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Ask HN: What's Up with BuildZoom?
1 points by neltnerb 5y ago|3 comments
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think the writing was on the wall for XMPP once people started chatting on Facebook and Facebook got past their brief XMPP compatible phase. Then Google also deprecated it. It's a nice protocol, but if you're missing all the con
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I have to admit, this user-hostile stuff is really not making me confident in upgrading the 50+ Windows 10 computers in our facility to Windows 11.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Why? Can't a company make it so that there's a "cancel contract" method? I am not an Ethereum expert, I just don't understand, to be clear. I'm sure this is far more basic than what you know how to do, but this
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I'm very confused, why do you think we don't know this already? No one argued with your comment about electrolysis because everyone learned about it in middle school and using renewable energy for it is incredibly obvious. For som
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think the way I'd put it is that most of the claims there are orthogonal to the UI complaints people make. I don't see people complain about the ease of browsing to a desired place, sometimes I do it with the toolbar, sometimes
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think my problem with it is two-fold, but I acknowledge I'm not some kind of UI expert. First, I dislike that I cannot quickly count how many things there are. Borders also make me feel more confident in locating a button. Second, by
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Why try to find one material that fits every application? Steel cans are better for canned goods where the pressure is low and they rely on design more. Aluminum is usually better for cans of soda under pressure where they're stronger.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
It sounds like all three of us are entirely aware that making ammonia requires hydrogen which comes from natural gas which releases CO2. That's why I said it was unfortunate that ammonia comes from fossil fuels in the first place.
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Disregarding taxes and financial incentives that may bias things, putting it in a field means you don't need to work on a roof to maintain it, you aren't limited by roof area, and you don't need to worry about the roof weight
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sorry, yes, you're right, I meant modern ones.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Absolutely, as is the case in any huge project, it takes long enough to build that at some point you have to freeze the design and technology keeps progressing. It's hard to predict which pieces of technology will mature on what timeli
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, glass and metal packaging are appropriate in different use cases and glass is much heavier than either plastic or metal. We're not really trying to find the one true packaging material right? Some are better than others depending
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Thanks, glad I didn't buy a subscription to Bloomberg for that.
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Huh? We use metal for all kinds of containers. Yes, I think it is better to use metal than plastic when possible (and we can recycle it). Metallic glass and metal are both made from the same atoms.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
For sure aluminum recycling is more cost effective than glass recycling, but I've definitely never in my life heard the suggestion that it's better to literally put glass in landfills instead... that really sounds like the kind of
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Being able to use ammonia as a fuel to produce electricity is really neat to me because an ammonia fuel cell uses a liquid fuel, unlike a hydrogen fuel cell, and so is far more energy dense (including storage cylinder weight). It might be a
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by neltnerb 5y ago
In terms of recyclability, I don't think metallic glass has any advantage over polycrystalline metal. It's much stronger though.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
What! Where did they say that! I've always been told to recycle glass because it's easy to make new glass from, is this a recent thing? Sounds like malicious advertising from people making PLA garbage, which I mean literally since
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yeah, I didn't see any explanation for that either. With that much kinetic energy around I wonder if it's designed to simultaneously launch a portion of the counterweight. It's got a lower lever so the overall momentum might
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by neltnerb 5y ago
There are several varieties, fixed rate mortgages exist for 10-30 year terms. Adjustable rate mortgages also exist and commonly with a lower starting interest rate, but they are often a trap for people with low incomes who suddenly cannot a
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Why would they necessarily be combined? If you look at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics they will happily provide you with more detail, for instance the median salary in a field for the top 10% of employees versus the top 90%. I don'
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This is for two pairs of R/C in series ( R||C + R||C ). Real: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Real%28+%281%2F%281%2F... Imaginary: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Imaginary%28+%281
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, I am familiar with this system. If anything, being a physicist is all the better reason to want a computer to deal with the units though... My example was entirely contrived of course, a less contrived one would be estimating how long
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Thanks for the reminder =) Alas, I often have to do these kinds of calculations on a random publicish computer or my phone and Google's converter is platform-independent. But not using Google services when feasible is certainly net goo
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by neltnerb 5y ago
It doesn't work so good for times but I often use Google search to multiply numbers with units together and get a result in the units I want without having to worry about screwing up unit conversions. Example: 4 atomic mass units * (10
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I have not had great luck with speech recognition on Linux, but I suspect that will be solved before there's a compelling reason to use Windows other than having no other choice due to niche applications.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Is it not always the case? Do we say that Ebola doesn't kill you directly, it's the hemorrhaging and multi-organ failure? Of course it doesn't kill you "directly" for some sufficiently narrow definition of direct.
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I have heard it said that with public transit (including inter-city travel) service drives demand. Until you can rely on it for your commute people don't use it at all. For inter-city rail the "service" includes getting you t
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What do you mean? I used it to solve a nasty impedance network for the real and imaginary components yesterday and the solutions were accurate. Edit: Maybe it's just good enough that people treat it as a tool and see no need to market

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