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by oconnore 9y ago
If you have good judgement, it's quite easy to prevent a fatality. I.e. I go slower in places where I know pedestrians might jump out.
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by oconnore 9y ago
Reliability is expensive and slow. Companies hate expensive and slow, especially when you have a demo that basically does what you want sans edge cases.
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by oconnore 9y ago
This is not a helpful suggestion (even if it's often correct) in the same way that "don't get a knee replacement" is also unhelpful (though often correct).
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by oconnore 9y ago
Right, a coefficient of performance (COP) of 1 is equal to 100% efficiency. A heat pump typically exceeds that, so your COP 2 heat pump is 200% efficient (useful heat divided by work required). If an electrical joule cost the same as a natu
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by oconnore 9y ago
Electric heat in the form of heat pumps is fairly competitive (certainly not 2-3x). You are correct that running an electric current through a resistive wire is not an economical solution.
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by oconnore 9y ago
This article is weird, because the "bubble effect" (or as Soros describes it: "an undue ability to influence people’s behavior by leveraging their massive data stores to precisely target messages that nudge users in specific
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by oconnore 9y ago
More like $500, with the significant possibility of Delta killing your puppy.
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by oconnore 9y ago
neverside.com // tutorialforums.com
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by oconnore 9y ago
I’m in Portugal right now, and my partner, who just recently switched to Fi, has no access to her previous google voice number, and her main number (and Fi service in general) has been on and off. Several people have complained they can’t
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by oconnore 9y ago
Thunderbird does not support carddav. Contacts + Thunderbird is generally a terrible experience. I switched to Zoho’s webmail because of this (at least I can get bidirectional sync to my iPhone).
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by oconnore 9y ago
Most of the stories about social media are focused on the fact that it was non-US entities putting pro Trump posts up.
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by oconnore 9y ago
Ok, so you're at 25/mo + 5/mo + 10/mo = $40/mo for self hosted. That's almost exactly "halfway between 12 and 70/mo". Plus, S3/Glacier and a backed up hard drive (even with raid) are nowhere
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by oconnore 9y ago
The only confusing thing about this is: you’re cool with AWS but insist on deploying your own hardware for personal projects! You can buy a lot of EC2 compute per month before you hit the cost of running outdated servers on your power bill.
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by oconnore 9y ago
Ok, so then I spend 5 minutes changing some boilerplate and upload it to Azure/Google Cloud/a server I bought on craigslist? Even if that did happen, I probably would still have saved time overall, because I didn't have to ma
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by oconnore 9y ago
This would be way more useful if there was an indefinite free tier (or just a smooth bill per usage!) for API gateway. I have seriously considered moving my personal projects to Azure because Functions can be triggered via HTTPS without a $
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by oconnore 9y ago
I upload my code to AWS, and it gets run. You save your code to your Intel laptop, and it gets run. Neither of us have the complete source code that is used to run that code. You have to be ok with that, and drawing a line in the sand at th
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by oconnore 9y ago
> than stand up, walk to the bathroom and turn them off. > No more having to type into Google "20 minute timer" then remembering to keep that tab open and your sound on. The horror
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by oconnore 9y ago
I don't think (or at least, the performance doesn't indicate) that AWS Lambda does anything special other than caching your function's JVM for some undefined period of time after every request.
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by oconnore 9y ago
I'm totally confident that we could replicate Amsterdam in any US city if we wanted to. But before we get there, I need an article about what to do about the fact that so many of my fellow Denver Coloradans hate : bike lanes, buses, t
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by oconnore 9y ago
Why didn't you write a nice python wrapper for AWS Batch? You'd get all the benefits of fully managed code, but none of the limits of Lambda functions. I don't see how any of your workloads are super latency sensitive -- a tr
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by oconnore 9y ago
> keep in mind that building a ton of units and not having other policies in place isn't going to magically get us lower rents. No, that will actually "magically" get you lower rents, for some definition of "a ton&quo
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by oconnore 9y ago
True, it's still early. The author says this: > The more apartments stand vacant, and the longer they go unfilled, the greater the pressure on landlords to drop prices. Already, some newer apartments are offering move-in bonuses, li
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by oconnore 9y ago
> I regularly check the rental rates for units in these new complexes as they come on line and I have yet to find units that I can afford. The whole point of this article is not that new affordable units are being built, but that the con
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by oconnore 9y ago
Similar conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15544496
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by oconnore 9y ago
> "seems to have an agenda" Understatement of the year... the featured article is "Trump Jr. says universities teach students to hate America" .
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by oconnore 9y ago
This website is ridiculous, featured article: "Trump Jr. says universities teach students to hate America"
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by oconnore 9y ago
I think it's just changed. They can't read your diary or your photo albums anymore, but they can see purchase history down to the second, they can (in theory) track your location in real time and cross reference it against others,
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by oconnore 9y ago
To me the bothersome things are the expansion of the proportional impact of individual influencers and also the shrinking of the number of channels required to deliver influence effectively. In the lunchroom example, so long as lots of othe
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by oconnore 9y ago
You are trying so hard to escape from a fundamental truth that echoes throughout history: government, money, economy, it's all about power. You can't sidestep the issue of power by throwing technology at it: you will just create a
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by oconnore 9y ago
> We need a totally new system This seems historically ignorant. Most systems of allocating power and resources have been tried at various times. The answer is likely at the end of a long, nuanced, and painful road of combining ideas fro

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