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LOL sorry for the late post, but you got me, I was thinking you meant Cathy Rogers the combined producer actor, but its actually Mr Llewellyn (who is also interesting to watch). Ms Rogers was very interesting to watch as she is near prototy
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The key quote from the linked article seems to be "It’s essentially two concentric radial motors bookended by two axial ones." My question is where's the cooling? You can put more magnetic field and torque into an ever small
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7y ago
KJ Magnetics is an interesting example of driving traffic for online shopping. I could buy similar products on amazon, but since I'm occasionally there reading the interesting blog, its kinda my first choice. Also another common amazon
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Technically he's not dead, he's just been downsized to increase shareholder value.
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RISC has always been a marketplace relative thing. Standard HN automobile analogy is the subcompact car class has always been the lightest car class on the road, although a 2020 subcompact car weighs about a thousand pounds more than a subc
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There's a lot of "what" in the article, not so much "why" or "history". Every decade or so, someone tries an open, current technology and specs CPU. Plenty of free FOSS or FOSS-like z80 or 6502 cores out
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7y ago
I like how "Applied Science" sends down interesting rabbit holes. One minute I'm watching homemade photochromic glass adventures, next I enjoy three hours of enjoyable clicking thru wikipedia and other internet links. Yes th
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For TV, a large number of people are paid enormous amounts of money and put huge efforts into the best result a bland corporate team can produce to increase ad sales by encouraging consumerism. "Love Island" does NOT exist to tea
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Facebook is a good example of the damage that can be done by the self imposed jail of binary thinking. The proposed binary thinking option is users will be detrimentally manipulated and exploited as an advertising product where the manipula
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7y ago
HN contains many obvious example of clan behavior. New Urbanism, bicycling, cooking for yourself instead of eating restaurant food every meal, Trump derangement syndrome, Brexit is going to cause the collapse of civilization, all strictly
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"The Signal Path" and "element 14 presents" The big corporate channels like "Analog Devices Inc" have too many premade for facebook 90 second snaps, and not enough relax in the living room recliner long format
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7y ago
If you like NileRed I think you'd enjoy "Applied Science" and maybe "Cody's Lab". "Scrap Science" is pretty good, I felt bad for the guy after spending a year failing to make heavy water. I spent a
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Very few products on Amazon are sold by the creator. Virtually everything is sold by a mixture of middlemen and importers and drop shippers. Its virtually impossible to tell the difference between a product I'm middle-manning that
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Its relatively unchanging both by location and as a percentage of the population WRT "pick up any more" For more than half a century, the demographics have always been its a life long hobby most pick up in their middle age, and a
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See also, the higher education experience.
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I'll go on a limb and claim for publicity and political fallout reasons there will never be enough BVR RoE airspace to make BVR relevant to aircraft design. There's a difference between the classic definition of BVR meaning slingi
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The A10 is only viewed as successful today because its very old. Back in initial production in the Carter years they discovered awful metal fatigue problems in the wings. In the early Reagan years they bolted on braces to toughen up the jo
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Talk to ham radio operators who know morse code, for them its fairly common. After awhile, especially in a competitive contest, you start to hear stuff in the static. Sometimes because there's an actual station there trying to reach
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4H has about 7 million members, all somewhat rural/outdoors in outlook and not all farm oriented, as a likely upper bound. Maybe 3 million kids would be expected to milk a cow, so maybe 1 in 20. In some states, nearly a million people
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IT is about highly scaled standardized system level engineering of documented verifiable reliable processes in support of even more complicated business processes that theoretically make, or at least save, profit. The article title is corre
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For android, get good at handling null everywhere in everything checking all the time now, or learn it the hard way later. You'll be spending lots of time tracking down "wait, how could that have ever possibly returned a null?&qu
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As per another post the price is increasing slower than inflation. I found it impossible to get price data for museums and hard to get verifiable data for music concerts, although those are activities that seem to be explosively more expens
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More an effect of income inequality. Plenty of homeless in the high income inequality downtown library, but there's more people visiting in the higher income equality suburbs which swamp that first effect out when averaged nationwide.
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Unfortunately, locally its a stereotype that they turn every dead mall's anchor store into a movie theater. Also, locally, most dead malls die when they can no longer afford to maintain the roof, and water is pouring out of the ceiling
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Can google for "statista Number of movie tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada from 1980 to 2018" and you'll find a graph showing movie ticket sales smoothly grew and peaked around the turn of the century and have declined abou
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OP is probably asking some variation of why not build them on a canal rather than literally right on the coast, Fukishima-style. Part of the problem is the components are very large and very heavy even for industrial projects and coasts hav
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The problem with the related 25 KW of 24x7 waste heat is that'll eventually melt the very heavy several inches of lead unless very carefully cooled or distributed. Even 20 watts will eventually melt small quantities of metal, think of
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The nano is basically a thin uno and has little storage for large projects, and OPs list of sensors is large. Something like three hundred cell limit. Its just not going to fit. I've played with drivers using ulisp and its fun and ve
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The entire discussion has so far had no educational perspective. There are only five memes to make educational curriculum decisions. 1) Most arguments for programming are from programmers who had fun learning to program and if the purpose o
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The problem with making decisions based on inaccurate facts is you can get very weird results. There's really not much in the article based on actual data; it all seems to be meme stuff that "everyone knows" but google querie
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