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by dunk010 5mo ago
Air-source heat pumps give their worst performance when you need heat the most. Ground source doesn't vary year-round.
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by dunk010 5mo ago
> really ugly winter peaks The problem is those peaks are at the exact same time you need the heat.
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by dunk010 7mo ago
Name checks out.
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by dunk010 7mo ago
Yeah, it needs heavy moderation to remove the worthless fluff comments so that readers get high signal-to-noise. You can think an idea is bad but, you know, you gotta say why and have a debate about the details.
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Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI
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by dunk010 8mo ago
> When I was taken to the Tate Modern as a child I’d point at Mark Rothko pieces and say to my mother “I could do that”, and she would say “yes, but you didn’t.” Yes, but you didn't https://www.signedoriginalprints.com&#x
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by dunk010 8mo ago
I've had to read so far down to get a single non-stupid, ignorant, or inflammatory comment. What's wrong with HN, jeepers. Some actual discussion of the thing itself and not just pearl clutching would be appropriate here.
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by dunk010 8mo ago
I request you to publish it! :-D
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by dunk010 8mo ago
Came to post that blog. It's awesome. Everyone should read it.
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by dunk010 8mo ago
Perhaps you do ;-)
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by dunk010 9mo ago
I think that the point here is that your domain registrar will pick up the phone if there is a problem, where Google clearly will not.
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by dunk010 9mo ago
I worked at Last.fm from 2007 to 2012. The MIR team (think: research) developed a wonderful system called "RadioQL", which allowed you to stitch together custom ratio stations from any of a huge host of factors, joined together by
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by dunk010 10mo ago
Sure. I doubt that if some test at the moment takes an hour then you're getting much extra benefit at the five hour mark. The whole point of the time compression is to spread the grades out - along an axis different to "competence
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by dunk010 10mo ago
The whole thrust of the article is complaining about timed tests and some kids getting more time. That's doubtless unfair if some are overclaiming, but the real solution is to not do timed tests at all - they are only serving to produc
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by dunk010 11mo ago
Nebula and Dante will do this for like $300, and you can get 30x coverage at every base or even 100x coverage if you pay a little more. The $1000 genome was here more than a decade ago.
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by dunk010 1y ago
I distinctly remember in one of his talks he said words to the effect of “I wrote corporate C++ and Java for years and eventually realised I had to do something else, or else quit the industry”. So he took a year long sabbatical and created
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by dunk010 2y ago
It's useful to have as a resource that you can dip into; for instance to check a specific thing like "how fast do I metabolise caffeine (bad example as youc can get that from a SNV checking service like 23&Me. However, never e
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by dunk010 2y ago
Tailscale has that Taildrop thing now, too: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
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by dunk010 2y ago
I used to have mine in LaTeX, rendering a nice PDF. But here's the thing, you're up against automated CV parsing systems that you don't have any insight into - a total black box. And it's a different black box with every
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by dunk010 2y ago
I've used this in the past, it's really great.
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by dunk010 2y ago
In case you want another of his videos and know much about eMacs then this one had me on the floor: https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
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by dunk010 2y ago
If you could pre-sign the queries to prevent abuse (user edits to queries making them potentially slow) then IMHO it would be a nice idea in a load of cases. Datasette actually does this, though that’s aimed at a very specific subset of cas
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by dunk010 2y ago
I think you’re somewhere off base here. Yes, you understand React very well, but many don’t. And HTMX gives you a lot of leverage without needing to (1) deal with learning React, (2) deal with all the extra baggage that comes with it (oodle
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by dunk010 2y ago
Everyone wants to use k8s and like 1% need it in any shape or form. It basically acts as a conspiracy between otherwise-redundant ops level people and those running Kubernettes against the companies who have to pay for all this. Just use Fa
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by dunk010 2y ago
I remember this paper, and was at a company at the time that was one of the first to use MapReduce, so saw this all play out first hand. I appreciated the paper. Then and now developers rush to grab new technologies, especially those that s
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by dunk010 3y ago
It’s a shame that most comments here are debating the meaning of “10x” and rather missing the point of the article. This one spoke to me completely outside of this productivity distinction. I’m forever finding myself doing the same; trying
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by dunk010 3y ago
LSP is basically an open(-ish) source implementation of Google’s internal tool called Grok. Grok was made by Steve Yegge, a formerly famous tech blogger. Steve Yegge uses emacs, and half his motivation was to equalise editors by moving the
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by dunk010 3y ago
Except plants increase the humidity, exasperating conditions.
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by dunk010 3y ago
The key is that if the contestant chose a goat then Monty is FORCED to reveal the other goat. It’s this which skews the odds. He has (often) added information to the game.
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by dunk010 3y ago
There are also chaperone proteins that help in the folding process: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)

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