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Depends on the state, but in Vic the 'poles and wires' component, both in distribution (suburb) and transmission (pylons) costs are built into the fee that is charged for electricity supply (cost of connectivity) in a positive feedback loop: the more the companies invested, the more they could charge.

This was designed to avoid the 'run it into the ground's privatisation mentality, but it went the other way. Sadly, there was no price component for improving the network with new ideas, so it is still the same design as 100 years ago.

A system designed by accountants has done things accountants love, and nothing for electrical engineering or the citizens. Surprise.

The old SEC wasn't innovative or cheap, and neither is the privatised system. For incentives to be effective they have to be broken down to be smaller components rewarding specific conduct, and tweaked in response to system performance.
> while it affected the rest of the world to a certain degree, overall very little changed.

This only makes sense if you are making a sharp distinction between the 2008 US crisis and the European debt crisis, which is probably not what the parent meant. That's why people would strongly disagree with you.
Most major banks in the US participate in Zelle, which enables free money transfers between consumer bank accounts. You can even setup unique Zelle users for your accounts at different financial institutions, so you can transfer your own funds between accounts at different financial institutions instantly and at no cost.
FYI, Fidelity charges no fees for wire transfers and they have a type of account that's meant to be used as a checking account.
I blog about my learning journey here if you're interested: https://victorleungtw.com
Well, if you listen to anti-vaxxers, at the very least - then you’ll learn how many times the governments actually fucked up vaccination practices in the world?

It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vaccinate, but they have _something_ to say.
We have a national payment card system in Denmark (Dankort). Depending on the number of transactions a business has. A business can pay down to $0.03 per transaction.

Obviously, Visa and Mastercard are trying to see if they can ruin the system.
Very interesting, thanks for the color-blindness link.
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> there's a strong set of evidence to say Brexit was a direct result of the 2008 crisis.

Nah. The only selling point on the referendum was immigration. The only one people really cared about anyway.
You can buy a lot of laser cutter for $7000, but it's closer to $8000.

Heck, you can get a greenbullv2/bluechick router/laser etching (not a great cutter) kit for $9000.
they have a page with few suppliers listed: https://github.com/nortd/lasersaur/wiki/bom
Good to know! After Google search has become a bad joke and completely unusable, every alternative is welcome.
Good points. It'd be great if the kotlin compiler could produce builders or "withers" automatically.
All high-level control flow is very definitely not rewritten into gotos. Almost all cpus have some form of function call instruction, and c functions are implemented by using it. Without such an instruction, or even a fast way to model it, C becomes much less efficient to implement.
I thought it was great until I watched someone get buried in fees by it. They forgot about the automatic payment while dealing with the crisis that used up all their money.

They sorted through the fees and got things turned back on by explaining the situation, but it was a nightmare. Precarity is hard to understand if you've never been in or near it, or if it's a distant memory for you. It's overwhelming on a good day.
Costco is unusual as only accepts the credit card issuer that their card is issued through, when AMEX issued their credit card they only accepted AMEX.
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This specifically shows that you don't need to be a large corp to do this.

Everyone can do this at home today and on a budget, with publicly accessible data.
> As such the only likely way "debt is coming" is if interest rates climb, giving money an alternative to VC.

Surely that's backwards: a lot of money really wants to be invested in debt, and is only doing VC because the returns to debt investing are so bad. Offer those investors a better alternative - comparable returns to a second-tier VC fund (which is not actually that hard), with something they can pretend is a security backed by something (they want to believe, you don't have to give them much), and they'll beat a path to your door. Much easier to offer market-beating "startup user bonds" while interest rates are low than when (if) some decent bond investing opportunities come back.
That should be something Tesla and that dealer need to work out. What is written in the sales contract and what rights come from the fact, that the car was handed over with the autopilot being active. That is what lawyers are for :).
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> hey refused to share with me the original manufacturer of the laptop

My experience differs significantly.

Right after I bought mine, I opened a ticket for the model information. They provided me the full model code and hyperlink to maintenance manual with part numbers.

This was a few months ago.
One of the things I love about some European cultures is that they carry over their natural bluntness when they speak English, my partner is Hungarian and to English ears her way of speaking is blunt to the point of trauma, I think it’s great, I far prefer people just get to the point particularly when they are asking for something.

I am really not a fan of saccharine sweet false politeness.
rusu.io tracks the challenges, lessons and successes in the development of a solo developer.

It won't overflow you with content that you cannot keep up with, but you'll get good insights into how a stoic approach to life and development works
I’ve had great success with Sharedrop, but it’s at https://sharedrop.io, not .net as the OP linked.

