scrappyjoe

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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
Commenting just to save your comment in my history. Gonna use this one some day.
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
Some Google search terms for anyone interested in the EV hacking space. Openinverter SimpBMS Orion BMS Lebowski controller Zombieverter
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
Electric vehicles (at least, _todays_ electric vehicles) are eminently hackable. The people over at openinverter.org are doing amazing work implementing open source controller boards for OEM inverters. Sure, a lot of ICE-based skill sets ar
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
I’ve packed those wooden jenga blocks during a visit to Kusasalethu mine, which is similar to Mponeng. You can see the older blocks slowly collapsing under the persistent pressure of the hanging rock. Took about 20 minutes working with two
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
You should research to tontines, as they are somewhat related. You pay a lump sum along with a number (10-1000) of people of a similar age to buy an asset - say, a property - and then you each receive an equal share of the income each year.
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
I spent a few day in Ulanbataar and then went on a horse trek in the Altai in 2014. Ulanbataar felt, to me, like a post-soviet city bursting at the seams with informality (which it is). The main plaza with its status of Ghengis Khan is some
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by scrappyjoe 4y ago
The thing I find amazing about this piece is that Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired. Here’s a guy who’s headline (to the rest of us) is he was in the middle of documenting tech in the 90’s, and, to hear him tell it, that
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by scrappyjoe 5y ago
Vanagon Syncro owner here! I can’t imagine ever parting with mine. My stated plan is to convert it to electric in 2025. There’s good progress being made forging a path - see the DreamEV guys on YouTube for a currently ongoing 2wd Tesla vana
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by scrappyjoe 6y ago
One thing I’ve struggled to get right is building the right workspace inside a van. At the moment I just sit on the bench seat with my laptop on my lap, but it’s slowly taking its toll on my posture. Any advice?
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by scrappyjoe 6y ago
This sounds awesome! There are lots of applications in places like local government. One potential problem with offering _only_ commodified whip-out-your-credit card pricing is that innovative business units inside large orgs can’t make us
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by scrappyjoe 6y ago
Kubernetes orchestrates containers, but Docker is just one way of running containers. It wraps all the underlying Linux into a nice set of of easy to use commands. Kubernetes is deprecating interacting with the underlying Linux via the Doc
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by scrappyjoe 6y ago
K3s is pretty approachable.
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by scrappyjoe 6y ago
18.04 has a ten year extended security maintenance life AFAIK, so you could stretch to 2028.
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by scrappyjoe 7y ago
Huh? The last commit to the H3 github repo was 3 days ago. In what sense is it abandoned? Genuinely interested as we are considering using it as a core library.
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by scrappyjoe 7y ago
If anyone wants to use this in R, the h3-r package works quite nicely. It’s in C which, in my tests, is an order of magnitude faster than the v8 implementation. We use it to chop up spatial data into equally sized chunks that we can use as
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by scrappyjoe 7y ago
Huh. Well, he was mostly known in my ethics class for never forgetting a students name or birthday. Passed him in the street 5 years after graduating and he said, “happy birthday for last week!”. I was speechless.
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by scrappyjoe 7y ago
Tell me more? Benatar lectured me at uni. Great teacher.
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by scrappyjoe 7y ago
A few years ago there was an OSS tool called Tagspaces that did exactly this. It was great, and briefly replaced Evernote for me. At the time I used it quite successfully to manage research material across a range of projects; it ultimately
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
These mountains are part of a craton that split when Australia cleaved off Africa. Barberton Gold Mines have a mineralization that is unique in South Africa - they actually use bacteria to cleave the gold from sulphates, if I recall. Turns
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
Fun fact. The Vredefort Impact Area is roughly overlaid by a larger geological feature called the Bushveld Igneous Complex, which is from a totally unrelated geological event but resulted in this area having 60% of all the platinum and pall
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
As for actually getting a job, I’ve generally always applied for job openings via normal channels, but the clincher has always been that I have some small connection to the company - a friend of a friend worked there, or something. I find t
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
I was a financial analyst with no interest in computers or programming. Three years ago I bought a raspberry pi to set up a Plex HTPC. That led to bash scripts to automate little bits of my work. Fell head over heels into Linux and bash, th
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
Is it legal in Chile to show synthetic returns? If so, you could backtest your passive strategy and plot that on a chart along with the median mutual fund return. Heck, in South Africa only 18% of mutual funds beat the market over 5 years.
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
Passive funds have decades of experience selling low-cost products. In general, their awareness-raising focuses on bemoaining the compound effect of high fees - how paying 2% more in fees per annum can result in you having 60% less savings
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by scrappyjoe 8y ago
I used to inspect hard rock gold and platinum mines in South Africa in a former job. 2.5km down, there are hundreds of women miners.
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by scrappyjoe 9y ago
After the HN comment on this a few weeks ago I implemented the Tor ssh method. The bottom of this script is what I run on my remote servers to get Tor ssh access, if want to see an example of working code - https://github.com&#x2
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by scrappyjoe 9y ago
Quantocracy
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by scrappyjoe 9y ago
Have you looked into IoT systems control? Things like temp monitoring feeding into A/C draw, electricity off when people leave etc? Utilization of space is,one consideration, but a major other factor is maintenance, which comes down to
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Ask HN: Should I use OpenVPN or Algo?
2 points by scrappyjoe 9y ago|1 comments