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by VLM 9mo ago
Its karma farming. Number must go up regardless of the human cost. Thats why the same problem is seen here, to a lesser extent. Karma in social media is a technology to produce competitiveness and unhappiness, usually to increase advertis
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by VLM 9mo ago
1) He had a HUGE amount of personal charisma. Some lecturers are watched because they know a lot or are famous, despite a lack of public speaking skills. Feynman could have gone into acting or politics the guy is genuinely entertaining an
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by VLM 10mo ago
Its the usual Youtube thing where there's multiple videos. The one linked is the bibliography popular science utterly non-technical spin. There's a three part technical series, a fun two hours viewing, and the end of the third t
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by VLM 10mo ago
All delivery services so far, have been partial emulations of a concierge service including the high cost, but have made the user suffer thru the friction instead of the human concierge. I don't see a way around this using mere technol
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by VLM 10mo ago
I worked at a food store as a student a long time ago. Remarkably few customers are weekly. We did sell entire cartloads of food on certain days at certain times but it's pretty rare. Most of the people walking in will have to skip a
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by VLM 10mo ago
People will forgive themselves for saving money, but will not forgive others at the delivery service for charging extra. There is no delivery service that's cheaper and good enough, or dirt cheap and expected to be awful, but those are
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by VLM 10mo ago
I've found two very general personality criteria for online ordering. Planners. The people who have a meal plan in Google Calendar for the next week and rarely have to "grab one thing on the way home from the store". The pe
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by VLM 11mo ago
The microline series, antique stores are full of them. Every high school or lower undergrad boomer had one or a similar clone and they show up in antique stores and on ebay all the time. The 80 and 120 are about the same size and sell for
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by VLM 11mo ago
The financial people I know all own 12Cs and they've been in continuous production since '81 although the innards are just a very boring ARM processor now. They do what people want, the keyboard feel is infinitely smoother than ta
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by VLM 11mo ago
> You have to keep a parallel exponent calculation in your head, and that slows you down We were taught to estimate and use the rule to refine. I date back to the early electronic calculator era and we still had textbooks referencing sl
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by VLM 11mo ago
The all plastic ones are intrinsically safe in a potentially flammable environment, they don't require power, they're an education in how most engineering materials in the real world have surprisingly wide tolerances so they are f
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by VLM 1y ago
My credit union app already wants 24x7 GPS tracking of my location and full access to my camera at all times and full access to my collection of photos, so the app is already dead to me anyway. Demanding that I use it on a locked down devi
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by VLM 1y ago
char* strcpy(char* destination, const char* source); and its numerous replacements and "improvements".
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by VLM 1y ago
Smart grid. Right now there are multiple construction equipment rental facilities in my city. They all seem to have a row of quarter megawatt class towable generators ready for rental. They sit on a gravel parking lot and do absolutely not
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by VLM 1y ago
The big problem with the cost of nuclear facilities is its military-aerospace style where the cost merely coincidentally happens to be absolute maximum they can spend. There's no competition or standardization, just we'll take al
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by VLM 1y ago
The article in detail danced around a couple socioeconomic issues: People had vastly higher standards of living in the good old days. A working guy in a factory could buy a house on a cheap small mortgage, have a new car, pay for a stay at
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by VLM 1y ago
Socioeconomic class issue to assume attractive clothes are "scorching" in the summer. They are not. If your family can only afford one buttondown shirt, one tie, and one pair of nice pants you buy the winter weight because its fa
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by VLM 1y ago
"pass 300,000 people a day" This strikes me as implausible because it implies 208 cars per minute, 24x7 The picture looks like a driveway, and my local interstate has 75K cars/day at 65 MPH and takes 4 lanes and they're
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by VLM 1y ago
Milwaukee has a predominantly W-E interstate I-94, and when it hits Lake Michigan it simply turns 90 degrees, fairly sharply, to the south, and gets renamed to 794. Confusingly, there is also a I-94 that also turns south a few thousand feet
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by VLM 1y ago
Three issues that are important but nobody wants to discuss (why?): Inflation in the cost of law enforcement. As an X-er I received some truly epic paint-peeling flame-throwing "angry dad-style" lectures from cops and one time I
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by VLM 1y ago
According to the US Census Bureau, the median house age in the usa is 1980. I live in a 1960 house of the type that is supposedly illegal, although every house in my suburb built since then has had building codes and planning regulations fo
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by VLM 1y ago
Its the wrong statistical analysis of the situation. The death rate does not even remotely depend on infection source IIRC. Last stat I saw (from some years ago) was in excess of 96.7% of the population had blood antibodies for covid. You a
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by VLM 3y ago
No need for the AR goggles, just hire day labor to work for a skilled tradesman as a labor multiplier, or try the old fashioned "here's a mobile phone do what your boss says" In the trades themselves, we've been doing th
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by VLM 3y ago
How about IT, as opposed to software development? As long as we have human using computers, we'll have more skill humans helping the humans. We were told that inventing web search engines and giving kids ipads would completely eliminat
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by VLM 3y ago
Like many security policies, it merely has to be harder, not impossible. There is an interesting decoding aspect where a "M" can never follow a "V" in a roman numeral representation. So its technically very easy to turn
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by VLM 3y ago
> It's in the paper. Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.
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by VLM 3y ago
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAsca... Its just a G3/G4 even we long term average about one a month. Get a couple G5 per decade, mildly more impressive.
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by VLM 3y ago
Be a Marine WRT "adapt and overcome at all costs to accomplish the mission" without mentioning the Marines. The Army did it too, we just didn't have a cool name for it.
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by VLM 3y ago
"can" yes. Industrially, no. You're asking for an automotive ignition without a coil, pretty much not done. Various logic chopping options exist to be technically correct. If you define a pulse as not being "AC" b
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by VLM 3y ago
The proper way to select linear vs switched is really a flow chart of some applications require super low analog noise or low quiescent current and cannot tolerate a switcher solution. The next step is a complete system analysis including

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