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by masterj 2y ago
Hacker News: This is absurd! The tech doesn't exist! Reality: It's existed for years, and has already been successfully tested in pilots https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/027-23/mayor-ad..
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by masterj 2y ago
I don’t mind the content they watch on kids YouTube (mostly, streamers can be awful), but the exposure to the algorithm turns them into tiny zombies and led to behavior problems. Even adult brains have trouble navigating the dopamine hits o
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by masterj 2y ago
You may not have hearing loss, but you might actually benefit from modern hearing aids which can attenuate background noise better than consumer noise cancelling headphones. My partner has APD and hearing aids were a life-changer for them.
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by masterj 2y ago
> zoning laws are not the primary cause of home prices > We ... need to vastly increase supply across the entire country somehow Zoning laws reduce available supply by making it illegal or impossible (due to e.g. parking minimums) to
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by masterj 2y ago
Yes, but sometimes ideas come ahead of the infrastructure that would enable them, in this case fiber rollouts and geographically distributed data centers with GPUs. I've been really impressed by GeForce Now lately and XBox Cloud Gaming
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by masterj 2y ago
The term you're looking for is ADT - Algebraic Data Types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
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by masterj 2y ago
You... clearly haven't tracked the cost of solar panels. Learning curves are a thing https://ourworldindata.org/learning-curve
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by masterj 3y ago
Sure thing bud
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by masterj 3y ago
Of all the bad racist NIMBY rants, this is definitely one of them
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by masterj 3y ago
There is an excellent podcast from David Roberts that dives into Fervo's approach https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally
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by masterj 3y ago
IIRC there have been some experiments with using geothermal plants as peaker plants since you can pump more water down and cap the output so you can ramp output up quickly later. This could work well with the variability of renewables to he
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by masterj 3y ago
It sounds like you should look into their tail-sampling Refinery tool https://docs.honeycomb.io/manage-data-volume/refinery/
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by masterj 3y ago
If an organization can't figure out how to factor out clearly-defined contracts within a single codebase and maintain that over time, adding a network hop and multiple codebases into that will not make it any easier.
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by masterj 4y ago
The software is certainly a concern, but I would also heavily emphasize the ability to get spare parts and service quickly. If your heat goes out in the middle of winter you don't want to wait weeks for spare parts, or be unable to get
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by masterj 4y ago
They're not. Instead you can use air-to-water heat pumps to swap out those systems.
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by masterj 4y ago
If you have that much runway, you should apply to Recurse Center https://www.recurse.com/ which will give you a chance to build up your skills, your confidence, and your network. > Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be
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by masterj 4y ago
Top 10ish%? Yes. Top 1%? No
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by masterj 4y ago
Safety regulations for the people inside the vehicles. Next to no regulations to protect those obligated to exist alongside them. Ex: No regulations for how a pedestrian body will react in a crash with an SUV
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by masterj 4y ago
> What is the throughput of highways vs public transit? Regardless of what the US does, throughput is much higher on public transit than it is on highways. You can fit so many more people on buses and trains than in automobiles. For the
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by masterj 4y ago
This is addressed at length by StrongTowns in this book: https://www.confessions.engineer/
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by masterj 5y ago
The author also has a long history of working at many places that aren't defense contractors, and a great book on working with large legacy systems (read: Cobol, mainframes, et al but relevant to all developers) https://www.
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by masterj 6y ago
> And I'm sure ATC can be added back in as a post-process, since it must at least stop for a manual tool change, or its CAM would be useless for even hobbyists I believe ATC moves are implemented as macros by the machine. So the cod
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by masterj 7y ago
There are lots of people who can observe climate change in everyday life. Anyone who regularly spends time in mountains around glaciers can see this change with their eyes. Or people in Houston who see 500 year floods yearly. Or Californian
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by masterj 7y ago
If the risk goes up as the science says it will, insurance rates will either have to rise substantially, or the insurer will lose lots of money to claims and potentially fail. Insurance will also not protect banks from stranded assets if th
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by masterj 7y ago
> Part of me knows that I'm probably underestimating the actual problem, but I've been hearing warnings for years that never amounted to anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias Listening to t
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by masterj 7y ago
> I saw some of the most recent projections for global GDP impacts due to climate change and it was a fraction of US GDP. That's unfortunate, but much better than I thought. We will make it. Read the assumptions behind those project
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by masterj 7y ago
> Between the technological advances in solar/wind/batter, renewed interest in nuclear, and shrinking CO2 it seems climate change is well on its way to being solved Do you realize that the most optimistic projections in climate
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by masterj 7y ago
ime Salesforce adjusts by locale, but not significantly so
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by masterj 8y ago
npm fixed a lot of the git dependency issues with 5.7.1. Have you tried updating?
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by masterj 9y ago
Promotions carry a corresponding salary bump that can be quite large. Check out http://levels.fyi/ (seems to be down right now) or the associated spreadsheet of salaries: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets

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