Readit Newsgrouseway commented on The Engineering of Landfills practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/impish9208
I've seriously wondered about this. Tell us more. Do you just act as a private middleman to get things to the dump? Do you sort or resell?
Perhaps this is not what you want, but Codie Sanchez did a business breakdown with an indepedent waste collector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMG6vtscSeI
grouseway commented on Good ideas in computer science danielchasehooper.com/pos... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
+Virtual machines
+Automated testing (much newer?)
grouseway commented on Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV techcrunch.com/2024/04/05... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
The 2024 Prius Prime has an MSRP starting around $33k. So about $8k more expensive than the hypothetical $25k Tesla, though it does have the advantage of actually existing today. It has about a 40 mile range on electric. When the battery runs out, it switches to gas, where it gets about 50mpg. Car and Driver rates it a 10/10.
I'm very pleased with my 2018 Prius Prime. It only has about a 25 mile electric range, but I have short commute to work so it works out well in my case. Most of my driving is in electric mode and the car is very responsive with quick acceleration. When the car switches to gas I'm reminded that it's a Prius, not a sports car, but it's worth it for me. I refill the tank maybe once every three or four months. It's one of the cleanest cars on the road.
Except Toyota doesn't actually have it's shit together enough to make them in any quantity.
2022 Prius Prime sales: 5353
2022 Ferrari sales: 4922
A Ferrari rare car is not the solution to anything. Last I heard the waitlist on the Rav4 prime was years long here in Canada.
https://insideevs.com/news/676057/us-toyota-plugin-car-sales...
grouseway commented on Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays · Posted by u/waynesoftware
Saying, "I'm sorry; I've made a mistake" is the killer disarming technique for even the most emotional conflict. Not sure if it's our pride or fear of liability but western culture is very hesitant to say "sorry" - other than the fake one "I'm sorry if anyone interpreted my actions|remarks|words as ..." - that doesn't count.
I know this is a tangent, but if anything, western culture is better about this. We're not an "honor" culture, and we don't warp family relationships to "save face". People are not even allowed to apologize in some other cultures because it brings shame on their family/group.
To give a really grotesque example, there is an country run by autocrats that carelessly unleashed a plague on the world because they prioritized their self image over taking descisive action to prevent an epidemic.
grouseway commented on Werner Herzog on beer, yoga and what he would ask God theguardian.com/film/2023... · Posted by u/mindracer
Is this because they are making a trade-off between surving some amount of solar flare activity vs increasing satellite weight by hardening them to radation?
I imagine it's preventable since the ISS and other large orbiters stay functional forever.
grouseway commented on Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool databasediagram.com... · Posted by u/npack
I love that this is trending on HN. LLMs be damned. We still have lots of “simple” problems to be solved, like how to effectively write and share an ERD.
A LLM would probably make this better. Instead of asking the user to learn a DSL why not just translate SQL to whatever structure the render functions uses?
grouseway commented on Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool databasediagram.com... · Posted by u/npack
I like the markup language and the app looks nice but I just can't comfortably dump database schemas into random web apps.
I see the other comment is marked dead now, but seriously why? I'm having a hard time imagining how a schema is viewed as actual intellectual property or a security risk.
The one I've read about that stuck with me was dam building by beavers. Some part of the behavior is driven by a dislike of the sound of running water. Someone did an experiment with speakers playing the sound of running water and the beavers near the speakers would attempt to cover them with sticks and mud.
In my head I'm imaging that sound is like nails on a chalkboard to beaver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80