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by ralferoo 1y ago
> If an EV has the power to sustain highway speeds, it'll also have the power to go up a steep hill at a snail's pace. Most EVs are direct drive from the motor without a gearbox. There absolutely is a minimum speed depending on
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I'm specifically talking about the windings in the motors themselves. There's only so much current they had take before they start heating up, and that's when they can start to fail - just as melting or burning the insulation
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> This is simply not going to be an issue with EV trucks. A fire is possible but much less likely in general, and MUCH less likely in that specific scenario. I'm actually not so sure. If the gradient is so steep that the vehicle is
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Why didn't you put "lets get the engineers ideas meeting before the yearly plan ships" as the meeting topic in the invite then? Otherwise you're expecting a whole load of people to turn up for a meeting with no idea what
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I'm not sure that applies in this case either, as dumping is selling abroad below cost but charging a fair price in your own domestic market. This case seems to be the opposite - trying to win the domestic market by selling at a loss,
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by ralferoo 1y ago
The real question then is why the "professionals" in these fields are able to command such massive incomes, and why people are prepared to pay multiple hundreds to watch their favourite singer but won't drop into a free gig a
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by ralferoo 1y ago
In many countries, making a large percentage of your workforce redundant requires following special procedures. This is true in the UK and Ireland (as in this case), and if more than 20 people are being made redundant within 90 days a certa
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I agree with the other guy. Sure, many cases they seem to be correlated, but the other cases happen frequently enough to show they're independent.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
The problem is that 50% of staff not knowing the company's moderation rules points to a systemic problem with internal training, not a problem with the staff themselves. Cynically, I suspect that they wanted to cut staffing costs by 50
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Since working a one company that required it, ever since I've adopted the policy of including a link to the bug / feature ticket for every commit. Even for my personal projects, if I'm fixing something, I'll manage them
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by ralferoo 1y ago
One interesting thing about JPEG is that you can rotate an image with no quality loss. You don't need to convert each 8x8 square to pixels, rotate and convert back, instead you can transform them in the encoded form. So, rotating each
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by ralferoo 1y ago
IMHO, once you have decided to leave a company, it's almost always a bad decision to be convinced to stay. As such, it doesn't really matter how serious your complaints are, it's not in your best interest to try to change the
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Thanks for that. Having read the article, I was left with the overwhelming impression that I'd have solved it in a totally different way if I was trying in OCaml. Briefly, I'd have started with an array which for each colour had a
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by ralferoo 1y ago
In the UK, we also used to type '£' with an 'L' and backspacing and overtyping an '='. Weirdly, I learned to type on a second hand Selectric typewriter that my parents bought cheaply at some auction, and while
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> So Microsoft decided to produce tons of e-waste for no obvious reason. There's a lot of capable hardware out there, and it would be of software company's interest to support as much hardware as possible. The author then goes
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I had a different, but in some ways similar, experience with the game Elite on the Amstrad CPC. At the time I borrowed it from my friend who raved about it, the elastic band in my tape deck was starting to stretch, and the tape speed was
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by ralferoo 1y ago
This is a fairly recent thing. I didn't realise that Google had actually started publishing this contact but for about the last year or so, they've required that you provide a phone number that they can publish for users to contac
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I'm not ready to share a link to my actual implementation yet, but I've been working on an SRS system for Chinese and been using it as my daily driver for about 3-4 years now, after previously using Anki and getting frustrated wit
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by ralferoo 1y ago
We have those even at supermarkets in the UK. "Would you like to round up your £1.10 shop and donate 90p to our nominated charity?" and similar gets really irritating after a while. I think the solution is to legislate that any ti
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Altcha is a similar thing: https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha I recently implemented a very similar thing to its obfuscation via proof-of-work ( https://altcha.org/docs/obfuscation/ ) in my C
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I really liked this: The web devs tell me that fuckit's versioning scheme is confusing, and that I should use "Semitic Versioning" instead. So starting with fuckit version ה.ג.א, package versions will use Hebrew Numerals. F
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Back in the mid 80s, I'd killed several joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon on my Amstrad CPC (which was more-or-less a standard Atari pinout apart from 2 select lines and 2 fire buttons). By chance, my parents had a push
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by ralferoo 1y ago
The company was restructured and become a subsidiary of the newly created Alphabet Inc. just after this, so the company did, in fact, change names at that point!
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by ralferoo 1y ago
FWIW in the UK, Geoff is the usual spelling (from Geoffrey) of the name. Jeff (from Jeffrey) also exists in the UK, but is much rarer, even if it's the most common form in the US.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I guess stuff like this would have already been thrashed out at the time, but it strikes me that if a mistake by a third party could invalidate copyright, it'd have been trivial to end the copyright on anything by releasing an unauthor
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by ralferoo 2y ago
On the whole it seems like a nice idea, but there's a couple of weird things, such as: > Note: If you're curious why there is a negative number (-5) in the histogram, that's just an inevitable downside of the simplicity of
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't think he's saying it needs to be BitTorrent, just applying some principles from it. For example, say you have a cluster of people on the call in the US and another cluster in the UK. Ping times are 100ms or more across t
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, but obviously not clearly enough.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't use Zig, but one advantage of having a genericised intrusive linked list where the next pointer doesn't have to be the first thing in the structure is when you want to use larger types, such as 128-bit fields. Sticking a p
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by ralferoo 2y ago
My understanding of "cost of goods sold", which is quite likely to be wrong, is yes for the first and no for the second. Or at least, it'd include the pro-rated salaries of the staff for the time spent producing the goods. I

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