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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I think a good use case for this would be auto generation of code documentation. There are many reasons to not want to upload your source code to a cloud AI service, but having an AI that was trained on your local code base so you could ask
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Yeah... I worked on an embedded project with literally 2 engineers, and we had an A/B partitioning scheme, and a recovery partition (we fully qualified the recovery image and it was flashed to the units on day 1, it was guaranteed to b
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Honestly, if you only are familiar with Python, it’s gonna be pretty tough to learn anything else. I would recommend spending some time learning literally any other language (Ruby is fine). Otherwise, if you just know Python, I think it wil
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Headline theatrics aside, this seems like a neat idea. However, the article doesn’t mention how this compares to systems that use electrolysis to generate hydrogen. In general the number of mechanical moving parts required for this system,
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
There you go. Seems like software could display this in a much more useful way than these labels ever could. Even the example in the article isn’t complete, it lists the data rate but doesn’t say anything about the amperage support for char
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
What a mess… couldn’t this be done in software instead? As in, if you try to charge your phone with a cable that doesn’t support fast charging, the phone could detect it and pop up an alert. I’m not sure the average consumer would know what
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I have a house in NH that gets plenty of sun in the summer but uses barely any energy. Then, in the winter it requires a ton of energy to heat the house, but gets barely any sunlight. My dream setup would be to have solar panels that then u
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I did find something here: https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-... As I suspected, we can see a big shift comparing 1993 to 2019. Share of Homes Owned by Age 1993: <35: - 14.9% 35-
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Something I am curious to see is the "share of housing inventory owned by each age group" over the years. For example, "25% of housing is owned by people over 75 years old, 50% 55-75, 25% under 55", etc. broken down for
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Not really, I just took my stuff and got out of there. It seemed like maybe they were new and they had had some other issues before, but I was just happy to get the stuff I paid for.
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Seems like the justification would be to keep the type information when going back and forth to Ion. More like "multiple nullable types" instead of "multiple types of null" userBirthDay: null <-- ok, but what type is
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention what to me is the biggest issue with self-checkout, false accusations of theft. I recently went through the self-checkout line in my local grocery store and accidentally left one item behind. When I went b
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I think you are confusing “alien” in the sense of “not from our solar system” with the green dudes with big eyes. I think his argument that this meteor (IM1) was not from our solar system is pretty compelling. It’s not “evidence of aliens,”
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
To me what’s cool about this is he came up with this theory about IM1, went out and figured out how to test his theory, and found exactly what he was expecting to find on the ocean floor. This is how you do science, kids.
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
“The key is to get multiple 400k offers in the same week” Wow why didn’t I think of that!
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
There’s also a cost to getting a job using a recruiter vs. finding it on your own. The company has to pay the recruiter, which means less money available for you in the negotiation process.
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
I’ve worked for a hardware startup. We didn’t have the budget for a thermal chamber, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t test and anticipate temperature related issues. We had plenty of setups like the one in the blog with units in the fridge o
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
2nd order effects
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Maybe it’s just me but I always found the storyboards to be a nightmare. When it works it is ok, but I would argue no faster than just writing the code. When it doesn’t work and you have to attempt to debug an issue, hoo boy. I know how to
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Here is an article from 2014 that discusses this trend: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/fashion/how-uber-is-chang... One thing I didn’t see mentioned, why didn’t people just take a cab before Uber? Wa
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
When I was laid off security walked me from a conference room near the exit to my car. I was not even allowed to collect my stuff from my desk, had to have a friend bring it to me after.
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
I am surprised companies haven’t a done more with wireless EV charging. Wireless charging almost seems like a necessity for full autonomy, since the car can’t plug and unplug itself, but it could easily be programmed to drive over a chargin
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Maybe they can create a specific pattern people can enter in their Twitter bio, then build a crawler
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Have to think about the future though when you’re dealing with running stuff in walls. Think about what would’ve been acceptable throughput 10 years ago. If you built your home network around that, you’d probably be kicking yourself today.
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
This is pretty standard procedure when a company gets bought. The new owners will conduct a review and decide who to keep and who to get rid of. They have probably been given a target of how many people they want to lay off and are evaluati
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
That’s a great idea. Open source projects can always use the help and it’s a great way to build some developer cred. Maybe a good idea would be for open source projects to maintain a list of “low hanging fruit” bugs that new developers coul
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
+1. The logic in any CI server should be “call the build script”. This make it so much easier to debug failures, and easy to switch to another CI setup when the current director of IT quits and a new one comes in and forces everyone to use
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve lived through many a transition from one CI server to the next, so nowadays I just have CI call a script. You want to really minimize the amount you depend on a particular CI server’s features, to make switching very easy. Even i
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
The most plausible explanation is that people are just easy to predict. Might be tough to admit, but that’s actually a much simpler explanation than Facebook having a back door into our messages, which are end-to-end encrypted. As others ab
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by spaceywilly 4y ago
Even if there was a business case, the bigger issue with Concorde was the sonic boom. This seriously limits the number of routes for any supersonic plane, essentially limiting it to NYC-London. Building a plane for one route is never going

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