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pjot··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
Same here - I’ll typically leave my message to myself as unread as a visual reminder to go back to it.
pjot··on A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
I live in a neighborhood right on the river - one of my favorite things is watching these massive boats go by; especially the Chiquita and Dole container ships filled with bananas.

Fun fact, a ships captain is not the one piloting the boat, they instead must relinquish all control to specialized Mississippi River pilots at the mouth of the river.

https://www.crescentpilots.com/

pjot··on A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
And considering weather in the US has been recorded for only about 250 years it’s hard to say what a 500-year storm even looks like.
pjot··on A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
New Orleanian here - the areas in the article are generally on top of swampland and structures sink/erode quite substantially. They’re also outside of the levee protection zone which are primarily earthen levees. When following the road all the way to the end[0] roughly halfway it’s a real trip when you pass the massive concrete structure with a flood gate and suddenly see water bordering each side of the road. It’s also quite dystopian the amount of giant oil facilities that you pass by.

There are non-earthen levees in the city as well. For instance in the 9th ward. These are the levees that failed during Katrina. It’s the Army Corps of Engineers that constructs these levees and have become more complex (better?) over time; imagine an upside-down “T” structure buried in the ground.

If I had to guess, I suppose the reason may be that it’s because they’re outside the protection zone, and so, when it floods (not if) their infrastructure would be surrounded regardless. Also, a concrete structure surrounding only their plant I assume is orders of magnitude cheaper than moving the amount of earth it would take to build 100+ miles of earthen levees.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice,_Southernmost...

pjot··on Cutting Board Designer
You really don’t want to seal a cutting board with anything other than mineral oil and beeswax. Stain is pretty toxic - wouldn’t want that to leach into your food.
pjot··on A practical introduction to constraint programming using CP-SAT and Python
I used program called GAMS in mine.

Its syntax structure is totally free form!

https://www.gams.com/latest/docs/UG_GAMSPrograms.html#UG_GAM...

pjot··on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
My dad was so angry when I installed this on the family Packard Bell
pjot··on Language models on the command line
openai's python client includes a cli actually - im not sure if its really documented anywhere.

  $ openai api chat.completions.create -g 'user' 'say hello' -m 'gpt-3.5-turbo'

  $ Hello! How can I assist you today?
pjot··on Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
If you’re talking about someone holding an iPhone to someone’s face, there’s a setting called “attention aware” that verifies your eyes are open and looking at the phone.
pjot··on Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
Can you explain the cmd+shift+p a bit more? I use raycast as well, but need to opt+space+”c…l…I…”
pjot··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
Location: US (central time)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: snowflake, redshift, airflow, dbt, sql, python, go, terraform, github/gitlab-ci workflows, duckDB, other data engineering tools

Résumé/CV: on request

Email: leaves.growers.0d@icloud.com

I’m an experienced data engineer with 8+ years under my belt. Worked in startups my entire career (one successful exit). Worked in many data analytics capacities. From team lead, mentor, IC, etc.

pjot··on Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
Ahh thanks!
pjot··on Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
Where are the blocked ip’s from? Also rapeflake? Hesitant to google that
pjot··on Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights
> You may contact us for a refund of the cost of additional seating after travel. If you prefer not to purchase an additional seat in advance , you have the option of purchasing just one seat and then discussing your seating needs with the Customer Service Agent at the departure gate. If it’s determined that a second (or third) seat is needed, you’ll be accommodated with a complimentary additional seat.

From their support page: https://support.southwest.com/helpcenter/s/article/extra-sea...

pjot··on New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
There’s a brand I’ve seen in stores called “Athletic” and it’s nearly indistinguishable
pjot··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I’ve had success using cloud dev environments with an iPad - the key for me was also using a mouse and keyboard - after things weren’t _that_ different
pjot··on Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
I’ve done something very similar! But with duckDB as a vector store/engine.

https://github.com/patricktrainer/duckdb-embedding-search

pjot··on Gitlab Duo
Are you concerned at all about the raspi’s sd card corrupting/failing? I’d feel like this would always be at the back of my mind
pjot··on How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)
I’ve seen Tufte and learned a ton - the presentation was almost _too_ information dense (which is his intent). Curious why your experience was different.
pjot··on Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action
Not sure if this is what they are using, but this is a way.

  https://github.com/nektos/act
pjot··on MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make
Same. Connecting a Bluetooth mouse works great too.
pjot··on So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game
> What are we going to do

We’ll probably just pay them more.

pjot··on Show HN: Aldi Price Map
The way I’m interpreting the charts, the least expensive (green dot) clusters are indicative of which port received a given item.

The stores furthest from the port also have the highest cost.

pjot··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
You might be on to a new prompting method there!
pjot··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
I’ve been telling it I don’t have any fingers and so can’t type. It’s been pretty empathetic and finishes functions
pjot··on Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)
My table saw has this as well. A green and red light, both with off/steady/blink states that indicates information about the blade and safety system.
pjot··on Ask HN: Best "entry tech" jobs to learn coding?
Do something that leans heavily on excel or google sheets. This can expose you to programming concepts, frames of mind, and you’re able to write scripts to help out as well.
pjot··on We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official
> Storm surge flooding, rain flooding, and wind

I use wind and the speed of the storm directionally as my mental model when thinking about hurricanes. Rain/surge flooding are results of how long the system is over an area.

That said if a storm is a 3+ I’ll leave - driving 3-4 hours is way more enjoyable than trying to sleep with no AC

pjot··on One city took on rising car thefts – and brought the numbers down
Car theft is through the roof in New Orleans. They call themselves the Kia Boyz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw

pjot··on An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
You can also generate warc natively in iOS!

On a website, tap the share sheet icon, at the top of the tray tap “options”, and finally “web archive”. From there you can save/send/copy the file to your desired location.

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