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by nilsbunger 3y ago
I’ve always wondered why the price of electricity on a time-of-use plan doesn’t match this curve. Our electricity is still “peak” pricing in middle of day at the bottom of the duck curve.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Looks really cool and ambitious! Curious why you guys decided to go open-source, and whether that was always the plan.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
I didn’t realize that with Pandas 2.0, Pandas-to-Polars conversions can be zero copy if you use Arrow as the data frame format.
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Using Polars in a Pandas World(pythonspeed.com)
3 points by nilsbunger 3y ago|1 comments
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Note that 50,000 yen is $335. So that’s a ceiling on how much you’ll spend for 7 days of Shinkansen travel.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
To make this a fair comparison you need to look at the average price per ticket, not the “starting at” price, and include the government subsidies of airports/security/atc/ etc that enable this system. I would also add in a c
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
It's sad that even great potential routes like SF->LA aren't accessible by train, and we don't seem to have the state capacity to build HSR there. I was just in Japan, and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto, which is
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
I love this write up. Thank you ! I’m looking for more resources like this - clear examples of composing LLMs into useful systems. Some of the cookbook examples in langchain, chainlit , etc have been useful too.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Cool. I’d love to see a version for Tailwind!
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
I love the idea of community assets. could it be the start of a GPU co-op?
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
To punish Facebook for breaking their promise, he ... gave Facebook $850M (by not vesting all his equity) ?
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Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nilsbunger 3y ago|1 comments
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
This is a pretty standard maneuver - it's similar to a "soft field landing" (eg grass runway). Assuming you have a long runway, you avoid braking since that would slam the nose down, and use more and more elevator to keep the
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
But will the CCS be as fast at charging ? It seems like Tesla could control a lot with their proprietary connector if it has a faster charge rate.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
They have a silicon interposer to connect two dies. That’s a really cool way to effectively make a chip twice as big. Is this a new technique ?
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Did you ever get tested for learning differences like dyslexia? It often comes along with ADHD. You didn’t describe exactly what happens in detail but it may be worth checking.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
"Mosaic is truly a high-quality application. But the price for beauty is more memory and disk space. Mosaic consumes over 1.3MB of disk space, and will use about 2MB of RAM while running." I don't know about those fancy graph
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Mapbox Studio should be able to do this
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
They don't bail out the insurance companies though, so those companies have no incentive to play ball in CA if it's unprofitable or risky to them.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
A less distorting mechanism is for CA to provide re-insurance to cover the massive catastrophic risk, while allowing providers to service the everyday risk. CA already backstops earthquake insurance in a similar way. You do lose the market
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams(youtube.com)
1 points by nilsbunger 3y ago|0 comments
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KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis(docs.keydb.dev)
203 points by nilsbunger 3y ago|126 comments
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
Comments in JSON? Why isn’t this everywhere?
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
The talk is in 2035, not 2014
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
i rowed on a crew team for many years. The pads of my fingers were all worn down. I was rejected three times for "bad fingerprints" when applying for US citizenship.
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
How do you do account recovery if you run a service using passkeys? 1. email-based "reset passkey" flow -- only as secure as the email it's sent to, and you need to make sure the email is still valid since the user isn't
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The Second Freeway Revolt (2013)(foundsf.org)
17 points by nilsbunger 3y ago|5 comments
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
I thought modern cars have an electronic challenge mechanism with the key that you can’t bypass as easily. Is that not the case ?
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by nilsbunger 3y ago
It doesn't even out if the company keeps growing - if your headcount is growing 50% per year you can have very significant tax drag.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Brand new ocean-view apartments 2 blocks from the beach? They're definitely marketable. People don't travel to work as much these days anyway. While it's true that closer to town will be more attractive, but that's not t

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