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by Cerium 6y ago
I bought my parents one of the Klein bottles. It is really fun to hold something so useless yet interesting. I also thoroughly enjoyed the service provided. I received a complete inspection report, and the bottle was carefully packed and di
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by Cerium 6y ago
I'm surprised too, but depending on what equipment is in the house the neutral can see much less current than the hot. US residential is usually split phase power, so 240 is provided by two out of phase 120 wires. Since most large load
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by Cerium 6y ago
The other comment is right, the graph has little to do with the argument that indoor levels are important (and one of our ways of combating climate change has been to make houses have less ventilation, increasing indoor levels). I would lik
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by Cerium 6y ago
Often it is a robot that says that, do the robots hang up or do you wait for a human?
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by Cerium 6y ago
Which lines up great with the linked time of useful consciousness chart: 15 to 30 seconds.
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by Cerium 6y ago
It would need an antenna buoy as wireless does not transmit well in salt water.
727.
by Cerium 6y ago
Yeah, but why molding? They are using steel strapping, why not standard strap corners? Eg: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-3474/Strapping-Protec...
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by Cerium 6y ago
Variations of this motto are said regularly in my office, particularly around prject integration points. I find the truth as well- it is one of my favorites. Much more time is wasted finding a mistake than is saved by making it.
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by Cerium 6y ago
The IP stack has the concept of layers, which function as abstractions that hide the implementation of lower layers from the upper layers. Layer 2 (L2) is the physical link layer - it only cares about getting a packet between two devices. L
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by Cerium 6y ago
In San Jose there used to be a traditional tofu shop in Japantown. It was a small old shop. You walk inside and see the tofu making equipment behind a counter with the cash box. On the side was a handwritten chart: 1 tofu, $2, 2 tofu, $4, 3
731.
by Cerium 6y ago
I don't understand. It is nearly useless but it does not seem fake to me.
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by Cerium 6y ago
The opposite of this is common in restaurants in China, particularly rural restaurants. You enter and are invited into the kitchen area where you discuss what ingredients they have and approve suggestions for dishes. I enjoy it, though the
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by Cerium 6y ago
I have always been fond of duplo blocks for this reason. They are totally undirected and up to the imagination. The resolution is too poor to really model what you want, so you have to dream instead. As a child my "tree house" was
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by Cerium 6y ago
Very interesting. I had a battered metal toolbox when I was a kid, it had been my dad's. My favorite feature was a cut through the lid where he must not have been paying attention while using it to hold some lumber off the ground. Insi
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by Cerium 6y ago
That technique is called Coulomb counting and is the standard way of giving a precise battery charge percentage for lithium based batteries. The battery capacity estimate is improved over time based on the previous observed amounts of energ
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by Cerium 6y ago
What are your thoughts on the (in my experience more common) phrase: "I would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle"? When I really consider this phrase it brings tears to my eyes.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Here [1] is a reference of a citizen experiment to test the sanitize cycles. There are also experiments regarding clothes and apples that are quite interesting on this website. [1]: http://www.dranniesexperiments.com/dishwas
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by Cerium 6y ago
Sure they do, but they should also print the best they can given the available resources.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Same here, they used to but stopped about a year ago.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Unless it is a Spanish style courtyard house in which case the yard may be entirely contained in the house.
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by Cerium 6y ago
To get a handle on what 5 to 20% means in the context of Japan, I did some searching around. It turns out that the Tokyo Metro and BART have similar amount of track (121.2 miles vs 131 miles), though the Tokyo Metro has many more stations.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Costco is near and dear to me too. Curated shopping with a promise not to cheat you creates an exceptionally relaxing shopping experience. Regarding their employees, one of my best friends has been working there for about 8 years now and co
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by Cerium 6y ago
This comes up on HN every now and then, it is how I learned about low background steel. If this is new to you, you may also enjoy reading about the cesium content of wine: https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/07/1
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by Cerium 6y ago
Costco has such leader boards and keeps a separate board for part timers vs full time cashiers. I asked my friend who works there why the part time cashiers have a much higher (upwards of 2x) items per minute rate than the full time employe
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by Cerium 6y ago
Full benefits could phase in over time. You could get increasing discounts on public services until you reach full state membership. This would be no different than out of state school fees.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Only if all donuts are dumplings, since the jelly is added after cooking.
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by Cerium 6y ago
Absolutely, the requirement is commitment to success. I used to believe in true love and finding the right person. About 10 years ago I went on a trip across China, and at one point joined a tour group for a few days. On that tour I got to
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by Cerium 6y ago
That would be a nice service that the postal service could charge for. Virtual po boxes that could be created or re-routed on demand. You would just have a one line address, and when the address is digitized it would be converted to the cur
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by Cerium 6y ago
In San Jose we have birds that imitate car alarms. I don't like them at all.
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by Cerium 6y ago
I can't find anything about the 43% number. It seems way too high. Most of the research on atomspheric oxygen's contribution to fire seems to focus on the 15 to 30% range, as 30% seems to be the upper limit where fires are too com

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