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by IndrekR 7y ago
> This sort of reminds me of the parable of the new owner who came into a bakery and demanded it be cleaned because everything was greasy. You are probably refering to Making Wrong Code Look Wrong by Joel Spolsky: https://
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by IndrekR 7y ago
The joke is more to the point than one may expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_and_conduction_bands
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A deep learning approach to antibiotic discovery(sciencedirect.com)
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Swatch Internet Time(en.wikipedia.org)
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Skylab Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by IndrekR 7y ago
If you enjoyed this, Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom is a good book on the similar topic from few decades back. Spiced with a healthy bunch of politics, entrepreneurship and action.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
> Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid. Sorry to say that, but in my case it did not help, made things worse instead. Seriously. It forces my body into unnatural rhythm and feel sleepy most of the days. Even if I get 7..
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by IndrekR 7y ago
This may also indicate insufficient air exchange (high CO2 level) in your bedroom.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
> Humidifying only 600 square feet, the size of a studio apartment, takes about 5 gallons of water per day in winter. This heavily depends on the ventilation as well. With ERV HVAC[1] it is much easier to keep higher humidity level as so
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by IndrekR 7y ago
Boiling water will not get much of the minerals into the air. This is why distillation works.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
I have a small under-sink reverse osmosis system for that. Was ~250€. I think it is made in Poland. There are several like that around.
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Berkshire Hathaway was responsible for 1.5% of US corporate taxes in 2019(finance.yahoo.com)
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by IndrekR 7y ago
In Estonia transfers went from instant to slow after enforcing the SEPA payments. Same made transfers faster in other EU countries. Different starting points. Probably similar case in Finland. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by IndrekR 7y ago
> In mainland Europe it varies a lot depending on a country, i.e. Scandinavian banks in Baltics are pure shit. Would you please elaborate? I have had quite a good experience with those banks.
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A350 engine shutdown incidents linked to cockpit drink spills(flightglobal.com)
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It’s 2020. Let’s Stop Saying “IoT.”(forbes.com)
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Successful test for superconducting 3.6 MW wind turbine(scitechdaily.com)
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by IndrekR 7y ago
The date 18 is double and 21 missing.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
I do not see a good reason why one should not be able to sell the game more expensive than the purchase price. Say when the title becomes unavailable from the original source or was obtained as part of a bundle.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
A site for proof. It keeps amusing me on what hardware/software Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange is running on: https://stackexchange.com/performance This is way less in HW than most people in the trade (from web dev
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by IndrekR 7y ago
I recognized the company name. Almost two years ago during occupational/workspace safety and health training (outside the Finland, where Vincit is) it was brought in as a good example of corporate culture: https://bestworkpl
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by IndrekR 7y ago
> Except that the most interesting part of life is over What makes life beyond 55 uninteresting?
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by IndrekR 7y ago
SiC has 4x better thermal conductivity than GaN. Operating temperature and breakdown voltage are also higher. You can buy 1.2kV SiC transistors right now, GaN on Si maxes out around 600V. High temperature/high voltage/high power w
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by IndrekR 7y ago
For battery lifetime -- also charging to lower voltage and stopping discharging at higher voltage. Cathode will stay intact longer this way and metallic lithium has less chance on plating the anode.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
That is controlled in the phone, not in the charger.
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by IndrekR 7y ago
I think GaN transistors are a major thing in the next decade. Designed a GaN FET based small vehicle motor controller few years ago and similar size/speed/efficiency is currently not achievable with any other mass produced trans
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by IndrekR 7y ago
> The real competitor of these "ten kilowatt" class bulbs is theater-type arc lamp type devices where you can't deal with the weird spectral effects of LEDs and other quantum mechanical goofiness... Sulfur lamps have CRI
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by IndrekR 7y ago
West Berlin was a political enclave in DDR. ~150 km from the inner German border [1]. Just outside Berlin is pretty much ex-DDR territory. At the same time Berlin does have quite a strong foreign community and high migration, lately negat
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HPE says its SSDs will fail at 32,768 hours unless patched(techspot.com)
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by IndrekR 7y ago
I was discussing this the other day with an automotive designer. Yes Fiat Multipla is ugly, but imagine the courage Roberto Giolito (the designer of Multipla) had when he proposed this to the management of FCA! Almost nobody in modern autom

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