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by fwungy 1y ago
New cars have 3G cellular transmitters constantly sending telemetry data. This started becoming common in 2012.
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by fwungy 1y ago
Still down as of 22:31 PDT.
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by fwungy 2y ago
Show me the person and I'll show you the crime. -Stalin This was a person they wanted to let go and needed an excuse to get rid of that would save them severance and lawsuits, I'd wager.
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Ask HN: Best Way to Access Uncensored AI SaaS?
2 points by fwungy 2y ago|2 comments
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by fwungy 2y ago
Who would collect such a dossier? Who would want such a thing exposed? How many Trump voters care about the details of JD Vance enough to change their vote (zero)? Why has Zuck publicly shifted from strong anti-Trump positioning to neutral
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by fwungy 2y ago
Efficiency means minimizing the use of the costliest components. It's installing fault points into a system on purpose. Robust systems minimize fault points. Efficient systems come at the cost of robustness, and vice versa given a fixe
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by fwungy 2y ago
My uncle works for Nintendo. He says Bird Flu is going to start getting real bad in two weeks, like REAL BAD.
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by fwungy 2y ago
The consensus at the very large IT provider I work for, amongst the staff, is that India is a good bet for a script running operations team, but poor on ingenuity, innovation, and creative problem solving. The best Indian talent are as good
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by fwungy 2y ago
Zig looks fun, as a low level alternative to Rust. Similar use case as Rust, but much simpler.
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by fwungy 2y ago
In my niche, platform engineering, grey-hairs is a positive indicator of competence.
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by fwungy 2y ago
Women often eventually discover they want children and are on a tight timeline. Men do too, but they are not on the timeline. They can start families at virtually any time in their life. By biasing work income towards men it gives women a l
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by fwungy 2y ago
Anyone can build a bridge that will stand. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that will barely stand. A second of life beyond the warranty period is profit that the manufacturer can hold on to rather than give to the consumer. With micr
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by fwungy 2y ago
The corporations finance.the politicians, so no. It's all for show, and lines the pockets of the lawyers, who are the primary political class.
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by fwungy 2y ago
From the politicians they funded?
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by fwungy 2y ago
Diablo Canyon was a Gen I/II design from the 1950's/60's. Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner, Thorium designs in particular, however they don't generate byproducts for nuclear weapons (boohoo), which is why th
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by fwungy 2y ago
If they didn't spend so much money on renewables they could have used it on the grid. Some of the dumb enviromental laws didn't help either. It could be pretty hard to clear trees from a legal perspective, which made maintenance m
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by fwungy 2y ago
Just wait. California is where they start this stuff. California was an amazing place to live not too long ago. Good schools, affordable housing, (so) no major homeless issues, one of the most innovative and productive places in the entire
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by fwungy 2y ago
I've lived in California for my whole life. A blackout in the 80's was an anomaly. They were so rare that I remember them as being fun, a little adventure, because they were very rare. In current year California I experience them
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Ford ends EV dealership program that required hefty investment to sell EVs(cnbc.com)
2 points by fwungy 2y ago|1 comments
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by fwungy 2y ago
I've been at this business for a few minutes and can say it's not that hard to identify good candidates. 1) a native and active interest in computing 2) good english 3) good (enough) social skills A good software team is built lik
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by fwungy 2y ago
The buildings are more than symbols, we have no clue how they were built, just theories, but remember there were no power tools before 1895. There were no cranes. Those massive Roman columns, were carved in perfect symmetry by hand tools? T
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by fwungy 2y ago
Would it be hard to try this on the Azimuthal Equidistant projection?
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by fwungy 2y ago
I bought a cheap AQ monitor off Amazon that does CO2. Anecdotally, I feel better when CO2 is lower. It's definitely sold me on the value of fresh air.
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by fwungy 2y ago
Steve Albini, amazing producer, died at 61 of a heart attack. He was a vocal supporter of the covid jabs on Twitter/X. Was pretty critical of people who questioned it. He was a healthy, active, man. "Yes, thrombosis can cause a he
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by fwungy 2y ago
They're pulling it because of the Thrombosis deaths. This is just PR cope from AZ. If that were the real reason they'd quietly discontinue manufacture.
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by fwungy 2y ago
There were 81 admitted Thrombosis deaths, blood clots. How many more were affected but either not fatally injured or a contributing factor to a fatality officially attributed to another cause? Given the history of pharmaceutical products th
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by fwungy 2y ago
This on the news that the Astra Zeneca covid vaccine is being pulled due to Thrombosis deaths, i.e. blood clots. I'm pro-vaccine and I'm waiting a long time before I try a new one. Let other people be the test subjects. I skip new
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by fwungy 2y ago
Fan is a small load. You could run that from a generator. You wouldn't want to run a heat pump from a generator.
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by fwungy 2y ago
"Favorite" just means one you use a lot. It's like when people ask you what your favorite movie or album is. They're not asking you to literally move to a desert island with only that, it just means one you like that com
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by fwungy 2y ago
Same problem as all electric technologies have: you're dependent on the grid capacity to provide your service. You can't store electricity as affordably as gas and oil. In an extreme cold spell your grid is now being taxed at a ma

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