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by wesleyd 1mo ago
Once upon a time, many years ago, I was working in a bar in rural Ireland. I was 16 or 17, I was alone in the place, it was a slow afternoon, I was crouched down, putting bottles on shelves, idly wondering what the strongest drink - highest
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by wesleyd 1mo ago
I believe these are called “monobloc” and they exist, but are rare in the US.
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by wesleyd 3mo ago
There is a line in 30 rock "I don't know anything. I get all my news from the radio in Grand Theft Auto” and I aspire to this level of ignoring the “News”. Even when I go coldest turkey, I’ve found that actually important news wil
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by wesleyd 3mo ago
Ha, yes, I really ought to have linked to that here. Thanks for doing that!
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by wesleyd 3mo ago
This article feels like a hit piece on Air Conditioning. Some groups seem to regard AC as somehow morally weak and even evil, and while the sentiment resonates with me - I grew up in Ireland! I never even saw the _point_ of AC until I moved
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Reading the news is the new smoking(experimental-history.com)
58 points by wesleyd 3mo ago|59 comments
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by wesleyd 3mo ago
Oh, oh, one of the best things I've ever read on this topic is: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/reading-the-news-is-t... I should submit this to HN, in fact. It doesn't seem to have ever been submitted
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by wesleyd 3mo ago
Humans seem to be wired to weigh negative news much more strongly than positive news. (The most plausible hypothesis I’ve found for this is that bad news - fire, predators nearby - has historically been much more likely to kill you than goo
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The Anarchist's Workbench [pdf](blog.lostartpress.com)
4 points by wesleyd 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wesleyd 4mo ago
I remember an interview with Margaret Atwood [0] in which she joked that while Quebec might vote to leave Canada, the first nations own the bit of Canada where all the hydroelectric power comes from, and _they_ won't want to secede. An
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by wesleyd 4mo ago
When I renewed my H1B visa (I think after three years), I had to leave the US to do it. I couldn't renew it from inside. The permission to work got renewed just fine - I could just keep on working for another three years - but if I lef
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by wesleyd 4mo ago
I don’t even think Costco is all that cheap! Yes, many things are slightly - a few percent - cheaper than many other stores, per unit weight/volume, but it’s not a a big difference. Some things are more expensive though, like meat and
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by wesleyd 4mo ago
Oh man, I love that we live in a world where an eight second 0-60 is considered anemic! For a truck! (Not digging at you, I feel the same way you do. I just think it’s weird and amazing!)
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by wesleyd 4mo ago
Ontario, an apology is not an admission of liability: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/09a03 So very Canada. Sorry!
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
Nice. Another upside seems to be that every Arab country in the Middle East seems to be on the same side as Israel. Nothing unites like a common enemy!
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
I admire what this person is doing, but some reasons I prefer raw + lightroom over eg camera jpeg are: * Lightroom’s noise reduction is WAY better than what my camera (a D500) can do. I shoot sports, usually indoors, with highish iso, so NR
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
I have a theory that the FCC bureaucracy desperately wants to extend its remit to regulate the internet, and this is just one more attempt. Previous example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392676
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
What kind of EV was it? I have heard that the combination of self-driving and mandatory 30-60” breaks every few hours is very relaxing. I look forward to trying it some day. Meanwhile… I would be very wary of taking my bolt on a long journe
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
Darn it! You are correct! Ok, so how about: we made about as much in batteries last year as all the A380s in the world can hold fully loaded in jet fuel. (There aren’t many of them!) Not as impressive, but still.
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by wesleyd 6mo ago
Gas pumps in the US are artificially capped at 10 gallons per minute, and a gallon of gasoline is about 33kWh, so petrol cars in the US “charge” at 330kWh/min ~= 20MW. But most cars only turn about a third of that into motion, so let’s
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by wesleyd 7mo ago
A joke I read recently: "A fortune teller told me I was going to experience the most terrible heartbreak in twelve years time. This totally bummed me out, so I got a dog to cheer me up."
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by wesleyd 8mo ago
The radius is too big. This monitor is R4200, 4.2m. I have a Samsung odyssey something 49” monitor and it is glorious . It is R1000, and since my head is about a meter from the screen, it works: even the edges are usable. I used to use two
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by wesleyd 8mo ago
> What is NG good for? The biggest advantage of NG is that we can store months of it. (Currently we can store only seconds of electricity, if that. Citation needed!) I have a dream that some day we will come up with an efficient proc
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by wesleyd 11mo ago
They have to all use the special context.
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by wesleyd 1y ago
Not tiny, but I have a corner desk, and I mounted big long 16 port power strips under each “wing”: Tripp Lite 16 Outlet Bench &... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000051174 Roll of very sticky Velcro tape To mount thing
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by wesleyd 1y ago
British TV is doing _great_ in the streaming era: black mirror, adolescence, peaky blinders, the crown, call the midwife, derry girls, downtown abbey; and so many great police procedurals: line of duty, endeavour, the bay, Sherlock, grace;
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by wesleyd 1y ago
I have a slightly crazy theory that neurodivergent folk have historically been less inclined to “stay put”, and more likely to migrate, and the US - built out of immigrants - has selected for neurodivergence. (This assumes that neurodiverge
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by wesleyd 1y ago
Hell is other people’s dishwasher organization strategies.
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by wesleyd 2y ago
> Use the imperative mood in the subject line I like to think of this not as giving an order to the codebase, but as casting a spell.
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by wesleyd 2y ago
Listened to this yesterday. Super enjoyable. Made the point that electricity in the future will be consumed much closer geographically to where it is generated than today - and so we probably don’t need huge interconnects - but much less cl

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