One reasons services might have shut down is running the TURN server. An added annoyance over what would otherwise just be static files.
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Yup. If one had the cash to burn (puns are mandatory to clear out the sigh-ing glands in the sub-cockle nether-regions) in a commercial laser cutter, there's always Trotec.

https://www.troteclaser.com/en-us/laser-machines/laser-cutte...
The problem is that electricity costs would spike to insane levels (as seen on wholesale spot markets) and consumers should have price certainty and confidence in supply, otherwise you get lots of costs in other parts of the economy. See e.g. California, where diesel gen sets are proliferating like crazy, or other markets where high CO2, high cost gas is the game theoretic optimum, eventually leading to an all-peak supply side.
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Collection of React components based on Grommet library
https://akoutmos.com/

I started a blog the middle of last year and have written mostly about topics related to Elixir. But have also covered topics like RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, and PostGIS. I find my own blog very useful as I often reference the associated GitHub tutorial projects to remind myself how I did something :D.

Next week's post is about using Loki for structured logging!
More worryingly, it’s possible to buy pre-built laser etchers online that don’t come with safety glass: https://www.amazon.com/Compact-Engraver-LaserPecker-Engravin...

And Q-switched pulse lasers for hair removal (i.e. to be aimed at your face) whose included safety goggles are more than a little suspicious: https://youtu.be/-BeTq99LqUo
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Funny, I've never expected or needed dict to be ordered. I've known about collections.OrderedDict but never really found much use for it. A dictionary is a hashtable and the order generally isn't important for typical uses of a hashtable. So, what is it that people are putting in dicts where the order of insertion actually matters?
Is there any reliable metric to know what reliable means here?
As an individual, you have to try your luck with collections of images that happen to be publicly accessible, whereas large entities have access to many, many more images (all private collections in the cloud for example, or security camera material) and can search them systematically. That's a big difference IMHO.
> Abstract. To be secure, cryptographic algorithms crucially rely on the underlying hardware to avoid inadvertent leakage of secrets through timing side channels. Unfortunately, such timing channels are ubiquitous in modern hardware, due to its labyrinthine fast-paths and optimizations. A promising way to avoid timing vulnerabilities is to devise—and verify—conditions under which a hardware design is free of timing variability, i.e., executes in constant-time. In this paper, we present IODINE: a clock-precise, constant-time approach to eliminating timing side channels in hardware. IODINE succeeds in verifying various open source hardware designs in seconds and with little developer effort. IODINE also discovered two constant-time violations: one in a floating-point unit and another one in an RSA encryption module.
With HSBC, the bank rate they use at their ATMs isn't as good as the interbank exchange rate I would get if I used some other bank's ATM.
That's pretty awesome. How do you find NA contracts?
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Why is this funny to a Dutch person in particular?!
Back in the early 1990s, Texas Instruments was looking for a district to bring its patent litigation. The federal district courts in Dallas and Austin were clogged with criminal cases. East Texas was relatively open for civil suits to proceed quickly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/patently-unfair/

The district is also not as random as people make it out to be. It’s a few hours east of Dallas, and includes some of the rich suburb/satellite cities like Plano. It’s got a significant oil and chemical industry.
I enjoyed the Lagwagon interview.
If Tesla starts triggering airbags in the faces of people who fall behind on their car payments, I won't buy those cars either.
If you open graphs over inflation and interest rate since 1971 you will understand why debt is not coming again in nominal terms until the dollar goes away; that is in real value compared to something that you cannot borrow to buy:

https://www.whythings.net/Images/Inflation_chart.jpg

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/legacy/static/folio/mortgag...

Technology; like money, can't change physics. Just like when you hit a ball; what goes up must come down.

While looking at the graphs, consider that the personal computer and the internet were invented in the 70s. We went to the moon then too.

Virtually nothing in technology has changed since the 80s.
Well, they do work in space. Not sure how warm it gets when in sun light, but it's pretty cold over-all?

[ed: isn't the panels basically a slab of glass? With some wires inside?

Mayby blunt trauma (hail storms, strong winds with debris is a problem?
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It is a ridiculous expectation to expect folks not to have sex, and as such, not included. This is a basic urge of people, and while some folks choose not to, most do not. If it were that simple, abstinence only education would include coping skills to avoid rather than shaming and would have a much better track record.

