ourlordcaffeine

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by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
I see creating/contributing to OSS projects almost as a form of payment, i.e. you are paying your dues for being able to access a large array of free open source software by contributing back to the movement.
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The (startup) company I work for is planning to do this actually. We won't be able to rewild a huge swathe of land but it is a start.
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There is a lot of hype and "they are using it too" mentality as well I think. I am working on control software which, if it crashes or even takes a tiny bit too long to issue a command, could cause the company big financial loss.
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by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
Not to be a killjoy but how is this relevant to HackerNews? HN isn't reddit.
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For me, R probably has a worse rate of churn than javascript in the case of breaking changes. Javascript is full of hyped frameworks, but R is the only language I've used where a minor update to a package caused an entire project to br
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by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
In similar vein, I've seen a lot of people use the same argument against high speed inter-city rail (ie cities in the US are far apart), yet the low density interior of China is connected by high speed rail all the way to Ürümqi.
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Doesn't ycombinator have operations in China? If so it should be pretty easy for the CPC to twist yc's arm until they start censoring hackernews.
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I don't know how open it is, but there is Wi-Sun to try out. They have a statement on open-ness: https://www.wi-sun.org/wp-content/uploads/Wi-SUN-Alliance-Po... . Ti's long range 15.4 implementation is no
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A friend was once owed about $2k, and did not receive payment on time. She phoned up the person processing payments, who told her that essentially the person running the shop had instructed them not to pay her. She sent an email to the head
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Without the magnetic field, a thick atmosphere on Mars will still persist for tens of thousands of years.
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I feel like this could also be used in the hiring process to discriminate against women who are pregnant or are trying for a baby
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>The Chinese students who don't subscribe to the CCP agenda are pressured by the others. They get labelled traitors, ostracised, word gets around and their families get harassed back at home. This has happened to people I know, for
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by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
>Saw a system at Makerfaire that does voice recognition without the cloud Voice recognition without the cloud has been possible for years, this is nothing new.
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>Remember, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate emissions Most of these 100 companies are oil companies, and the emissions from oil they sold on to consumers is unfairly attributed to them. Exxon don't burn oil for fun,
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>We need 70x more nuclear power than we have today A nuclear fission world will never happen due to the economics of it. Fission plants are hugely expensive, and take a decade or more to construct. Investors would prefer to bring 100MW a
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I'm really not interested in "Lua now implemented in x", what Lua needs is the new Luajit finished with the advanced garbage collection.
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Needing massive amounts of storage to make renewable work is an often repeated myth. Large reductions in carbon output are achievable with current storage with a mixture of wind, limited solar and the right price/balancing incentives.
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Can you give any pointers? I'm finding it quite hard to find datasheets and spectral measurements for bulbs sold online, they really don't give consumers much information.
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In my mind what California needs more than a high speed intercity network is a medium speed high capacity train system between cities and surrounding commuter settlements.
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I think it is quite hard to be immersive on a handheld device, the small screen and limited input options are really limiting in my opinion.
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>anybody who gets tired of anti-Chinese submissions constantly being pushed on the front-page It's not really anyone who gets tired, it's the accounts that revert to whataboutism whenever the communist party is criticised, flat
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So they are generating a signal by toggling the IO pin on and off. Not only will there be a huge amount of harmonics, wouldn't processor interrupts wreak havoc on the output signal and cause even more interference?
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>And really, you still need a bunch of batteries to handle short-term fluctuations in renewables output. Not really the case. Renewable output does not fluctuate fast enough to require the fast response of batteries. Fast responding stor