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by leoedin 6y ago
In my loft someone has written their name in mortar on the chimney, along with the year - 1949. It's amazing to think that person, probably relatively young when they built this house just after the war, is now either dead or pushing 9
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by leoedin 6y ago
Cars are literally designed to collapse in a crash. It's what the crumple zones are for. The passenger compartment is a protected space and the rest of the car collapses to absorb as much energy as possible. This means that the acceler
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by leoedin 6y ago
Do many people care about phone CPU performance? Sure, it needs to be good enough, but after that it's really far down on the list of things that matter. What matters to everyone I know is screen size, camera quality and that a really
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by leoedin 6y ago
This may be the case, but it doesn't mean that those skills came from college. There's a strong selection bias at work - people with good administrative skills and communication skills are much more likely to go to college in the
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by leoedin 6y ago
I completely agree. Wireless works for me 99% of the time, and it's really, really convenient. I was a Bluetooth headphone holdout, but getting a set completely changed my working life. With wired headphones I'd forget they were i
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by leoedin 6y ago
Last year I was staying in a mountain hut in Nepal, near the Annapurna range and a 3 day hike to the nearest road. A helicopter flew up from the nearby city (a 10 minute flight!) and I was surprised to see it contained buddhist monks. They
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by leoedin 6y ago
Yeah, it probably is. There's not really a nice process for making liquid fuel - hydrogen isn't a great fuel really. My understanding is that the biggest problem with making a practical liquid fuel is ironically getting the carbon
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by leoedin 6y ago
> we simply don't have enough space for wind and solar to feed our thirst for hydrocarbons with renewable power. I'm not sure if this is the case or not. To give some numbers: Current global oil consumption is 54225 TWh, or 6.2
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by leoedin 6y ago
There's some really great tiny house tours on YouTube. My favourite is Living Big in a Tiny House, presented somewhat ironically by a really tall kiwi. His enthusiasm and the incredible labours of love that most of the houses he visits
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by leoedin 6y ago
Until recently "to Skype" was the generic term for video calling among most of my friends and family. Given that nobody has actually used Skype for that purpose for 5 years, this crisis has accelerated it's decline and Zoom&#
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by leoedin 6y ago
I was using off-grid in the most straightforward of senses - off the electricity grid. That doesn't necessary mean stationary or without weight limits (as solar would require) - it could mean long distance trucking, or logging, constru
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by leoedin 6y ago
Even with the increased electrification of transport, there's still a very strong case for liquid fuel - it just offers an energy density so much higher than batteries, especially in off-grid or remote situations. Electric drivetrains
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by leoedin 6y ago
I think the point the parent was making is that many of the people who died in the last 2 months would likely have died in the next year anyway - so although there's clearly high numbers of excess deaths today, we may actually find tha
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by leoedin 6y ago
This rings really true with my experience at a startup. Everyone involved in the product could see it's weaknesses, we just didn't have the manpower to change them. I've definitely fallen into the "attribute to malice&#x
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by leoedin 7y ago
You really can't ride like that though. That would mean slowing down to 10mph at every junction with an arriving car. You can take steps to be seen - put yourself in a cars sightlines and watch carefully for signs of not slowing down.
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by leoedin 7y ago
Does anyone have context for what these discussions are? That's a pretty terse message for those of us not in the loop... Edit: This article gives a bit more context. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp
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by leoedin 7y ago
In the UK pretty much every courier offers a pickup service. You book it in, they give you a label to print, they turn up and take it. It's probably exactly like that. If you order from 6 shops, they ship 6 packages to you.
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by leoedin 7y ago
I wonder if the author wrote this with something in mind? Fire and forget logging to HTTP endpoints would be pretty useful for IoT sensors. You'd have a lot less code and could potentially save significant power. You obviously lose the
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by leoedin 7y ago
Change some names and this could be the UK. In fact, it really seems like every country is following the same playbook. Ignore the problem, don't prepare, and then suddenly panic when things grow exponentially. It's a story playin
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by leoedin 7y ago
There's at least a couple of reasons that doesn't apply. Software projects don't develop linearly. 20 years ago the Linux kernel was 8 years old, today it's 28 years old. The motivation to upgrade the relatively mature 2
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by leoedin 7y ago
I work in the embedded space and so I have used a few proprietary debuggers/IDEs/build systems. They've still got a lot of market share. The huge problem with them is that they're proprietary. They don't have the wi
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by leoedin 7y ago
This sounds similar to this project: https://www.meshtastic.org/ which was featured on HN a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22540066 I think selling it as a communicator for skiing/
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by leoedin 7y ago
I got burned by AWS billing. I played around with some tutorials and before I knew it I had a $100 credit card bill. Even working out what I was paying for proved really tricky. Turning it all off involved crawling through a bunch of opaque
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by leoedin 7y ago
This a thousand times. Developing a robust manufacturable product, even a simple one, is HARD. It takes multiple spins and loads of testing, not to mention a huge amount of work to make it manufacturable. Why are we trying to reinvent the w
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by leoedin 7y ago
That chart is fascinating - especially the extent of which some countries apparently have virus strains from every branch, while others have 1 or 2 distinct lineages (Washington State being the biggest one). That does imply that the UK and
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by leoedin 7y ago
Paracetamol (acetaminophen/Tylenol) is not an NSAID, is not an anti-inflammatory and there's no evidence that it has any negative effect on outcomes. You're mixing it up with ibuprofen (Advil), which is an NSAID and may resul
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by leoedin 7y ago
I think the reason flying is so often vilified is because it represents a huge proportion of an individual's emissions. The reason flying represented only 2.5% of global emissions is because most people never do it. There's a smal
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by leoedin 7y ago
Just look at how many people from other other countries got infected in northern Italy a few weeks ago. Italy had diagnosed a few hundred cases, yet suddenly hundreds and hundreds of people who were in the area and have returned home now ha
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by leoedin 7y ago
No security updates means potential for exploits, not definitely exploited. If you don't open yourself up to exploits by using the browser or untrusted apps, you're pretty unlikely to be compromised even with an older phone.
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by leoedin 7y ago
"How can we provide clean energy as cheaply as possible" seems like a pretty big problem we need to solve. Maybe kite power isn't the answer, but it certainly looked like it could be at one point. It wasn't unreasonable

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