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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The flip side of that is that you end up with spaghetti code that is expensive to add features to and is expensive to clean up when you are successful. Then people in the business implement workarounds to handle special cases that are undoc
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The energy consumption would not be a problem if it was renewable energy . Ironically, we already have plenty of renewable energy in the US, it’s just there, sitting, waiting to be hooked up to the grid and not being used productively. The
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I really hope all of this warming stops so that everyone can stop worrying and things can go back to normal.
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FERC votes to overhaul US electric transmission system(msn.com)
1 points by vegetablepotpie 2y ago|0 comments
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
To fight climate change, the US needs renewable energy, and fast. Ironically, we already have it, the US has 947 GW of renewable generation capacity that is not hooked up to the grid [1]. To put that number into perspective, the US currentl
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
One argument that I’d like to see made is that DMCA takedown requests, which are intended to enforce copyright is the wrong enforcement mechanism because the 9th Circuit, in SONY v. CONNECTIX said that the functional aspects of emulation
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
We’re undergoing a Cambrian explosion of battery chemistries at the moment. Other startups, such as From Energy is scaling up production of Iron Air batteries in West Virginia, which will be an order of magnitude cheaper than lithium ion an
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The Magnuson Moss warranty act says that manufacturers have to prove that something you did damaged the vehicle to deny a warranty claim. A manufacturer merely observing that you modified the vehicle does not mean that the warranty was void
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
And also that car ownership is de facto required to live as a productive citizen in most places in the US.
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> Can't buy a gsm module for your arduiono What do you mean by that? Ostensibly I can. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2687 Note: it’s on back order, but in theory I would be able to buy a GSM module for my Ar
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Theory of Constraints(en.wikipedia.org)
122 points by vegetablepotpie 2y ago|64 comments
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I’d say interfaces are part of the problem. People are happy to change interfaces when it makes the implementation of a component easier. I’ve seen interfaces change without notice and this imposes maintenance overhead. I’d say that comp
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> first try to make it work to spec In my professional experience, the only spec you get is a wishlist, never quantified, always vague. Half the work is figuring out what the customer wants. The only metric that anyone cares about is spe
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Are there ways to work without quantifying things? Sure. However, anytime you want to systematize something, you need to quantify them. Still, the GP wants to know if there are ways of working without assigning “arbitrary” points to stuff,
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The article says we can build grid forming inverters, which can solve the reliability issues of highly renewable grids, and used Hawaii as an example of how to do this. These inverters are expensive. As a utility I can finance grid upgrades
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is unlikely. While transmission lines may go DC, all of the distribution, the lines that goes from a substation to peoples houses, in the US is AC. Although it’s possible to wire a house for DC, and people have done that, many of the a
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
There’s a rule-of-thumb I’ve found about OOP where you want to use composition when extending data, and you want to use inheritance when extending behaviors. The zoo animal metaphor that you often see used in teaching inheritance (lions are
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I would like to make an actually good open source UML/SysML tool. There is doxygen, and it’s a very good tool, but it goes one way, from code to diagrams. There is Umbrello, it is bidirectional, in theory, but it’s really half baked. I
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
This seems similar to the types of projects that Code for America works on. https://codeforamerica.org/about-us/
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
You can take CO2 from industrial processes that emit it as a byproduct. Carbon fee and dividend would incentivize low carbon fuels by putting a price on carbon. The methanol purchased would not incur a fee. Carbon fee and dividend is employ
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
UML is good.
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
State governments are happy to turn a blind eye to their principles when politically connected industries ask for something. For example Texas, the state that is so free-market it gives you the freedom to have a $10,000 electric bill in a b
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Economics has an ideological assumption that equilibriums exist and that “markets” will tend towards them. Although this has some predictive capacity in a class of specific cases, it fails to explain observed phenomena in our world. * Rise
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
There’s a flip side. A culture that thinks end-to-end testing is the only legitimate way to test a system and that TDD is an unnecessary expense that is neither necessary nor sufficient for success. That culture is right, but it’s also wron
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
What? I have some questions. 1. What do you consider success? Is this less than, equal to, or greater than the amount you pay on rent/mortgage? 2. Are you building user-facing applications for a non-technical user base, or infrastructu
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Insulation, to withstand hotter temperatures. Getting in touch with my neighbors, because if there’s a disaster, we’re the ones who will help each other out. Talking to my members of congress about this. If we can stay under 2C, a lot of th
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
It cuts both ways. In my experience working in the second environment, where deadlines are arbitrary, managers and leaders do not do the work to decide what is important or what it means to “be done”. You can start out with the prior that d
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Brooks's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by vegetablepotpie 3y ago|0 comments
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
The biggest difference between junior and senior software engineers, in my opinion, are soft skills. If you have gotten promoted out of being a junior, you have shown that you know how to solve problems. As a senior, you need to know “what
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Although there may be commonality between some projects, every software project is different, and there is not a list of common good KPIs for “software”. Anyone who claims to have that list is lying to you. As a stranger on HN, I don’t know

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