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by sponaugle 9mo ago
I used about 64MWh last year, not counting what I used for EV charging (Which is on a separate meter). I also produced about 20MWh from Solar. With the EVs I would guess the total is around 70MWh. Some of this extra is certainly my 6kw h
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by sponaugle 9mo ago
I have met more other founders that came from large engineering state schools then the next tier-up of prestigious schools, with one exception being Stanford. Of course these larger schools produce far more students. Purdue (where I went)
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Stargate is coming back after 14 years [video](youtube.com)
6 points by sponaugle 11mo ago|2 comments
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by sponaugle 11mo ago
Amazon and MGM Studio announced today that Stargate is coming back in a new series.
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by sponaugle 11mo ago
A 68030 based computer - https://github.com/jeffsponaugle/roscoe It has been a super fun experience so far - I'm using CPLDs instead of an FPGA which makes the logic a bit more era period. I have a working system
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by sponaugle 11mo ago
This has to be an AI written article to say so little in so many words, with so many dashes!
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by sponaugle 11mo ago
And don't forget to use lots of – em dashes!
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by sponaugle 1y ago
"But as the company grew he had to deal with more of the business side of the things. He still set the broad outline of priorities. But he gave me mostly free reign of determining how and I would just give him a brief high level of ove
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by sponaugle 1y ago
This might be best said as you want your CTO to be ABLE to build and operate your products, but not actually do it. I like to say that my job as a CTO is to be able to do the job of most the people that work for me, but most of the people t
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by sponaugle 1y ago
"But I’m also surprised to see so many comments advocating for the CTO disconnecting from the code in favor of doing more people management. As soon as they stop writing code their skills start decaying, their advice and technical dire
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by sponaugle 1y ago
I have not read that book, but ordered it just now. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm also a CTO, and the comment about 'delegation' is something I think is important. The decision of what and how to delegate is IMHO somet
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by sponaugle 1y ago
This is an interesting question - I am a CTO at >1B tech company and there is no doubt that part of my role is exactly this - Technology Strategy. How do I do it? (1) It is my job to be familiar with a wide range of technologies, which
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by sponaugle 1y ago
This description is accurate to what I have seen and what I do. I'm a CTO of a >$1B tech company, and my roles is focused around the technology innovation, and that includes evaluating and prototyping new tech. In my particular ca
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by sponaugle 1y ago
Not only that, but CPM (Counts per min) is measurement device specific. Using a very sensitive pancake probe will generate much higher CPM than a geiger tube from the same source. You have to look at calibrated units (usV/hr for exam
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by sponaugle 1y ago
Indeed - There are not that many jeff sponaugle's, but I seem to get the email for the others from time to time!
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by sponaugle 1y ago
Agree 100%. Watch a few videos on youtube from Mentour Pilot. The cognitive load is such a huge factor in so many accidents and close calls. There are also equally many accidents that could have been prevented with just a bit more automat
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by sponaugle 1y ago
Eliezer (the author of this piece, in 2023) is best described as a 'technical blowhard'. He very much likes to pontificate about things that are so unrealistic that they sound like a great fiction novel. His career has moved into
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by sponaugle 1y ago
'I'm really into retro computing having collected over a hundred 80s 'home' computers (all non-PC/Mac)," I like where you are going with this! I have a small collection of vintage hardware, but a bit more cro
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by sponaugle 1y ago
My favorite Cosmos episode (#9)!
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by sponaugle 1y ago
I'm running 100G CWDM4s in my homelab, and those only take about 4w each for the optics, so I suspect with the PCIe card it is less than 10w.
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by sponaugle 1y ago
1kW sounds pretty good to me! My homelab is between 4 and 8 kW continuously, depending on what I have running. Cooling that homelab is another 400-1000 watts depending on outside air temp.
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by sponaugle 1y ago
Hold my beer!
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by sponaugle 1y ago
"Grid tied solar won't put power into the grid when the grid is down. It's the one reason I didn't grid tie." Why would that prevent you from being grid-tie? I have 53 panels (~21kw) grid tied and pushing to the gr
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by sponaugle 1y ago
"I wonder what this really means. Operating Expense = R&D + Marketing/Admin + Misc. stuffs." True, but there is so much in the Marketing/Admin and Misc stuff at Intel. They make CPUs that they sell to OEMs. How can
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by sponaugle 2y ago
Agree on the newsworthy.. quotes like this are not super valuable... however the concept is that without real R&D the actual manufacturing is not as valuable. Of course it is better than no manufacturing, but in EUV, the real magic is
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by sponaugle 2y ago
What Pat said is 100% correct. The actual manufacturing of EUV ICs is incredible difficult, only eclipsed by the difficulty of figuring out HOW to do it. Doing the fabrication here in the US is great, but the much more difficult and key
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by sponaugle 2y ago
I have both. 2 Cat6As plus a SM fiber to each AP location. The APs need power over POE. I just added in my first AP that was 10g (Ubiquiti XGS), and that uses POE over 10g.
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by sponaugle 2y ago
I was not referring to wiring going thru studs, but along studs. Nail plates are very effective for going thru studs, but often wire is ran along the side of a stud. If it is a large bundle and you don't keep it centered on the side
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by sponaugle 2y ago
These are great and common regrets in house wiring. I'm actually recording a video series on this exact topic right now. There are some things in electrical that are so easy and cheap to do but just get skipped over. Electricians ar
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by sponaugle 2y ago
This is correct - I have pull strings in my conduits at my house for that reason. Pulling fiber down my 1000ft driveway would be difficult to do if the pull string was another fiber. You can pull a new pull string in empty conduit pretty e

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