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by simpsond 6y ago
At this point I think a more fitting name is: RobberBaron
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by simpsond 6y ago
I would say espresso making at home is an expensive hobby unless you are willing to tolerate variability in the output. A decent stable machine is going to be close to 1k and the really nice home machines starting at 3k. A good grinder is a
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by simpsond 6y ago
Yup, two stroke engines are phasing out. Some places have banned them years ago, like Lake Tahoe. I grew up with dirt bikes, and two strokes were the most powerful and fun.
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by simpsond 6y ago
Nice work! One bug/feature I noticed: Once focused on the image tab, if I revise my search, the image tab loses focus and the primary search results tab gains focus. It wasn’t the expected behavior for me.
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by simpsond 7y ago
I just recently watched an interesting video about COVID-19, Zinc and Clororquine. It explains some of the fundamentals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M
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by simpsond 7y ago
That is true, but, there are applications where the majority of the power budget goes to the radio, such as a wireless sensor. I worked with battery powered wifi sensors in the past, and very infrequent transmissions (15 minutes) still acc
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by simpsond 7y ago
Maybe a little off topic: AWS also has savings plans now, which gives a discount based on a commitment of hourly spend on compute. A bit easier to manage than RIs.
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by simpsond 7y ago
If you have two threads reading then writing values in memory, you still need synchronization/atomic changes at the software level.
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by simpsond 7y ago
Yeah, I suspect a good chunk of the performance improvement is related to GC performance improvement. The netty benchmark with pooled buffers compared to unpooled buffers hints at that (although I don't know for sure).
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by simpsond 7y ago
I agree it is "pretty much standard" but the ISPs and other network providers are not doing this with TLS traffic. They are only injecting the scripts in HTTP requests without TLS, at least in my experience.
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by simpsond 7y ago
Cox does this as well. I was recently staying a hotel and they were doing something similar prompting me to rate my experience. I started thinking about standards to make this kind of thing impossible... Ultimately TLS solves this issue.
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by simpsond 7y ago
Yep, sed supports that syntax (substitute). echo 'There are ~250k employees at JP Morgan, not employees.' | sed 's/employees/engineers/2'
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by simpsond 7y ago
If coding coffee is hard, coding espresso is really hard. More steps, more precision required... just like making espresso in reality. I like the theme of the article.
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by simpsond 7y ago
This is a good point. What is utility here? I think the primary utility is highly available electricity. How is that maximized? I don't know how to do that tactically, so I should stop talking... but strategically it's about m
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by simpsond 7y ago
San Diego (SDGE) has a plan to bury most lines in the next 50 years. I feel like this would happen faster if they were not beholden to shareholders (NYSE:SRE). Distribution and the charges associated with it are government aided monopolie
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by simpsond 7y ago
I agree that distribution should be gov regulated, and it is. I also agree that generation should be open market (it is, and those companies are still regulated by NERC, etc). That said, the distribution companies in CA are publicly trade
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by simpsond 7y ago
Public utilities should not be for profit companies, especially public listed companies. They shouldn’t aim to maximize profits. If they were to instead maximize utility, they may re-invest in infrastructure more heavily and put power lines
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by simpsond 7y ago
PGS is offered as part of IVF protocols, but not required. There is some risk to damaging the embryo as there is a biopsy.
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by simpsond 7y ago
Mini split systems are not cheap, but would allow you to keep your room cooler than others.
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by simpsond 7y ago
"Elasticsearch crashed after 921 indices" ... Shards: "20 for the multi-tenant benchmark".. 921 * 20 = 18420. Shards have state; they have overhead. Why wouldn't they pick one shard for that benchmark? It's
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by simpsond 8y ago
I also use and prefer safe navigation over the standard alternative. However, Maybe/Option monads are also nice. Perhaps that is what the author has in mind.
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by simpsond 8y ago
Vaisala makes good probes, acceptable for use in life science applications. They are expensive and you need an rs485 adapter for the ones I used. The serial protocol is nice and simple though.
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by simpsond 8y ago
I appreciate the minimalism of the game. It has the concept of progression down well. More captured blocks increases the speed of the red block, making the game more challenging as you progress. The friction of the movement makes the con
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by simpsond 8y ago
I've thought the same thing for a long time (10+ years, I must be wrong). It makes sense from a business perspective as well. I still think it will happen, but not sure when. The addition of Ubuntu shell was a pretty interesting mov
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by simpsond 8y ago
I recently ported a fairly simple ruby project to crystal, and am happy with the result. I'm now writing another smallish project in crystal, and finding it quite productive. I like the syntax and language features of ruby, but I pre
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by simpsond 8y ago
Thanks, edited.
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by simpsond 8y ago
I traveled around Xinjiang in 2010. I was in Urumqi during the one year anniversary of the 2009 Urumqi riots and there was some tensions. Armored and armed guard units were walking the streets, and the Uyghur people we talked with were ve
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by simpsond 8y ago
This seems to require a near-by powered wifi device to aide in association of the passive device. For large deployments, that would require many powered units. In addition to that, there are requirements for multiple MACs, which may also
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by simpsond 9y ago
Maybe, or we just don’t understand all of the rules.
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by simpsond 9y ago
That’s a really interesting way of thinking about it. Gravity resists space.

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