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by sh1mmer 3y ago
Surely it’s a question of which tax payers. Is it the tax payers using national parks (and entering lotteries or making reservations) or all tax payers? Charging for service also allows non-tax payers to contribute too. I’m not saying I’m f
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by sh1mmer 3y ago
It’s seems like a pretty cynical take to say that simply having a modern, standard platform for national parks (or whatever gov service) necessitates that platform must be cost inefficient. I don’t see how improving the status quo and askin
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by sh1mmer 3y ago
I think this is conceptually a great idea, especially for viewing data. However as soon as you start asking people for money (for reservations) then it becomes a big fraud risk if the UI isn’t on a known same domain (such as something.gov).
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by sh1mmer 3y ago
This is sensationalist silliness. Simply asking Bard in the right formatting works fine. Admittedly the formatting is a bit annoying. Asking for no preamble doesn't work, asking for no leader doesn't work, asking for no additional
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by sh1mmer 3y ago
I’m still surprised that got swappable batteries isn’t being seen as an option for commercial. It seems like it would solve a lot of issues (Eg slow charging during peak solar, fast refueling swaps), while giving the manufacturers a subscri
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
I didn’t see mention of pollution, but that seems like an obvious one to me if health care and diet gaps have closed.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
> No barrier to entry for Python users: Taichi shares almost the same syntax as Python. Apply a single Taichi decorator, and your functions are automatically turned into optimized machine code. It looks super interesting except “almost t
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
We have a Vitamix Foodcycler [1] we got on sale. It works well but the cycles take a while and it doesn’t process that much at once. Honestly we just went back to using a counter top bucket and then putting it in our municipal food waste bi
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
We give to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who according to the app have received $315k up to Nov 2022. Sad to see this program go.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
If only there were some actually useful use of excessive energy that weren’t mining bitcoin.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
With that logic you could also argue that much more will be needed for trucks and heavy equipment. I don’t know if it averages out, but I don’t think you can assume that less is needed not more, or the same as the article.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
There is an Australia company that are converting big rigs to electric including hot swapped batteries. https://thedriven.io/2022/02/10/janus-unveils-first-electric...
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
The bases of garbage trucks seems to just be a truck platform. So I don’t think they are much different from other equivalent vehicles. Given these trucks almost never get highway speeds, I would assume it’s even as good as 3mpg because hea
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
For these industrial use cases I’m surprised hot swappable batteries aren’t being considered more. Are these current trucks doing 12 hour shifts plowing snow and hauling garbage on a single tank of diesel, or are they refueling? I get that
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
> At its worst, 10 feet of raw human waste blanketed portions of the harbor bottom, and certain reaches held little or no oxygen to sustain the life of its fishery. There is anaerobic life but much less of it there aerobic life. So it se
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
Literally in the first line of the article > More than one in four of the nearly 600 companies that went public via a traditional IPO
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
People also said the same thing about wind and solar, and those still have some downsides but they are also rapidly becoming the cheapest current form of peak energy, or with cheaper grid storage, energy period. Sci-if authors have been tal
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
If you did it as clockwise by default instead of listing the ideal turn count you could list the minimum number of “counter” turns. Then have a button to do the next turn as a counter turn.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
Less trash talking but more varieties https://www.orangepippin.com/ Also, America is missing out on Cox’s Orange Pippins. I miss them so much.
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
Maybe I’m missing something but I would imagine query planning and caching is the hardest thing in terms of database memory usage. This post doesn’t seem to address that. Even if the messages are fixed sized surely the memory cost of execut
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
Can someone explain to me how this is different from apple’s privacy relay? Is it because it’s all traffic instead of just some traffic Apple designates as “trackers”?
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
You weren’t far off > The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe From the New Oxford Dictionary > Catastrophe: mid 16th century (in the sense 'denouement'): fro
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
> Cedar Fair, owner and operator of the park, announced on Monday that it has sold the land to Bay Area real estate developer Prologis for $310 million. > Cedar Fair bought the land beneath Great America from the city of Santa Clara i
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by sh1mmer 4y ago
This looks great. One small suggestion would be to add a "collapse parent" keyboard shortcut since this is something I imagine using a lot after scanning one or more items in a list. Perhaps Shift-Command-0 might be a good fit for
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The Texas electric grid can barely keep the lights on(twitter.com)
118 points by sh1mmer 4y ago|183 comments
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
If the “state” wanted to listen to voters it would stop trying so hard to disenfranchise so many of us that live in Texas cities but might not vote Republican. So much of state politics is currently Republicans dog whistling made up issues
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
One thing no one mentions since they only just got their freshly molded IEMs is the maintenance. You have to be careful to not get ear wax inside them. That means cleaning them a lot more frequently than any regular in-ear headphone. Eventu
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
The article presents an interesting definition for spaghettI. However by using the current known best in each BB class doesn’t really offer a robust analysis in each class. I think it would be pretty interesting to see how much spaghetti it
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
I feel like the term “mid-career” is a bit misleading here since the CEO says up to 100-200 hires, which depending on the size of their engineering team might be ~1% of the engineering team. Eg they want very senior talent and are willing t
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
> Porsche’s eFuels are made out of CO2 and hydrogen and are produced using renewable energy. Am I missing something obvious? Even if the fuel production is carbon-neutral, wouldn’t the ICE cars still be combusting the fuel and releasing

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