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by owenversteeg 8mo ago
To be fair, trying to teach something is one of the better ways to learn it in depth. Of course, before hitting "publish" you should make sure you actually can teach well, or at least coherently... something most of those blogs fo
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by owenversteeg 8mo ago
I completely agree that there's nothing comparable to old-school Heroku, which is crazy. That said, Cloudflare seems promising for some types of projects and I use them for a few things. Anyone using them as a one-stop-shop?
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by owenversteeg 8mo ago
I partly agree and disagree. Speed completely changes the game in a few ways. The first is identifying interests. Imagine every possible interest in a tree structure. Let's say you're into kumiko. There are so many levels of the t
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
Yes, the EU offshored almost all the important parts of their manufacturing, which definitely contributed. There is an interesting series of graphs on the subject from the same website: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-offs
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
Yeah, it really says something about the state of HN these days that this account racked up (net) 261 votes in nine days writing absolute drivel.
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
Funny enough, Miami is one of the few US cities that does have a pretty large rail system. There are several types of rail and it is fairly fast and effective. You can even take the Silver Meteor to NYC with an average speed of 51 mph. That
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
I think a "PR quality score" would go a long way here. Doesn't even have to be displayed to the user, you can just flag it as a low-quality PR under a certain threshold and have it go to a separate view for the maintainer. Ha
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
I mostly agree. Certainly transportation is an obvious one. But of course there are still some losses; when you include all the losses in the system and cold weather you can easily get ~80% for EVs vs. ~30% for ICE cars. Heat pumps can be v
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
The only asterisk this time is that this is electricity, not energy. Still impressive, but electricity is only 22% of total energy use, so they are at about 12% of the total for the EU and 7.8% for Europe. For that, you want this graph: ht
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
Comments here are interesting. Of course it’s a copy, he was 12. For pretty much of all of human history, to make art you would first consume large amounts of it to develop taste and then make many copies to develop skill and style. The ave
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
In fairness to the US system, it’s certainly better than the European system or pretty much all but a few around the world. Yes, there is corruption, inefficiency and the largest subsidies are often for huge corporations that obtained them
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
$2900 seems pretty reasonable to me considering the size. Works out to $416/sqft, which is much cheaper than Bay Area real estate. I never understood the draw of these huge monitors until I had to do CAD for work and now I understand.
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
The IRA wasn't a cure-all and Trump/the OBBBA didn't exactly kill it dead, either. 84% of IRA clean energy grants, or $96.7B, was protected from clawback by Trump [0.] The tax credits are largely intact. Many of the projects
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
Well said. The credit is with the model; you commissioned it but did not create it. With AI art... there is no passion, there is no pain, there is no emotion, there is no sex, there is no feeling, there is no reason. When Blaze Foley sang I
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
>You can even combine the visual understanding of Gemini with the actions generated by Opus to take it a step further, by having the latter generate instructions and the former generates JSON DSL to that gets executed. Yes, huge +1 for t
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
In short: it plays far too well (~2500 ELO.) People think it originally played at a reasonable level and accidentally got more powerful as the seatback computers got more powerful; the same thing happened to the Mac chess app with the relea
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by owenversteeg 9mo ago
You're welcome! Thank you for the interesting discussion :)
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
The diagram says that (Cyrillic ∩ Greek) - (Cyrillic ∩ Latin) is 3 letters, П Ф Г but as the sibling comment says, Λ/Л, Δ/Д and Κ/К are similar enough. That only leaves you with Θ/theta (th as in thin), Σ/sigma (s a
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
I don't think it's particularly American; people these days read at a lower level around the world. Language aside, most bookstores in Europe and the US have a fair bit in common.
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
I don't know when you want to define as the start of the microchip age (50s? 60s?) but the Soviets were always behind the Americans in advanced manufacturing. In 1931 Stalin said "We are 50–100 years behind the advanced countries&
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
The history of Soviet electronics manufacturing is fascinating, but there are some huge differences and I actually don't think the private sector is the largest. One is the pace and type of innovation. In the 70s and 80s the landscape
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
Depends on the specific issue, but race would be an interesting one. For most of recorded history people had a much different view of the “other”, more xenophobic than racist.
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
This discussion comes up from time to time on HN. I actually think the country _has_ accomplished a lot given their geopolitical situation. Just to list a few things in the 21st century: 1) they had years of (at times fairly successful) pro
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
I can't stand the conflation of "satisfied" and "happy." It's insane. There is more happiness in one Zimbabwean (country "happiness" rank: 143) than in one hundred Icelanders (country "happiness&
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by owenversteeg 10mo ago
I’ve driven a lot of different cars around the world and nearly all check engine lights are orange. Almost all the Google image search results are orange. To be sure I checked the most popular ICE car models worldwide: Toyota Corolla, Toyot
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
Glass-liquid transition temperature, which is approximately where plastics and other materials change from hard and relatively brittle into flexible and rubbery. As the other comments here noted, it doesn’t exactly mean that the material is
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
The part was claimed to be ABS-CF. UK AAIB tested the part and found it to have a Tg of approximately 53C. The Tg of ABS is far higher, around 100C. I suspect that the part may have been accidentally printed with PLA-CF (which has a Tg of a
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I like the rest of the comment, but... >Did you know Orange dash error lights are non critical? That's not even remotely true for most cars. One of the most critical alarms you can get in a car is a flashing check engine light, whic
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
That works, but be sure to use a wool or cotton cloth. ——- The proper method to deal with an oil fire: turn off the heat and smother the fire with a metal lid, metal baking sheet, or wool/cotton cloth. Do not use a fire blanket made of
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I've seen a lot of AI-generated PRs but I think this one is actually a very unique and interesting case. Most of these are written by novices, don't work, are for less-technical projects, and there isn't any real conversation

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