SeaDude

I used the ClimaCell api about a year ago as part of a POC and it was pretty nice. The biggest feature for my use case was their granularity. The ability to query the service using a point (lat/long) and have returned the specific weather for that location was nice. All other services required two requests, one to find the nearest weather station, another to query said station for data. ClimaCells model predicts weather for locations where no forecast data exists. I would recommend ground-truthing the forecasted vs actuals for the modeled areas. Beyond their api, they have a pretty killer dashboard where you can plot your assets and set geofences for weather alerts.

Orgmode's roots @~26:00. Cool

Photovoltaics (PV) is not a new technology. It’s been in production-state since the 50’s and powering percentages of some countries for at least the past ~5 years.

Adopt the existing, proven and cost-effective implementation of PV (~3’ x ~5’ aluminum framed panels).

Waiting on Elon to figure out boutique solar so the affluent can all install it first and drive mass adoption (decade?) stalls PV development as much as the US tariff on Chinese-made solar!

Back of napkin math is:

- 100ft.2 of solar panels (Qty: 5, off the shelf, ~3’ x ~5’ panels) = ~1kW of AC electricity (post-inverter, in low-sun Seattle)

- At the roof, this represents 10 wires and ~8 roof penetrations (racking lags through flashing into rafters)

AKA: simple setup, proven implementation

Questions:

- How many wires (points of failure) are in 100ft.2 of solar shingles?

- How many roof penetrations?

- How many roofer-electricians do you know?

- Why can we not just embrace existing panel technology and put them everywhere, yesterday?

Rant:

- We don’t need boutique renewable energy, we need ubiquitous RE.

- Elon, get your priorities straight. In the three years you’ve been trying to figure out the perfect solar status symbol, you could have installed megawatts of photovoltaics.

As someone (non-programmer, yet text-curious) who spent ~9months of this short life learning Emacs so I could use org-mode, I love using VS Code.

It’s non-esoteric, easy to pick up, easy to kick ass with, and easy to show others how to kick ass with it.

The terrible parts:

- I don’t trust it , from a privacy-first standpoint, as much as I trust Emacs

- There appears to be absolutely NO security around third party extensions (not good for newbs nor enterprise envs)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55126683/how-is-vs-code-...

I really want the things Guix provides, but I'm not a computer scientist. Feels like you need to be to make it work somewhat like the linux desktop I enjoy computing on (text editor, graphical web browser, sky, virtualbox, postman, osb, keepassxc, etc.)

Hello, Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working. I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out. Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious income stream for the service you are rendering.

So the questions: Who are you? and How are you doing this for free?

Thank you,

Ubuntu 18.04

ASUS ROG G750JZ lappie

2x-256GB SSD RAID 0

LUKS FDE using LVM - /boot/efi: 512M - /boot: 488M - /: 460G - /SWAP: 15G

1x-1TB HDD

RAID:

  /home almost exclusively .folders.

  /home/documents/<everything is a project>

  Every <project> is a private git repo

  /home/documents is my only VS Code Workspace

  Everything is markdown with yaml frontmatter.

  Everything possible is a snippet.

  All screenshots are pasted into an .md file. The VS Code extension places each at /project/assets. 

  All photos and videos are taken and stored on phones. 

Backed up to external drives every 6 months or so.

  /home/Desktop is empty, /home/Downloads gets emptied often

HDD: unused

HN influence test :)

@IloveHN84: Thanks for the reply. When you say "...stay on Vanilla JS.", What do you mean?

Is it possible to run VuePress on Vanilla JS or are you saying stay away from all JS except Vanilla?

Right!? Where is the Memex... in responsive (non-implanted), fingertip-mode?

I'll rant a bit on the topic:

Starting out can be tough. Experience and observe the company/department/team you are seeking to organize and structure the knowledge for.

* Do they care about capturing, authoring, presenting and maintaining knowledge? How much do they care?

* Enough to insert steps into their existing processes or create new ones?

If so, you have a chance. Otherwise, focus on organizing and structuring YOUR OWN company knowledge. When others look over your shoulder at a meeting, read your notes, your reports, your guides, you may be able to entice.

Examples speak louder than words.

Tooling can be tough. If you work in a small outfit, you can likely spin up the best KM tools available. If you work for a dinosaur, good luck. They are likely already entrenched with some sharepoint mess that busily employs 10's if not 100's of people. Bringing your "new tool" to the IT department will get you the run around. (I've been trying to implement Gitbook (my fav KM tool) for over 1.5 yrs.).

Large companies may also have problems with cloud deployments. And honestly, in light of data breaches, etc, I get it. Many tools (most of the ones in this Ask HN) are cloud-based so this may limit your options.

I'm currently using OneNote to author and present ~300 pages of docs to ~3000 users. Being the SOLE author, this is fine. The style and structure are consistent, but I don't like it. OneNote doesn't support markdown (are you serious Microsoft?!? you don't have an f'ing markdown editor yet?), locks you up in a proprietary format, etc. etc.

Its also too "willy nilly". Its meant as more of a personal KM tool rather than a something for general consumption.

Where I lean:

* Static site generator under git version control

* Hook up with your local "Write the Docs" Meetup

* Check out the annual "Write the Docs" conference (coming up in a few weeks in Portland!)

