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by IndrekR 8y ago
"Google News shows one lonely result for "porn," an article that is 26 days old." Must be a regional thing. Gives plenty of fresh (less than a day old) articles when searched in Estonia. Edit: this is for Google search
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Looking from the grid side it looks the same, you just shift the timing of the consumption. This can be done to limited extent.
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Maximum switching resolution is about 10ms in Europe (50Hz) and 8ms in the states (60Hz). As you usually switch at the zero crossing. In real life it is usually two-three orders of magnitude longer due to calculation and communicaton overhe
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by IndrekR 8y ago
This is not really an issue. Usually you have 4-5 seconds to react for the "hot reserve". Also for the known peaks you can preventively switch off the loads (it is amazing what happens at 7:02am when everybody switches on their ke
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by IndrekR 8y ago
> can't I buy a smart immersion heater which can then react to real time pricing information? This is exactly how Nest makes money. About 40$ per thermostat per year from the utilities.
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Less of them around? Lexus is Toyota.
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by IndrekR 8y ago
> Japanese automakers are notorious for discontinuing model-specific parts after a few years (e.g. look at the Jalopnik blurb about the guy restoring a CRX). They stopped making CR-X in 1991. It is not "few years". 3 years ag
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Is My Nikon to Your Canon Like My PC to Your Mac?(fstoppers.com)
2 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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GoDaddy weakness let bomb threat scammers hijack thousands of big-name domains(arstechnica.com)
3 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
That is 10^20 bits or 12.5 exabytes. Still bit far (6 orders of magnitude) from the current state of the art. Also it is electrostatic, not magnetic solid state storage, leading the density race. The whole article this was mentioned is qu
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by IndrekR 8y ago
No public libraries where you live?
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Tesla says someone fired a bullet in Model S that caught on fire(electrek.co)
14 points by IndrekR 8y ago|2 comments
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Hello, Robot(medium.com)
1 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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How Neural Networks Power Robots at Starship(medium.com)
1 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Willow, not birch. Salix in latin as in salicylic acid.
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It's nearly 2019, and your network can get pwned through an oscilloscope(theregister.co.uk)
9 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Same here, can not stand the smell of lavender. Never found it relaxing. Do not know why. At the same time I can not smell fish-sauce at all which many people do find revolting.
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Remote Code Execution Flaws Found in FreeRTOS – Popular OS for Embedded Systems(bleepingcomputer.com)
1 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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Beware of Evil Waveforms (1999)(aviationtoday.com)
1 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
I was not expecting much from the book when I started reading it. Yet it is one of the few I could not put down before it was 9am and I had read it all. The wit and all the layers! A true surprise for me, in a positive way.
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Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure(russianspaceweb.com)
2 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Black Zones(spaceref.com)
1 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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The ANITA Anomalous Events as Signatures of a Beyond Standard Model Particle(arxiv.org)
6 points by IndrekR 8y ago|1 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
I believe it is not a design error. It rahter sounds like an incorrectly implemented manufacturing optimisation. And in that sense close to the Volkswagen diesel-test optimisation -- compromising the reason for the RNG/exhaust test in
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Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
It is interesting to see how PG is selling this to Fred. This is exactly the kind of people you want to work with in a startup. People who believe in you and are not afraid to show it.
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by IndrekR 8y ago
This word (Chautauqua) is haunting me ever since I opened the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycl...
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Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism(npr.org)
50 points by IndrekR 8y ago|9 comments
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by IndrekR 8y ago
Link to the original forum posts: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...
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Kalashnikov's CV-1 electric car touted as Russia's answer to Tesla(bbc.com)
2 points by IndrekR 8y ago|0 comments

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