Not having sex is simply not a viable option for most people - especially so within the confines of a committed romantic relationship. In fact, it is an easy way to void such a relationship in most cases.
It's also extremely annoying when driving in the states as a Canadian, since our postal codes don't follow the same format. Canadian postal codes are six character alphanumeric strings with alternating letters and numbers, so you can't enter them on the keypad.

The trick, which isn't obvious, is that you're supposed to drop the letters from your postal code, leaving three digits, and then append two zeros to the end. For example: K9Z 2P7 -> 92700.

In Canada we don't have to deal with this, since pretty much all our pumps have supported EMV chip cards for years.
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Rent, and, 'cars are bad'. This is written from an urbanist perspective. If you mean it can't scale, well, yes, its target is silicon valley devs.

Either rich enough where it doesnt matter, or poor enough where it doesn't matter.
Raise your monitor to eye height instead of curving your back to peer at a laptop screen that’s near your hands. Once you do that your spine will fall into its natural position.
How much does the Roman Catholic Church have, especially when you appraise the artwork?
>but I don't think you're entitled to someone else's software just because it exists.

I think differently. IF I buy (A) in good faith (B) a perpetual license (C) manifested by the rights holder into physical media, THEN I am in fact entitled to it.
And yet that doesn't make sense if those peaks occur when there is low system wide demand, except for sizing the transformer nearby.

Really should have a reward for users that can reduce their demand when asked, or use time of day pricing.
> Well, if you listen to anti-vaxxers, at the very least - then you’ll learn how many times the governments actually fucked up vaccination practices in the world?

You don't have to listen to anti-vaxxers to learn that, any more than you have to listen to Alex Jones' rants to learn that corporations dump toxic chemicals into the water supply that can affect the ecosystem. Fringe conspiracy theorists and extremists are not the sole arbiters or guardians of hidden knowledge or suppressed truths.
Another idea is to let drug development be performed by universities and government institutions. This should be effective against extortionate pricing. Also, it promotes more open research.
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But what should be the skin in the game for the teenagers then in order for them to actually learn something from that experience?

They may be blamed for the wrong reasons; but blame is what’s supposed to push them
My point exactly. A broken watch is right twice a day. Let's assume that we are all in a simulation. A statement such as "the entity that created the simulation will pull the plug in what we perceive as two minutes". Well yeah, sure... Is it a valid statement? Yes. Is it accurate? Hell if I know.
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>For things like electric bills the provider is typically big enough to automatically deduct from your account,

While Virginia Natural Gas is large enough, they handle their credit card payments via Western Union and the customer pays a fee to do it. It's the only check I write every month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current can reach far, compared to conventional transmission lines, with the added benefit of making the grid less fragile, because it can't be built other than 'smart'.

Another possible bonus of your scenario could be https://phys.org/news/2020-01-chemists-product-nuclear-power... wherin the use of an depleted uranium catalyst could be plugged somewhere into that to produce ethylene.
Oh. Sorry about that. This should've been an Ask HN. I'm new. My apologies.
> asphalt - literal rock.

Asphalt is bitumen, a liquid, it is about as far removed from literal rock as possible. The reason asphalt roads break down in very cold weather is water which gets into tiny cracks, and which then expands when it freezes.

Solar panels are encased in a fairly thick layer of glass. Just like the windows in your house, they don't break from a bit of frost. If there are cracks where water can enter, they can break for the same reasons as asphalt.
Great idea for a blog! Is there any reason you have not ventured into the serverless realm? It would be interesting to hear the take on that ecosystem from someone who has such experience with microservice stacks.
I did not leave anything out.
If you look at the page 5
( Table A-1. Current and real (constant 1982-1984 dollars) earnings for all employees on private nonfarm
payrolls, seasonally adjusted )

you will see exactly the numbers I have posted.

I think you are looking at
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Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.2 percent over the month due to the decrease in real average
hourly earnings combined with no change in average weekly hours.
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Back then scripts literally were 1kb at most and not 15mb like today, so it really wasn’t much of a problem.
Not solo but factorio: https://factorio.com/blog/ team has blog which is maintained every friday and very insightful
Too bad that lawyer did not fall out of the boat . . .

https://www.waltonsun.com/article/20160321/NEWS/160329972
This will be fought on an entirely different level: the patent is bogus in the first place. There's nothing patentable about it.

That's how you hunt trolls. Merely proving you didn't violate their patent is not helping the next guy (and actually, you might have violated the patent, who knows with these frivolous things). Killing their patent does.
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Why? The USSR was, practically speaking, a Russian empire.
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At the moment (as someone who works at a large company), it honestly seems easier to scrape->do something sketchy with the data than it would be to overcome the internal privacy protections that are in place at a large company.
Or https://www.epiloglaser.com/ (what I run) or https://www.ulsinc.com/ . But if you're in Europe and want to support a Euro company (ones I linked are American), Trotec's the one to go for.
Revolut also has a vested interest in making you spend whatever you receive using their prepaid card (that's how they earn money).

