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by ryantgtg 1y ago
Not arguing your point. Just thought I’d share that of the emigres I know (big families that left starting in the late 60s) all are either Christian or Zoorastrian (to some degree). To them the Islamic conquest of Persia is not old news!
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by ryantgtg 1y ago
I, like Houston Wade, have for years been like, "why don't I see any ships or activity" each time I pass by the ports of LA/LB. But I, unlike Houston Wade, wouldn't be so arrogant to conclude from my observation tha
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Hydrogen fuel (gray) is often about $8-10/kg, which is about an 80% increase in costs per mile over diesel. Green hydrogen is like $14/kg. Additionally, agencies are experiencing vapor losses of fuel, which results in an overall i
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
They kind of do, though. Most transit agencies hire consultants to plan out these transitions, and the consultants have expertise in the different technologies and can present the pros and cons. However, the decisions stemming from this inf
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Thanks for your insight. The amount of damage that Proterra did to the overall BEB adoption rates should not be underestimated. I work with many agencies and so many of them are running from BEBs toward FCEBs in large part because of their,
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
I don't think you're misunderstanding. I think the person you're responding to is misunderstanding that we were referring to trip end points (layover locations).
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Not related to vehicle battery energy consumption, transit agencies have been reporting their BEBs struggling up hills due to drivetrain components not being good fits for their terrain. Surprising finding, with the OEM sending replacement
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Another reason people (e.g., my mother in law) buy kindles is that the price of ebooks is very often much less from Amazon than from the Kobo store. My mother in law wants to be like us and so she recently bought a kobo. But then she bought
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
It’s big, but it’s very clearly written and you can likely understand the entire premise after a few chapters.
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Is he well-read? His essay on the origins of wokeness was pure vibes, with hardly any historical accuracy or understanding of sociology. Many here on HN explained it as him not being well-read.
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Yeah, it's very strange to write an "origins of" essay without citing examples (just Larry Summers?), referencing experts, or showing evidence. This article is just about his feelings. He's not an historian, or a social
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
When I first setup apple intelligence on my phone, all the “summary” features seemed worthless, so I disabled them. But somehow it was still enabled for Messages. I can’t believe how bad and unhelpful it is! To add to the confusion that sho
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
The google maps api console only shows you the number of API requests for the last 30 days. You can’t see historical usage. You can, though, see historical billing. For example, for us, a $174 bill (discounted to $0), at $5 per 1,000 reques
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
That doesn’t sound right. Where do you see 200gb ram? Building a tileset can often require a lot of ram, but hosting usually does not.
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Ha, yes, obviously I was referring to the free mbtiles download. Maptiler is currently showing "2020 OpenStreetMap Vectors only"
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Thanks for offering the service! The intensity of map tile pricing is always a little baffling to me. For example, with mapbox this month we (got linked to on The Verge and) exceeded the free tier on the 22nd. Two days later and we have a $
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
I wanted to, but I was unable to get Protomaps working in our application, unfortunately. I'm not much of a js person (or a dev) and it was a bigger change than I could apparently handle in our rails app. Actually, thinking back on it,
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
Neat! We used to host our own mbtiles map for like $11/mo, but the problem was (this was prior to planetiler and people generating public worldwide mbtile dumps) there wasn't a free/cheap source for regularly-updated mbtiles.
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by ryantgtg 2y ago
No, this should be about defrauding people who bought FSD for their Tesla. Most Tesla owners do not care about FSD, according to the estimates of subscription rates.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
What people? Demand for EVs is high, regardless of the 2035 purchase ban. The bans are in great part likely due to politicians trying to score points.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
At an even more basic level than what you described here, I recently improved my delivery rate by adding a name to the transactional emails that we send (from: 'My Name <admin@foo.com>') where previously we didn’t have a nam
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
What’s funny to me is that https://www.noozhawk.com/ (along with others) took up the mantle when the SB News Press went downhill. That domain is not as hot.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
AYCE Gogi? If so, very cool place, and good food!
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
Is there an internet movie song database? I'd like to look up a song and see what movies and tv shows that song has been in. I thought I saw something like that many years ago... but wasn't exactly what I wanted.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
Yeah, pinside is a great resource. Surprisingly, the pinside map was created four years after pinball map (source: wayback machine; disclosure: I'm a pinball map dev).
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
I owe it all to an English teacher in college who photocopied Equinoctial for us (this was about 1998). I loved it, and quickly proceeded to devour his novels.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
OK time flies. That felt like two years ago to me.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
And it’s still going! It was refreshing to have a new book set in that world. I’m a big fan, and think a few more of his books should have been on this list.
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
I would like to see a thorough defense by CA DMV for allowing these services to operate, given that the technology is very clearly not remotely close to being at an acceptable level. I would expect that this might be another case of “public
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by ryantgtg 3y ago
Los Angeles banned them in 1998. Nothing changed. No enforcement.

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