FastMonkey

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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I never thought of it like that before. I absolutely agree!
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I'm glad to see this. I don't want to live in the mental straight jacket that these "activists" want to create.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
What's the round trip efficiency of something like this, and what's the rate of loss to the environment? There's been a couple of these posted in the last few days and I have no feel for these numbers.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
This is an article by ourworldindata, who aggregate a bunch of (mostly economic) metrics from countries around the world. It is common for energy use to be reported in that way on a country level. This looks like an explainer for the users
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
It looks like they're venture capitalists, so I won't hold it against them!
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Ha, aren't you describing wall street right now? We're already living this!
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
This looks extremely cool. I'm doing a masters right now and would definitely use it! My one question though would be how are the notes stored? Is it possible to download them as latex or a markdown file or something? If I have to keep
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Cool Infographics
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
You can get watering timers in home depot, you could try hacking one of those? The hard piece to get is probably the electronic valve.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Layoffs seem to be up, but that's a questionable chart if ever I saw one. I doubt they have had representative coverage of the market for that whole period. With those numbers, looks like it's as much a chart of the increase in th
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Oh man, that's literally the only thing holding me back from thunderbird. I used it years ago and would love to go back!
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
That's kind of funny, our problem with Google calendar is that it keeps adding that when we don't want it!
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Without megaprojects, we'd all probably still be living a subsistance agrarian lifestyle. It's hard to tag specific dollars to a specific public project, they often work as multipliers across the economy.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Suing contractors for the bureaucratic nightmare you create means that every future bid will now have a buffer to cover the expense of that.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I think you can technically mitigate some concerns for the people who understand that, but practically it's going to be a very different story. People will believe who/what they believe, and an expert opinion on trustworthiness is
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't like them myself, but some people think it helps the edges of windows and buttons stand out better.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
That sounds great on paper, but you would almost definitely get people squeezing around the letter of the law. I mean, take noise. It seems easy to regulate because you just put a decibel limit on it, but that doesn't take the nature o
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
The solution seems to be a Goldilocks zone between popularity and death, too popular and it devolves, too unpopular and it dies. HN manages to keep itself tucked neatly into that zone I think.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Tunnels are also significantly more expensive, which is why they're so rare. With a tunnel, you generally have significant earthworks, possibly a permanent groundwater issue (you may have essentially created a boat that you do not want
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
It's like that smart home post from a few days ago. The dream is that lights, heating and entertainment automatically turn on and off and adjust throughout the day. The reality is that someone in the house has to become the IT departme
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Where I grew up, they used the number of cranes visible on the skyline as an indicator of the strength of the economy.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
There is balance in all things. Engineers shouldn't be ignored, but we are also not omniscient. As an engineer myself, having worked on product and having been a client of engineers working on products for me, I can tell you that engin
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Ha, I did the exact same thing. I guess the fed has it all wrong! Edit: I guess it's not as fair to the player, but maybe there should be more randomness in there, or perhaps some kind of forcing function that makes things a bit less s
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
If you want to improve your writing, even technical writing, I'd recommend reading more books. Classics, sci-fi, whatever floats your boat. Blog posts and news are meant for consuming a point or two in a few paragraphs. Reading a book
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Global crypto is a small compared to public markets, and financial institutions essentially can't incorporate them in any way that would pose any real risk. This collapse is a symptom of tightening financial conditions. People don&#x27
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I wonder what the correlation is between people who think this is a good idea, and people who feel anxious and lonely. Not saying this is the only cause, but if you make decisions like this you'll end up isolating yourself from some pr
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Something like a third of GHG emissions come from heating, if you can extract the heat from a datacentre you're displacing something like gas, it is something to hope for.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
It's a bizarre situation, they'd actually probably be better off voting to leave the UK and rejoining the EU.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
3blue1brown is fantastic. Every once in a while I'll be like "what is the intuition behind determinants again?", and boom, there's a thoughtful and concise video on it. However, there's no magic bullet that will let
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
What's old is new again I guess? These types of ideas have been around since the 1970s. Block randomization and incorporation of features to model the response surface are already fairly standard well known methods.

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