pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Accepting a large donation but then not having any free time to work on the project (eg. Due to family or other commitments) feels very dishonest. So I only accept substantial donations if I'm very sure I'm going to be able to do
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I assume this kind of small donation is usually in return for some favor. Ie. Can you help debug and fix this bug. It looks like about 2 days work, so we'll donate $2000.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Buuut... The Aws+kubernetes approach is very scalable. If overnight, HN became the new Facebook, the single server model wouldn't work, and the business opportunity would be lost. However, the kubernetes model probably would scale (p
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I suspect the root cause will turn out to be 'disgruntled employee ran rm -rf and deleted the backups'... And they did it over Christmas and during big storms to maximize the impact to the company.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> The self driving stuff is (in my view) all a red herring. I agree, but for another reason... There isn't much copyrightable or patentable in the self driving world. If someone makes a self driving car which is good enough to dri
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
In Europe, cancellations and delays mean compensation for ticket holders. The compensation is set in law, and is usually higher than the ticket price. Airlines quickly got rid of cancellations...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This 'just to be safe' procedure happens when Google thinks a bad guy is logged into your account. The bad guy might have changed the password, changed the 2fa, stolen login cookies or other malicious things. What Google ought t
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There are potential solutions... For example, heat pumps could be required to have a reserve storage tank containing enough heat for a day or so, and then at times when the grid is most stressed, they use the reserve heat reservoir rather
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This will become more and more of a problem as buildings switch away from gas/oil heating and switch towards green heat pumps. Heat pumps are particularly bad in extreme cold weather. Their efficiency goes down a lot (sometimes 4x), a
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Unfortunately, I think most governments around the world, despite efforts to make government websites easy to use for everyone, still fall short for a good chunk of the population. I suspect there might be a better approach... Eg. A 15 m
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Avoid words with multiple meanings, particularly where you intend to use the non-primary meaning. For example, 'dialogue' to many people means a dialogue box on a computer screen. So that word is ambiguous. But a discussion has
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Is it possible that there are just some big market players doing some gradual slow sells? And there aren't many buyers on the other side, so prices are pushed down.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
To slow down a car while speeding up a flywheel requires an infinitely variable gearbox. Ie. When you first start deceleration and the flywheel is stationary, you'd ideally have infinity:1 ratio. When the car is pretty much stop
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Which in turn will cost the paidlink service lots of money. A chargeback typically costs $15 or so to process. I wonder how they'll police that?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This is easier to set up. And stripes pay links are badly advertised.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
How many people does that pay for? I could probably buy those people a lifelong holiday in a nice resort for that kind of money...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It could be... But were the laws that way in 17th century England? I suspect not, because property ownership in England used to be secret - ie. Even the government may not have known who owned land. And if you don't know who owns
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
But then what is the incentive for anyone to get coverage if they know that any fires will be put out regardless...? Unless the fire service is paired with insurance covering the cost of a rebuild? But I don't think the original fir
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Is it really worth anyone's time revisiting the security clearance of someone who died 60 years ago? Perhaps we should see if every citizen in New York paid the correct taxes in the 18th century too...? And then we can name and shame
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Did we ever find out how much the UK is paying Rwanda to take these people? Presumably Rwanda isn't dealing with the UK's dirty laundry for free...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Paid advertisment means these things are allowed in promoted tweets.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'd totally be up for fining companies retrospectively for harming people's health even before the harm was well understood. That gives the companies an incentive to do the research ahead of time to minimize damages.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Many of those cancers might be caused by pollution... For example, UV in sunlight is thought to be the main cause of skin cancer. UV is far higher today than 100 years ago because we destroyed most of the ozone layer. But we don'
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Can't be banned from twitter twice.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
We also have a lot of data on ways to reduce cancer before it happens. Reduce obesity. Reduce pollution. Etc. Yet we really aren't doing an awful lot about those things. Imagine for example if we had an obesity tax - everyone obese
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
True, although with double glazing you can probably make the HVAC unit smaller, saving weight there too. And you might not need air vents to defog the screen either - a well insulated window won't get condensation on it to start with.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I personally think they should just update the stack so they can do realtime control. Pay 5G networks to have priority data feeds for video, and send all the data back to an operator with 50ms glass to glass latency. Then have the remote o
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You're assuming energy companies switch to hourly priced billing. But nationwide nearly everyone is on a fixed price per kWh deal, and current electricity meters don't usually even support pricing that chances every few minutes, a
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Remote drivers can only override some things. They can do things like telling the car that the lane goes to the left or right of a cone. Or they can mark a vehicle as parked so the car won't wait for a stationary vehicle it thinks ha
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
At some point, it will be worth fitting a car out with double glazed windows to reduce heat loss/gain through the windows. That should give reduce the energy used for cabin heating, reducing range loss, perhaps by half for longer journ

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