mpwoz

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by mpwoz 2mo ago
Not fair, I count 3 whole nines in "99.49 % uptime"
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by mpwoz 3mo ago
For batteries, GWh is the correct unit though (storage). Just not for panels/generators/etc.
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by mpwoz 2y ago
For context, I recently completed a game on a team of 4 devs who were all relatively new to ECS for the last bevy game jam [1] Initially, we struggled a bit with how much ceremony there seemed to be to make simple stuff like movement work w
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by mpwoz 2y ago
To be honest, that might just be SeaTac on a Thursday. Everything's under construction and the late night arrivals has been crowded for a while now.
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by mpwoz 2y ago
This was a really cool deep dive into various optimizations that apply specifically to voxel-based games. I especially enjoyed how the author packed progressively more information into the bits of a single integer using some clever tricks,
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by mpwoz 3y ago
I think you both mean "conscience" And this argument is just whataboutism - sure we can do better everywhere but that doesn't mean the Chinese government gets a pass
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by mpwoz 3y ago
From the first bullet point under 'features': > asdf-compatible - rtx is compatible with asdf plugins and .tool-versions files. It can be used as a drop-in replacement.
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by mpwoz 4y ago
Since I can’t edit, found the original hn thread DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010050
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by mpwoz 4y ago
This is Docusign’s second round of layoffs in 5 months, they laid off 9% in September: DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010050
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by mpwoz 4y ago
Re: [1] - I was interested in how this worked so I read the article, here's a quote: "The 55-year-old electrical troubleshooter ignored his financial planner's advice, keeping 100 percent of his 401(k) money invested in Enron
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by mpwoz 4y ago
There's a fusion startup called Helion near Seattle working on this, it'll be really exciting if it pans out at scale. This video was a fascinating watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38
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by mpwoz 4y ago
I discovered Isaac Arthur's Youtube channel in another comment thread, and I've been watching his videos for several weeks now. They've almost entirely replaced news about the war in Ukraine and economic doomsdaying, and I&#x
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by mpwoz 4y ago
The M1 jump is not new money for the most part, it's a reclassification of things that used to be M2 as also being M1 (liquid) https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/05/savings-are-now-more... M2 increased in 2
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by mpwoz 4y ago
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first. Mark Twain
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by mpwoz 4y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned org-mode yet. It does everything shown in the video: collapse/expand nodes, focus on subtrees, ability to highlight across rows/nodes, etc. That said, the fluid animations in Bike look great, and the
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by mpwoz 4y ago
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field
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by mpwoz 5y ago
Here's the thread discussing the spotify outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603574
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by mpwoz 5y ago
In this example, isn't the problem that you're declaring column A as an 'int' type when what you really wanted was a string? Column B would be the "correct" one for your use case I'd think, unless you also
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by mpwoz 5y ago
FYI it's still happening for me
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by mpwoz 5y ago
Draw.io [1] (now diagrams.net I guess?) lets you export a .png file with the diagram embedded in the image. So you don't need to keep the original file, and even an old image from a wiki can be opened up and edited by anybody on the te
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by mpwoz 6y ago
I think the official "drawabox" subreddit is actually https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/ Both are great!
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by mpwoz 6y ago
This is great! Can't wait for the follow-up studies. If anyone's in Seattle, there's a group there trying to make Approval Voting happen for city elections: http://seattleapproves.org/
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by mpwoz 6y ago
Thank you for the Robin Sloan link, I've been a fan of his ever since I read Sourdough for a book club a few years ago (incidentally while learning how to make my own by total coincedence) and his style really resonates with me. That b
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by mpwoz 6y ago
I'm the same way - I hardly ever use actual vim anymore! But I use the keybindings everywhere: web browsing with vimium, org-mode in spacemacs/evil, intellij vim plugin, etc. Your experience mirrors mine in that most of the benefi
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by mpwoz 6y ago
I've been using Spectacle [1] for 3 years now and it's been great. Note: it appears to have been discontinued in favor of Rectangle [2] It's the first thing I landed on after switching to primarily OSX at work (I used i3 when
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by mpwoz 6y ago
Only if everything you do is in a terminal. If you also need a browser, IDE, or any other non-terminal application open then i3 lets you tile those as well. I haven't used it in a while since we switched to macs and ssh'ing to rem
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by mpwoz 7y ago
Teaspoon. "Tbsb" is usually used as abbreviation for tablespoon
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by mpwoz 7y ago
>>> Back in the day, the British Empire's customs reserved the right to immediately buy the entire freight of a merchant ship for the value declared at customs Can you elaborate on this/help me out with what to google for
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by mpwoz 7y ago
Thanks for the tip, I had no idea blender was on steam (and had beta channels there too!) Link for the lazy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/Blender/
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by mpwoz 7y ago
The "Idaho stop" [1] is the best example I know of, with some studies showing that it's safer than the alternative. It's where cyclists are allowed to treat stop signs as yields (as opposed to coming to a full stop at ea

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