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by Schwolop 2mo ago
They weigh 5g. A tonne of them is two hundred million of them. I very much doubt that many will be e-waste.
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by Schwolop 2mo ago
I'm in Australia, with Globird, and have their 3hrs free plus they pay $1 on days I don't use any grid power between the 6-8pm peak, and another $1.50 if I send them back 10kWh of the energy I was given for free during the day, du
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by Schwolop 2y ago
That is hilarious. HackerNews was also the source of my blog's highest day of traffic. IIRC I quit a job and wrote about it and somehow a lot of people read it. I often feel I _should_ blog more, but then I don't. And every now an
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by Schwolop 3y ago
> Protection from what exactly? I think jacquesm is advocating that you have multiple sources of income (clients) to protect from the possibility that you lose your one and only client and suddenly have zero income. I take a different ap
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by Schwolop 3y ago
I'm a self-employed consultant, generally either CTO-style "make your company run better and build better software" stuff or, less often, specific robotics and automation stuff where I'm legitimately something of an expe
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by Schwolop 3y ago
Please tell me your employees are known as Mother Duckers...
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by Schwolop 3y ago
I'm consulting with an Australian group called Control Bionics. They have a US company & office, with CTO and sales team in Ohio, but software engineering is done in AU. Their primary product is an electromyography and acceleromete
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by Schwolop 3y ago
I just set up a computer for my own kids and used Ubuntu from the get-go. About the only two things that have led to a bit of frustration from the kids have been that we can't play my collection of 1990s games on CDs (KOTOR, Deus Ex, e
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by Schwolop 3y ago
There's a web plugin too. It can issue GET requests. That's enough to probe a lot of interesting things, and I'll bet there's an endpoint somewhere on the web that will eval any other web request, so now you've open
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by Schwolop 4y ago
I'll just poke my head in to say hello and thank you for all your blog posts and pod/vid-casts. I've learned a lot about the tabletop ecosystem from you, and I hope to pitch my "big project" game to your company whe
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by Schwolop 4y ago
I worked in a product development consultancy and a few of us decided to build our own escape room as an entry into the company's "startup accelerator". The company was thoroughly unimpressed with that as a money-making prosp
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by Schwolop 4y ago
I was coming here to say that the term for a problem which when solved makes people question whether it was necessary after all is a "Wicked Problem"[1], only to then discover that that's not it at all. So now I'm stumpe
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by Schwolop 4y ago
not counting appreciation You definitely need to count that. Even with pretty conservative assumptions, it massively changes the outcomes. For those numbers, and assuming 5% growth of investments after inflation, you can retire in
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by Schwolop 4y ago
It might be worth reminding Australians in the audience that possession of pornographic drawings or cartoons of figures deemed to be "childlike" is considered equivalent to possession of actual child pornography, in this country.
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Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism(psyche.co)
3 points by Schwolop 4y ago|2 comments
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by Schwolop 4y ago
For those who've not seen this domain before (although it is showing up more frequently on HN these days), Psyche "is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.&q
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Don't Be Stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness(psyche.co)
29 points by Schwolop 4y ago|28 comments
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by Schwolop 4y ago
I have a first generation iPad from 2010 that still works. It's on iOS 4 or something. We use it permanently plugged in as a photo slideshow thingy, and play Jetpack Joyride and Peggle on it a few days a week. I keep expecting it to ju
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by Schwolop 4y ago
You sound like a slightly older version of me. And then I read your profile and you work in precisely the same field. I honestly feel that robotics is one of the few domains in which this kind of play can yield a sustaining and continually
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by Schwolop 4y ago
I agree. The new name never stuck for me and I keep having to google what it changed to (Shortcut, FYI) so that I can find the bookmark to it.
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by Schwolop 5y ago
One fun heuristic I've used for thought-experiments in futurology is to ask "what will be to cheap to charge for eventually, and what comes of that?" For example, electricity. Or water. Or fuel/energy for vehicles? Or co
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by Schwolop 5y ago
As an Aussie with Greek friends, I choose to treat this exactly as per the colloquial meaning of 'minimum', as in "minimum chips". :-)
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Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (2016)(worldhistory.org)
86 points by Schwolop 5y ago|31 comments
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by Schwolop 5y ago
I'm interested by #3, as it is imminently to be my own situation (by choice). The few people who know thus far are all close friends, and even then aren't completely aware that "living off my savings" comes with the addi
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by Schwolop 5y ago
Just as one counter data point to your observation of your social circles: 2020 made me reconsider things. I also did the maths and concluded I was already the FI part of FIRE. I thought some more about what I wanted to do with my life, sta
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by Schwolop 5y ago
There's a mistake in this: > I won’t go too deep into the math, but it can be shown that G achieves its maximum when f=1-2p Should be f=2p-1
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by Schwolop 5y ago
Is this a measure, or a target? If it's a measure, _shrug_, I see it as fairly inevitable in a big enterprise. Some people will leave for good, bad, and miscellaneous reasons. 6% turnover at a big enterprise seems pretty low IMHO. If i
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by Schwolop 5y ago
In what is increasingly a HN trope, the early comments on this link have predominantly been negative. Please don't let that fool you - QUT's Robotics group has been a driving force for Australia for several years now. It is a youn
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by Schwolop 5y ago
I learnt this one early on and definitely still encourage it (but aware of your caveat too). But I describe it differently when I'm coaching, and I think I've used the phrase "try to get your conditionals out of the way early
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by Schwolop 5y ago
I take your point, but maybe a more nuanced phrasing is that I don't want to check arduous parts of my safety equipment on every ride. For example, I might bend down and check that my brake pads are still OK before each ride, but I&#

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