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by scott113341 9mo ago
One I'm familiar with (but don't know deeply about) is Iron-air batteries [1]. Form Energy [2], an interesting grid-storage startup uses them. They're not energy-dense whatsoever, but very cheap, which makes them economical f
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by scott113341 1y ago
Neat project and approach! I got fed up with expensive registries and ended up self-hosting Zot [1], but this seems way easier for some use cases. Does anyone else wish there was an easy-to-configure, cheap & usage-based, private regist
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by scott113341 2y ago
"I made 14 kWh more during lockdown" https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe... ^ has a wild picture of full setup
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by scott113341 5y ago
If you thing this is cool, also check out CalTopo (my favorite mapping software for backpacking): - https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&z=15&b=m... - Right click and select "Simulated View"
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by scott113341 5y ago
You reminded me of this scene from Battlestar Galactica that has stuck with me since I watched it (spoiler alert). Conversely, the character laments the sensory limitations of the human body :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by scott113341 5y ago
I was actually thinking about Tay-Sachs this morning on a walk, after I passed by a church with a billboard out front that says "Christ died for all, even babies in the womb". I learned about Tay-Sachs in high school biology. I th
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by scott113341 5y ago
I’m a huge fan of Postgres. This one is “user error”, but we still got bit pretty hard. A query plan changed, on a frequently-run query (~1k/sec) on a large table (~2B rows) without warning. Went from sub-millisecond to multi-second. T
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by scott113341 5y ago
One strategy I've found useful when asked for an estimate is to ask back: "What do you need the estimate for?" Often, this leads to a useful discussion, and we can discover things like: - They don't actually need to est
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by scott113341 6y ago
I've been loving my COROS. It's quite simple, and the battery life is astonishing. No music functionality though, if that's a dealbreaker for you. I got the APEX 42mm about 5 months ago. https://coros.com/comp
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by scott113341 6y ago
I've been kicking around a related idea for a while. A static "death day" is great because you can internalize, and countdown towards it, but it loses the distribution behind life expectancy. A single day is probability&#
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by scott113341 6y ago
Robocalls are super annoying, but kind of an amazing way to ask someone out on a date (not first date - followups where you know they'll say "yes"). Twilio has this thing called "Twilio Studio" [1] that is essential
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by scott113341 6y ago
I have a similar script, except that it removes posts that link to domains that I've found to frequently be non-interesting or low-quality. https://gist.github.com/scott113341/56c03bc7f285eefbea0a6146...
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by scott113341 6y ago
Looks interesting, I signed up! FWIW, I ran into the same issue (Chrome): https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1910118/81509549-a...
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by scott113341 6y ago
Previous discussion from her blog post on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499137
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by scott113341 6y ago
Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so, would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech therapy (girlfriend is a speech-language pathologist) over vid
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by scott113341 7y ago
CalTopo (my favorite mapping software, and originally made for search/rescue/fire [1]) map with overlays: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.59058,-122.75299&z=11&b=m... [1] https://caltopo.blog
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by scott113341 7y ago
Reminds me of this story posted a while ago: Story of a failed pentest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475438
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by scott113341 7y ago
I got paged 50 minutes before AWS updated their status page. We are running on AWS's managed Kubernetes offering (EKS), and about one third of our nodes were running in the affected availability zone. We were then able to move all of o
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by scott113341 7y ago
Not strictly related to this article or your question, but generating ordered UUIDs can sometimes bring some performance improvements (at least in Postgres) on index reads/writes [1]. [1] https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en&
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by scott113341 8y ago
https://brandur.org/articles Very clear technical writing, mostly about web technologies.
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by scott113341 8y ago
> such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away... I don't think they are asserting that the laser beam travels faster than the speed of light. I think they are referr
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by scott113341 8y ago
I don't think jmcgough made such a claim, just offered an explanation for "why is it so taboo to talk about the differences..."
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by scott113341 8y ago
Monodraw is the best application I've found for ASCII (and Unicode) diagramming: https://monodraw.helftone.com
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by scott113341 8y ago
> UUIDs are way more painful than serials to recognise, remember, input or transmit... Completely agree, but I've found this can be a non-technical "feature" too. Serial integer primary keys are much more susceptible to h
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by scott113341 8y ago
This is a fun website to peruse every once in a while: http://brutalistwebsites.com/ Its submission from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517491
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by scott113341 9y ago
Works perfectly with my favorite test framework: https://github.com/lxe/no-bugs
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by scott113341 9y ago
I made an open source version of this. https://github.com/scott113341/southwest-price-drop-bot
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by scott113341 9y ago
I use PocketCasts in conjunction with BeardedSpice [1] to forward media key commands. It works very well! [1] https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice
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by scott113341 10y ago
The "Configure the variables in this post" is an incredible touch that makes reading the examples so much more instantly relatable and recognizable. I will definitely be stealing this pattern for my own purposes!
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Asch conformity experiments(en.wikipedia.org)
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