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by loufe 5y ago
I often see comments on HN complaining about Firefox being poorly supported by some sites. I honestly cannot remember the last time I experienced any support issues with it. Are these generally more niche sites and are we talking misaligne
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by loufe 5y ago
Hey thanks that was nice to hear. I don't have a blog myself if that's what you're asking (but do check out my latest project on YouTube "LED Dreamcoat"). If you mean about mining in general, any blogs or informatio
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by loufe 5y ago
Underground mining engineer, working in the Canadian far north. I've always been a computer geek, even did some internships as a developer, but I realized needed a career that would pull me out of screens. Still a hobby programmer and
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by loufe 5y ago
I'm curious how the personal mission/ambition Elon has of SpaceX marries with fiduciary duty and shareholder expectations. If he is being honest, the true goal is "reach mars". There may not be money at the end of that t
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by loufe 5y ago
Prototypes and early models are extremely expensive but there are encouraging signs that fusion plants could be cheaper. The technology is inherently safer so site-preparation would be cheaper (can be a massive bill for fission), the same c
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by loufe 5y ago
Fantastic summary, thank you for taking the time.
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by loufe 5y ago
I don't know if I've experienced a crash in Firefox in years. I would really suggest taking a look at the crash logs and maybe do a checkup on your machine's health.
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by loufe 5y ago
A bit off topic but I'm a little sad to see "Covid-19 made in lab" in the "dangerous to yourself and others" tier, especially with how much public view has evolved. Very few people will ever know for certain, it see
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by loufe 5y ago
I work as a mining engineer and in my eyes these stages are effectively the same as the author describes in the software world. I'd even argue they apply to most "professional" careers.
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by loufe 5y ago
So long as wages for top politicians remain not top CEO-level (IMO causing corruption to make up for difficulty and investment made in getting into power) and countries compete in a race to the bottom for taxes and secrecy (which allows for
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by loufe 5y ago
@dang could this and the other trending story from ICIJ be merged?
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by loufe 5y ago
I see what you mean. I wonder if while cutting CEO pay if we're cutting into meritocracy as a path to financial success and just further enlarging the slice of the pie for existing holders of capital. Right? I understand that wages are
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by loufe 5y ago
Couldn't it just be a matter of scale? In order for the tax savings to outweigh the expensive consultant and account fees, you'd likely have to have a large sum of money to hide.
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by loufe 5y ago
I agree that the sourcing does seem off in JDDunn9's post but your comment doesn't invite further discussion much.
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by loufe 5y ago
I also put together a "making of" video you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODWVIsqwwA if you're curious!
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Show HN: My Covid Project: An LED Dreamcoat(youtube.com)
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by loufe 5y ago
I'm surprised nobody has posted the "revolutionary battery checklist" meme comment yet. It's exciting to see all these developments in clean-tech but the headlines always seem to mischaracterize the actual stage of devel
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by loufe 5y ago
The bluetooth/location permission setup in Android may be changing in the next major Android release if I recall. It's a poor setup IMO.
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by loufe 5y ago
Agreed, it does beg the question. Three digits of precision does not mean there isn't an error of +- 100 tonnes on the actual source calculation. I can imagine an engineer in the FBI did some modeling using damage radius, height of bla
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by loufe 5y ago
I generally agree with your points, but 1 to 2 hours? When I'm off-rotation I still find the time for at least 3-4 hours of intense productive work in the day, and on-rotation I am focused oftentimes for 10+ hours in a day. Perhaps it&
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by loufe 5y ago
Happily returned to firefox a couple years ago when they jumped ahead in speed and have been happy to stick around. I experience absolutely no bugs nor compatibility problems on desktop and mobile is A-OK as well.
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by loufe 5y ago
Can anybody here give a quick overview of why there are such delays for the line opening?
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by loufe 5y ago
This is a fantastic catch. I'm sure there's a great case study for business classes to be made from this.
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by loufe 5y ago
There are quite a few stories about companies and research groups gunning for increasingly high lithium extraction from spent batteries. We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently a
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by loufe 5y ago
I don't think even my great grandchildren would see the end of oil if we were to allow consumption to continue as it is today. There is an immense amount of reserves in the world. That being said, there is the option 4 which the EU and
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by loufe 5y ago
I think everybody evaluates the quality they need and want. I want the nicest sound system for my computer and top notch headphones but for a vehicle I just need something that gets from A to B. I'm not really sure what his point is. T
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by loufe 5y ago
In another comment thread someone mentioned LTT already released their review on their own platform, I think called Floatplane, which comes before their Youtube release.
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by loufe 5y ago
This is just plainly false. Take the time to read before spouting such negative drivel.
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by loufe 5y ago
> You only need single-threaded performance for 2 things, for the stuff that’s inherently serial like gzip, or to run programs made more than 5-10 years ago. You must not be grand strategy game players. Any titles from Paradox and some o
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by loufe 5y ago
I'm all for legalization of marijuana but we can do better than the naïve and shallow argument of "it's a plant so it's good for me". Opium and Salvia? Poison berries and cocaine?

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