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The whole talk is awesome if you're interested in this kind of thing in Ruby.
> If you have a typical grid tied system (microinverters or normal string inverters, so easily 95+% of installed rooftop solar), the system is technically incapable of running off grid (without additional hardware). There's no waveform to sync with,
It does have a hide button, but you have to click the hourglass first, something that years of annoying ads have trained me NOT to do.
PROTIP: Books are often filled with creative writing.
An example of sales people having no issue with casually slipping in outright lies?
The platform is all open source on Github.
Solve simple coding problems, review the submissions of others and help them become better coders. Trying to clearly explain concepts to others is the best way to make sure you really know them yourself.
This is also something that you can do for 10-15 min every day, which will add up over time. Ask for feedback on your own solutions and find out ways others think you could improve things.
In this video from 1st March he visits the site and surrounding areas and talks with some of the engineers working on the project:
Some discussion from the first time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667801
Actual article title: On Influenza A (H1N1)
HN clickbait version: On Influenza a (H1N1): How many bits does it take to kill a human?
"It's surprising that we're seeing so much Chinese influence in our languages."
missing a 'not'?
Article title: The largest unplanned outage in years and how we survived it
Article overview: A month ago CSC's high-performance computing services suffered the largest unplanned outage in years. In total approximately 1.7 petabytes and 850 million files were recovered.
Although technically correct, the HN title is misleading.
Looks like you found them.
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
Everyone familiar with this song would know that 16 and 16 are 32.I tried googling various combinations of (pneumatic|air) (logic|memory|circuts) without much luck.
I'm familiar with how logic / electronic circuts work, but I'm interested in the magic required to make it work with air/fluids.
tldr; Baby spiders do what they do. Spiderwebs enuse.
It's a good idea to spend some time pre-calculating mnemonic images for names before you are in a social situation where you need to use them.
Find lists of the most common first names and surnames and prepare against random combinations of those.
This process will also help you get better at doing it for the less common names on the fly.