cwingrav

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by cwingrav 1y ago
One of the best ways to ensure you have energy is to reduce use and dependence. A huge amount of energy goes to heating and hot water so insulation and shorter showers with on demand can drastically reduce battery and solar panel needs.
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by cwingrav 1y ago
Probably thin so it can make a foldable screen. That seems to be the thinking around this because nobody really cares about thinness after a point. Also, a bonus, thin/small generally means better efficiency.
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by cwingrav 3y ago
I think what Apple is pushing for is computing efficiency. It still gets faster but with much less power. Focusing on performance solely would be the wrong way to evaluate these chips. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/app
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by cwingrav 3y ago
A lot of bash errors are not understanding possible cases due to white space.. which shellcheck catches. After using it for a while, I don’t even really worry about white space because of the good habits I’ve learned/(been forced to us
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by cwingrav 3y ago
Also, use shellcheck. Incorporate it into you editor. Fix all warning and don’t ignore them. This will push you deep into bash syntax rabbit holes but you come out better the other side.
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by cwingrav 3y ago
BASH is like Obi Wan. It isn’t the most powerful or flashiest, but it survived a long time, where others didn’t, for very good reasons. Bash runs basically everywhere. It has many modern features you wouldn’t expect. Its syntax is literally
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by cwingrav 3y ago
Sun
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by cwingrav 3y ago
I’m chemistry, tiny changes to structure or single atoms can produce drastically different properties.
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by cwingrav 4y ago
> It’s an easy time to fire a bunch of people.. Totally agree. This is just cutting in places they’ve probably wanted to cut for a while. They’ll hire back in a year or two as things ramp up, and on projects they consider important.
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by cwingrav 4y ago
Agree on the economic approach and with a preference for cap and trade. Create a certain amount of emission billets and auction them off. Then restrict the amount each bullet allows over time. It has economics, planning and reductions all i
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by cwingrav 4y ago
Agile is to Lenin as Agile processes are to Stalin. Read the Agile Manifesto. That’s what Agile is. All else is either: - (good) trying to implement the Agile Manifesto, or - (bad) trying to make current process appear like Agile.
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by cwingrav 4y ago
Mine cuts off at 35F and I have to manually switch on the oil. I live where winter is normally below 35 at night. Very annoying system. (I didn’t pick it)
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by cwingrav 4y ago
Fukushima, Kyshtym… those are the other bad ones.
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by cwingrav 4y ago
The stage of testing is important here. Early on, I agree with the author. Catch code/config bugs early with no wiggle room for retries. But later, testing in a live system that lives with unreliability, you need those configs that all
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by cwingrav 4y ago
This is a scientific article and the terms are used with precise definitions. If translated to a more vernacular venue, the language would either be different, or the terms defined in the article.
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by cwingrav 4y ago
I bought a used book online, and it had a person's last name and a book club in it. I was able to trace it back to a woman in the Carolinas that died without family. Her obituary gave a bit of her life story and I treasure the book all
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by cwingrav 5y ago
Corn? Must refer to something else besides what we call corn today. A different grain? Or “corns” of salt maybe?
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by cwingrav 5y ago
Passive sonar picks up bounces. A mountain bounces background noise plus currents flow around it which would show that something was there (currents create temp differences and affect sound waves). They might not have had a clear picture, b
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by cwingrav 5y ago
Borax is incredible stuff. I used it as an insecticide in Florida. I could puff it into places behind cabinets and appliances. It doesn't kill by chemical means, but by getting stuck in insect chitin, ripping it apart and then desiccat
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by cwingrav 5y ago
If you've ever eaten freeze dried, canned and dried foods for extended periods of time, you'll know the joy of something crisp and fresh. Leafy greens are spot on what you'd want. Before refrigeration, greenhouses and global
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by cwingrav 5y ago
Agreed, and that is the heart of it. - Someone fixing their own code fixes the codebase. Someone fixing someone else's code, generally only knows enough to make a fix at a single point, to fix an observed bug. I think the abstract is j
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by cwingrav 5y ago
My SO did not want a traditional diamond gold engagement ring due to normative ways, consumption, global diamond trade, etc. but it’s hard to not buy such a thing number one, and two, u have to wear it each day. I bought a polar bear diamon
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by cwingrav 5y ago
Agreed. I have it built into my vim editor, running after saves. Not only does it help catch errors, it catches potential errors, poor formatting and has become an amazing learning tool. Bash isn’t my favorite language, but many of the issu
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by cwingrav 5y ago
That does sound fun. Formal systems approaches and automata always seemed more applicable to embedded development. State machines, statecharts, etc always seemed like something I was using on my projects. However, I also felt like I was alw
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by cwingrav 6y ago
Completely right. You are correct in what you should be focusing on. Only very large systems will see a return on investment in optimizing a system for hardware costs (bad code and crummy implementations should be worked out as tech debt).
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by cwingrav 6y ago
From the article, "It said the lithium-ion batteries in the devices became less capable of supplying peak current demands, as they aged over time. That could result in an iPhone unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic comp
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by cwingrav 6y ago
True. Unfortunately, there may be a wide amount of practical experience shortly.
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by cwingrav 7y ago
Additive vs Subtractive colors: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6531772/2664702
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by cwingrav 7y ago
I once opened up a government code base (in C) that lead with this: "void * * * * x;". It took a while to learn that code. Taking time is fine and good managers will support you, so long as you have something to explain what your
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by cwingrav 7y ago
Probably so when your 10 users grow to 1000, your efforts at 10x are good for 1000x, and you’re working on 100000x.

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