ph0rque

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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   Also, what happens if a competing co-op opens up shop in the same city?
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   "Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me" -- Song of Solomon 6:5
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   Interesting... googled Dark Sky, tried out their web app, will probably download the mobile app. The original article's thesis seems to be on to something :)
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   One step closer for my totally pointless, no real use case dream of running a container in a browser tab.
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   A bit off-topic, but I love the "Population density by county" graph. Is there any way to plot the whole world that way, and then make an animation of how it changes over time?
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   Nice! I had my solar panel installed on the roof of my house in 2015, and they have a pay-off projection of just over seven years. At the beginning of the year, my neighbor had solar panels installed, and we calculated his pay-off projectio
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   So it paid for itself in 1.65 years, which comes out to an ROI of ~52%. Why is this not more widespread? There must be some barriers.
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   *flock of Birds
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   by ph0rque 8y ago

   Just noticed them in my parents' town (50k population) this past weekend.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Well, here's one factor: > The challenge is particularly acute in France, where hospitals have been facing a national crisis, with health care professionals striking and protesting budget cuts and staff shortages.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Well, I tried both Accurate Altimeter and Sensors Multitool, and I must say I'm disappointed. The values varied by 20 meters! In reality, my property varies by 2 to 3 meters at most. I'll keep thinking about how to solve the probl
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Ah, this seems to be a scam, according to the actual manufacturer: https://www.atr-orbiter.net/
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    To alphabetize your socks, you first have to name them.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Or this? https://innovgoods.com/products/snow-plow-robot
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Thanks for the tips! I don't need accurate readings, just precise ones (so the map can be internally consistent; here's what I drew manually for my property: https://i.imgur.com/2ZGmB1M.png ). I'll keep in min
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Thanks for the idea! I found a variety of altimeter apps for the phone; I'll have to try just walking around my yard with one (or several), then see if it's possible to get elevation data on a map from such an app.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    I solved some interesting technical problems this year. One was optimizing a script that took over eight hours to run, to just twelve seconds (validation code brought that back up to several minutes, but still a lot better than eight hours)
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    What about something like this, but without the person controls? https://bealoving.com/products/electric-scooter
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Thanks again!
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Also, after some thinking... what's the current price of just the parts?
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Thanks for the insightful comment. If you ever want to hop on a call and talk about micro-farming and robotics, I'm all for it.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Oh I know. I have a food forest, and aquaponics system, and some fence gardens. But I can't get rid of the grass (yet) because of the HOA (I did plant clover in it). I'm just saying this would be a good space to start, if the robo
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    That looks awesome! Here's a comment I wrote earlier about the topic: I've been thinking about a suite of robots on the residential level that could not only mow the grass and edge it, but also shovel snow, and perhaps eventually
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Thanks! But these words are certainly not part of the everyday vocabulary in English, like my Russian word example.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    > For some weird reason, we call light red "pink". This is partly cultural. In Russian, there's one word for light blue (голубое). It's the color used to describe the sky. I remember wondering why there's not an
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    I wonder if this can be reversed to use electricity to make fresh water. Then you can have a giant battery in the ocean that also produces fresh water as needed!
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    Not sure if fully remote is the best goal. What if a company is fully remote, except for ~10 employees in a city who request an office at the local downtown co-working space? That kind of flexibility would be ideal, IMO.
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    If you replace "in my own garage" to "in my own backyard", then that's the problem I'm working on with my side project: https://automicrofarm.com/ One of the sibling comments has it exactly rig
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    by ph0rque 8y ago

    I've been thinking about a suite of robots on the residential level that could not only mow the grass and edge it, but also shovel snow, and perhaps eventually prune plants and pick the harvest. Would such a suite (or a base plus a sui
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    Startup Accelerator for Bootstrappers(tinyseedfund.com)

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