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by VLM 4y ago
You can't gain useful population wide information from a platform paid to censor and spread propaganda like the Delphi-Facebook survey. It would be analogous to assuming the results of a Fox News viewer survey are identical to the over
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by VLM 4y ago
Scalability is a two way street and those services don't scale small. That makes business opportunities for more flexible engineers.
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by VLM 4y ago
There's two separate medical systems, one focused on making money and boosting financials where science does not matter, and the other focused on medical science where at least theoretically the financials do no not matter. Its up to t
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by VLM 4y ago
Probably a neon sign transformer. The tube won't ionize until tens of thousands of KV but when it does light off, the resistance of the plasma drops to practically nothing compared to the excellent insulator it is when not ignited. N
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by VLM 4y ago
WRT safety its probably a taste thing. Diluted enough, the nitric could easily be made weaker than your stomach acid but will still eventually dissolve the copper. Its a sort of linear-ish relationship of concentration vs time so you can t
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by VLM 4y ago
I don't know about that BW claim. Back when mp3 was new and computers usually had floppy drives I did the obvious and mp3 bitrates above 64K or so tended to stutter and significantly below 64K did not stutter. Something like voice enc
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by VLM 4y ago
The most interesting observation I made was color. Everything worn was gray or darkest blue at the flashiest. I was surprised to see no analysis of color. It would be interesting to quantify if the author's "bottom half" w
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by VLM 4y ago
For ASCII encoding the MSB isn't going to get much action so technically they could have gotten away with 7 bits/switches instead of 8 bits/switches. Although with 8 bits they could input UTF-8 unicode which is nice. "Ba
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by VLM 4y ago
At some point in economic decline, the business concepts of attendants pumping-gas-aaS and people shining-shoes-aaS become no longer widely distributed and profitable. Customers don't make long term investments in commodity -aaS busin
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by VLM 4y ago
That link is just a list of states ordered by obesity. "Lifestyle effects" of age and obesity have an overwhelming effect on covid mortality, far beyond the smaller effect of vax. It would be interesting to see the data corrected
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by VLM 4y ago
Not anymore. That's the point. Times have changed and they make trucks less efficient and less reliable.
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by VLM 4y ago
I've been trying to buy stuff and most of the money goes to the middlemen scalpers. I made a mistake in a post above, I thought Raspberry PI 2 W were still retail priced at $5, like the old days of the zero (of course those were unobta
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by VLM 4y ago
Roll back the tech level and go vertical silo. The auto industry buys bolts and makes pistons because the marketplace can't make pistons, roughly. They have the know how if the bolt marketplace collapsed to turn steel rod into bolts,
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by VLM 4y ago
Don't forget scalpers. The market on Amazon is clearing for Pi 2 W Zero boards at a mere 2600% profit over retail price (higher prices are not selling), so people whom actually want to build something with a Pi are competing with peop
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by VLM 4y ago
We're still in the toilet-paper-hoarding stage. Also people are still reselling at 400% to 1000% markup. Probably at least a couple years. Imagine if a shipment of 100K Raspberry Pi 2 W Zero came in today. "Everybody knows"
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by VLM 4y ago
Bridge seems to be a game of "lets take all the good parts of Spades then overcomplicate it". Kids can definitely learn all the lessons mentioned by playing Spades and its much quicker to teach. Most of the fun in Spades is not be
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by VLM 4y ago
> showed a smiling family all gathered around a computer They were always so dressed up, like they were planning on attending a wedding and at the last minute decided to play Donkey Kong. The real world looks as it always did, as I sit h
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by VLM 4y ago
I don't disagree with any of that, none the less, they were selling at $3K then and have to cut price to $300 to sell now, so people are obviously 10x poorer now than in the 80s. Can't argue with actual historical economic activi
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by VLM 4y ago
Yeah interesting. Maybe the 30M figure comes from 6502 shipments. I don't have the tab up anymore that was claiming 30M+ shipments. Here's an interesting discussion link. Merely being on wikipedia doesn't mean its correct
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by VLM 4y ago
This is downstream of publish-or-perish. My point is the people in charge of curriculum and education are all $200K+/yr tenured professors in the style of CS is Knuth and Knuth is CS and that's the end of the convo, so no great su
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by VLM 4y ago
The bigger the company the more the friction in simple business operations. Its the nature of the beast, not a specific problem in this situation. Many a time I've ordered, perhaps, one socket, from digikey overnight to repair somethin
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by VLM 4y ago
I suspect some statistical weirdness going on in the precise formulation of the survey question. I know for a fact 30M commodore 64s were sold in the 80s in the USA. Not all commodores, not all home computers, just the classic model C64, 3
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by VLM 4y ago
The article focuses almost entirely on hardware especially hardware prices. Then there's the usual confusion about inflation. In a theoretical sense a $3K hard drive would be like spending $9K now, but with massive economic decline an
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by VLM 4y ago
This is a sort-deep link to one page of the site and the main page of the site explains the overall project to design and build one's own XT-clone. Kind of ambitious. So start with a Pi running around 1/30th normal speed, then ge
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by VLM 4y ago
It presents strongly in the courtroom for the defense. Even the worst case scenario of it being revoked in the future, "The jury needs to know the government cannot make up its mind if the defendant committed a crime, or more likely, d
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by VLM 4y ago
Very small compared to coal draglines like "big muskie" Why make a mere train to eventually make a building, when you can make a large building that moves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muskie Interesting
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a smog/fog effect. Lots more hot sunlight at the top of the mountain than on the coast.
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by VLM 4y ago
"Communities" don't actually exist beyond the beliefs of their current membership. Its like a philosophical discussion of mind-body dualism. Arguably, for example, Twitter quite literally has no soul, its belief system is m
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by VLM 4y ago
I've always thought that "density at the edges" would have interesting implications for moment of inertia. Euler's column formula depends on moment of inertia so that would seem to imply a "Flatland-but-in-11D-inst
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by VLM 4y ago
I have a HN request where someone out there will know the answer as relates to your comment. Somewhere, in the past, there's a "popular science" level essay on modern string theory that casually discusses the volume of radius

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