maxwell86

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by maxwell86 5y ago
It's illegal cause it will kill you. Independently of whether this is legal or illegal wherever you live, you should care about _why_ it is illegal in some places.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> Why is it that small craft work but large craft don't, Because the goal of small craft is to go with the flow wherever the wind brings you, because that's fun. The goal of commercial crafts is to go or transport stuff from A
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> Because that preparation, by and large, is not related to the actual job. TBH, depends on the job. I think the problem is hiring people with these skills to do jobs that don't require them. That's bad for both parties. The em
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> Because the Hindenburg was able to take 100+ people across the Atlantic (86 years ago!), that's much more than the maybe 10-person "luxury RV" that the OP was suggesting. Today's Zeppelin NT semi-rigid airships are
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> To review, where do Rust and C++, these programming languages with their vastly different philosophies, Rust for the cautious, C++ for the fast and bold, stand? In the exact same place. The author spent 1 page before this statement, an
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by maxwell86 5y ago
Because it doesn’t work. You’d need a foot ball field of area, and a 3 story building, to life a small yacht like space. The wind forces on the surface would be extreme, and you’d need a lot of power to even stay somewhere stationary instea
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by maxwell86 5y ago
A simple answer might be that octopuses get stressed when there are to many other octopuses around which limits resources. Some octopuses eating their own tentacles and dying might give them an evolutionary advantage.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
I think from a stakeholder pov, just the fact that they are the gatekeeper to your passwords make it valuable. Imagine if the chinese government could buy all its stock through a third party company, and sit on the board, install a "pa
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by maxwell86 5y ago
You suggested that Python type hints are useful. I laughed hard at that suggestion. Can you maybe just show how to type a Python function such that it does the absurdly simple thing of taking a numpy array of integers? def fun(nump_arr
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> In modern python we now have type hints of course, which have helped quite a lot. I had to laugh, hard. If your Python program uses any library whatsoever, chances are that library won't have types, so you can't really use th
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> I guess what I'm asking is: If you were fresh out of college, how would you go about getting a job? Leetcode and hackerrank all the problems now that university is fresh in your mind. Do some programming competitions. Get a job
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by maxwell86 5y ago
> I sincerely have no clue how a password manager could be so expensive. So you can't imagine how owning the passwords of all services of dozens of millions of users, both private users and corporate accounts, could be valuable?
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by maxwell86 5y ago
Insulation beats solar panels. It’s not only much cheaper to get, but also to maintain. The body heat of a family of 4 is enough to heat a well insulated house. Solar panels are there to supply electricity for use. The last step of passive
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by maxwell86 5y ago
So according to that list, my idea would work. According to the sibling comments, it does not only work, but some people are already using it in practice.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
I would like an email service where, when someone wants to send me an email, they have to first get some hash, e.g., "{hash}.myaccount@myprovider.com". Then, in order to get the hash, they have to paypal me 20 cents. If my attenti
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by maxwell86 5y ago
Where is the scam? Someone actioned a book, and some genious paid 3 million+ dollars for it. 3, 2, 1, sold.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
If you then destroy the physical copy, how can you validate if the digitalisation succeeded? For example, many Xerox scanners "switch" numbers when scanning: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/080
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by maxwell86 5y ago
My dog is closer to a bank than an exchange is.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
bitcoin has no banks, period.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
It contains a laser CO2 sensor.
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District Heating(en.wikipedia.org)
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by maxwell86 5y ago
You have left this comment multiple times in the threads, in comments that have nothing to do with heat pumps: > Spouting this sort of head-in-the-clouds, wrong information only weakens your cause. The only thing you are showing is your
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by maxwell86 5y ago
The materials used for induction woks have very low heat capacity, but are very good at conducting heat. They get instantaneously hot, and instantaneously cold, with just the press of a button in your stove. This is pretty much the case for
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by maxwell86 5y ago
ebay (buy new directly from the brand). Restaurants open and close, and that stuff needs to often go somewhere else, up to the point that many of these brands sell their new equipment on ebay dirctly via their own shop.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
We have a model similar to this one: https://rover.ebay.de/rover/0/0/99?loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eba...
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by maxwell86 5y ago
I have one similar to thieving: https://rover.ebay.de/rover/0/0/99?loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eba...
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by maxwell86 5y ago
https://rover.ebay.de/rover/0/0/99?loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eba... I have a similar model to that one, but can’t find mine (it’s a bit older). That one cost 140€ and has 3.5kW. Mine was cheaper (~100€) and has 4
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by maxwell86 5y ago
Why are you talking about heat pumps? If you have remote heat, you don’t need a heat pump. Heat pumps are expensive, and hard to service and maintain (though they usually have a long lifetime). Some of them use pretty toxic chemicals that y
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by maxwell86 5y ago
Beer brewing.
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by maxwell86 5y ago
I got a similar to this one, can’t find mine: https://rover.ebay.de/rover/0/0/99?loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eba...

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