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by rtpg 2y ago
France built a bunch of them, they're still expensive and hard projects. People talk about economies of scales but there are only so many power plants you need to build in the world. I'm sure there are strategies that could, at th
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by rtpg 2y ago
It would be interesting if they had put places apart from France in some of the cost analysis, since France has (by my understanding) extremely low costs for industrial electricity. Comparing most countries to France would end with "we
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by rtpg 2y ago
I do maintenance on a library and while often I feel bad about not looking at it for months at a time, I’ll try to counterbalance it by just sitting down one evening , swallowing my pride, and just chew through some of the issues. In the en
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by rtpg 2y ago
I have seen a couple founders post to HN like this during legal action. Its embarrassing, even if I enjoy reading the content. Of course its possible that these posts are happening through consultation with a lawyer/PR or something but
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by rtpg 2y ago
Serious question: is it not possible to export/import into Quickbooks for example? I agree with the principle of letting the accountant choose, just wondering if there's any way at all to "fight back", for lack of a bett
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by rtpg 2y ago
Is it really that much of a jump to say "I would like to see the chat that has happened between my friends between the time I got on a plane and then got back off"? Does that sound odd? Imagine if you couldn't receive e-mail
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by rtpg 2y ago
I don’t think the point is about GPS, it’s about GIS. So it’s not the navigation problem, it’s a “is this point in this polygon” problem. Which is… a bit easier
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by rtpg 2y ago
The function trait section reminded me about effect systems and Purescripts row polymorphism[0], which is a great little way to be able to encode properties of your functions. I think Rust might quickly run into the “negative trait” problem
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by rtpg 2y ago
I mean in Europe they also have credit card payments, the rates are just pushed down. Yeah it means Europe doesn't get the cool rewards. There doesn't need to be a magical new business here. Some numbers changing can resolve a lot
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by rtpg 2y ago
Oxide already showing up and eating AWS's lunch I see. Seriously though, it does feel like above a certain company size you really do get into a position where, if you can hire the team to run it, on-prem just feels right. Especially i
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by rtpg 2y ago
There are many people who believe vigorously in dynamic pricing and it providing the "best service", and don't need to be paid to believe so. The difficulty arises because the counter-argument of "surge pricing can kick
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by rtpg 2y ago
I mean it's unfalsifiable because the marching forward of time makes asking a system to tell you a price is totally black boxed. But it would be nice to see a _bit_ more effort placed. > A proper experiment would involve dozens of p
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by rtpg 2y ago
I appreciate this theory, but even from the top 4 management consultant firms I've found that many consultants I've met have fairly surface level understanding of things. My super cynical take is that the people who end up in mana
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by rtpg 2y ago
> wouldn't that be against their own business interest? If an executive or the board of some company want PwC's services, knowing that they'll only help confirm a biased opinion, then is it worth spending millions on them?
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by rtpg 2y ago
Honeycombs old tooling for Python was miles better than the Otel nonsense. Embarrassing to see so many companies drop their well designed libs for Otel instead of something like wrapping Otel so that their better libs can still be used at t
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by rtpg 2y ago
In this specific case, a drug sniffing dog was used to open the box. This isn't abstract, but a concrete thing that has happened, going down one of your hypotheticals. To be clear, I'm against what has happened in this case! But I
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by rtpg 2y ago
To be clear, what I meant by "this" here was something like... imagine that law enforcement has pretty good "proof" that there are these transactions going on for money laundering purposes. What universe of facts gives l
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by rtpg 2y ago
Flattening what I said to "if you have nothing to hide" is really dismissive. I believe you have the right to privacy! I believe that searches should have warrants associated to them! The fact that a "drug sniffing dog"
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by rtpg 2y ago
I do not believe the civil forfeiture flow as is, is correct. And beyond that, having LE even know about the money... I don't know how that works. Having said all that, sending cash through the mail just feels like a really obvious mon
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by rtpg 2y ago
Well instead of posting what you wrote you posted this complaint, which just contributes to this vibe. You have the right to vent of course. If you post something interesting people will read it! Sour grapes comments are kinda boring, and c
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by rtpg 2y ago
I quit my last job because of these kinds of shenanigans. I was brought in to help get a full system rewrite across the finish line. Of course the deployment story was pretty great! Lots of automated scripts to get systems running nicely, a
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by rtpg 2y ago
Has Scala gotten better because I remember it being quite painful in the past (tho probably mostly due to language issues more than anything)
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by rtpg 2y ago
> There is not a significant difference in functionality between the illumos and FreeBSD implementations, since pulling patches downstream has not been a significant burden. Conversely, the more advanced OS primitives in illumos have re
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by rtpg 2y ago
But it's a signal among many. If your employer purposefully goes out of their way to make these kinds of decisions consistently, it sticks with you.
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by rtpg 2y ago
So the thing I've heard from dtrace people is that eBPF still is not really "there". I've never gotten a clear answer about _why_ this is the case, though I feel like there was implications that, basically, eBPF programs
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by rtpg 2y ago
I mean Ubuntu has a bunch of python libs. The problem is that you need to make a universe of mutually compatible libs, so if _any_ of the libs have old-ish dependencies, that holds back so much. I think what happens in practice is package m
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by rtpg 2y ago
To be honest I'm fortunate enough to where maintenance work by sticking to "the latest and greatest" for application-level stuff is not hard. For system-level stuff in general it's been about relying on Debian or Ubuntu
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by rtpg 2y ago
This article really comes at some of the crux of packaging pains for many languages. The "distro ships the software" idea is something so many modern language toolkits are pretty far away from (and, as someone constantly burned by
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by rtpg 2y ago
definitely feels model dependent, cuz the higher-end ones really do handle the GPS stuff. Though there's some options that will drastically improve battery life (I think measuring Blood oxygen is a good battery life killer IIRC)
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by rtpg 2y ago
I used to use smartwatch timers a lot. I bought a couple magnet timers to throw onto my fridge instead. Best $3 purchase I've ever made. Just smash the buttons, hit it, and go about your day.

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