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by topkai22 4y ago
While I don't think a fully self sustaining RV is practical for many use cases, it does open up some interesting possibilities- even with the relatively slow charge is enough to add maybe 30-50 miles of range over a weekend. That shoul
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by topkai22 4y ago
So I've run some rough numbers on this- solar power a 40 ft class A is 8.5 ft wide, so 340 Sq ft of surface area. It appears that 20 watts per Sq foot is about average, so the rv roof can generate 6.8 KW. Parked you could reasonable s
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by topkai22 4y ago
There is “complex” and there is “hard” and they aren’t necessarily the same thing. A good strategy is rarely complex and often very straightforward, but consistently executing to it is hard. A technical problem may be complex, but it might
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by topkai22 4y ago
If that baker intends to sell that bread they also may run afoul of non competes. See https://www.eater.com/2017/10/13/16459044/non-competes-chefs...
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by topkai22 4y ago
> Power is a hell of a drug. I wouldn't necessarily attribute that statement to a power trip. There is joy in doing a job well.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Your last point is the most salient for me- I might be willing to do a long coding assignment if I’m already confident that the company has invested time in evaluating me individually and that an offer is likely, but I’m disinterested if I
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by topkai22 4y ago
The supply of housing for purchase directly competes with the supply of housing for rent. If you can get a 2 bed home for $1800/month as a renter or $1700/month to own, most people will choose to purchase, forcing landlords to low
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by topkai22 4y ago
Rising interest rates drive up the mortgage rates. The vast majority of US home buyers have to finance their purchases, so an increase in mortgage rates is effectively an increase in the total cost of buying a house. The total cost of homeo
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by topkai22 4y ago
How do you deal with a dispute about a messy car? Or if the car pickup had no gas? Or a disputed theft of personal possessions? Middleman add value by dealing with edge cases and aggregating trust. They aren’t pure rent extractors. We had h
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by topkai22 4y ago
I code/do technical work outside work for a number of reasons: 1) I have a problem I want to solve- like making Christmas lights synced to music or building a speed camera out of a raspberry pi (although those mostly use prebuilt solu
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by topkai22 4y ago
There are historical reasons for the proliferation of the title- every city and town used to have their own bank or several. These were independent businesses, each one having a President and maybe a couple of Vice Presidents. When mergers
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by topkai22 4y ago
To abuse an old adage about advertising "2/3s of my education was a waste. The problem is I don't know which 1/3 is useful." The usefulness of math, engineering, or computer science education in industry is typicall
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by topkai22 4y ago
The benefits/vacation point is a poor one. So much of that aspect of compensation is driven by local laws so as to be pointless. In fact, it’s a major reason why even remote friendly companies won’t hire internationally. Heck imagine a
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by topkai22 5y ago
You need to change the incentives of the federal government (specifically the congress) to be in more in favor of localism. In 1900, senators were (at least partially) still appointed by state legislators and the local political parties hel
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by topkai22 5y ago
To greatly oversimplify the issues, there was plenty of wrong done it just wasn’t illegal. Don’t confuse good decision making nor morality with legality. There are PLENTY of sources documenting the the faulty assumptions and collective del
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by topkai22 5y ago
Reading some of these old publications is wonderful. I inherited my grandfather’s papers a few years, among the gems was a collection of ACM conference notes and papers related to AI… from 1982. It was quite the journey through some of that
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by topkai22 5y ago
With that sort of executive experience becoming a “straight” programmer seems like a bit of a waste. Much better to pick up skills that augment his experience than to make a full pivot. Some form of consulting makes more sense in my head. T
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by topkai22 5y ago
In the US, that wasn’t true until around December 2021. The COVID related child tax credits seriously dropped the child poverty rate.
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by topkai22 5y ago
Also for real estate the debt landscape is different- larger down payments and DTI ratios. Increasing interest rates/mortgage rates are going to drive prices down IMO, but I don’t see a collapse like 2008 because people won’t be force
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by topkai22 5y ago
This made me think of “Head First Design Patterns”, a book whose content has aged fairly well, but whose cover and typesetting have not. https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Frie...
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by topkai22 5y ago
The ability to find and get answers on stack overflow is pretty impressive, although that might not be the “community” your looking for. I’ve had decent direct engagements with them framework dev tends on GitHub before as well.
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by topkai22 5y ago
The article has some interesting ideas but misses a huge piece of low hanging fruit: font size and accessibility/legibility more generally. So many console games have text that render in tiny fonts with no apparent way to make the text
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by topkai22 5y ago
Interesting, I got driven crazy by having a deep voice that carried at work. If I wasn’t mindful about talking softly and carefully my colleagues would tell me I was talking too loud (they were kind about this, but it was frequent.) It was
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by topkai22 5y ago
Trust matters in relationships. Finding out that a working relationship started off with a lie is going to poison that relationship. I’d forever be wondering what other as shortcuts and risks they are taking. Are they taking shortcuts like
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by topkai22 5y ago
That actually sounds like an amazing way to get another year of introductory pricing
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by topkai22 5y ago
That’s the theory. In reality, insurance policies are complex and reading them closely matters. I just re-read the pre-existing conditions clause of my employer provided long term disability policy and I’m pretty sure that if you’ve had t
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by topkai22 5y ago
Too seriously answer about ageism to what is probably an unserious question, no. In fact, I've seen plenty of late (30 and 40+) career changers have happy, solid 2nd careers as programmers. I can't say I remember anyone shifting i
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by topkai22 5y ago
Ocean shipping is extremely carbon/energy efficient and would likely be advantaged with a carbon tax. It’s emissions are concentrated in sulfur from the low grade oil it burns, which is harmful to humans and the environment in other wa
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by topkai22 5y ago
I know Microsoft originally kept a minority stake in Bungie after letting it spin-off. I wonder if they kept the investment and how much.
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by topkai22 5y ago
A) This is probably casual, because sleep is good B) The most interesting part is that sleep the night before exams wasn’t associated with any change to grades. This actually suggests to me that sleep in and of itself is less casual and mor

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