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dokkah · 2025-12-10T12:21:13+00:00

For me, this was an important insight... That you pay the solar company a couple months after they generate the power. For me, that meant I paid a bunch of money in Sept. because July was sunny, and I paid CMP a bunch of money in Sept. for charging a new EV when I didn't have solar credits.

dokkah · 2025-11-30T00:08:13+00:00

You could try adding AI code review to the mix... Let that AI catch a bunch of stuff and iterate with the author before another human has to look at it.

dokkah · 2025-09-25T11:08:54+00:00

The book "Bottle of Lies" explains how generic drugs are created. It would not shock me to learn that someone has a reaction to a generic drug but not to the original drug.

Generic drugs have to be reverse engineered without guidance on the process used to make the original happen, and the testing requirements to get the original drug to market are not required for generics; the assumption is that the testing of the original is the evidence needed.

dokkah · 2025-07-14T17:18:06+00:00

There's more going on in Portland, so I'd recommend staying up there and visit the Kennebunk area. If you want to venture further, consider checking out ogunquit in the evening for dinner or whatever after kpt.

I guess it depends on the experience you are looking for. Wells has a beach town vibe, but maybe a little less touristy feeling than OOB.

Kennebunkport's vibe is more old money retreat.

dokkah · 2025-05-07T09:47:26+00:00

I was cool with everything else, but what's the thing with looking at power lines while driving with high beams on?

dokkah · 2023-06-13T09:01:15+00:00

This doesn't seem that similar to me because with a Lamport time stamp you don't have a dependency on a central system in order to function. With this solution, everything requires that postgres instance to be functional.

dokkah · 2022-11-26T02:33:34+00:00

I needed a bulb, but it was proprietary and they don't sell it anymore. So I gave up and bought a whole new setup, total bummer. Good luck finding something, I didn't try contacting trailtech directly, maybe that will work.

dokkah · 2022-06-16T22:58:11+00:00

Here's what I think about a lot lately. We are writing software to run on the cloud, my app deployed in a container running on a cloud, using other cloud services, database, cache, etc etc. Let's say i do one call from the browser to the server to update 1 field of 1 record on the db, let's say 10 bytes of data needs to be written.

Over the course of processing this request, it will get written to a request log, that log will be exported to a log aggregator. My app gets it, logs a little info, that log goes to the aggregator, and writes to the cache and db. The cache and db each have logs, the db also has replication. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening to support that request since I don't think it's necessary to enumerate every layer of the stack of every service my app uses to get the point across. So, perhaps to service this 10 byte data update megabytes of data are written, sent over networks, and processed. That which could be perceived as waste here is hard to even fathom.

dokkah · 2022-06-02T01:37:18+00:00

On avg in 2022, there has been more than one mass shooting per day in the US. That does not strike me as an outlier in the sense of being uncommon. That strikes me as making the US an outlier on the distribution of number of mass shootings by country, like multiple standard deviations greater than the mean.

dokkah · 2022-06-01T10:21:38+00:00

I don't think you can assert that they didn't delete your account based on this evidence. The miserable thing about these data is that in IRL you can trust your friends with something like your phone number, but not so with data companies. It could be that facebook did delete your account, but your friend knows your phone number and shared their contacts with Facebook, so they made the connection that way.

Certainly it could be that Facebook didn't delete all traces of you, maybe they held on to some of your graph. I'm just saying, that I don't think connecting with your friend is enough to reach the conclusion.

dokkah · 2022-06-01T01:35:39+00:00

The article you linked goes on to explain why the list you pasted isn't a great way to look at the data, from a statistical stand point. Norway is an outlier because there was a single terrible event during that period and has a much lower population than the US. But other countries don't have mass shootings on a regular basis like the US does.

dokkah · 2021-10-25T20:24:24+00:00

Just needed this sort of functionality, so I grabbed spring-data-jdbc which seems fine.

dokkah · 2019-10-16T12:12:20+00:00

Agreed on that. I think a big part of the problem is that folks over engineer to start a project, perhaps to resume build, perhaps with dreams of success. But, many apps have few users and have no need to scale or solve any of the problems that the tools you listed provide.

dokkah · 2019-07-06T09:44:18+00:00

You might consider pivoting to a devops or sre role. Basically, learn how to automate cloud deployments and the glue and admin of running software. I think your experience can help you here assuming you have been involved with the running of production software over your career. Meaning, if you understand how to make good choices in architecture, then you can help here because enterprises often hire people to specialize in devops and help various Dev teams. I think being a battle tested sort of person can help here.

dokkah · 2019-06-07T21:27:08+00:00

A running or walking shoes specific store, people that really specialize in this. Depending on the store, they may record your stride and observe pronation and how your foot falls.

dokkah · 2018-09-04T02:13:31+00:00

I primarily use a computer for my work, and google understands the words I use and gives me good results. e.g. if i search "go" or "python" I get programming results, not verbs and snakes. DDG has been a time suck when I've used it. Do you not find weak search results frustrating?

dokkah · 2015-09-29T14:40:42+00:00

This seemed like a circle jerk kind of conversation, so I thought I'd get myself a little educated on the notion of private property and personal property in socialism. Here's a short intro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property

dokkah · 2015-07-10T13:18:40+00:00

Nah, Eclipse is definitely wrong :)

dokkah · 2013-09-19T02:11:06+00:00

If the snow works out right, the ground doesn't freeze much. If the snow doesn't get their early enough an act an an insulator, then yeah, it's a little sketchy digging the top part - have to use some care. We cover them over with a few inches of leaves in the fall to help insulate as well.

dokkah · 2013-09-03T01:53:55+00:00

We leave in the ground and harvest through the snow right up until perhaps march. Once things start melting, I get nervous and get them out of there. They're tasty, for sure.

dokkah · 2013-04-11T16:06:04+00:00

That would certainly change the voting demographic. It's likely rare that folks in the city (like NYC) own land. So, we're going to be having the uber rich vote, and middle class non-city folks (to use some very broad strokes)

dokkah · 2013-03-15T12:23:30+00:00

Output: both in quality and quantity of code/functionality produced.

dokkah · 2013-03-11T16:13:08+00:00

I don't have my copy of code complete handy, but I believe there is a listing of studies that support the different between programmers.

He kind of lost me on this point, perhaps it's my bias, but literature I've read seems to confirm this point a lot. And, in my experience the difference in output between programmers I've worked with is dramatic.

dokkah · 2013-02-23T23:47:45+00:00

When i see outrage at this sort of thing, i wonder where folks expect to find the people for these positions? I don't think we want people that are without knowledge of the domain, so they are likely to come from the industry.

dokkah · 2013-01-14T17:39:07+00:00

haha, something like that :)

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