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Comment · 8 months ago
I’m curious and suffering from a failure of imagination—why toggle location services regularly?
Comment · 9 months ago
> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system
A heat pump is a “ vapor-compression based cooling system” so that tech is an addition-to not an instead-of.
Whether it’s better probably depends on how expensive the additional efficiency is in practice.
> SkyCool’s Panels save 2x – 3x as much energy as a solar panel generates given the same area.
So if you’re area constrained maybe.
Comment · 1 year ago
Out of curiosity what are the other ways?
Comment · 1 year ago
Relatedly, here’s a slicer built around Fidget https://github.com/Wulfsta/WeekendSlicer/tree/main
Comment · 1 year ago
Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous big data paradigms) doesn’t require excessive mental contortions.
Of course while you’re at it, you should probably just convert all your JSON into Parquet to speed up successive queries…
Comment · 3 years ago
How about speech to text instead?
Whiteboard use in real life is a combination of speech and sketching.
Comment · 4 years ago
Following the numbered citation, I think this is the table of contents from a different book, originally published in Finnish by Jaak Henno, which would have an English title something like “It is simple with Prolog!”. He also seems to have published some of the content separately under the title “Prolog and Olympic Gods”.
Comment · 4 years ago
Google’s first hire (Craig Silverstein) was an International Collegiate Programming Contest champion. Make of that what you will.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, you should be able to tell your direct manager basically what you told us. Copy and paste into an email if that’s easier. (Your tone here is fine.)
It does sound like your manager’s manager has poor people skills / favors a more confrontational management style. If you have a good direct manager that can be tolerable, up to you to decide how much it bothers you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah Los Angeles already fines pedestrians pretty aggressively for jaywalking, even on urban pedestrian-heavy streets.
This maintains a different norm for the city about jaywalking than say Boston, so in principle the issue seems quite solvable.
Comment · 5 years ago
Unfortunately there’s not a control arm here. Looks like maybe original design was to determine effect of the additive as treatment, with sodium bicarbonate as the control. But both arms were significantly different than the population average, leading to this publication.
Given that it’s hard to know if selection bias slipped in anywhere, for example during recruiting:
> During the study period, 826 unique patients aged 55 and older were eligible to be contacted within 24 hours of a positive PCR; 79 were able to be enrolled and receive irrigation materials on the day of contact.