* And start with YOUR OWN company knowledge.

Whats funny, is you must also be careful what you document as it becomes discoverable. Even procedures, especially when they are safety sensitive, involve the public, or anything sorbanes.

Hm. $50 million when the team has already been successful. Why, when only $1M would suffice? What on earth could $50M do? Remember the old saying: "Mo money mo problems" B.S.

Leadership lesson # 7: Look at how the Russians list their competitors... "Olympic Athlete From Russia" vs. "Canada" for other countries. That is some interesting leadership: Before the event occurs, meet with media outlets, visualize HOW the information will look when displayed to the MILLIONS of viewers.. structure the content. Interesting... or did you all not catch that?

Called the number. Simple voicemail recording "I'm not available, leave a message" or the like... left a message. Cool.

$50M just feels like too much. WTF would this amount of money do to/for a team that has been functioning "just fine" (albeit a bit stressed) without it?

$1M would "buy" 3-5 devs and still have room for marketing and such... You guys smell that? Is that halibut?

I don't think it will.

* Bitcoin Cash and others have grabbed its market share through impersonation * Other coins have faster transactions with lower fees * Other algorithms have opaque blockchain for better anonymity.

Bitcoin was first through the door. They got shot.

Without am "About" page on the website, I can't tell what this framework is for. I've looked over each of the six pages listed, can't tell what to do with this product or why my company may be interested in it.

Unionize the internet

Very strange responses. At least one person mentioned privacy concerns.

"I put this new gadget in my house so I can check weather once a day. Meanwhile, it records all ambient noise and even identifies the voices of everyone speaking in the room. Garsh! It sure is neat."

Better hang a disclaimer on your door for when friends come over. Warning: House equipped with a dipshit. By entering, you are giving up all perceived privacy. Do not discuss things that matter.

Trade apprenticeship + cultivated curiosity in tech = exactly what hold industries need.

Unfortunately, old industries tend toward new "talent" + degree in something cool sounding in hopes of disruptive "yahtzee". they, or at least mine, largely ignore the ones who know the business rules/needs the most in gavor of who "should know the future best". Oops.

Im not advocating any traditional economic theory. Would be nice if our language caughtup with our tech. We've been post-representative democracy and post-capitalism-capable for quite a while now.

So called "intellectuals", I imagine, oppose capitalism because they can see that it has failed to benefit the majority of species on earth. It has reduced a paradise of abundance to a known quantity to exploit. It has provided man (not human-kind, mainly just the male half) with his mandate for remaining short sighted. He's been knighted with full ability to exterminate and destroy in the name of progress. This article lost me from the first few sentences. "Intellectuals", "left-leaning", fool. It doesnt take a so-called intellectual to see that capitalism is not only a failed economic theory and poor rallying point for a government, but an utterly outdated mode for human living, my child can see that reality. Everyone opposes capitalism, if only they'd intellectualize.

First, make sure YOU know the definitions WITHOUT looking them up.

Try asking clarifying questions to push your manager to expand their understanding. Some ideas are: "What do you mean by X in that context?" "Thats interesting, how does that work exactly?" "I've heard of x used as y, how would it be used in your example?"

Go rogue and publish a glossary of techncial terms with public references and post it up in your office.

Clarity is key. If your manager is using terms incorrectly, they are likely confusing others on the team or representing the team inconsistently. In the end they need to get their skills up, get more info, or get out of the way. IMHO.

But you will pay for this tool in blood, tears, and lost marriages! A bit of a learning curve ball.

Emacs org-mode. Everything in one place (even one FILE if you'd like), all indexed, searchable, extensible, and organized hierarchical and/or with tags.

To move from union to mgmt. Yes, I was a ditch digger 16 yrs ago. Now i'm a PM in Tech Svcs. The 10k/yr paycut hurt, especially in Seattle right now, but work remote on somewhat interesting projects, no commute, get so spend time in the presence of family.

Emacs org-mode. Plain text for everything, for the rest of your life.

Did you build the groundbreaking platform solo or did you and a team build it?

Is it truly groundbreaking on its own merit or is this a personal adjective?

If you are part of a team and you are putting in long hours where other team members (çloser to bosses ear) are not, you may brew issues. Pull others in, delegate, share some credit, involve the team.

How well have you self-promoted this groundbreaking (yuge claim btw) platform outside of your own team? Does anyone else at the company know your name or are you the "guy in the basement carrying/justifying three positions with your output"?

It is very tough to catch rec in a large org where everyone is pitted against eachother for promotions.

Some ideas are:

1. Be careful touting your hours worked as a metric for promotion. Sometimes you look like a sucker rather than a leader deserving promo. Also toutimg hours automatically makes coworkers appear bad. If they have the managers ear, you tell me how this goes.

2. Consider the word "promotion". If your looking to a manager to "promote you", make it easy for him/her by promoting yourself first. Show other groups/team members this project. Become a trainer. Shake hands and kiss babies accross your org. Let them have no option but to speak your name in conjuction with this groundbreaking platform.

Im in a similar boat. The above are some things ive done to stand out and be promoted. Lots of groundwork over 3-4 years.