intrepidhero

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by intrepidhero 1y ago
No. The assumption is that charity and government have roughly equivalent efficiency. Both government and charities have (wildly varying) overhead and government agencies may enjoy economies of scale that charities do not. Yet another area
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by intrepidhero 1y ago
I had a similar thought while designing my dream programming language but I also wanted automatic currying and I couldn't figure out an ergonomic way to have both. Now I'm gonna go read your blog series.
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by intrepidhero 2y ago
At my first house I built garden beads in the back yard about 4 feet from the house, each with an 8 foot tall trellis for peas and beans. Seeing that lovely green wall outside the window in the summer was the absolute nicest window treatmen
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by intrepidhero 2y ago
I built a simple kivy app a few years. Working with kivy and testing on my (linux) dev machine was great. Even side loading to test on my phone using the kivy launcher wasn't too bad. The pain point was that building APKs that the play
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
A split 48/12 system makes a lot more sense. Run the heater/heat pump, power steering, coolant pump, etc on 48V and keep entertainment and controls on 12V.
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
I hadn't connected the dots that all the various pumps (and fans) have to switch from mechanically connected to the engine via the accessory belt to electrically driven. That's a fair point.
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
Why would a car need a 48V system for accessories? In general the things a car's 12V system powers have gotten less power hungry over time (LED's, heat pump) and in particular, an EV loses the highest power electrical device on th
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
A phone (or a video) call has no more overhead and is no more of a bother than walking over to someone's cube for a chat. I understand that it feels like more to a lot of people but I don't think it is, objectively, more of a bo
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
Maybe you're trying to make the point that for very complicated systems with many failure points, the reliability of a single component is less impactful than redundancy and there is some truth to that but I must point out that risk vs
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by intrepidhero 3y ago
But when the robot uprising comes our killbots will be unstoppable terminators and their killbots will explode the first time they encounter a set of stairs.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
One of the most useful classes I took in college was a freshmen level philosophy class that I took because I needed 3 more credits of gen. ed. and it was at a convenient time. The prof spent the entire first lecture on this seemingly obviou
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I've been playing with making a rust interpreter and reading other people's work. Here's an interesting blog post (not mine) on making a interpreter in rust match the speed of a c implementation. It seems folks often have to
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
> best weapon against complexity spirit demon is magic word: "no" This is going up on every vertical surface at the office.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I dunno it looks pretty fun to me. Did you see the video? It looks like there are plenty of taxi-terrain interactions. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366560/MiLE_HiGH_TAXi/
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
The number one use case of `for` in shell scripting is over the output of `$(ls .)` And I immediately run into a problem with filenames that have spaces and then I discover that a stringly typed language has lots of sharp edges. I fall back
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I like to say wood stoves heat you 3 times. Once when you spilt the wood, once when you stack it and once when you burn it.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
As fun as the nitpickings are, Bret posted some criticisms of RoP to his twitter that I thought even more illuminating regarding the director using the storytelling medium to just lie to the audience. It rings true to me. All the "clev
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Defibrillators are full of capacitors to boost the voltage, not current. They also use carefully located electrodes, and come with a razor to remove body hair to create the ideal conditions to affect the heart because they need to work eve
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
It only takes 80ma across your heart to stop it. Mains voltage, in both the US and the rest of the world, can easily develop that kind of current, especially if there is moisture involved. And yet plenty of folks have accidental contact wit
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
JWST, SLS/Artemis, Tiangong, and satelite launches are on a hockey stick curve. Very exciting time!
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Toggle slider switches are the blue/gold dress of UI design. In a given population roughly 50% will swear with absolute certainty the given state is "enabled" and the other 50% will be ready to start a holy war with the convi
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
The article focuses on the UI, which is good, but the number one reason McMaster is the tops shopping experience (IMHO) is that they have a rock solid taxonomy. Every single product is meticulously categorized a dozen different ways, allowi
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
The graphics package removed my big complaint: that trying to figure out what each particular character stood for in which context was not fun. The complexity is daunting, but also a big part of the fun. Since I started playing the new vers
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I'm getting some input lag on Linux, via Proton, but I just pause the game and it gets snappy again. That's been working for me so far.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I'm thinking of personal experience in sub-Saharan Africa. But really, most cultures are less individualistic then the west and have different ideas about the obligations of individuals to the group. I'm not saying one way or the
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing. Also, neighbors and extended family. This transactional, one and done sort of thinking tha
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
So the obese, elderly and disabled should have no access to the national park system whatsoever? Those people get a say in how tax dollars are spent too. I wasn't suggesting a cable car to the summit of Denali. Just consider that maybe
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
How are most people going to enjoy (and therefore care about) this natural land without at least some roads, hotels and restaurants? Even in designated wilderness areas, somebody has to build roads and cut trail in order for anyone to enjoy
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
How big is the WASM runtime? If I embed Extism in my application what is the impact on install size and memory usage?
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Has the UI even changed in 27 years? The fact that the I don't have to relearn it every time I update it has been my favorite feature.

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