If you receive money from another user and transfer it out to your bank account, Revolut might lose some money from using the third-party that provides the bank transfer service. (I have no details on what their arrangement is.)

Revolut has been known to warn and suspend users that use their transfer feature too much.
I read it as "sheet metal" because there was an HTML editor of the era called "Hot Metal."
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https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f0a2fb/the_wal...
This system no doubt sits on years of dusty debt, but really how hard can it be?

There are literally dozens of third party search/launch apps that are better.

I don’t know what kind of matching it uses but it’s not good. Is it prefix only? Is it case sensitive? What metadata is used in the match (what is displayed as a program name or something else)?

If I started writing a simple indexer app with an SQLite file and a little search box I’d have something more useful for finding apps after one afternoon.

So what exactly is the Windows search trying to do that I’m not considering, that makes it so hard that it fails with the trivial stuff like text matching?
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I used to use legos for air blown temperature tests of electronics. You just need to keep most of the air in, fit a few shapes of DUTs (hard drives, ethernet transceivers, etc) and not melt at 100C. Some vendors do not like the idea of legos used in a test setup. Some vendors don’t know a good solution when they see it.
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It was "dot shitmeal" for me.
The project seems dead anyway.. last commit was two years ago.
4gb of HD space?! That's a lot! :)
You really should read up again on that...
It doesn't make sense to have all those excess using systems at the consumer level though. Suburb level batteries/hydrogen/desal/etc makes much more economic and safety sense, but utilities are unwilling to try that, and regulation is extreme.
Wow, just tested it with

- a weird old Norwegian word (some of the results it surfaced amazed me),

- Angular 9 new features (nice collection og blogs, stackoverflow results etc)

- Angular momentum (Nice mix of brands, tutorials etc with the Wikipedia article on top of the results).
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Which explains why the porn industry, music industry and streaming video industry have all collapsed completely.
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I think this is basically the whole story. I think the fact that I have learned several programming languages (not expert level, but certainly to the point I can use them to make projects that benefit my life and the lives of others) has fooled me into thinking I should know a lot more about programming than I do. But if I'm honest, what I have essentially done is taken a bunch of 100 level programming courses, just in a variety of languages. I need to spend time studying the more difficult concepts that can be applied to all languages. Thanks for the advice! :)
Some merchants in Singapore don't accept Visa, but accept Mastercard, because Visa's standard merchant agreement here prohibits adding a surcharge, but Mastercard's and Amex's don't.
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I'm with anonsivalley652, who has had his response here killed - for sure, lasers can be dangerous, but caveat emptor, and all that.

I've a plan for a type of laser rig I've never seen before and as soon as I have the readies I'm going to try and build it. The more information that is out there from people in the same boat, the better and ultimately - safer.
I follow regularly these people, these are mostly slow-going blogs or websites:

1. Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ This is not really a blog, but a traditional website with links to the work of its author (who is probably one of the top programmers ever). It updates rarely, but when it does, it is to expose yet another monumental piece of computing work that will blow your universe.

2. Linus Akesson: https://www.linusakesson.net/ He's always onto some funny crazy things: obfuscated programming, underhanded programming, c64 emulation, chiptunes...

3. Uriel l'Étranger: http://cat-v.org/ The only self-described "philosopher of software" that I have ever seen. His website is of course not updated anymore, but you can re-read it many times and always learn something new.

4. Ted Unangst: https://flak.tedunangst.com/ Nice to follow some cool news about openbsd development

5. Andy Chu: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/ Who has embarked in an amazing quest to turn the unix shell into a cleaner tool

6. Jens Gustedt: https://gustedt.wordpress.com/ If you really want to be up to date about the evolution of the C language
You’re always going to have trouble if you forget about any aspect of your money. I use automatic payments to pay my cell phone bill and yet I have a monthly reminder on my calendar to make sure the payment went through without a problem. Yeah, it’s more work than just forgetting about it but now I know I won’t be buried in fees either for overdraft or for not paying my bill.
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It could be the law of large numbers too. A large, wealthy society may have a relatively small range of percentage of gifted individuals. Three times as many people: three times as many as gifted people churning out amazing work.
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not bad for a group that believes in magic underwear, and that a giant space ship will safe them.
Then build them to be resilient against that.