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by peterbraden 5y ago
You may brick your macbook as the switch charger doesn’t follow the spec. This is exactly the problem.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
A ubuntu upgrade bricked a virtual server that I had relied on. Network access was so broken that I ended up exporting the data, and killing the machine. Just an anecdote to counter your assertion.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
Have you forgotten the global pandemic and impending climate disaster?
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by peterbraden 5y ago
This makes me sad, you are so confident that a government can never do the right thing, that the only solution you see is to prevent any progress, and anchor yourself to a local minima from the past. Society needs it’s members to believe th
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by peterbraden 5y ago
Sure, but you’re twisting words. Wind is pretty much always used to refer to horizontal air movement.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
I would disagree on boring, thermal flying on a windless day is amazing, proximity flying, a chill sled ride. Many fun ways to play without wind. I wouldn’t comment on safety comparisons with paramotoring without more statistics.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
The article mentions the death of hang gliding as a sport, but doesn’t mention that the reason isn’t that people stopped wanting to fly, but rather that paragliding has dominated due to rapid improvements in the technology, and the vastly s
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by peterbraden 5y ago
This is untrue, paragliding doesn’t require any wind for descending. You generate your own airspeed. There are also other ways of staying up than soaring (thermals). Additionally, wind isn’t the source of the risk, rather wind variability a
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by peterbraden 5y ago
They solve different problems. Tailscale basically allows you to ignore any NAT topologies separating you from your machines. You can have a pseudo local network of your machines behind a VPN, allowing SSH to any machine with zero routing i
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by peterbraden 5y ago
Europe is far more free than the US for a lot of this, no permits required, right to roam in many countries, and camping is tolerated most places it isn’t a nuisance.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
Not at all. The areas where they are ubiquitous, which we normally call forests, are still cool.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
No, there’s also the possibility of inheritance.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
What a condescending comment. You realize how many millions of people live in flood plains, and how climate change means that existing mitigations are not sufficient anymore?
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by peterbraden 5y ago
How do you do this with iPhoto? With an iPhone it doesn't seem that there is a way to sync with a folder anymore.
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by peterbraden 5y ago
As long as the work gets done, why does it matter?
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by peterbraden 6y ago
how many people nowadays will recognize a paper filing box?
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by peterbraden 6y ago
What data are you using for the DEM?
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by peterbraden 6y ago
Doesn't load at all in firefox. I guess they only tested in chrome.
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by peterbraden 6y ago
Because gas and other fossil fuels are inelastic - it's expensive to turn them off or on, and it can't be done rapidly. The fact that wind can be turned on or off at will means they can be used to balance demand spikes.
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by peterbraden 6y ago
This is a terrible comparison, bird physiology is nothing like human. The energy saving is vast, the energy comes from external lift rather than burnt calories. It’s like the difference between standing and running.
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by peterbraden 6y ago
The quote predates that fact.
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by peterbraden 6y ago
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by peterbraden 6y ago
Location: Zürich Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack web, Rust, JS etc. Résumé/CV: https://peterbraden.co.uk/resume/ Email: hi at peterbraden.co.uk Experienced software eng
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by peterbraden 6y ago
That ship sailed a thousand years ago.
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by peterbraden 6y ago
Here's my version: https://github.com/peterbraden/rays.rust
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Traditionally you also have dividends as well. Stock buybacks are basically tax avoidance.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Here's the thing. I have a Garmin that also gets more than a week of battery life, with an always on display. It also does the fitness stuff very well. There wasn't an advantage to the Pebble angle.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Seeking contract work, or something really compelling. Location: Zürich, Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack. Rust would be nice. Résumé/CV: https://peterbraden.co.uk/resu
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Contentless flame-bait, not worth reading.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
The mobile apps are where I'm lacking at the moment - I've reluctantly started using dropbox as the syncing solution, but there's not a lot of great mobile apps that work with text well.

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