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by pridkett 5y ago
This is why governments have passed incentive acts to help. In the United States, that came from the Rural Electrification Act[0]. It was a recognition that rural areas are critical to our urban areas because they provide food and resources
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by pridkett 5y ago
This is really fascinating, but probably something that is needed. If nothing else it means airports will stop needing to re-paint their runways periodically. Tampa had to repaint runways in 2011, Stansted had to do it in 2009 and thinks th
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by pridkett 5y ago
Be careful with the gear you use on your Pis, just like any system. If you’re using a no-name USB-C power supply and dirt cheap generic SDHC cards, you will likely have problems. By default, the Pi4 doesn’t come with a power supply and whil
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by pridkett 5y ago
No - the foundation of your question is a bit misaligned. The major difference is that as much as corporate research likes to pretend they’re academics, they’re not. In corporate research you’re not after some unalienable absolute truth tha
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by pridkett 5y ago
It’s giving me some pretty heavy mid-90’s BBS vibes. Even the menu with the big BTOP++ logo reminds me of a main menu on a BBS. Now if we can just slow it down to 240 characters/second to simulate the real experience. It won’t be authe
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by pridkett 5y ago
You buy a pregnancy test and pre-natal vitamins. This information is sold and put together as part of a “profile”. Your employer buys these profiles, sees you’re pregnant and fires you because who wants to deal with maternity or paternity l
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by pridkett 5y ago
With excess solar you usually just detach the inverter. In some areas, like Southern California, this can be forced during peak solar times. As for the price going negative - this isn’t a super new phenomenon. I remember learning about coal
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by pridkett 5y ago
That’s a popular narrative, but it may not be true. Of the 650k deaths in the USA, about 475k were people over 65 and most were probably out of the labor force[0]. That’s not to say that a 175k hit to labor force is nothing, but it’s not th
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by pridkett 5y ago
Some of my extended family has been facing this problem - they’re blaming the pandemic, unemployment assistance, and even raised the salary they’re willing to pay. They’re all the way up to $7.45/hr (that’s $0.20/hr more than they
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by pridkett 5y ago
Sadly, there are few people who can parse your sentence. This is really exciting for me - just looking at the videos made me smile with nostalgia of sitting over a printed copy of Rolf Brown’s Interrupt List[0] (sorry, Mom and Dad for using
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by pridkett 5y ago
Same here. I remember thinking it promised so much, but there were always problems with getting it to work. I managed to have someone walk me through how to get Trumpet Winsock to work with a university dialup a few months later and the res
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by pridkett 5y ago
The screen orientation thing gets me - and it’s been that way for YEARS. In short, unlike most every other app which seems to actually use the orientation APIs, Facetime fakes it. This works fine on your phone, but if you’re trying to airpl
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by pridkett 5y ago
I’m an avid diver, resident of CT, and have a higher tier membership with Mystic Aquarium. This has been a very big deal around the state - with efforts from the congressmen and senators to lobby the federal government. Multiple emails went
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by pridkett 5y ago
HuffPost was sold to Business Insider in 2020. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/buzzfeed-to-acquire-huffpost_...
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by pridkett 5y ago
There's some places where you can't put the Powerwalls indoors. In CT where I live it's just fine. I did add in a fire suppression system in my basement when I had them installed. This was not a requirement and was included i
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by pridkett 5y ago
In the 12 months prior my electric bill averaged $140/mo at an average rate of $0.23/KWh (includes supply and delivery - split about 1:2).
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by pridkett 5y ago
Amtrak owns most of the Northeast Corridor[0] - except the section from New Haven to New Rochelle, which is owned by the State of CT and Metro North. Incidentally, there are the sections where the Acela slows to a crawl. This is also the mo
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by pridkett 5y ago
It’s not as far off as you might think - even for individual homeowners. I’ve got a far from ideal house with a 8.4KWh solar array on my roof and 3x Tesla Powerwalls in my basement. Yesterday I produced 43KWh of electricity and exported 27
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by pridkett 6y ago
Browsh[0] might come close to what you’re looking for. It’s not strictly designed to be less memory or faster - better for bringing up a browser on a remote system as it still uses a headless instance of Firefox behind the scenes. [0]: htt
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by pridkett 6y ago
This product is designed as a fixed broadband solution delivered wirelessly. It’s available to about 30 million households in the United States. What makes this interesting is that it is designed to replace existing cable data solutions - w
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by pridkett 6y ago
This database is already widely used for identity verification by lenders and other industries that require verification. If you’ve ever been asked to verify your information online and get asked a bunch of questions about where you lived i
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by pridkett 6y ago
It’s the fact that they’re the same time but different days. If we had a sensible system then there would never be the case that two places were at the same time (i.e. 8:24pm), but on different days.
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by pridkett 6y ago
I had to resort to...gasp...ordering a pre-built system. I first ordered a Razer Tomahawk - which is a NUC coupled with a 3080 Founders Edition. It was about $3300. The next day I saw I could get an HP Omen which was much more maxed out (in
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by pridkett 6y ago
I wasted so much time trying to make non-terrible animated ANSI art with TheDraw. I remember the first time I realized I could run it in 80x43 mode instead of 80x25 mode and my mind was completely blown. I also remember what a pain it was i
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by pridkett 6y ago
> The A.C.L.U. doesn’t object to Clearview’s scraping of photos, but it says that creating a faceprint from them is “conduct” and not speech — and thus isn’t constitutionally protected. Isn’t the scraping of photos from “public” sources,
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by pridkett 6y ago
I started thinking this route. 12 months and $2000 later I ended up with a 15U rack in my basement, Ethernet drops in most of my rooms, wifi that blankets my home and yard, 4K security cameras, and more. Contrary to what you might read from
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by pridkett 6y ago
Commercial airliners are usually below this altitude, it’s the upper end from private jets. A G6 has a max altitude of 51,000ft. They routinely cruise around 49,000ft.
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by pridkett 6y ago
One of the best practices I’ve picked up in interviewing is to ask the candidate their name at the beginning of the interview and then use it a few times during the interview. Usually this is is done with a quick “Before we get started, I w
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by pridkett 6y ago
“Please Relogin” doesn’t give you the message that they’re on to what you’re doing. I don’t assume anything when I’m asked to login again. Guilt can be a powerful motivator for people who share accounts because many of them know that you’re
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by pridkett 6y ago
Apple isn’t blocking ads here. They make their money through the hardware and additional devices, without the need to inject ads everywhere. If you use an ad supported service like Peacock or Hulu you’ll still see ads in the streams.

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