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by zdragnar 1y ago
The cost of permits alone would easily pay for the extra staff and overtime. Most places in California charge what, $1-3k per house?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Not the rest of the world, but China. 80% of all panels come from there, and they want to keep it that way. It'll lead to sone interesting and unpleasant political fights in the future, I suspect.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
On the one hand, there are some benefits to the ground cover that aren't possible in wide open plains. On the other, a bad hailstorm means a lot of glass and scraps to pick up.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Duh? The US has a lot of easy and cheap access to fossil fuels. With Russia cut off, solar is a really easy part of the equation for a lot of countries. Here in the US, I'd expect we wouldn't be adding much new coal or nat gas eit
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Aren't there a lot of people in the Palisades still waiting for permits to rebuild from the fires almost a year ago? It's utterly absurd looking from the outside that officials are claiming the permits are being "fast tracked
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You can get the same thing with lit-html and any of the add on libraries that flesh it out. For example, Haunted is a react hooks implementation for lit: https://github.com/matthewp/haunted Choo suffered from not havin
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Bingo. Take the swapping of periods and commas between US and maybe Germany. If you see a price in Euros and there's a chance the browser converts the number to my locale, then the price becomes completely ambiguous. Information is los
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I would be on board with most of these, but...Why on earth would the server send a currency value without knowing the users locale? Are you expecting the browser to be constantly pinging services to see exchange rates?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That's how you get the dead zone off the shore of Louisiana. The algae doesn't get to the bottom before it starts decomposing, and during calm periods (especially the summer months) the deep waters don't get mixed and repleni
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It'd be nice to find out if there's any overlap with the "brain fog" from fibromyalgia. My college years would have been far less torturous if I could have lived without that, even if I still had to deal with the pain.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Buggy code that just crashes or produces incorrect results are a whole different category. In C a bug can compromise a server and your users. See the openssl heart bleed vulnerability as a prime example. Once upon a time, you could put up a
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> If someone's trashing their employer, more likely than not, they are probably speaking the truth Oddly, this has not been my experience. People bitter about being let go tend to project just as much as anyone else suffering from
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The JS universe moved quickly for about two years. The most popular frameworks at this point have been around since that time, with a few oddball upstarts. They've undergone some big changes, but are at the core the same concepts. I re
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I've yet to get any quality code out of one, though I don't try particularly hard either. I'd rather spend my time actually coding, especially since all the positive stories about enhanced productivity are anecdotes, and the
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You get a fixed return on that infrastructure, but you need to keep pace with inflation in all other areas of the business. Storms, errant vehicles, animals, fires, all sorts of things cause that same infrastructure to require maintenance p
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Ember.js was created by big names in the rails community, and made big promises of being a rails like batteries included all in one framework. There's a reason it didn't really get the popularity the other frameworks got.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Funny, I almost always don't want to talk to store employees about what I want. I want to browse their stock and decide for myself. This is especially true for anything that I have even a bit of knowledge about.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Remember Alexa? Amazon kept wanting people to buy things with their voice via assorted echo devices, but it turns out people really want to actually be in charge of what their computers are doing, rather than talking out loud and hoping for
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I'm trying to imagine a scenario with a non-trivial app that is missing a create, read, update or delete operation. I'm coming up with so few examples that I have to imagine the colloquial use of CRUD app means just CRUD operati
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by zdragnar 1y ago
There's not a linear relationship between the tests and usability. There are many tests for various character encodings, but viewing a web page means you're only "using" one of them, for example. As such, 90% test pass r
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by zdragnar 1y ago
"Having CRUD operations" and "Just a CRUD app" are very different things. The custom text rendering bit alone should have been a good cue for this distinction.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Someone has to run the git server. Then, someone has to find the git server to pull each gem from, since not every git server is likely to be up-to-date with the each gem, or the correct version. Since these are all decentralized, each indi
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I believe this is true in my little town in the US as well. Nothing out of the ordinary at all. With that said, I'm reasonably certain even our town has open hours on the weekend...
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Think of it like alcohol. Some people benefit from the relaxing effects of a little bit. It helped humanity get through ages of unsafe hygiene by acting as a sanitizer and preservative. For some people, it is a crutch that inhibits developi
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by zdragnar 1y ago
"Having a website" is such a double-edged sword. The amount of bad / low quality leads that they generate is insane if you're in any market that isn't purely D2C. So many people hours wasted dealing with churn. That
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> Consequently, faster compile times would not alter my development practices, nor allow me to iterate any faster. I think the web frontend space is a really good case for fast compile times. It's gotten to the point that you can ma
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I heard some Amish talking about their parents taking a trip to Montana to visit the radon mines for arthritis. An example here: https://www.radonmine.com/facility/ There's quite a few out that way.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I think btown's sibling comment has it right. It's not even a prototype if it isn't demonstrating some aspect of its core capabilities. Given this line from the article: Despite the early September memo’s scathing criti
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Google got a massive leg up on the rest be having a better service. When Bing first came out, I was not impressed with what I got, and never really bothered going back to it. Search quality isn't what it used to be, but the inertia is
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by zdragnar 1y ago
What is OpenAI's moat? There's plenty of competitors running their own models and tools. Sure, they have the ChatGPT name, but I don't see them massively out-competing the entire market unless the future model changes drastic

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