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by mdorazio 2y ago
How do any of these apply if you have a top-heavy workforce that is strongly overpaid relative to its output? Or if you over-hired for certain roles during a temporary economic situation and retraining to other roles is non-trivial? Over ti
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by mdorazio 2y ago
FYI, San Diego has a desalination plant that cost about a billion dollars to build and provides water equivalent to that used by 400,000 homes [1]. The lack of the San Onofre plant doesn't seem to be a limiting factor. [1] https:&#x2F
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by mdorazio 2y ago
California cannot even run a balanced budget without adding more megaprojects like large-scale desalination. The only way this would work is if it was private development encouraged by properly pricing water usage in the state (i.e. much hi
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Read Player of Games , then the essay, then go back and read some more books in the series.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
If going with client-side CSS rendering, I'd also play with CSS filter functions like contrast. The OSM tiles have always looked too low on contrast for me and thus difficult to read. Making them grayscale makes it worse.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
> Can ChatGPT materially and positively impact the code written by big companies? It already has at a Fortune 100 company I contract with currently. > Can it do meaningful work in excel? We can quibble about what "meaningful&quot
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by mdorazio 2y ago
If we’re sharing anecdata, Creatine has very noticeable positive impact on recovery time for me. Without it, I basically have to take an extra rest day between workouts.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Are portable AC units not available in Europe? They are inefficient but can sit inside next to the window and only require that you partially block off a window opening.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I had that happen to me once as well - it was an AT&T Wifi network and the auto connection was triggered by something in the carrier settings.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Counterpoint: I have never encountered a “designer deck” that I couldn’t recreate in PowerPoint. Most people just really suck at PowerPoint / Slides and, to be fair, the functionality to make things look good is often unintuitive. Just
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I’ll share my story. The IRS incorrectly sent me a fine for over a thousand dollars claiming I had filed late. I tried calling them 9 times on different days to dispute it. Within a minute of opening, end of day, middle of the day, didn’t m
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by mdorazio 2y ago
The order should not be changing - that’s another user-hostile invention designed to encourage doomscrolling. Increasing count is a non-issue because once you reach a content piece you saw previously you know where you are (same as any bull
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Depends on your definition of “significant”. They require at least one depot in each city where they operate. The depot handles charging, cleaning, inspection, repair, and parking during low-demand times. Each depot is different since they
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Rather than do 30 seconds of basic googling you instead decided it was awful and returned it? This comment is just bizarre to see on HN. Wheat-based plastic is made from wheat straw , not wheat grains. The straw has no gluten to start with
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by mdorazio 2y ago
It's unclear to me from the tweets if anyone confirmed the driver removed his foot from the accelerator. I'd absolutely love to dump on Tesla, but people often do stupid things in panic situations.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
This is almost certainly illegal. If the hats actually hit anyone, it's possible to be sued for reckless endangerment and/or assault. If they don't, it's littering. If you're asking dumb things like "how could
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by mdorazio 2y ago
This characterization is pretty misleading. For example, the Google Maps that was acquired was a C++ desktop application. What most people think of as Google Maps (the AJAX web app) was built and launched by Google.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Typical words for this include “monopoly/monopsony”, “regulatory capture”, and “necessity goods”. There are others, too, but they generally don’t apply to creative outputs.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I don’t really buy this argument. Maritime alternatives like hydrogen fuel cells and biodiesel seem like far more realistic plays than installing nuclear reactors on thousands of vessels.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
This “people should be paid based on the value they create” myth comes up a lot on HN. Compensation is only tied to value creation as a maximum level. The actual compensation level is whatever people are willing to work for while doing go
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Ones I personally use because they are/were good: Maps. Android (+ Auto). Chrome. Docs/Sheets. Translate. The issue is that most of these originated a long time ago and recent Google creations, like Bard/Gemini, tend to be me
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by mdorazio 2y ago
It's much easier and cleaner to subdivide quads to refine shapes when modeling. For example, you can split the quads along an entire edge to get a new clean edge for manipulation (ex. to bevel it). If you try to do the same with triang
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Yes, but there is also nothing on the moon worth going there for. Fusion resources are a pipe dream and anything you mine there would be much better mined off asteroids. I’m of the opinion that if you want real space industry, leave the pla
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by mdorazio 2y ago
It's difficult for me to understand the thinking here. Nvidia is dominant because AMD and Intel completely dropped the ball on investing in frameworks to compete with CUDA. Microsoft... invested in OpenAI when it was clear that the new
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I agree on quality varying widely for resins softer than something like ABS or PETG. And tolerances are definitely never to advertised spec. It’s worth noting that Formlabs themselves sell a “silicone” resin for a hilarious $350: https:&#x
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by mdorazio 2y ago
This is factually incorrect. A quick search will show you plenty of flexible resins. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eely3rxr2to Resin is also much less prone to size changes than standard FDM filaments. If
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by mdorazio 2y ago
This isn't supported by people I've talked to who have owned prior Formlabs printers, though. In fact, I've walked into several R&D labs and seen Formlabs printers collecting dust because they couldn't get support
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Notable that I can't find any reviews that directly compare the performance of this $4500 printer to one of the higher-end consumer resin printers available today for $500. What are you getting to justify the massively higher price? Wi
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Same. Solder one of the $1 audio cables I’ve got lying around to the speaker leads and run it into your choice of audio recorders, play the files and you’re done in 5 minutes with basically no losses.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
How do you propose doing that, though? Mass transit almost everywhere runs at a significant loss already and if we're talking buses then there's a significant driver shortage. In the US the distances and routes required outside of

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