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by VLM 4y ago
On a small ski boat when something like weeds tangles or fouls the prop just pull the lever and tilt the engine out of the water and untangle by hand, including turning the engine on and off its likely a five minute job. Much harder with a
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by VLM 4y ago
Small sport boats usually operate way above hull speed in the the far non-linear region so an extra ten percent thrust will result in a far non-linear increase in speed. I'd believe an extra 15% of thrust would only make it 2% faster.
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by VLM 4y ago
As with most "medical" discussions online, something like being "good for your body part" rapidly turns into anything other than scientific medical evidence. Much like how its impossible to discuss something like diet s
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by VLM 4y ago
There are only two important points about CSAM scanning. The first is that the business model of implementing dystopia is always rolled out as "to save the children". Rest assured once the infrastructure is in place the oppressio
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by VLM 4y ago
How about "hanging out at the mall" for the covid lockdown generation?
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by VLM 4y ago
Discovery process vs consumption process. Obviously the kid wasn't the first to discover how to dig a ditch, but the kid discovered it for himself, figured out how it works for himself. Personal discovery. Like the difference between
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by VLM 4y ago
That's a good point from memory, remember this is 1980s basic nothing fancy or hardware accelerated, there was a way to do incredibly slow floating point division (software only this was before the 8087 FPU) and there was int division
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by VLM 4y ago
In the 80s this was a play around with MSBasic challenge. "We only need to go up to n/2 because anything larger than that can’t be a divisor of n" What we learned the hard way in the 80s is mathematically you only need to go
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by VLM 4y ago
I was involved in a long term project/service that moved from private bare metal to private vmware to private openstack to private vastly newer vmware to AWS. You'll probably laugh but the biggest problem we had was security, movi
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by VLM 4y ago
Pi is done already. For the last few years anyone doing "Circuit/Micro-Python with GPIO" switched to ESP32 a long time ago, and the "I need a small PC" people just went back to using small PCs.
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by VLM 4y ago
Home Assistant is like lego it all sticks together. My solution is pretty much the same except instead of telegram I have a remotely controllable accent LED in my office and it uses similar logic to detect washing machine power use. More t
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by VLM 4y ago
Are any of these examples concrete/factual, or are they all exclusively opinion based?
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by VLM 4y ago
Selling at Amazon in the 20s seems as dangerous as selling at Walmart around the turn of the century. The outcome is probably going to be the same; a sea of ultra low quality generic import goods that only poor people shop at.
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by VLM 4y ago
Magazines are for showing off ones political or philosophical affiliations, not to be informative.
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by VLM 4y ago
Greenwashing has been replaced by redwashing?
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by VLM 4y ago
You can go one better and filter your position data and store the data from the "worst fit" satellite. Which will usually be on the horizon or behind a thunderstorm, but not always, maybe it'll be behind a ICBM... For made u
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by VLM 4y ago
One of the few benefits of giant faceless corporations is most of my direct coworkers were 1000 miles apart anyway under normal conditions, so an extra 20 miles away sitting in his house never mattered vs sitting in an office.
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by VLM 4y ago
I've worked a couple places like this and the real argument is "thanksgiving in the USA is always a thursday which is unfair to the wed-sat team" if they're forced to work or "unfair to the sun-wed team" if the
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by VLM 4y ago
My actual experience with 4 day work is the closer the team is to operations (2nd and 3rd shift 7 days per week) and the closer to contractor/consultants the easier the transition. I would caution people to be careful what they wish fo
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by VLM 4y ago
The most installed/removed NPT thread will leak the most thus have the most tape added and the scraping of installation/removal will guarantee teflon contamination of the system eventually. You are also correct in that something i
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by VLM 4y ago
Apparently simulated. You can see in the UART code for example: https://github.com/nyuichi/GAIA3/blob/master/hardware/Rx.vhd file input_file : ft open READ_MODE is input_filename; read(input_file, c
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by VLM 4y ago
The story misses some points. The first issue is pipes are used for a lot more than pressurized drinking water, and for compressed gases there's various standards so you don't accidentally connect your acetylene tank to your argon
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by VLM 4y ago
There are two problems with PEX in the shop, one real one joke. The joke one is PVC + UV = shrapnel, and frankly given enough time and vibration PVC doesn't need UV to shatter, so old timers hearing you're using plastic in the sho
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by VLM 4y ago
Tape causes massive contamination problems with fuel and hydraulic systems. Its not that the Teflon reacts with hyd oil, its that the inevitably little tiny bits of stuff physically jam/ruin seals and clog nozzles.
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by VLM 4y ago
> a light bulb, with a specific lumen and color temperature spec Sponsored links are always useless and should only be scrolled past on Amazon. Typical disappointing Amazon experience: Search for LED 8W. First result, sponsored link to
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by VLM 4y ago
No, well, not supported anyway https://www.vortex86.com/news/3 The column you're looking for is the VEX model of chip Every chip in their lineup can run W95 except the EX series and the VDX3 can run Win7. I don&#
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by VLM 4y ago
This one has been making the rounds. Three cool things oft overlooked: 1) Its double-retro in the sense that the 86duino is a decade old, so you've got the retro dos under the retro hardware in 2022 almost 2023. Cool! 2) The 86duino
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by VLM 4y ago
Something I've been thinking about WRT SBF and online ethics, is if someone's true devotion is to preserving shareholder value, etc, if you know "interesting things" have happened and been covered up for a long time, lyi
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by VLM 4y ago
(up to a specific limit) Historically that limit has always been waived during bank collapses, although my inability to remember a specific historical counterexample does not disprove its existence. edited to add the limit still exists on t
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by VLM 4y ago
You could just read the bill, its pretty plain language. For the LOLs I'll read it for you. The DARE act boils down to crypto is completely socialized in the Bahamas UNLESS the business is being operated under pretty typical accountin

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