zhivota

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by zhivota 4mo ago
Elon Musk happened. Zuckerberg happened (yes, before the current bro transformation, we had The Social Network showing us). Elon probably most of all, he was the one who took fringe edge lord behavior and elevated to something to be admired
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by zhivota 4mo ago
We recently had some behavior issues with our kids - they didn't want to do activities outside the house, they hated reading, they hated anything that required even the slightest discomfort or effort. We decided to cut device usage way
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Big relief for me. As a passive investor, I want the indices to follow the same passive strategy they always have, and specifically not make exceptions for specific companies like SpaceX wanted. Plenty of ways to get exposure to that stock
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by zhivota 5mo ago
My son is in 4th grade (nominally anyway, we homeschool so it doesn't really matter). He takes the MAP test periodically, which scores on a single scale for all grades. You can look up the percentile score for your student's gra
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by zhivota 5mo ago
I mean, once it's a desktop, watts are pretty cheap, so it's a bit strange to optimize on that factor for the desktop form factor. For laptops it makes a ton of sense.
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Feels like this should be some kind of anti-competitive violation even if it's not actually. Probably moot under this admin but still. It's like saying you can't use windows to develop an OS, or drive a Ford on the way to you
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Hate to break it to you but the Mormon belt extends well up into Idaho (probably all the way to Montana on the East side) and down into Arizona, and diffuses out quite far from there. Probably need to go through Montana or skirt the Mexica
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by zhivota 5mo ago
I don't know that local control is an unalloyed good. The interstate highway system would never have been built if we followed this as a principle, for example. For another example, Californian voters consistently vote for state level
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Even being social engineering, the design of the plugin system allowing this means the platform is completely unusable as a sharing tool. It's good to know but to me this is not "I need to remember to have these settings correct t
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by zhivota 5mo ago
I spend a lot of time in the rural Philippines and I notice that locals out here don't sleep that well and it doesn't seem to bother them. They get up extremely early with the sun, roosters are crowing even before that, cats are
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Also just as a follow on my assumption is it's much easier and cheaper to scale the DC side since it's often at the 400-500v range (for example 10 panels in series with open circuit voltage of 49v and operating voltage around 43v)
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Nope but in a different market so makes sense, those are probably pure grid tie inverters, which I don't have a lot of experience with because it's not commonly used here. I do see the EG4 hybrid has a similar ratio (we have the s
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by zhivota 5mo ago
Typical hybrid inverters have an output rating around half the theoretical max input of the panels. This is due to theoretical max of panel input being very rare or even impossible in normal earth conditions, the presence of an attached bat
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by zhivota 6mo ago
This assumes you have more valuable ideas than you can implement. Which, at first glance, seems like something you can take for granted. But in my career over 15 years I was surprised to find it's not the case for most established busi
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by zhivota 6mo ago
The next obvious question is where do they come from since presumably there weren't dinosaurs and plants dying there 300 million years ago. Went on a bit of a rabbit hole and it appears that there is a lot of methane in the atmosphere
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by zhivota 6mo ago
I love this idea and it's one of those ideas I categorize into the bucket of "when all the other lower hanging fruit has been picked", just because it's more complicated. When we've got actually braindead policy lik
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by zhivota 6mo ago
Same in the Philippines here, and we're all buying the same Chinese materials at the end of the day so somehow Americans are getting really fleeced hard on this equipment. Payback time is 2-4 years. It reminds of healthcare and infrast
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by zhivota 6mo ago
They claim average household income of their readership is $550k, which for a magazine for the South is, wow. They're really targeting the regional top 1% there.
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by zhivota 6mo ago
I love it mostly as well so far, the only sticking point on both my TVs is constantly having to re-enter my server IP address. It sticks around for a couple days, then it's gone again.
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by zhivota 6mo ago
The top comment on the article itself has a great idea to map colors to textures so the blind could identify the colors as well. With the rise of cheap knock offs of LEGO these days, I wonder if one of those could do that.
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by zhivota 7mo ago
Nothing is accessible to non members. It's only $5/mo and the fee is explicitly to filter out people who don't care enough about the subject matter to pay a nominal fee. I found it because someone I followed in my Twitter day
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by zhivota 7mo ago
The only social stuff I interact with anymore is a private forum that's paid, which is by far the best discussion on the internet for me, and other than that some discord servers for games I play. Global social networks are cancer no m
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by zhivota 7mo ago
So how do I do that? I can't host it easily on the machine in the office because NAT and dynamic IPs have trained us that this is not really possible (it is, buty you have to know what you're doing). Pay a hosting provider, but w
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by zhivota 7mo ago
Same phenomenon in the Philippines. Always bring full coverage clothes for the ride.
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by zhivota 8mo ago
I didn't know freelance interim em was a thing, interesting role.
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by zhivota 8mo ago
A lot of people think this until they become managers and discover all the bullshit they have to deal with from above and below. You're literally something of a human shock absorber, and in the analogy when the road is smooth there&#x2
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by zhivota 8mo ago
I don't know, I mean for most SaaS products this is true. But for something like Salesforce, the feature set is incredibly broad. The coding is not hard, so much as it is just an enormous volume of code.
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by zhivota 8mo ago
It's honestly a good thing. People should have social outlets where things are forgotten, not memorialized for all eternity.
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by zhivota 9mo ago
I've been playing Factorio and the base game is 100 hours easily, there are mods that ratchet it up to 500+. It's great brain exercise too, constantly refactoring, solving for bottlenecks, etc.
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by zhivota 9mo ago
Heat pump dryers work at a much lower heat as well since much of the heating of a traditional dryer is lost out of the vent. The heat pump condenses the water out of the hot air so you don't lose the heat. I've stopped needing to

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