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by VLM 4y ago
To one sig fig that's 55 feet difference in location. GPS uses WGS84 and GLONASS uses PZ90. "Officially" the difference is supposed to be less than 45 feet all the time and generally less than 15 feet. So, I don't thi
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by VLM 4y ago
On a staggeringly smaller scale I had VERY mixed results with storing data points that look like (satellite ID, timestamp, el, az, signal strength) and then doing a data analysis to map out "anomalous attenuation" by el,az (kind o
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by VLM 4y ago
> filter coffee on an empty stomach Freshly brewed higher quality looseleaf tea (no cheap supermarket tea bags) with nothing added is much less acidic than filter coffee.
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by VLM 4y ago
> You can go the whole day hungry Indication of a diet too high in carbs, leading to insulin levels being too high, leading to a crash in blood glucose, leading to feelings of cold and starvation. Which some people can, temporarily, whi
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by VLM 4y ago
This is the main problem with social media in its declining era. "I encourage my competitors to take some really bad advice" simply becomes tiresome when the rest of the traffic has been pushed away and that's all that remain
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by VLM 4y ago
I agree with you completely in a technical sense although greenwashing has become enough of a cultural icon that its hilarious to contemplate "watch me do something green" start with cracking open a container of HF, LOL.
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by VLM 4y ago
There's a fundamental floor of value where "in the bad old days" I once bought a specialty swiss army knife (a very custom gift; details utterly irrelevant) and I wanted the knife enough to pay middlemen about 20% overall to
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by VLM 4y ago
I could open a "full service" gas station with dudes to fill the tank and wipe the windshield and upsell services. It varies by state, but nobody put full service gas stations out of business where I live. The market wiped them
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by VLM 4y ago
businessofapps.com claims they only do 8M transactions per month, and have/had 4500 employees, so 8M transactions / 4.5K employees / 20 working days/month that's 88 transactions to post per day. They don't need
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by VLM 4y ago
We call that journalism
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by VLM 4y ago
Financially you always got two to four times the resolution with B/W or single colored phosphor than with color monitors. They were also less fuzzy. Its not just more pixels but less fuzz.
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by VLM 4y ago
Journalism is the same
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by VLM 4y ago
Murphys Law implies the contractors will not be legally permitted onsite during operation so who cares what they do, but if you let the full timers play with jackhammers its guaranteed some idiot will try to use the jackhammer after operati
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by VLM 4y ago
Interesting optimization idea: If 95% of the users are bots, and your ML algorithms are smart enough to figure who's bot and who's bio, you could save a lot of traffic by not publishing tweets to bots as no one is going to read t
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by VLM 4y ago
The teaser line about ibuprofen synthesis is interesting because he didn't put enough "tease" into it for non-chemists to understand the kind of funny analogy. Superficially, one would not expect that a "green" syn
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by VLM 4y ago
Not in a refinery, or you have to buy weird/expensive non-sparking hammers and wedges. Aluminum bronze wedges are commercially available but the liability insurance is incredible so you're better off cutting your own (its a wedge
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by VLM 4y ago
Another concrete example of the conflict is classical vs quantum physics which is nearly exclusively taught as the historical story of the quantum revolution or whatever you call it around 1900. It would be trivial to skip the historical st
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by VLM 4y ago
Its like being in manufacturing in the late 60s, noticing the EPA is coming, and wondering how to continue operating. When you can't work in a geographic location anymore, the answer has always been to offshore or close. Silicon Valle
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by VLM 4y ago
Donations can be very expensive to a large company. The labor cost is often huge. If you don't prevent fraud at the $500 level you'll have two problems: Lots of repeated fraud at the $500 level, and people trying to get away wit
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by VLM 4y ago
If 1.63% of PyPi is worth $26615/yr, the implication is all of PyPi added together would only be worth $1.6M, which seems low. Its interesting to compare to other industries. "In the old days" the way to make money during a
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by VLM 4y ago
Less abstract means less is obscured, more truthy. Higher level languages will have numerous control structures to iterate, consider everything from do-until, do-while, for loops, all the way up to functional languages. That's great.
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by VLM 4y ago
> Where is that information going to come from, exactly? Manufacturers, with quality ranging from excellent to trash. Consider trying to buy a 1K resistor at Digikey using their parametric search. Possible, but tedious and time consuming
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by VLM 4y ago
We already have search results providing useless ChatGPT results. I bake my own bread for my son due to certain food allergies. We have some leftover almond flour, so I googled up some bread recipes using almond flour this morning. Web se
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by VLM 4y ago
Page 32 of the linked Infoworld magazine shows an entire 286 computer with a faster clock speed retailing for about twice the cost of the Mach 20 board. It was an interesting era, retail ads for everything from 10 mhz 8086 to 20 mhz 386 in
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by VLM 4y ago
I wonder what he would have thought of the people 3-d printing Curta-alikes a decade ago.
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by VLM 4y ago
Risk avoidance. Poor people can't economically handle "someone sneezed so you get no income for months". Plenty of low paying jobs never closed during covid and everyone's crowding into them to avoid possible economic
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by VLM 4y ago
> career The fact of life of a pyramid shaped employment structure, is almost everyone is forced out eventually anyway, regardless of age.
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by VLM 4y ago
> lots of available jobs and the leverage to negotiate for better pay The market is always portrayed as efficient money-for-time but reality is the market is often based around risk minimization and pounding square pegs into round holes
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by VLM 4y ago
Colonialism with extra steps
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by VLM 4y ago
Owning a salon was a financially sustainable lifestyle, so you get more salons. Working at a salon for minimum wage + tips is not a sustainable lifestyle, so you get empty chairs in those salons. All it takes to open a salon is the ability

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