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by maliker 5y ago
I think batteries will win in long duration storage over hydrogen as well. Batteries have a self-discharge rate, but geological hydrogen storage or cryogenic/pressurized tank storage also has a loss rate, and unpressurized tanks are ve
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by maliker 5y ago
Hydrogen used for energy storage on the electric grid is mentioned in the article, but I’m fairly skeptical of this becoming economically viable. Hydrogen storage costs and losses over time are currently very similar to those in battery ene
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by maliker 5y ago
I did my first programming in basic on a ti-83. Seeing the more advanced creations out there in assembly inspired me to learn more. These machines are still a great entry into programming.
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by maliker 5y ago
It’s definitely not as good as Chocolatey, but they realized there’s a need, and it’s a start.
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by maliker 5y ago
I gotta admit, Microsoft is pushing out some cool features that are widely accessible. I've been enjoying the Github Actions feature, Teams is actually getting my organization to stop using Sharepoint, VSCode is great, and now Excel is
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by maliker 5y ago
It was clearly the original invention. I think what Fernando added was an open source implementation of the same ideas. And now I see Jupyter notebooks everywhere and never see a Mathematica notebook.
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by maliker 5y ago
Also noticed his first PHD advisor kicked him out and only his second advisor let him work on ipython. What a horrible system.
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by maliker 5y ago
Associate professor… ipython 20 years ago… jeeez what do you have to do to make full professor? Clearly creating the interface to 90% of data science doesn’t cut it.
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by maliker 5y ago
Thank you! Lots for me to think about re: planned cities in the middle east, net cost of living, and arco agritecture.
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by maliker 5y ago
1. What's the most populous arcology that's currently inhabited? 2. Do the seasteading people and the arcology people have much overlap? 3. Are arcologies aimed at making affordable housing or no? 4. Is anyone working on increment
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by maliker 5y ago
As an English speaker, DuoLingo didn’t seem that interesting to me. Then I listened to a podcast where the found Luis von Ahn explained why he started the company [1]. He grew up in Guatemala, and he noticed that learning English would esse
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by maliker 5y ago
My guess is the ‘users didnt know what they were doing defense.’ Not that you can deploy software in a secure by default stance. But once somebody sets up users and a million other settings inside Active Directory, it’s pretty much bound to
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by maliker 5y ago
Is this an evolutionary mechanism that weeds out buggy DeFi contracts? Not saying the process to get to the end with a few trusted contracts/systems is going to be painless.
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by maliker 5y ago
Since shipping hardware looks like it won’t work, what’s available to buy in terms of hardware where you are? Seems like a bigger screen would help. And then there’s the problem of money transfer. I’m guessing moving money through paypal&#x
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by maliker 5y ago
I've been using hash tags in file names (e.g. "eat more veggies #todo.txt"). To group by tags, I use the smart folders functionality on windows/macos/googleDrive to save a search for items with the tag in the name.
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by maliker 5y ago
Well, technically subprocess.check_call if you need to capture output.
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by maliker 5y ago
I work in power systems, and the situation is similar. Maybe worse because paper authors often come up with new computational techniques but don’t implement them in code (much less code with a dockerfile). I look with much jealousy over at
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by maliker 5y ago
Why did they open source it? Wouldn’t this model be very valuable to the pharma industry?
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by maliker 5y ago
He makes a good point about coops being responsive to local needs, and you can see this trend in larger datasets where (e.g.) the JDPower survey of utility customers finds coops beat IOUs on average (780 to 740ish) when it comes to customer
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by maliker 5y ago
The reason my team uses it is because our application has tons of complex system-level and python-level requirements, and docker has proven to be the easiest cross-platform isolation option. If our app was web-only we would go with a simple
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by maliker 5y ago
My company just shut down citrix in favor of Azure VDI. Seems Microsoft is competing on price. And I have to admit the user experience is a tad better.
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by maliker 5y ago
Yes, he founded dynamicland.org and is doing large scale prototyping and user testing. YC Research put in some funding not too long ago.
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by maliker 5y ago
Seems like the answer to this question is: a remote first company, where no one is at a disadvantage by being remote. How to transition companies that have a physical presence or product into one, that’s a much harder question and maybe not
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by maliker 5y ago
I work for electric utilities, and we've been looking at hydrogen carefully this year, but it looks to remain a niche technology for energy storage. Hydrogen production (electrolysis, etc.) is only about 30% of the full system cost sin
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by maliker 5y ago
Copilot transitions programmers from writing code to reading auto-generated code. And the feeling is that reading code is 10x harder than reading it? Seems like a rich source of problems. (However, I'm still definitely going to try thi
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by maliker 5y ago
The real killer application of arabic numerals is arithmetic. Doing even multiplication and division in roman numerals is very time consuming [1]. [1] https://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/08/16/roman-nu
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by maliker 5y ago
I’d be way more worried about someone putting a keylogger on my laptop versus them taking control of the webcam.
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by maliker 5y ago
Plus it counters Apple, which recently made iOS apps available on macOS. Seems like all the major OS are betting that mobile is going to be the focus of future native app development and don't want desktop users to miss out.
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by maliker 5y ago
Huh, he was also sainted by the church. Patron saint of composting?
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by maliker 5y ago
Somebody’s still going to have to maintain no-code apps. If they do as much as current apps, they’ll be just as complicated as current tech. Seems like that maintenance role will be left to people with system design and debugging skills—i.e

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