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by SECProto 4y ago
Anyone who recommends desalination and pipelines hasn't looked at how cheap the water on a municipal water bill is, let alone agricultural users: Approx a dollar or two per cubic meter supplied to my doorstep, depending what my consump
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, fortunately including an aux port doesn't preclude also including Bluetooth. To quote the article: > It has NFC for pairing with wireless headphones, but it also has a headphone jack so you can choose . Shock of horrors
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yup. I am definitely wouldnt call myself an audiophile, but I like my over ear headphones. I switch them easily between my desktop, my laptop, and my cell phone. They never die. Then I take my phone to my ten year old car and plug an aux ca
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by SECProto 4y ago
If you apply the same anti-consumption calculation to everything in life I applaud you wholeheartedly. That said, you can buy a toaster oven for $30 from Walmart, and that cost covers the energy, material, transportation, and labour, plus m
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by SECProto 4y ago
Toaster ovens and toasters are at most 1800W appliances. Typical electric oven elements are in the 3000-3500W range. If you're broiling, toaster ovens are much more efficient. Ovens I've used take roughly 15minutes to warm to 400F
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by SECProto 4y ago
Ah that's fair - I am not a fan of how manufacturers have removed aux ports on phones for exactly this reason. A phone without an aux port is a dealbreaker for me (currently looking for a phone to replace my 4 year old galaxy a8, it&#x
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by SECProto 4y ago
Categorically false but at least functionally true for me.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The flow of electrons in a copper wire is much slower than a wireless or fiber optic signal, so over longer distances, theoretically it could be lower latency "flow of electrons in a copper wire" has little to do with the spe
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by SECProto 4y ago
I would note the parent comment appeared to have been talking about an open faced sandwich, i.e. cheese topping on a slice of toast. Even if I'm incorrect and a closed grilled cheese sandwich was the culprit, a toaster oven would still
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by SECProto 4y ago
Thunderbolt uses usb-c connectors, definitely copper not fiber.
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by SECProto 4y ago
Bit of observer bias here, as I don't listen to headphones while out and about.
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by SECProto 4y ago
Sounds to me like a ground loop. so you're right, I have had that issue once in my car (different grounding potential between the cigarette lighter output and the stereo aux input)
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by SECProto 4y ago
My speakers and headphones don't need to charge, which eliminates that opportunity for a ground loop.
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by SECProto 4y ago
My cables are all routed in a bundle, no hasle. I can't keep the headphones on when I walk away, it's true.
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by SECProto 4y ago
I never want to run in any headphones. I do not like music while running.
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by SECProto 4y ago
I've lived in a country without ground wires (japan), and used desktop speakers and headphones without issue.
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by SECProto 4y ago
The only incidence of wired interference I have personally experienced was a ground loop in a car (car cigarette lighter-usb adaptor-usb cable-phone-aux cable-aux input on car stereo). I seem to recall fixing it with a <$5 component that
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by SECProto 4y ago
My favourite part about wires is that there's never interference or poor connectivity. Aux headphones, ethernet cables, wired mouse and keyboard - all so much more painless.
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by SECProto 4y ago
For certain definitions of reusable, yes. Certainly retaining the SSME's for refurbishment was a big accomplishment. I wish Energia+buran could have maintained funding for a few decades - concepts for the flyback boosters were cool and
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The Soviets copied most of the design but used their own engine. This is overselling it. They were aerodynamically very similar, but the shuttle had the SSME (space shuttle main engines, ~250tonnes thrust each) burning from liftoff to
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by SECProto 4y ago
I've seen both (as I work in civil engineering). That is all dependant on the asphalt mix. Parking lots are usually not done with a proper performance graded asphalt, so they'll deteriorate very easily under strenuous loading cond
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by SECProto 4y ago
Looking back at this version history [1], there was perviously a gap of 3.5 years between releases (2011-2014). Skimming through the discussion forums, the 2.5yr gap between 19.00 and 21.07 was filled with a number of alpha and beta release
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by SECProto 4y ago
Airplane tickets have both boarding time and departure time listed. Things I walk up to momentarily before departure: every mode of transportation except planes. For trains and buses, the two times should be almost simultaneous (as anything
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by SECProto 4y ago
> key areas like coal/petro are actually down over the past 5 years. The source I provided (current to 2019) does show coal down a hair (Peaked at ~45000 TWh in 2013, hovering around 44,000 TWh in 2019), but oil continuing to increa
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by SECProto 4y ago
The article is about prophylactic use in persons who have had a tick removed that was attached for more than 36 hours. It would have no impact on levels in the tick population (as it's given after the tick is removed) and should have n
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by SECProto 4y ago
Expecting global energy consumption to drop 8% in the next 30 years (while also reducing fossil fuel usage to 20% and all of that with carbon capture and underground storage) is... hilariously unrealistic (or very pessimistic for overall
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by SECProto 4y ago
Ten years ago Tesla was making about 10,000 cars per year. Five years ago, it was about 100,000. This past year, it's around 1,000,000. The right time to be working on scaling up recycling processes is ±now.
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by SECProto 4y ago
I was recently researching what to do with an empty small butane canister (the kind used for portable gas stoves - same size/shape/wall thickness as a can of spraypaint). According to the municipal waste site for my city of just o
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Fortunately, that is not the alternative: fossil fuel use is already uncompetitive Maybe where you live the grid operators are being progressive with renewables as an alternative. Where I am, a couple nuclear reactors are reaching EOL
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The cost of nuclear energy seems seriously understated. Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’ll incur this cost for hundreds or thousands of years. Wait til you hear about

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