should be the default approach using your Typesense provided hosting or custom as we did and still sponsoring your work. Most technical documentation sites I think w
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by layoric 5y ago
This comment will be fine in hundreds of years. I completely expect (at least Australians) to continue to use “old mate” for a long time to come :).
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by layoric 5y ago
This is an important point. The transition to working from home is not "Here is a laptop with network access, try to ignore the pandemic, go", that is a recipe for a bad experience. Like wise, working from an office completely suc
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by layoric 5y ago
> The effects of climate change are not fully understood and we need our brightest minds to be working on that instead.. The implication here, and maybe I’m reading it wrong, is that _before_ action is taken on what we do know to the bes
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by layoric 5y ago
Just as a note regarding extra calls for weather APIs for historical, there is generally a good reason (coming from someone who built a global weather/energy API). A) Using Numeric Weather Prediction models (NWP) data as 'historic
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by layoric 5y ago
Mate, it is clear you are not Australian by your other comments and you are projecting fears about "most people" with little to no idea what you are talking about. Yes, we have less individual freedoms in Australia than places lik
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by layoric 5y ago
We definitely have voting machines [0] that started being trialed back in 2007, and more widely in recent years. The process I experienced last time I voted in local elections was you validated where you lived and were given a one use barco
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by layoric 5y ago
Thanks for that, my mistake.
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I strongly disagree. There is already informal voting (aka donkey vote), people who want to use their vote as a "screw you" have to choose between a number of candidates/parties, so who they are "screwing" is pretty
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by layoric 5y ago
>Vote. Compulsory voting with good preference system already in place which means we have a ~90-97% participation rate. >Protest - particularly direct action Agree, but increasing using/changing laws to reduce this (declaring env
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by layoric 5y ago
Born in AU so bias is to stay, which leads me to push more for political change required to try to address these problems. Most of your 10 years has been under a particularly bad (and honestly corrupt) federal gov. Country has a large state
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by layoric 5y ago
“Weak reasons” obviously heavily dependent on priorities at the time, which can change quickly. On small companies it has a massive impact on others and that shouldn’t be taken lightly. I had a previous boss that hired someone senior to do
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Storage and transportability. Even if end to end efficiency is between 10-20% for green hydrogen (solar/wind electricity generation -> electrolysis -> hydrogen/ammonia -> fuel cell -> electricity), it helps solve the
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>Musk is creating a constellation of satellites that can provide global internet And is a good example of creating negative externalities, lots of ground based astronomy (a field that has contributed immensely to our collective scientifi
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by layoric 5y ago
"Undue burden" and good UX is a wide chasm. In the last few months of my last role we went from the 1 account to multiple separating environments and the additional cognitive load and extra work migrating was not trivial (plus try
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by layoric 5y ago
That’s … so wrong but also doesn’t surprise me at all. When the incentives don’t align, I assume these hacks will be the default.
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15-20kW? How big is your home/electricity consumption? I paid $7.5K USD ($10K AUD) for 5.9kW panels (5kW inverter) only 2.5 years ago, which I still think is pretty good. In summer I generate 40kWh a day, winter down to ~23kWh (AU is l
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Would make a great write up. Interested in the details around what was changed in the company to support this hybrid approach. Also breakdown of devs first time WFH. From my experience, office->hybrid doesn’t work well as the the staff d
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by layoric 5y ago
I wonder if some of the persistent cheaters like Tufi from Apex Legends have gotten hold of the source code, making it easier to find exploits. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-05-11-unbannable-ape...

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