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Chinese Solar Panels Drop to 12 Cents a Watt, Rooftop Installs Surge Worldwide(oilprice.com)
11 points by martinpw 21h ago|2 comments
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by martinpw 6d ago
This post inspired me to go through my box of cables and I actually found a full HTC Vive headset with controllers in there buried several layers deep that I had completely forgotten about. I think it ended up there because it came with abo
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by martinpw 11d ago
I had thought this administration had killed energy star, but it seems like it actually survived. A rare piece of good news: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5684126/energy-star-tru...
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by martinpw 12d ago
Looks like it is available here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wrbsb
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by martinpw 12d ago
Are you sure that will be enjoyable? Lots of articles out there about people opening coffee shops with idyllic dreams of what it will be like, only to find the reality is a daily grind (hehe) of dealing with delayed suppliers, broken machin
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by martinpw 14d ago
Yeah, it's funny, for experiments like this you spend 90% of your time modeling and subtracting noise, and 10% analyzing the signal that results. Had the same experience in X-ray astronomy. 3 years building a detailed model of all the
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by martinpw 14d ago
It was an incredible time to live through as a young kid. There was a Cambrian explosion of computer designs - new systems coming out every month, each outdoing the previous ones. I remember rushing to the store each month to buy and devour
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by martinpw 1mo ago
> Even tracked by checked luggage. Which would be great if it was actually accurate. Took a United flight two days ago. Checked two bags. App only reported one bag loaded onto plane. Spent the flight anxiously wondering if the other bag
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by martinpw 3mo ago
Pretty easy to look this stuff up rather than depend on decade old memory. Temperature in Europe is rising much faster than the worldwide average. Here it says +2.3C by 2022 - that is significant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by martinpw 3mo ago
Was in an Uber in Korea recently traveling from the airport and the car literally beeped every 30 seconds for the entirety of the one hour drive with what presumably was a speed limit warning - a beep AND a verbal message. Seemed to be only
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by martinpw 3mo ago
> When I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications. I believe the requirement is only one way - they can read high by a certain % but they cannot read
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Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026(eia.gov)
63 points by martinpw 3mo ago|17 comments
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by martinpw 3mo ago
> Big big shops have "dumbed down" troubleshooting as much as they can - for a lot of reasons. You don't have to pay folks as much because they're thinking and doing less, the more time they spend troubleshooting the
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by martinpw 4mo ago
> it's a force majeur I assume you meant something like 'force multiplier"? Force Majeure is an uncontrollable event that prevents a party from fulfilling a contract. Which some may argue is what AI will also deliver. :)
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by martinpw 4mo ago
I've always felt bad about not understanding git better and wanted to dedicate time to learn it properly but never got to it. Finally this is a use case where AI is really good. It has always been able to get me out of trouble when I m
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by martinpw 4mo ago
It will still be application dependent. Code to compute fillets and blends gets incredibly complex when multiple surfaces are involved. And when surfaces are barely intersecting, or almost coincident, all bets are off what the command will
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China's NEV penetration hits historic 61.4% in April as ICE sales collapse(carnewschina.com)
11 points by martinpw 4mo ago|0 comments
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by martinpw 5mo ago
> The goal of art isn't merely beauty. It's primarily communication. "Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us" - Picasso
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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find(science.nasa.gov)
4 points by martinpw 6mo ago|0 comments
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by martinpw 6mo ago
> Thus things dangling from the rear mirror in a car are a bad thing, they need (subconscious) attention. And open offices with the associated foot traffic. Constant distraction quite apart from the noise factor.
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by martinpw 6mo ago
How does this work in combination with age related hearing loss? At some point you will lose high frequency sensitivity in that 11-15Khz range. Would be nice to get some benefit from that, but I assume the tinnitus itself will not go away e
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by martinpw 7mo ago
Another great Eric Bogle song is Green Fields of France. I like this version by The Men They Couldn't Hang best : https://youtu.be/Kr6OzLJrS2k?si=ZX6lrXqjZktV20-V
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by martinpw 7mo ago
Is that really how it works - everything is just weighted equally? I would hope there would be at least some kind of tuning, so <well-regarded-codebase> gets more weight than <random-persons-first-coding-project>? If not, that s
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by martinpw 7mo ago
> Fillets and chamfers are a good example. They seem simple but are geometrically non-trivial, and OCC will fail on cases that Parasolid handles without complaint. A long time ago I interviewed at one of the large CAD companies. I rememb
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by martinpw 7mo ago
Problem is that in an EV world the raw figures are really not going to be that impressive. Plenty of Chinese EVs have 1000+hp at far lower cost, and likely as good or better acceleration that whatever Ferrari can deliver, since EVs seem to
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by martinpw 8mo ago
I think you are a few years out of date. Certainly they used to be not great. They are way better now.
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by martinpw 8mo ago
> This was the world of Dilbert’s rise. You’d put a Dilbert comic on your cubicle wall, and feel like you’d gotten away with something My former manager used to have Dilbert comic strips on his wall. It always puzzled me - was it self de
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by martinpw 8mo ago
> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Washington Department of Natural Resources recommended bluetooth
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by martinpw 8mo ago
Both are true. Costs have gone up a lot over the past few years and are also going down this year.
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by martinpw 8mo ago
Ah, memories. At my first real job, my desktop machine was an HP-UX workstation with a monochrome monitor. The company did UNIX CAD software, so each developer got a different type of system to ensure we developed on all the platforms we su

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