jwitchel

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by jwitchel 2mo ago
There is near zero actual risk. These systems have been around for a long time and are widely deployed in Europe. Circuit breakers have been around for a century and work great. You plug something in that pushes or pulls too much current a
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by jwitchel 3mo ago
"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this." Fantastic work!
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by jwitchel 3mo ago
I was looking for a dead on feature for feature exact replica including look and feel. You are 100% correct there are some excellent tools and libraries that duplicate most (all?) of the features. But I was playing around with the idea of w
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by jwitchel 3mo ago
I recently asked Claude to duplicate Google Docs. It practically threw up. I tried to have it write a plan, decompose it, deobfuscate it. It gave me all sorts of reasons why this was a terrible idea. I've never seen it resist a task
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by jwitchel 4mo ago
Kagi is awesome. And frankly, it's the end game. Just pay for your search full stop. The original 1990's assertion that "information wants to be free" and all that related nonsense never really passed the laugh test.
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by jwitchel 5mo ago
Oh this is one I can answer. I was the co-founder of Prosper an early p2p lending company. Your problem is a relatively easy one. Go find one or two companies with a lot of packages. Focus on delivering packages whose delivery time is no
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by jwitchel 5mo ago
This is a great incredibly well written piece. Nice work showing under the hood build up of how a db works. It makes you think.
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by jwitchel 7mo ago
Look a rural electric coops like www.lpea.coop if you want a battle tested approach to an org structure that resists the inescapable profit dynamics of a corporation.
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by jwitchel 9mo ago
AI slop for all its banality may give us enough noise in the signal to accomplish exactly what the author is asking for. As the dead web continues to emerge, content looks less like apples on a tree and more like sand on the beach. And the
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by jwitchel 10mo ago
Been using Kagi for about a year (paid). Best money I ever spent. I did a google search recently... Yuck. I want a calm internet. I ask it answers. No motive. No agenda. Just a best effort honest answer.
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by jwitchel 1y ago
I've been using Kagi search for a while now and frankly it's fantastic. Google looks like AOL to me now. These guys are doing great work and this news product is exactly what I want... Once a day hit. What is happening in the wor
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by jwitchel 1y ago
Usually the observation that “a widely used thing is objectively bad” is strong market signal for entrepreneurial opportunity in a big tam. I for one would welcome a set of deeply integrated ui improvements in a Mac that included a better f
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by jwitchel 2y ago
Just the worst propaganda. A whole website devoted to "Tesla Bad. Musk Bad"? Seriously guys. Context ... https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...
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by jwitchel 2y ago
And the inevitable despair of being smart in Milwaukee.
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by jwitchel 2y ago
You are not alone. There are a lot of startups working to solve this problem: https://ttconsultants.com/top-10-battery-recycling-startups-... However, you're doing the right thing. It's important to not let the
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by jwitchel 3y ago
Flat Earthers rejoice!
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by jwitchel 3y ago
At the risk of being cancelled and banned, I think Trevor Noah pretty much summed up the situation in Solano County ... https://youtu.be/QhMO5SSmiaA
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by jwitchel 3y ago
Despite these very exciting data points you can watch California systematically push against these trends: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/new-california-ru...
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by jwitchel 3y ago
People engineering solutions for the win.
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by jwitchel 3y ago
The rumble in the jungle. Ali vs. George Foreman, 1974. https://youtu.be/9bRiFEvxlp8
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Pepperidge farm remembers the same types of dismissals when Netscape first come about. "I already have a compuserve account", "It's just a bunch of geeks talking about Frank Zappa", "You can't DO anything
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Yawn. But omg Penelope Scott! Skip the article listen to the song... https://youtu.be/LpxT9TLGoLI
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Most open water distance swimming takes the tides into account. Here's an article that gets into it a bit with some data to boot... https://evanmorrison.com/swim/posts/manhattan-swim-tides/
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by jwitchel 4y ago
+1 And to pile on a bit here... part of learning to be a good engineer is learning how to give good constructive feedback. If you are creating real risk of truly hurting someone with your feedback (in a PR or a code review for example) the
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by jwitchel 4y ago
It's not a binary choice. We can and should have both. We can also provide constructive feedback and at times criticism both without risking hurting their feelings. Again, the point is time and place.
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Fair enough, but context matters and there are two that matter here: (1) The subject was the tech and the engineer not biased media narratives, and (2) HN is a forum that so many people look up to. So if you want to context switch to a dis
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Robert Sansone, great job! So many young prospective engineers read HN every day. Let's find comments that are encouraging or thought provoking or point readers in helpful directions Like @londons_explore did. Bringing the beatdown is
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by jwitchel 4y ago
Hate Suzuki. Hate VW. Tesla is extraordinary. https://worstbrands.com/worst-car-brands/
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by jwitchel 4y ago
I stayed in software and specifically fintech software where I spent most of my career. There are aspects of renewables that require certification or licenses depending on your country (electrical work for example). But most of the work doe
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by jwitchel 4y ago
I came to terms with the belief that it was important for me to try and help with what I viewed as the critical problem of our time. I just couldn't sit on the sidelines any more. After that leap it was simply aligning my personal skil

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