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by samtho 3y ago
One of the problems is that solar and wind are being billed as a drop in replacement for gigawatt-scale electricity production, when in reality it’s likely going to find it place at the micro level to help alleviate the load and cost in sma
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Also photobucket’s and tinypic purges. I do a lot of work on my 2010-2015 era VW GTI and so much knowledge is gone already. Imgur is no different, they purged images who were posted “anonymously” and anything they consider NSFW. They are ve
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To add on, a company who spends a lot of money on frivolous things or over-hires will need to pay the internal cost of downsizing when the time inevitably comes. That means layoffs, fewer employee benefits for those still employed, and gene
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If this is set up similar to other LTA airships (simplified, its bags of air contained by the outer skin with a structure supported by a very light airframe), then a wayward bullet might pierce one or two of these cells - which a certain nu
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Literally no one is advocating for this as is to be used as a substitute for currently proven treatment. It shouldn’t mean that we can’t try out different solutions, nor will the final hypothetical product derived from this likely even take
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This comment just reeks of gatekeeping and ludditism. How do you expect something to go from “toy” to “viable” if people are not stepping up to build upon the body of knowledge? A lot of people who have created innovative solutions were lik
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by samtho 3y ago
> This article solidified the concept for me, and I’m grateful. Why so cynical? If it were not posted on HN you wouldn’t have seen it, I’m guessing. As for the article itself, it is a surface-level, paraphrased encyclopedia entry on this
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Yes, I did.
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I’ve worked in construction, maybe this was true for post-and-beam and perhaps some other methods where you are using what is available from nature. Historically, for example, log cabins are popular in the woods because logs are plentiful a
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There’s also no guarantee the application will be able to reach a database, bind to a port, or read something off of a file system.
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The point that was trying to be made was that it doesn’t matter how secure and unbeatable something is if a sovereign state wishes to simply criminalize its use. It can then utilize its full power to enact violence upon any S̵u̵b̵j̵e̵c̵t̵ c
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For ones serving municipalities or communities, sure. My electric company is a co-op, but it is also not a dedicated reseller as it generates most of its power and usually has surplus it sells to PG&E. With an HOA, the very land your ho
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This has been my stance on the issue, but I am just pessimistic for the first generation of HOA leadership because it tends to attract nosy, controlling busybodies that love draconian rules. It’s not until those people die off or move where
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As the cost of this equipment goes down, this can totally become commonplace, what I fear is the HOA being the monopoly energy, telco, water, and sewage provider that can then charge ridiculous rates because it simply resell from the upstre
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by samtho 3y ago
I wrote my post with my own two thumbs, thank you. The site linked looks like one of those stupid content farms that analyzes popular crap on Reddit. The stairs in the woods thing got popular because they are out there, but the is not super
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This reminds me a lot of protobuf, just packing serial data based on type, specified width combined with a specified length (like an array) when 9-n items are possible.
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It’s even worse, general and experimental aviation is hated by the FAA itself. They would rather only commercial aircraft exist so they don’t have to deal with the silly people with their toy planes. The fact that all classes of medical cer
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Yeah, I’m the western US which is very sparsely populated by comparison to the eastern half of the US[0] or Europe in general. Waaaay too much of off grid information is focused on preppers and I’ve even been accused of being one. Can’t som
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I’m not sure if your are joking or not. I would not trust a system that made a mistake in the first place to fix the problem I am having with it or it’s decision. The “smarter” or more vertically integrated this system is, the harder it wil
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Deterministic controls have had a lot of staying power for reasons that are pretty obvious. I don’t see what benefit we gain by leaving human comfort up to a LLM when a thermostat works just fine. Just an aside, but I think venture capital
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I do not at the moment, but I agree that I need to start writing about my off-grid and battery-powered (mis-)adventures. Most of my battery management is bespoke hardware and I’d love to share it. I also do not want to highlight the creepy
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Remote work has been implemented successfully even before the pandemic at even large companies like IBM. Sure there was a strange eb and flow cycles of flexibility vs coming back to the office every few years but a large company like that a
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> or unless someone local can manufacture them to the correct specs This will likely happen except for the correct specs part. Sure, it will be manufactured to fit, but it likely won’t be able to be made to the same standard as the offic
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I only have anecdata, but I have identified two factors: isolation and vulnerability, or rather the sudden change in how isolated or vulnerable we feel. We become accustomed to the sounds of our own neighborhood and city in general, so if
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I own 4.2 acres in the Sierras north of US-50 between Kyburz and South Lake Tahoe at 5,600ft elevation. It was not easy to find, but there is a seasonal creek that runs through it fed by snowmelt. I had to drill a well 600ft down to find wa
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LXC is essentially a library file that implements Linux containers via a combination of network namespaces, chroot jails, process isolation, etc. LXD is daemon that manages LXC containers, networks, groups, has a database, etc.
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> From this I found out that I have a fairly rare generic condition which makes me highly predisposed to liver disease and NAFLD. Certainly not the end of the world, but it pissed me off a bit because the disease could have progressed ha
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With respect, your assumption here reads like a line from arrested development: “how much can a banana cost, $10?” I really don’t think you have any idea of not the costs of these things, every penny counts with hardware products because an
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BLDC drivers are readily available for a variety of applications and current levels. You need only a 3.3 or 5v signals to get them to run. The RaspberryPi is not a real time computer, it uses a conventional OS that is inherently not real ti
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This would be hilariously satirical if it were not true and it highlights much of what is wrong with tech. A benture capital subsidized micro mobility startup pulls out of a major city ostensibly because threshold for potential profit has b

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