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by VLM 6y ago
Its hygroscopic, stored next to the water, in a poor country. It was likely unsellable within weeks. Or, to be blunt, every undamaged package was probably already sold within weeks. Once the remainder amalgamates into a giant lump, its a
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by VLM 6y ago
Finally my military experience is relevant. If you've ever wondered why military ammo depots rarely blow up despite plenty of accidents and fires (at least in western cultures or specifically in the USA), a long time ago I was an Army
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by VLM 6y ago
I'm glad we don't have these because the mfgrs and dealers would just use it to screw over the buyers. It would be full of ongoing software bugs that can only be fixed if you pay for a $75 oil change at the dealership. Sometimes
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by VLM 6y ago
WRT ancient see http://www.retrochallenge.org/ Last years entrants had more homemade computer designs than usual. Historically there seem to be "a lot" of pdp-8 and IBM mainframe type entrants.
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by VLM 6y ago
You'll run into a lot of non-EE advice from people who haven't run the numbers or accounted for all the costs of electrical power vs modern hardware equivalent costs and given GIGO analysis, their estimate of the financial breakev
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by VLM 6y ago
It is of course a general stereotype in that its useful for prediction but its not as solid as, say, the law of gravity, but ARM comes from a software as a project world where you write the code for a specific piece of hardware with a defin
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by VLM 6y ago
The point is not to censor to match current sensibilities but to censor to push society in a direction. It doesn't matter if almost everyone hates what they're selling as long as they eventually push hard enough to sell it. They
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by VLM 6y ago
This is a relative comparison not absolute, and trying to be nontechnical about a technical topic is a minefield, but vaguely speaking for many decades ARM generally didn't worry as much about backwards compatibility and backwards bina
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by VLM 6y ago
Its an interesting tech study but don't forget the business side. I'm so incredibly old (LOL being sarcastic) that I remember high school yearbooks had school photographers for K-11 however seniors had to submit professional phot
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by VLM 6y ago
It was a couple year fad where all social apps had to support sending money or they were not "real" social apps anymore. Fads do not have to make sense.
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by VLM 6y ago
Compare the privacy loss of website access to app access. My credit union requires full location tracking for their app; its just another revenue stream. In terms of bubbles I think we're in a loss of privacy economic bubble. The firs
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by VLM 6y ago
With google its quite trivial to get actual data rather than estimates. It doesn't seem controversial that per IIHS stats motorcycles have about 30 times more fatalities per 100K miles than cars. Likewise I have no reason to disagree w
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by VLM 6y ago
Its mostly a trigonometry thing, three sine waves 120 degrees out of phase balance out to constant torque. Also see electrical 3-phase power. Note that internal combustion cylinder pressure is by no means a perfect sine wave LOL but its a
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by VLM 6y ago
I'd bet a case of beer that OP did operations analysis in his MBA course... The term to google for is "Duane Power Law" or similar. Duane was the first statistical process improvement researcher in the 60s to graph MTBF stat
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by VLM 6y ago
Knee implants, significant negative hormonal changes for men over 50 miles/wk. Repetitive stress injuries are no joke. OP is probably not aware that the Olympics does not have ultra-marathon type events which are generally very unheal
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by VLM 6y ago
Yet its still valid data in that its trivial to calculate the theoretical maximum peak accel based on the possibly independent peak accels of the individual axes. If in theory the max peak acceleration could never exceed 2 G then there&#x27
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by VLM 6y ago
The USPS should provide local health care services. An interesting deployment strategy for socialized medicine. It would be everything everyone expects from both right and left wing perspectives. Edited to add: Wealthy privileged HN reade
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by VLM 6y ago
Its important to note that the purpose of the article is to take an isolated incident of one strangely misguided manager and/or management labor dispute turning into false accusations, and turn that isolated incident into a stage for n
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by VLM 6y ago
Its an insider's journal paper so they gloss over what zircons are although they're the whole point of the paper. The chemistry of zircons is pretty cool. A non-technical terrible analogy is they're like nearly indestructibl
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by VLM 6y ago
"I'm sure it'll only be used in opposition to my political opponents" - Says, unfortunately, everyone on all sides.
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by VLM 6y ago
If you want to see state of the art 40 years ago there's Army M9 detector paper which is this concept applied to tape instead of fabric, and detecting multiple chemical agents instead of lactate. Using pH to determine intensity is inge
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by VLM 6y ago
The difference between caring and being woke is shameless self promotion and groupthink denigration of those who do not self promote. There simply are no humble "woke" people, all "woke" are bullies.
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by VLM 6y ago
I like this idea, and wonder if something similar exists to oppose other fads like open offices. I would like to think COVID would be enough motivation to oppose open office floor plans, but religious beliefs generally cannot be rationaliz
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by VLM 6y ago
Something no one discusses is this is part of the death of brick and mortar retail. In the 70s you'd go to a warehouse-superstore for electronics lit by incandescent bulbs or maybe old school buzzy flicker fluorescents and it was DARK
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by VLM 6y ago
Something like this already exists and is cheaper than red LEDs. At least it used to be cheaper. IR LEDs. Invisible to the naked eye. If you want to see the nifty status LEDs, simply hold your cellphone camera (which is IR sensitive) and
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by VLM 6y ago
Someone was building an empire by having employees do manual data entry instead of parsing json files. All the way up the mgmt tree there are fewer direct reports. Nobody ever gets a job title promotion by having fewer direct reports. Eve
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by VLM 6y ago
At most of the big companies I worked at (over 500 employees) there is a steering committee doing prioritization work and continuous integration test suites and an elaborate change control committee and process such that fixing a spelling e
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by VLM 6y ago
The trivial solution is to tie residency to property ownership or property lease, and payment of property tax. Then use the prop tax to pay for the health care, because almost all health care is local anyway. Have the hospital or clinic o
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by VLM 6y ago
Researchers seem nervous about the contrast dye used in the process. It would seem unwise to do a MRI with GBCA for fun or speculative purposes, on the other hand "makes 1 in a zillion people sick" is actually quite acceptable odd
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by VLM 6y ago
In the old days if you wanted sweepings from the factory floor you shopped at Radio Shack. Usually worked well enough anyway. Just like ebay or amazon today, usually. I've had worse luck with assemblies than components; switching sup

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