Treblemaker

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B.C. Leaf owner's plight highlights difficulty in replacing EV batteries(driving.ca)
2 points by Treblemaker 6y ago|0 comments
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
It's marketed as "Inverter Technology" Most of the major brands in the US have them, now, and the reliability is improving. As I understand it the drive transistors in early models were prone to failure. More info available
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Great news for MS, but doesn't myelin also play an important role in learning in general? If a safer drug can be found I wonder what role this could play in treating some intellectual disabilities? Or, if one tends toward a more dy
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Is the "Twitter PWA" something other than "www daht twitter dot calm" in a web browser?
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
No. If someone makes the claim, "X is important", it's perfectly reasonable to ask them to substantiate that claim.
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Phase 3 from another perspective: https://qntm.org/gorge
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
The correct answer is "2+2 is 4" Your score: 0/1
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Did you mean 28E12?
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
That number is meaningless without context. USGS estimates the earth has about 24 quadrillion metric tons[1] of ice, so, unless I'm doing the math wrong, this loss represents 0.1% over 30 years. [1] https://www.usgs.gov&#x2
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
I've purchased many products from local retailers that contain explicit instructions from the manufacturer to NOT contact the retailer if there are any issues, but to contact them directly. So it seems it is possible.
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Perhaps so in the context of PCB assembly. In the semiconductor industry we still call them chips. So do Micron Semiconductor [1], TSMC [2] and Intel [3] [1] https://www.micron.com/foundation/semiconductors [2] htt
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
It's not "IC design" that's orders of magnitude more complex. It's "IC implementation" where the complexity lies. Design for test, Logical verifcation (simulation, logical equivalence checks, electrical
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Wiby.com was discussed here a while back: "Does anyone remember websites?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631565
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
This sounds like a great topic for an "Ask HN" post.
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
Just got my first moderation warning in twelve years on facebook for posting this [1]. It was, in a strange way, a relief to find the parent article only a few minutes later. [1] Linked to and commented on this fun, obviously fictional sto
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
> Stefan’s paper asks what would happen if we could just stick a direct wire between certain pairs of LUTs, like you can when designing fully-custom hardware. It’s a hypothetical question, of course, because FPGAs don’t actually allow th
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
> ‡ It's still there, but disabled by default. So in terms of discoverability, it might as well not exist. Well played my friend; well played.
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
It is just an infrastructure investment. It's no different from Amazon building a local distribution center in your city. An "internet fast lane" would be like the city government saying to Amazon, "and also, all traffi
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
It does no such thing. All ISPs and public wifi I have ever connected to have terms of service that prohibit illegal activities.
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
This is the case that first brought it to my attention: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/fcc-rules-against-comc... .
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
Why do you not support it?
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
Would love to find something like this for rural areas. Maddening sometimes how details disappear from most online maps based only on zoom level rather than on feature density.
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
I just got comcast installed in a new home, and the experience was completely different from what I've experienced in the past -- think "apple store", rather than "we're the phone company; we don't have to care
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
> A particular oddity of a lot of these systems is that they have different generations of receivers that use different methods, so sometimes you'll end up hearing the tones played aloud if a receiver opens squelch in reaction to so
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Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games(oregonlive.com)
2 points by Treblemaker 7y ago|0 comments
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
Thank you! I've been searching all afternoon for this one.
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
I get that this is intended to be a general exercise in spotting schematic errors. But as someone who brought-up and debugged numerous complex power supply boards for mobile electronics, it seems to me the most important and useful bit of
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
> This is about one AEB event every 3,300 driven miles: What the hell are people doing when they're driving? I don't mean the ones distracted by cell phones or whatever. I mean the ones who appear to be looking out their
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Parent Who Criticized His Son's Math Program Is Sued by Curriculum Company(edweek.org)
22 points by Treblemaker 7y ago|3 comments
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San Diego Cell Service Possibly Affected by New Operator in Mexico(nbcsandiego.com)
88 points by Treblemaker 7y ago|33 comments

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