tankerdude

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by tankerdude 9y ago
They don’t have to. The EPA has final word and CA has been filing an exemption that the EPA has said yes to until this bozo came into office. My dislike of the guy in Washington has been very high the last ~1.2 years.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
True, but the super efficient ones must burn more cleanly, and realistically, they are trying to reduce CO2. And that is all dependent on how much fuel you burn. NOx emissions as well will differ as well but for the most part, a 20 mpg car
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by tankerdude 9y ago
It was a seminal book on software engineering for me. Kind of like Effective C++, More effective C++, the old Win32 Charles Petzold book, GoF, etc. To me, it was a classic, and much appreciated it as that was also when the whole TDD thing t
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I've found out that in my decades of software engineering that what I take as trivial and simple actually isn't for folks who haven't really delved into it or they are mid or junior level engineers. I'd rather do skim re
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I’ve worked with MuleSoft and the ESB really isn’t an “ESB”. It’s really about having the ability to write APIs with specific standards. It allows you to write micro services without pushing up your own instances, use kube8, or anything of
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by tankerdude 9y ago
The conversion to LED based lighting really is the only thing that crushed Jevon’s paradox. Other energy efficiency standards were incremental improvements. LED and its mass adoption was an 80% drop in energy consumption if you kept using
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by tankerdude 9y ago
It’s timing. They could have done it, but waiting for just a little bit, would net them billions. Like the article said, they prepped a certain amount and waited. Saving billions for doing the same thing but waiting a few months is a no b
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by tankerdude 9y ago
No. 0.5% of a huge number is a still a very large number. $4T in income tax revenue so 0.5% is $20B. That's about the size of NASA. Percentages are horrible at that. Keep the "death" tax, and here's the thing. Due to
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I don't know about interns, but what about regular engineers? It seems that 12 hour days are a relative norm, and many times weekend work kicks in as well. Perhaps it's anecdotal based upon the group that you work in, but one thin
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I think it's more accurate to say it's >60, easy. Every week. Young and a lot of energy.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
It's multiple reasons why Python is gaining traction again. One of them is definitely due to all the data science that uses it. The second though is that schools are also making the switch from Java to Python as their first language.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
The sad part is that that's what is happening in the world today. The rich, when they fund their money correctly, stay rich due to tax policy, gray areas, and loopholes. (Insurance polices as one example for the ultra rich.) If we do
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Perhaps to reduce injury of the head, force all players to wear no padding except for a helmet. It will change the dynamics but if you do something crazy to tackle someone, you too will get badly hurt.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
42 minutes could mean say 40 miles. That's near the upper level limits for a round trip without recharging for older generation cars like my Leaf. The newer Leaf will make it with plenty to spare. Same with the BMW. Next generation
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by tankerdude 9y ago
What does the boonies mean? I drive 30 miles away from work and it takes me over 1 hour, sometimes up to 2 hours when something horrible has happened. The newest generation, like the Bolt, gets 230 miles. Are you saying you are driving ov
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Lately, they've been adding them to mall parking structures as well as at hotels and some national parks. It's coming along, but not the best. Personally, I'd like to spoke and hub it with an eBike for the last mile to make m
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Hehe. I think that's the difference. It is usually illegal to ride on sidewalks in the US. If it's an electric bicycle, then since it's now "motorized", simply cannot ride on the sidewalks. In China, it seems like
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by tankerdude 9y ago
The main thing at (near) steady state noise at higher speeds is how well the car is at mitigating the road noise. At city speeds, having both a Leaf at home and a Toyota Sienna, that the noise from the Leaf is near nothing. If I'm acc
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Wacky. If that is the case, California's GDP could surpass England's. The exit really is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Also known as: Idaho's brain drain as tech workers vote with their wallet and brains to move to a friendlier state.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.
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by tankerdude 9y ago
I'm curious. I've used Screen Hero, Webex, Google Hangouts, and GotoMeeting extensively. People evoke a lot of love for Screen Hero and I can never figure out why. Video quality is pretty awful and pixellated. I don't see a
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by tankerdude 9y ago
Hrmmm... I just signed a contract a few weeks ago with SunPower solar panels. Over 40K for almost 8kWh of electricity. It's a hefty cost but it's ready now. It's a nearly flush mount so I'm ok with it and it's st
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by tankerdude 10y ago
This is akin to having more IRS agents policing tax fraud. Simplest way is to ensure H1Bs are at 90th percentile of the market for salary. H1Bs are supposed to be for engineers that are very hard to fill so making their salaries high ensure
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by tankerdude 10y ago
Gas taxes are state level based at this time. But let's say they become county based. Ensure that taxes are across multiple counties as LA really is a metropolis that spans many counties. To see the effect you are talking about, you
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by tankerdude 10y ago
Simplest way: $5/gallon gas. When the costs for the road increase in that manner, there was a drastic drop in commuters and a big jump in mass transit. It has happened in the past when gas was steep. Perhaps it is time again to help r
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by tankerdude 10y ago
Yes, some is still coming from coal but the energy mix is changing. Coal is now more expensive than natural gas, which is why the coal mines are now shutting down. In addition, even natural gas is going to have to fight the renewable energy
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by tankerdude 10y ago
Now the real question is what's the MTTF for it. Since it's a solid polymer in place of the electrolyte, it would seem like tendrils of lithium cannot be created as there is no electrolyte, and thus, battery degradation might be l
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by tankerdude 10y ago
I don't know about you guys, but I've been to sexual harassment training. What Susan documented could be translated to tens of millions in fines and damages. If it's this egregious, it's could be much, much, higher.
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by tankerdude 10y ago
LA is building out subways and light rail. But it's definitely still too slow. Since there's so much sprawl, it would seem that a spoke and hub system would be most likely what needs to happen, with a few hubs. Imagine a mass tra

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