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by mepiethree 5y ago
I really like the “no guilt, but start on time” model, especially now that we don’t have the disruption of someone entering the room. I am often late because I am in meetings 6 hours a day which can lead to a “doctor effect” of cascading la
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Why is it considered a dick move to be early as an employment candidate? As long as the candidate is unobtrusive and keeps themselves busy, all it shows me is that they value the opportunity enough to budget extra time for things like traff
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Oh man I want this so badly. Might build it.
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by mepiethree 5y ago
I have those headphones and they do indeed rock. The problem is: most cellphones don’t have headphone jacks. My cellphone broke last summer and everything with a headphone jack was backordered. So now when my headphones die on (say) a long
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by mepiethree 5y ago
This is great context that I didn’t fully understand until your comment. Thanks!
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by mepiethree 5y ago
“it’s hard to justify any real value for a US copy of Super Mario Bros, no matter how old or sealed it is, as it’s just a newer copy of the same game.” This point is lingered on for a while and I don’t get it. Nothing about pricing collecti
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by mepiethree 5y ago
My wife put on an Oculus Quest and threw up within 5 minutes from simulator sickness. In this case, I think the average HN-Folk is _more_ likely to be interested in VR than the average person
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Isn’t that what the state of VR has been for the past decade? I used an Oculus for the first time in 2013 and it was exactly that feeling of exploration and joy
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by mepiethree 5y ago
I think about this all the time. I’m pretty young, don’t want kids, and tech pays so well right now, that I’m quite optimistic that I’ll have the opportunity to pursue a pure passion project like this in my 30s or 40s, heavily inspired by C
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Certainly not billions, but it’s still pretty astounding that basically one developer made a game that grossed >$200 million (15 million copies!)
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Auth0? Best practices for resiliency?
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Obviously not. In such a case, a much better option would be to fall back to the camera system or, worst case, force the car to go into manual mode with a human driver if it detects that nearby systems are unresponsive
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by mepiethree 5y ago
The effect is called Jevons Paradox. That is not a relevant consideration in this particular case, but it is a major concern for things like air conditioning efficiency. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by mepiethree 5y ago
The total amount of wind and solar in the world is several orders of magnitude higher than the amount that we would harness so this isn’t really a relevant consideration. It’s like asking if a piece of dust on an Olympic sprinter would slow
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Yep! Sunrun (largest residential solar company in the US) has partnered with Ford to make their new electric pickups into “power walls” in this way
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Of course I agree and was just being rhetorical! I just think it’s better to applaud the progress here than fault it for not having yet solved all the world’s problems
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Tech has to start somewhere. How much RAM did the first supercomputer have? Might’ve been easier to use pen and paper.
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Nice! Would love to read your paper :) I worked on this project, which is why I am all over this comment section :) https://its.berkeley.edu/news/new-tsrc-report-shows-benefits...
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by mepiethree 5y ago
I like this (very pro-EV) video which gets into this exact question https://youtu.be/1oVrIHcdxjA The most important point, IMO, is that localized emissions do the most harm. Even if the emissions were equal, keeping polluti
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by mepiethree 5y ago
I’m not sure what country you live in, so this may not apply to you, but most countries, including mine (USA) do heavily incentivize the use of green energy. Globally, renewable energy growth is accelerating, now that costs have come down s
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by mepiethree 6y ago
A lot of things, in my opinion. If you do work that can save even one life, it's worth it on a utilitarian level. It's not that hard to think of life-saving things to work on. You could imagine, perhaps, COVID vaccine distribution
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by mepiethree 6y ago
Yes. It's hard to find a good one.
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by mepiethree 6y ago
We aren't "poor sods" or carrot-led horses. We're just motivated by different things than you. In my case, fully mission driven
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by mepiethree 6y ago
Workaholism is an addiction and a mental health problem. I have worked for 50+ hours a week for 4 years and last year I became a manager and have worked 60-80 for the last year. On bad weeks, I joke to my wife that I am headed to my 9-5...
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by mepiethree 6y ago
yes! I'm more junior than you are, but once I got a rep as a gung ho problem solver, I started getting approached by random sales associates asking me to implement features. I would usually do it out of love for the business, even if i
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by mepiethree 6y ago
Kevala | Engineers, Data Engineering Manager | San Francisco, or remote Working at Kevala is good for the planet, and good for the soul. Or, formally: Kevala’s team is solving the challenges facing energy market participants interacting wit
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by mepiethree 6y ago
I'm "plussed," because an app that I manage uses slackclient, and some people depend on it to get paid. Obviously it's my fault for not handling the error, and I hotfixed it, but still, wah.
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by mepiethree 6y ago
The funniest part to me is that their status page still says "Uptime for the current quarter: 100%". These uptime messages are so BS. Heroku reports 6 9s of uptime for this month, even though their own status page shows multiple
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by mepiethree 6y ago
There are a lot of creative implementations of demand response and time of use rates, but the price curve is crazy (see slide 7 [1]). To achieve a 10% reduction in electricity usage in the evening, you have to give people a 80-90% discount
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by mepiethree 6y ago
Intuitively this makes sense: Moving takes time. My wife and I have talked about moving almost every day since the pandemic started, but haven't done anything about it

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