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by olau 5y ago
Videoconferencing tooling is still awful. Bad latency, pixelated screensharing, frequent issues with sound and video. On top of that hardware problems with bad microphone setups, cross talk, etc. I hope that at some point someone is going t
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by olau 5y ago
Excel is the ultimate bane of CSV files. If Microsoft would fix Excel and distribute the fixes to old Excels, then life would be good again.
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by olau 5y ago
This is also why learning touch typing is helpful. It frees up mind resources. Sadly, not many people put in the effort.
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by olau 5y ago
I completely agree. And that's why I'm sending my children to a Waldorf school without grading.
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by olau 5y ago
Magit is not terribly intuitive. It looks a bit like a menu-based GUI, so you'd expect to navigate around and use a standard set of keys, but most of it is actually powered by special key combinations. Now, in some circumstances, that
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by olau 5y ago
Me too. I don't know what I'm going to do when the last one dies.
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by olau 5y ago
FWIW, I know that Vestas has a department with a super computer dedicated to helping their customers choose optimal positions. And I also know of some recently commissioned large wind farms where the company behind explicitly mentioned wake
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by olau 5y ago
Regarding the risk - I don't think this characterization is doing the issue justice. It's really about decades of building up a manufacturing capacity with suppliers, etc. to get to a position where wind turbines are now competiti
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by olau 5y ago
The vertical turbines are not more efficient in themselves. In fact, they are less efficient. The paper does not claim that they are more efficient overall in a farm configuration either, just that they somehow seem to get a positive effect
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by olau 5y ago
I would kindly ask you to read the article I linked to before passing judgement on my extremely short summary. I skimmed the paper, and its contribution is a study on how vertical turbines seem to behave in a very small turbine farm. It doe
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by olau 5y ago
Here's a machine-translated post on vertical turbines by one of the pioneers in the modern wind turbine market: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... TLDR; they have been tried out and
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by olau 6y ago
How efficient is overlayfs? Could you use this to build a regular packaging system where instead of installing .debs/.rpms directly, they come as extension images and you just mount them in? I sometimes wonder why we even install stuff
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by olau 6y ago
The FSD beta, while still not ready, is pretty far from Autopilot that everyone has access to right now.
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by olau 6y ago
Enjoyable article, thanks!
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by olau 6y ago
The reason your logic doesn't work out is because the assumptions you put in place are counterfactual. What is factual is that the nuclear industry has been around for many decades and has not been able to solve this problem, despite t
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by olau 6y ago
I would like to add to this that real instruments are much more complicated in their sound. If you take a look at the frequency histogram of one of those, you'll realize that what you might call a theory of pure frequencies, while perh
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by olau 6y ago
Why don't you think we can use renewables to reach 100%? People have done calculations on it using existing tech? For my country, those calculations were done by a government body in 2014, and they estimated that the total cost would b
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by olau 6y ago
pytest assertion rewrite in the standard Python library would be really, really nice. I don't think the standard lib gets enough love.
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by olau 6y ago
There used to be a quadratic algorithm in character input in readline, the library that many common shells are using to parse commands. So if you copy-pasted a somewhat long list into something like Postgres or the Python shell, it would ta
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by olau 6y ago
Agreed. My kids go to a Waldorf school, and it's all about synthesis. They don't get teaching material, they make it themselves. This also reinforces a can-do attitude. I compare it to my university education, where we spend most
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by olau 6y ago
It would be kind of cool if you could fund this guy mentioned below: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/... I understand if it's too specific. But it would still be neat to see i
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by olau 6y ago
If you actually read the thread, it is evident that the author is in fact well-known and has worked on this for many years.
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by olau 6y ago
Thanks, Google!
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by olau 6y ago
Agreed (and I like pypy) One example is that Pypy switched away from reference-counting to fully garbage collected. They are probably right that's faster, but if I'm running a webserver, it's actually really comforting to kno
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by olau 6y ago
Both "id()" and its companion "is" are almost never used in practice - I don't think the tutorial mentions them. At least when it comes to id(), you'd have to find that in the reference where it will explain ho
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by olau 6y ago
That's the minimum viable product thing - you need to figure out what's actually helpful to people. For instance, I hope some day someone takes up the mantle and goes out making a decent free identity system. I think most of the N
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by olau 6y ago
How do you know that was because of their job market? As far as I'm aware, that was because they printed tons of money. Money was printed in the EU too, but stopped much sooner - far too soon. As if people forgot about Keynes. And actu
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by olau 6y ago
Depends on the seats. We have seats that you just put in. They are held in place by the seatbelt. So there's a bit of extra carrying the seats, that's all. We bought them because they were top scoring in a crash safety test.
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by olau 6y ago
I ran Intel on desktop for many years partly for that reason, partly due to much lower idle consumption, but to be honest, while full of features the Intel graphic drivers were for a long time (several years) a little bit buggy. I wasn&#x27
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by olau 6y ago
I can recommend "Seeing like a State" for more information about this. I don't think they are. But I also don't think you can make sweeping generalizations about these things - they are statistical phenomenons, governed

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