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by ndonnellan 2y ago
I was going to chime in to second this. In a former life I worked on power towers and we had designs for air receivers that would potentially work really well with this type of system: - High temperatures - Intermittent solar input not a pr
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by ndonnellan 3y ago
Portland, OR (NW Oregon in general) also has a lot of planted Giant Sequoias! So it may not be strictly true that they are super picky. I imagine as climate warms, the PNW will become a better spot for Sequoias. Unfortunately at the cost of
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by ndonnellan 3y ago
Source: https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/tracking-nationa...
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by ndonnellan 3y ago
I think the key paragraph is buried: "Though water itself does not absorb much light, and neither does the hydrogel material itself, when the two combine they become strong absorbers, Chen says. That allows the material to harness the
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by ndonnellan 3y ago
I wonder why Wired didn't provide any hyperlinks despite mentioning the site (italicized) several times. Seems like common internet courtesy. Perhaps just a direct-from-print copy.
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by ndonnellan 4y ago
If you want all these things and exponential growth, check out Neptune's pride: https://np.ironhelmet.com/ for basically "diplomacy in space with a few extra dimensions". I haven't played in a few years
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Captain Disillusion: Music Video VFX Magic with Atarashii Gakko(youtube.com)
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
This appears to be a repost/summary/blogspam of a 2017 kotaku piece: https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-...
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
Thanks for the reply! Sorry I don't have any great sources off the top of my head. It makes sense that you'd want to restrict the scope of the article to make it more understandable. I've only been part of one startup, and it
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
I like the structure of the article and it's a good procedure for evaluation compensation, but my nitpick would be it could be more helpful if it included more realistic numbers. Do 5% of startups actually reach 1B valuation in 4 years
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
You mean like Optimizely? I thought most startups these days had absurd adjectiverbnoun names.
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
If you're looking to cut down on solar heating, steel roofs or even lighter colored or painted roofs would be a far more cost effective option.
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
I think the legal definition of NA beer is maximum of 0.5%. I may be misremembering, but I think Athletic Brewing mentioned their beers are closer to 0.2 -> 0.3% on average. But even at 0.5%, that would be 10 NA beers to add up to one av
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
This is the important question. At my previous job the results of internal surveys would have these fairly high numbers, like 20% of employees don't think they will be here in a year. But if you looked at the previous year's numbe
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
One of the first comments I heard from coworkers on work-life-balance was "hope you're not working with a team in Mountain View", and they weren't referring to just the time zone difference (we're in Austin). Before
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
Yes, I think your reading is correct. The article makes claims the paper does not about comparing Vertical vs. Horizontal wind turbines.
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by ndonnellan 5y ago
Caution though: this can lead to blind spots. I witnessed a critical bug become exacerbated by the first fix because the developer and reviewer had essentially co-wrote the solution, so the sign-off was essentially a rubber stamp. If you wa
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
Summer months in most of the southern US are extremely hot (in Austin, 4-5 months of the year could have temps above 100F), so for example here is CA in August (see graph in article for demand): https://www.greentechmedia.com&#x2
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
I doubt the rotation speed is 1/s, that would imply pi*220m/s at the tips or 2488 km/hour! Based on animations, it looks more like 1 rotation per 20 or 30 seconds. 20-30kWh seems very reasonable for a house's consumption
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say they were talking about (in most US restaurants) - Ask for check -> waiter brings check -> put card in fold, wait ?? minutes for waiter to return to grab card -> wait ?? minutes for waiter to run car
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
After reading this, I searched for and found this report on earthquake impact from 2018 (for both "the big one" and a smaller, 6.8 portland hills quake), I believe based on the OP referenced data: https://www.oregongeol
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
Nope, middle-tier US city. One of the offers was FAANG, but a small office. To be clear, I did not do most of this over email, but I used very similar wording in my phone calls. I never had more than 2 offers at once, and I don't think
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
I was reading this comment on my phone and had to jump on my computer to say: you should absolutely take this article/Haseeb seriously, yes people say these exact things over the phone. I was looking for a new job in the recent past al
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
Tire particulates are worse than _exhaust particulates_, not necessarily emissions, an important distinction. CO and CO2 are not counted as particulates.
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
My first thought upon seeing the images in the article: that's not a B-17! But the microprose announcement makes it more clear that the B-24 will be added, https://www.microprose.com/games/the-mighty-eighth# [edit
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by ndonnellan 6y ago
We have tons of those in Central Texas! But they're not aggressive at all, if a little curious. Definitely huge. I've also seen a few tarantula hawks, which look very evil.
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by ndonnellan 7y ago
Still puttering along with my 2012 Air, only replaced the battery once. I've definitely been waiting to upgrade and this looks promising, but I also have a company laptop again, so the pressure is lower to get my old Air replaced.
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by ndonnellan 7y ago
I try to put 3 bags in the passenger footwell, and then distribute the rest as evenly as possible with the seats down. But yes, it's pretty close :-) I have to unload a few before I have clearance to back up our long driveway.
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by ndonnellan 7y ago
I have been fitting a little under 1000lbs of sand / gravel in my hatchback (elantra gt) a few times this past week. It can also handle 10' 2x4s for short drives. Given than I only need that a few times a year, it's a no brai
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by ndonnellan 7y ago
> You might think that programmers are expensive–the salaries of programmers are quite respectable in comparison to other industries. But if this were true, a lot more effort would go into improving programmers’ productivity, in particul

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