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by schainks 5y ago
This is common in the electric utility industry where scaled up tech costs 7-9 figures per unit or more.
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by schainks 5y ago
Ah, yes — at best, politicians playing dumb, at worst politicians actually being that dumb. Also, the railroad companies have been actively screwing with transportation in the US for over a century, so it's pretty rich of AG Yost to us
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by schainks 5y ago
Every time I git blame on code that needs to change and realize it's my code. So much for write once, run forever!
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by schainks 6y ago
A rule of thumb in grid-scale projects is to allocate roughly 50% of your capital costs to _just maintenance_ over the lifetime of the thing you're deploying. Driving those costs down is really critical for affordable generation for an
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by schainks 6y ago
Liquid hydrogen can do cool things, but how do you reliably stop leaks of the smallest atoms in the universe, even if they are supercooled?
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by schainks 6y ago
I have a whole presentation about this — TL;DR asking your BIOS to change power states in Linux is a black art that is performed via the fruits of (usually) reverse engineering or strategic guessing, especially in the UEFI world. Multiply t
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by schainks 6y ago
Outsourcing KYC is standard practice. There are expensive systems you can license that do this as correctly as possible, ensuring banned persons (due to sanctions, international most wanted lists, whatever) are not allowed to transact with
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by schainks 6y ago
My friends who have recently flown American have all complained how shitty American's COVID precautions are. Bringing the 737Max back isn't going to change bad service.
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by schainks 6y ago
I suspect more apps like this will pop up. While iNaturalist is great for general organism identification, the specialized communities will fill the gap where generalist AI is less capable.
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by schainks 6y ago
Couldn't some strategically placed cell repeaters solve the reception issue?
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by schainks 6y ago
Haha weeks — Delta told me two weeks ago they _just_ finished processing refunds for June. Our refund will probably not be refunded for another 6 months, minimum, according to their customer service people.
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by schainks 6y ago
This is a simplification, think about this: You can manufacture hydrogen anywhere as long as you have water, an electrolyzer, and a power source. Oil can only be pumped out of the ground in certain places, water is technically _much_ more a
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by schainks 7y ago
Only part of the reserve was stolen. There is an episode of the Netflix docuseries "Dirty Money" dedicated to the theft and the Maple Syrup market.
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by schainks 7y ago
Recommend you read this book to learn more: https://www.amazon.com/Bones-Master-Journey-Secret-Mongolia/...
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by schainks 7y ago
Sounds like a good time to create a honeypot deepfakes service. Could charge a handsome fee for it, too, then authenticate deepfakes funded by political parties.
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by schainks 7y ago
I've moved to ASDF and haven't really looked back. It's working well with low fuss, and supporting far more than just python on my machine.
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by schainks 7y ago
The web browser version of FB is half decent, use that if you must. "I don't know why. They "trust" me. Dumb fucks." — Mark Zuckerberg ( https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-s...
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by schainks 7y ago
"You can be unethical and still be legal that's the way I run my life haha." — Mark Zuckerberg https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-s...
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by schainks 7y ago
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of poli
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by schainks 7y ago
In case you missed this: https://twitter.com/guieevc/status/1002494428748140544
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by schainks 7y ago
There is plenty of _undocumented_ violent crime in China, like domestic violence, for example.
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by schainks 7y ago
The Nerves Project is positioning itself to address this well.
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by schainks 7y ago
> China is actually by all measures a much better place to live than the US. I think that's an overgeneralization. There are many things that do "work better" or "improve faster". Mass transit and metropolitan cl
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by schainks 7y ago
Are there any teams trying to genetically engineer phytoplankton to deal with these changes in ocean conditions?
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by schainks 7y ago
Megacity 1
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by schainks 8y ago
Linus has spoken about why he speaks/writes this way before - https://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=2190
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by schainks 8y ago
Don't forget, if you want to change your social security number, here's the process[1]: 1. Prove you meet the conditions for changing it (you must show proof of identify _theft_ and how it disadvantages you) 2. Show up at an offic
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by schainks 9y ago
There is a lot of heat in this post about "oh, it's not efficient enough why are we considering this?" Fossil fuel generated energy varies _widely_ in terms of thermal efficiency for the tech used to do it - the cost per KwH
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by schainks 9y ago
I also think that's what they meant. Painful to read that sentence from such a large media outlet. You'd think they'd have some people on staff to help double check incorrect vocab usage...
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by schainks 9y ago
It's mostly a matter of setting up an endpoint in your app to sign manifests using the secret key. It's give or take a dozen lines of code on the backend (to do it in an "unsophisticated way"), and was one of the first

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