What the fuck is this, if you hold the home button on android it now enters a special search mode that refuses to let you run a search without sending your whole screen along with the search. And it is rather difficult to even get it to not do it. There is an "x" to leave, but if you miss that touch target it assumes you are highlighting some part of your screen you want to focus the search on and send the whole thing. My background image and things I keep on my homepage are not public data, fuck off Google
What the fuck is this, if you hold the home button on android it now enters a special search mode that refuses to let you run a search without sending your whole screen along with the search. And it is rather difficult to even get it to not do it. There is an "x" to leave, but if you miss that touch target it assumes you are highlighting some part of your screen you want to focus the search on and send the whole thing. My background image and things I keep on my homepage are not public data, fuck off Google.
Sorry about the link, chrome was showing some old auto fill suggestion near where the clipboard contents appear. It looks like I can't delete posts that include text content and a link, as it creates a comment right away and blocks deletion. Recreated the post with the correct link, but I guess this now sits here as a sign of my shame for using my phone wrong while complaining about my phone
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I've written a short 2.5 hour class for tech newbies to walk them through wiring together their own game consoles in breadboards. So far I've taught it to 90 people in the Twin Cities, I'm looking to see if I can get it spread to new communities. If you might be interested in teaching the class where you live I'm open to sharing my class materials.
I also have a related project I'm working on to make a follow up class about programming games for the consoles with the MIT Scratch platform. I have an in-progress Scratch to Arduino C++ converter.
https://community.arduboy.com/t/first-arduboy-game-programme...
Also the Arduboy project that the class is based on it very cool, consider buying one of the new editions of the hardware, now with USB-C and link-cable support! (I'm not sponsored, I just want to support the project that made the class possible)
https://www.arduboy.com/
Adding new openly licensed learning resources to the Kolibri offline learning platform. It is designed to be deployed in communities that lack consistent access to the public internet. They currently have a significant amount of English language content, but are limited in what they have available in the dozens of other languages they have translated the core software into. I'm trying to bring in new resources and then try to lead an effort to do translations of the best materials I can find to make the platform more useful to more people.
Also trying to recruit people to teach tech newbies how to build their own handheld video game consoles. Let me know if you might like to run a class where you live and i'll share my class materials.
Unfortunately the connection fee does not cover all fixed cost. For a long time the model has been fairly "progressive" in this regard. Some of the fixed costs of the grid have been paid for by amortization over the per Kw cost, which had the effect of charging people who used more a larger chunk of these fixed costs. Now with the option to provide your own power if you have upfront capital for solar can build as big of a system as they want. As other comments in the thread have mentioned, net-metering is largely functioned as a subsidy to give money to people who are already doing fine financially. I want green energy, and I think that decentralization has definite benefits, but it's pretty hard to argue against maintaining the grid to allow re-balancing and covering supply shortfalls in specific areas. Here is a video discussing this problem - https://youtu.be/C4cNnVK412U?si=ZzZhoApFW3khqrdq&t=720
What you could do is bill per energy in e.g. 15 minute chunks, and separately bill for transformer/line capacity by e.g. the peak usage in any such chunk over the contract period, like they do in Germany for atypical load profile industrial users since decades ago.
Net metering is overall just entirely stupid as a concept; measure inbound and outbound flow separately if you can't just measure the 15 minute chunks; bill grid fees on the energy price on inbound and only pay energy price on outbound.
Or even bill grid fees on outbound up to one of many available large substations, and thus handle the issue of demand across large distances making buildout of solar in a convenient but far away place not being disincentivized vs. more-demand-local buildout.
I have been involved in open source projects with various structures and sustainability models. Open-core Enterprise software startups, unfunded or underfunded middleware/libraries and underfunded end-consumer software/apps. A real problem that I have with lots of open source is a mismatch between technical talent to produce software, an open ethos/philosophy (finding true believers in a much more open future), AND the most important often missing piece, a product mindset and willingness to do work that isn't just software dev. So many FOSS projects I have seen, with capable engineers spending years of their lives working on them, are lacking product management, a willingness to let users actually push the project in a direction that is more approachable to a mass audience, and the willingness to do the hard boring work of making software run everywhere. Lots of stuff falls into this general gripe, and a bunch of it isn't news to anyone. Lots of open source has shitty design/UX, every damn one of us that lives with desktop Linux knows exactly why it's not the year of the Linux desktop. The sleep function on the laptop I am writing this comment on doesn't work right (when booted into Linux), and every few months you have to find terminal wizardry to fix normal shit that should have a GUI config interface to un-fuck it, but "real software people don't touch their mouse unless they absolutely must". This comment got a bit off the rails, anyway, long live FOSS!
While I don't agree with the response and long detention. This is the artists current Instagram bio. I understand it is likely hard to get a visa for a week that allows you to work, and it is a would be a lot more convenient to serve US fans with a brief trip rather than ask them all to individually fly to Germany. But it does appear she had a public declaration of her intent to work.
While I think the detention was completely unnecessary and cruel. It appears that her Instagram still lists dates she was planning to be in LA, right after a date range of being in Mexico, with a request for DMs under it for scheduling an appointment. It seems like this phrasing in the article of "accused of maybe violating her visa" could have disclosed that she looks to have a public declaration of her intent to work.
Experience with database internals (Apache Drill, Dremio, Spark), full stack web dev, edtech including LTI integrations. Experience in early startups, created freemathapp.org used by ~5k students during the pandemic to solve 300k math problems and get feedback from their teachers. Hobby interest in Arduino and hardware hacking as well as video game dev.
If the format is splittable you generally can get similar benefits, and parquet files have metadata to point a given reader at a specific chunk of the file that can be read independently. In the case of parquet the writer decides when to finish writing a block/RowGroup, so manually creating smaller files than that can increase parallelism. But you can only go so far as I'm pretty sure I've seen spark combine together very small files into a single threaded read task.
