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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
You may also enjoy a modern-ish take on this from Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
$185/ton of CO2 emitted is what the study estimates to be the actual economic impact of emitting a ton of CO2, right? The current price of carbon futures is $68.80 [0]. Edit to add: That $185 is in 2020 USD, which is $223.26 in current
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Yak Shaving(en.wiktionary.org)
2 points by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago|0 comments
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Is this a coffee table photography book or does it teach you anything behind what's in the images?
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
This is fascinating. Can someone recommend a book that goes into similar depth as this article covering these types of symbiotic relationships? Examples I can think of are: - Organelles evolving from other living organisms as described in t
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
In a previous career as a hardware engineer, I spent two and a half years leading three different projects that ended up being cancelled because marketing realized that they couldn't sell them. These were line cards for an early (2002)
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I wonder how it navigates to target. Is it targeted like a cruise missile or piloted like a drone?
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
20 g of net carbs seems to be a common starting point for ketogenesis, but, yeah, I am surprised they didn't confirm with a blood ketone measurement.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
"In the US, there’s apparently a young (also predominantly male) demographic that is embracing manual driving — championing it as retro, much like Gen Z’s affinity to typewriters and vintage cameras. They feel there’s something authent
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Ask HN: Handwriting Recognition App for a Journal?
1 points by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago|0 comments
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Touche... As I was typing that up, I knew I would screw up somehow trying to demonstrate proficiency. :-) Leaving as is.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Regarding the follow-up... I grew up speaking only Russian. I moved to the US when I was 15. I had 7 years of deliberate English practice prior to the move and became fluid in it within a year of moving. That was about 30 years ago. Because
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
My partner does at-home one-on-one care for people with dementia. No degree. No qualifications other than she really cares and is amazing at it. $25 an hour cash (no taxes). 24-hour care, that comes out to over $18k per month.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Local adventure racing and orienteering organizations typically have beginner classes that teach map and compass navigation. At least the one near me does every couple of months.
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Ask HN: Books on how science works and how it is different from faith
3 points by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago|3 comments
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
There are chess boards with self moving pieces out there. Some use a robotic arm under the board with a magnet to move pieces. [0] I ran across a board that claims no moving parts for moving pieces, but couldn't find a description of h
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I am not an Apple user, so I have not tried this myself, but it looks like Synology NAS is capable of iCloud sync. This solution is not cheap though. An entry level Synology DS223 with two 10-TB drives configured in RAID 1 will run you $250
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
It doesn't look like DeleteMe's individual plan covers 750+ sites. There are only 77 sites with a single asterisk on https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
4 years ago Boeing cut their quality inspection staff as part of its "Quality Transformation". "In the Puget Sound region, there are currently [2019] just over 3,000 Boeing Quality Inspectors, who typically work as a second s
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I only scanned the article and the paper, but the paper linked in the article talks about the researchers characterizing performance of a MosFET.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Doesn't sound like the paper's (the one you linked) authors don't necessarily agree with your summary. From the discussion on page 16: These results seemingly worsen the recently established tension between the inferred value
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Oftentimes companies that lay employees off (i.e. fire them) offer a severance package where the company continues to pay your salary and offer some benefits for a period of time after you no longer work for them. Just like the two-week not
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Stanisław J. Lec
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I wish ARSTechnica would pick up this story and do a deep dive. They have done an amazing job keeping up with all of the shenanigans that incumbent telcos pulled in the case of the town/city of Wilson in North Carolina back in the day
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I have taken products through this sort of testing in a previous life. There are many hard-to-replicate factors that influence test results. For example, in my direct experience (not with phones, but networking gear), the way the product is
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
The procedure is non-violent, but the article links (however tenuously) these groups to bombings. I know next to nothing about Sweden, not the bombing stats in the article seem staggering to me for a country of that size.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I am very unfamiliar with specific state laws regarding this, but there's a federal exception for automobiles when it comes to the Fourth Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_exception
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Where I work the style guidelines for C specify to use "_type". Interestingly enough, the huge code base for embedded products with a custom OS does not rely on <stdint.h> types for fixed-width integer types: "uint32_t&
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Wouldn't work if the 2 degrees is not in the orbital plane of Earth. Right?
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I run Plex on an Nvidia Shield and host the media on a USB drive attached to the Shield. I thought about going the Synology NAS route, but wasn't ready to pay that much.

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