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by tallowen 3y ago
I think the implication is that we'll see a further split around pricing. One thing that stood out to me is that in the case of thermal loads (perhaps your dishwasher but more realistically a hotwater heater). It will become more worth
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by tallowen 3y ago
I found this podcast with Jesse Jenkins to be a really helpful start to understand non fixed energy resources. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-sun-isnt-alwa... I thought that the most cost effective
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by tallowen 3y ago
I am surprised that part of Mozilla's never introduced an Android launcher for progressive web apps. Given that they already have Firefox on Android and their history with FirefoxOS, I expected this to be a key lever to get app/we
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by tallowen 3y ago
Starting a social network today is harder than it was 20 years ago. Content moderation, spam prevention, privacy controls have much higher expectations than they did. I want to see competition in this space. Facebook investing in infrastruc
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by tallowen 3y ago
Going to repeated class action lawsuits every time there is a bad software update sounds like an inefficient use of the court system to me. I think most people will eventually want the manufacturer to be the defendant in court cases that re
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Why Tesla Autopilot shouldn't be used in as many places as you think(washingtonpost.com)
28 points by tallowen 3y ago|30 comments
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by tallowen 3y ago
What makes you say that Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller?
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by tallowen 3y ago
I don't think the burden of the changing API surface was place on the callers of that API. With core library developers updating their callsites, it meant that people calling into early versions of React, never had to deal with upgradi
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by tallowen 3y ago
I’m always surprised to see the totality of support for this workflow. My biggest gripes were: - Owners - Readability review (or really the 18month queue to get Java/python readability) Although seemingly innocuous, this made maintaini
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by tallowen 3y ago
Unfortunately, this used to be his situation but the blindness now limits all reading.
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Ask HN: How should I setup a phone for a newly blind relative?
319 points by tallowen 3y ago|76 comments
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by tallowen 3y ago
I agree that we would need testing and trials before it could be rolled out. Many trucks in the US are already implementing these for various reasons. Other countries are already mandating this. The European Union is introducing mandatory “
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by tallowen 3y ago
I agree with the idea that I would like to see roads redesigned to make them safer. I'm not sure why it's an either or though. Redesigning roads can certainly slow people down and make them safer but that often comes at the cost o
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by tallowen 3y ago
How do we balance safety regulations with these emergency situations? We're experiencing some of the highest traffic fatality rates in decades and I think the liberty of those dying and being injured on our streets need to be taken int
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by tallowen 3y ago
> federal government I had assumed it would be state government since they normally control traffic law? What other solutions would you propose for enforcing speed/safety regulations on state owned infrastructure? Personally, given
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by tallowen 3y ago
Imagine if we had the tech to apply speed governors in places with high crash rates! What if departments of transportation could lower speeds dynamically to make sure that risky road infrastructure is made safer. I can't help but feel
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by tallowen 3y ago
I wish there were better approaches to solving the problems around replacing batteries. This solution has downsides in terms of size (extra material required to surround the battery) and waterproofness. I like the features that will have to
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by tallowen 3y ago
I've been using it to learn programming concepts I'm unfamiliar with and I perceive a huge difference in quality of chat-gpt answers between: - Salesforce API - AWS - React Native The react native docs are good enough that I reall
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by tallowen 3y ago
I think another huge difference here is that the Australian continent has ~25 million people living on it whereas United States + Mexico + Canada is ~500 million. There are far more communities and cultures to explore without the need for o
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by tallowen 3y ago
Although electric vehicles are certainly heavier than their ICE counterparts, I would imagine that increasing in average vehicle weight is due in large part of a shift towards selling larger vehicles (pickup trucks, SUVs). More broadly, bey
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by tallowen 5y ago
I agree with what you're saying - hydrogen propulsion will make the most difference for large fleets over long distances. Right now, in the pacific northwest BC Ferries and Washington State ferries are moving to electrify their fleets.
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by tallowen 8y ago
> English is not a language that traditionally deals well with gender, in that the language’s pronouns can be a little clumsy. I think it is really interesting to deconstruct this. Most European languages have gender as a more central co
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by tallowen 8y ago
I think it's interesting how there are two common threads in the comments: 1) People don't like switching twice a year. 2) People have a preference for summer time or winter time based on the perceived benefits of the existing sys
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by tallowen 8y ago
Montreal?
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by tallowen 9y ago
It is very exciting to see more people write frameworks using "React" ideas. This will make React and similar frameworks better! It seems like one of the biggest ideas that flutter brings to the table is a different approach to co
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by tallowen 10y ago
Have you had a different experience with other companies? My experience living in Germany has been that its been pretty hard to get American keyboards. Apple for instance only lets businesses oder laptops with US keyboards in Germany.
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by tallowen 10y ago
Switzerland has a much more direct democracy than most (all?) other democracies. This means citizens often vote on things similar to ballot initiatives in the US. In the context of basic income it means such a populist policy would be have
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by tallowen 10y ago
> Researchers at the data analysis firm Data Genetics Also known as cool guy who works as a data analyst at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.berry He also has a ton of other cool blog posts that I find pretty thou
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by tallowen 10y ago
> The house also favors less populous states, even if not by design. Out of curiosity, how does this happen in practice? My understanding was that seats were divided up by population (giving equal voice to those in more densely populated
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by tallowen 10y ago
What they're saying is that there will be just as many cars on the road as before and therefore not reducing the environmental impact of the road. I imagined it to be something like this: Old: - Road: 1000 users - Train tunnel: 1000 us

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