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High load in the day during sunlight is mostly true for summer heat, but in the winter you have cold evenings which requires base load or storage, combined with solar angle/efficie…

Why is this comment upvoted? It is most likely AI generated with a nice "Raised $50B" hallucination and filled with cliches ("thrown down the gauntlet", "mountain you don’t climb j…

Yes. Kenji Lopez has done this experiment using sous vide cooking. See the chart halfway down here: https://blog.thermoworks.com/coming-heat-effects-muscle-fibe...

You can just make an IsAdmin() public function to expose it.

A16Z had an article on the lack of IPOs: https://a16z.com/where-have-all-the-ipos-gone/ Regulatory compliance like Sarbanes Oxley is another huge factor. And VC's having large capi…

It just summarized this page and included a few of the images. [1] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto

I investigated both and implemented OIDC. It was difficult, but compared to the SAML and XML complexity, I'd say it was much easier.

June 4th. Not recent news. Although this is a clear case of self-dealing by Musk.

General question when running a single member LLC: how do you determine how much to take as salary versus business profit, and how does that affect your taxes? I'm guessing tax lia…

Kyle Mitchell is a lawyer that can program, and has done a ton of open source work on legal docs: https://projects.kemitchell.com/ For example, here are his employment/hiring docs:…

"Loser pays" is a better and simpler legal system.

1 MW charger per truck, if you need to super charge. Equivalent to approximately 1000 homes. This is a huge burden on the electrical grids, and Tesla or EV's get to hand that probl…

It's the new HaaS business model: Hardware as a Service.

@dang, can you change the display for (threads.net) to be like twitter, where it shows the username to the right of the post title? For example, threads.net/@quiverquantitative

Get a Carbon Steel pan instead. These are similar metal composition to cast iron, where you can season them with oils, but are forged (ie pressed) into shape, rather than cast. So …

Exactly. This is akin to selling a calibrated 1 kilogram cube of lead, with a precision of 1 nanogram and specified purity, for $1000. You are not just buying an overpriced $3 bloc…

Not good when a CFO abruptly resigns (or is fired). Usually companies project this quarters ahead to the public, with a soft notice that "XYZ will be retiring next year". Yes, Kirk…

I'd suggest watching the 1420 channel, where they interview Russians on the street. Many of the older generation have a nostalgia of life under communism, whereas the younger gener…

Looks like their web site is offline now: https://www.oneowltelecom.com/ And the LinkedIn profile is gone: https://www.linkedin.com/company/one-owl-telecom-inc

My guess would be the first prototype is a substitute for chicken nuggets.

Gold and silver are recognized as legal tender.