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That's basically my weather app. Though, I made it fancy at 7 lines of bash which takes location arguments and pipes into jq for display.

A suggestion I liked was to time-shift water heaters as a thermal battery. Water heaters are a significant sink (~20%) of household energy. They are already installed and well insu…

That might have to do with existing deal structures to maintain a non-renewable base load. Something like, if cloud cover/wind suddenly changes, we want to ensure there is already …

Does anyone even do repairs anymore? Swap a motherboard and that's it.

Sure enough. Oxford only gives a bewildered definition. Although, their ambiguous examples could fit an amused/confused definition. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/de…

Teams still does not make it easy to share your screen when you have a non-standard size. Have to either make the receiver deal with the size mismatch, or share a single window at …

> no headphone jack I am fully old man screaming at the clouds here, but what does this cost for Dell to include? I insist on a wired headset - telecommunications already barely wo…

I only think of bemused as "confused". Maybe incredulous at a stretch?

During peak Covid, Vampire Survivors blew up as the hot game. It is a pedestrian dual stick shooter. There are hundreds of examples which do the same thing, possibly better. Gettin…

Quake came out in 1996, Diablo in 1997, Starcraft in 1998. Sure the adrenaline juicing is more sophisticated now, but there were already multiplayer games which could hook one for …

Even at cloud prices, 50GB of storage is ~$1/month. Offering an additional tier with pathetic storage to save $0.80 or whatever is muddling the offering. I guess they could offer a…

The signal speed in fiber is some 200k km/s. If you go 10 miles outside of a city, you are adding 0.1ms ping, and you will have dramatically fewer pitch forks. The ping between New…

Wikipedia has an article about it[0]. Gas had been leaking for three years before they were able to use a nuke to seal the well. Estimated that it was burning 12 million m3 of gas …

What is DP?

What mythical software is this? The only infinitely customizable software I can think of is emacs, and that takes an enormous amount of effort to become proficient.

You are assuming the changes would all be positive, minus some UI hassle. I have seen plenty of products where vital workflows were scrapped entirely or made significantly more clu…

There was also the video where he did write the doctoral research project in a weekend.

Gutenberg's copy of Moby Dick is 1.2MB[0]. Which is to say the slowest benchmarked terminal could display a paltry ~53 Moby Dicks per second, while shitty gives you ~98 Moby Dicks.…

On the other hand, plenty of NAS/file server systems are going to have paltry CPU and memory. Running slower with a more modest memory foot print might be the only way to keep the …

I imagine there is no free lunch in the allocator space, but a series of trade-offs. Pick your poison on implementation which is going to be sub-optimal for some subset of use case…

Roughly a quarter of global energy is directed towards industrial heating. There are many "hot rocks" companies who have been commercializing ways to time shift cheap/free daily so…

This is my core question as well. At what point do you have to maintain property so the government can use it to testify against yourself? If I have a dash-cam, and I wipe the SD c…

As things get more complicated, I will separate out by some kind of concept. Which can be something as simple as: /coreapp /forms_foo.py /forms_bar.py /models_bar.py /models_foo.py…

Not the author, but I no not understand the desire to use multiple apps. I am never going to want to carve one out as a separate module I re-use in another product. It is all inter…

I live in SoCal and am continually shaking my head at the architecture. So my floor-to-ceiling glass buildings in a climate known for sunny weather. So much extra air-conditioning …