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by mshenfield 3y ago
25k per unit, assuming the battery lasts 5 years, is uneconomically high at $5k/year per home. A 100kw generator can produce enough power for 100 homes, costs ~$50k all in, and ~$1k per day in fuel costs to run during an outage. Assum
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by mshenfield 4y ago
It's back
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by mshenfield 4y ago
No. Companies just have to re-hire fired employees and pay lost wages and benefits. IMO Starbucks should pay a large punitive fine that gets split between the fired workers and the NLRB.
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by mshenfield 4y ago
I've never seen anyone directly make this case. Most people seem to want their colleagues (many of whom are friends) to keep their jobs more than they want the stock price to go up.
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by mshenfield 4y ago
I'm still not convinced VSCode is faster and better. My Atom setup was never slow, the only thing that wasn't instantaneous was code completion. For me, it felt like VSCode came out of nowhere and surpassed Atom for inexplicable r
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by mshenfield 4y ago
Twitter won't die, but it won't make much of a profit either. Elon Musk will find another buyer in 2 years for $25 billion and make most of his money back while leaving the company saddled with most of the $11 billion in debt fin
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by mshenfield 4y ago
Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.
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by mshenfield 4y ago
I like Pixlr, I use pixlr.com/e. It's free and web based and has always worked well for me. Did that happen recently? It says in Pixlr's site they're owned by INMAGINE.
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by mshenfield 4y ago
These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had too many artifacts to use, but gave me a guideline to follow when creating the r
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by mshenfield 4y ago
I had the luck of getting to interact with Simon a little at my first real programmer job at Eventbrite. You would never know meeting him that he was one of the creators of Django, (and TIL querySelector!). He was infectiously curious and
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by mshenfield 4y ago
Love everything about this. The 6+ lawyers of parallax background really make it feel alive. Is the background generative in some way, or is each layer in a loop?
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by mshenfield 4y ago
I used Atom for a long time after it was cool. I just loved the idea of an editor I could extend using the standard web tools and frameworks. Overall love this project, and still am a little miffed that VSCode ate their lunch. Best of luck
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by mshenfield 4y ago
Thanks for acknowledging how much harder this is when you use a cloud-specific feature. Modifying your codebase to migrate off some cloud specific service seems like it would be by far the hardest part of switching clouds.
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by mshenfield 5y ago
Even though this begins with a pitch for empowering tenants, the customers are the landlords. The value for landlords comes at the expense of tenants in several ways. * It prevents tenants who don't meet income or other requirements fr
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by mshenfield 5y ago
It's a post about emojis, but I feel like I understand Unicode better now?
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by mshenfield 5y ago
Does Google contact developers before taking down their extensions?
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by mshenfield 6y ago
I used d3.js for one of my first programming projects. I was grateful and impressed that almost every question on Stack Overflow was answered by Mike Bostock or Jason Davies. I'm (a little) older and (a little) wiser, and know this kin
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by mshenfield 6y ago
One trick of `pragma journal_mode = WAL` is that even with synchronous normal, SQLite syncs when you close the last connection [1]. So re-using a connection is key to getting the full benefits if you're executing commands from a singl
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by mshenfield 6y ago
This list is self-consciously blunt/rude (correlating programming practices with intelligence and sanity) and unaccountable ("who knows what I'll believe in a few more years"). It's an annoying combination. I imagi
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by mshenfield 6y ago
Going from a local db to one over a network has at least one risk. The SQLite docs gives developers the okay to write "n+1" style queries ( https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html ). When the db is on the same fi
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by mshenfield 6y ago
There hasn't been a post with the words "twitter alternative" in 3 weeks [0]... but this probably has nothing to do with Twitter banning Donald Trump today. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0
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by mshenfield 6y ago
The opening and closing lines are "real conspiracies do exist". Because of that, I didn't feel like the article claims that "people in power never do wrong".
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by mshenfield 6y ago
The downside is that this makes it really easy for developers to avoid making an actual API. The turbo frames _are_ the API. Great to bootstrap, but miserable if you ever want to implement a native mobile app (or any other client) on top o
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by mshenfield 6y ago
I'd love to see the source code on this. At least part of it is a language compiled to WASM (e.g. https://gacembed.withgoogle.com/blob-opera/harmonizermodule.... )
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by mshenfield 6y ago
Intellectually I understand the comparison (politically motivated destruction of businesses) but it's so tone deaf. The scale and consequences of Nazi Brownshirts and Kristallnacht - 7k businesses destroyed, 30k Jewish men arrested, by
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by mshenfield 6y ago
Appreciate this perspective! I feel like I'm indirectly supporting his politics by engaging with his weather content. I'm generating ad revenue as a reader. And I'm increasing the size of the platform he can claim, which he
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by mshenfield 6y ago
Cliff Mass spoiled himself for me with this asinine blog post comparing Seattle BLM protesters to brownshirts in Nazi Germany [0]. It feels icky to get behind someone who will use his platform to sling ridiculous accusations and accept no c
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by mshenfield 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying! That's a fair point about web components having the capacity to be statically rendered and re-hydrated.
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by mshenfield 6y ago
First contentful paint (FCP) is basically the same (+-10ms) from React down to a raw HTMLElement. I guess at some point appending elements to the DOM is the bottleneck, rather than the overhead of parsing JS and the efficiency of said JS.
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by mshenfield 6y ago
I've looked into Brython and other "Python in the browser" implementations (transcrypt.org, pypyjs.org). It's fun! At a high level, the approaches are: * Create a Python interpreter that is able to run Python code direc

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