FriedPickles

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by FriedPickles 3y ago
https://story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Very cool. I wonder if there's an even simpler geometry that chokes the flow of the air and uses the heat at the construction. May need to be very large, but it could be an architectural thing.
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
It's easy to laugh at the Thai posters for how obvious the precautions seem. But this is a good reminder that there are new technologies today for which we don't yet know the "obvious" precautions.
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
I wonder if there's a cheaper filler gas we could use besides He. Perhaps methane, hydrogen, or acetylene, though they're quite flammable.
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
I like the idea of this list. Some others: - Quantum supremacy - HIV vaccine - Synthetic life - Discovery of ET life - P vs NP solution
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Everybody's talking about reproducing the material which is great, but will take time. Why don't the authors supply their existing material to an independent lab for earlier confirmation?
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
And how many microplastics are released the second time the container's microwaved? And the third? I'm all against microwaving brand new plastics (not a huge fan of take-out containers). But I suspect the plastic coffee brewer I&#
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Where do you see Apple pay on the web? I was excited when it came out, but have only seen it once or twice since then.
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
I highly recommend the NOVA episode "Saving Venice" on this topic. MOSE is a marvel of engineering and makes me feel proud to be human. https://www.pbs.org/video/saving-venice-zq9di2/
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Perhaps they could lower the total cost if they recaptured compressed air as seawater reenters the gates during the sinking process. There are unavoidable losses to heat, but if they did this it wouldn't be too different from "dee
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Oops, not sure how I missed that. Thanks.
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
What are those funny symbols by the authors' names?
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Cigarettes are obviously an awful way to deliver nicotine, but I've failed to find any science showing that nicotine is any worse than caffeine. In fact, its shorter elimination half-life makes it far less disruptive to sleep. Are we t
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
> what prevents a person from hooking up their phone to a development HTTPS proxy, intercepting the API requests, and making their own cracked client without side-loading at all? SSL pinning, essentially. Totally true about Android--it&#
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
As the developer of a subscription app, if unfettered side-loading is allowed I'd be worried about cracked versions of my app being distributed. We've done everything in the client for privacy and reliability, but the obvious coun
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Why not inkjets too?
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by FriedPickles 3y ago
Clicked on this expecting to read about an AI enhancement technique. Was very refreshing to read about actual hardware improvements.
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Travel time ~= 750 * distance ^ 0.6(vitalik.eth.limo)
3 points by FriedPickles 3y ago|1 comments
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
I love the concept of this and other alternate ChatGPT UIs, but I hesitate to use them and pay for my calls when I could use chat.openai.com for free. Any chance you could integrate the backend-api, and let me paste in my Bearer token from
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Could flashing lights be the new blue light? Even for non epileptics, flashing lights might be associated with eye strain, sleep disruption, migraines, and stress. I may turn this feature on.
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Apple building no-prick glucose measurement(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by FriedPickles 4y ago|0 comments
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
The paper doesn't discuss the physiological mechanism by which poor air quality impairs performance. Perhaps the idea just that a higher ppCO2 impairs CO2 excretion, creating back pressure against all aerobic metabolism. If so this rai
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Looks like that one is designed to spill over the top. Fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englebright_Dam#/media/File:En...
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Wow, there's a blue bar that goes off the chart: Whiskeytown reservoir, 102% capacity. Sure enough, that reservoir is filled to the brim and overflowed today into the giant Glory Hole: https://www.redding.com/story&#x2F
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Anybody doing this for any of the US grids?
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Id love to see a combined heat and power system that burns natural gas to drive a heat pump compressor, and recovers the combustion heat. I wonder what multiplier it would get on a therm.
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
For the same reason we don't cover cars in 3" thick steel armor. It's still very important–planes and cargo are expensive. But overall cost might be optimized without quite as many zeros. This is why old planes long since ret
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Interesting point. Cargo and fuel should be placed on the far sides. Passengers towards the center, perhaps on two levels. Routes could be adjusted to decrease typical bank angles. Makes me wonder if we'll have cargo-only planes that c
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NASA to return samples using two Mars helicopters(nasa.gov)
4 points by FriedPickles 4y ago|0 comments
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by FriedPickles 4y ago
Link to relevant diff line: https://github.com/basecamp/policies/pull/116/files#diff-e51...

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