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by psadri 4y ago
Life has a funny way of getting in the way of all our future plans. My advice is to find a way of doing some of those things now. You never know what might intervene to prevent you from doing all you future dreams (war, illness, a pandemi
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The problem is that wages are basically not covering the cost of living (primarily housing). That money has to come from somewhere one way or another (or you will see stores closing, completely understaffed etc). The situation where some
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My first step is to learn the data model for the application. Then everything starts to make sense as code to read/write/present that model.
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Are things so simple? Jobs have income which feeds back into the economy. The $3T figure is the expense burden, but much of spent back into the economy (and also taxed).
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Don’t put nonstick pans in the dishwasher. They will retain their nonstick far far longer if you always wash/dry them by hand.
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The first step is to reduce emissions, then stop them all together and finally sequester them to return to pre-climate-change level. I'd welcome all solutions along that spectrum.
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An interesting next step would be to: 1. Give it a goal 2. A bank account + some spending money 3. Access to a web browser and an online identity (Eg gmail account) Then have it try to achieve that goal. It could work like: - You are trying
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I like the idea but not sure if wealthy homeowners would want to a nuclear reactor in the vicinity of their homes. It would have to be proven out over a couple of decades of incident-free operation before it becomes acceptable.
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Non ICE cars have far lower service needs → lower revenue for dealers → expect to see more subscriptions to offset.
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I agree with this. We have evidence that natural language works well enough to run most of the world. AI will eventually get there.
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Initial version of Pipes was linear. Mid development we realized it was too limiting and decided to introduce “wires” to allow graphs. It meant a much more complicated UI (thanks to JT for pulling it off - mind you this was back in the IE
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by psadri 4y ago
Tesla doesn’t spend money on advertising. It might be time to change that?
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The main question - when, if ever, will we return to a near zero interest world.
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This reads a bit like “what can this place do for me?” instead of “how can I make the place I work at better”. High potential areas like genomics that are behind on software are amazing places for talented software people with a givig attit
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by psadri 4y ago
It reads like a passage from a William Gibson novel.
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There is at least one extreme data point that says you can do an incredible amount with very few people: WhatsApp (~30 engineers @ 500M daily users) At that point WhatsApp had first class clients for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone,
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by psadri 4y ago
Is anyone aware of something similar but for the args? A database that maps a command to a schema for all it’s possible cli arguments?
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Inflation do to supply side constraints is not just mass hysteria. High inflation → need to reduce demand → slower economy → layoffs.
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Perl shines once you start using all its thoughtful but quirky features and shortcuts. Eg iirmc, how $_’s value always makes sense given the the surrounding context. Those people who get there tend to become Perl diehard fans. You only ge
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I completely agree. I recommend everyone visiting Sagrada Familia to make a point of visiting the basement and checking out this model. It's almost as mind blowing as the actual church.
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This reminds me of The Onion 5 blade razor parody: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
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How about using solar/wind to synthesis hydrocarbon fuels and use that as the storage medium?
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Watching "Between the Folds", a documentary about Origami is 56 minutes well spent. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253565/
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Ask HN: Will your job be affected by AI?
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I think in the future we will see more homes with: Gray water recovery Thermal batteries (hot and cold) - Excess solar energy can be use to "charge" the hot or cold reservoirs for later use depending on season. Effluent heat recov
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by psadri 4y ago
energy storage density of heating water >> lifting water. 1m^2 of water heated by 50C (20C → 70C) = 58KWh lifting 1m^2 of water by 10 meters (~ 3 stories!) = 0.03Kwh :-(
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Most of a rocket's weight is fuel. Ironically, most of that fuel is needed to lift the rest of the fuel from ground level to some altitude A, then the remaining fuel is used to get to A', and so on. If you could first lift the ro
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by psadri 4y ago
Looks like quite a few companies worked on the idea for orbital launches -- lift a rocket with a balloon and then launch from a high altitude.
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I always wondered if this could work, that is if it'd be more energy efficient that using fuel/batteries to reach cruising altitude: - use lighter than air balloon to life an aircraft to cruising altitude - transition to powered
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Unfortunately, there is no business model to support this. People don't want to pay to support unbiased product review sites. And as they say - "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product"

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