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Design can be free 3: improving the quality of hardware (2023)(jenson.org)
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by _Microft 2y ago
They can use any cookies required for providing services without having to ask users at all. They do need to ask for cookies meant to siphon off people's data for all other purposes.
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Coulomb explosion(en.wikipedia.org)
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Physicists may now have a way to make element 120(newscientist.com)
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The Skill Trees Project(github.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Is it this one? „The Egg“, Andy Weir, 2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655915
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The band that doesn't want you to drive to their concerts(bbc.com)
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Have your mind blown: they put ants on stilts to figure that out. https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-stilts
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by _Microft 2y ago
I think you meant borescopes[0]. Endoscopes are for medical use. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borescope
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Re-Canary: Detecting Reverse Engineering with Canary Tokens (2017)(mulliner.org)
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They might even be paid for consuming power because that provides stability to the grid [0] in such a situation. Too little load causes the frequency on the grid to rise which is only acceptable within narrow limits. [0] https://
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by _Microft 2y ago
I had heard of people creating adapter parts for different systems but from what I remember, these attempts were by far not as broad as this one. Thanks for sharing!
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Wireless communication breaks through water-air barrier (2018)(news.mit.edu)
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STEMFIE, a 3D-printable construction set toy(stemfie.org)
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Original headline said “climate-compatible” instead of “efficient” but that seemed clickbait so I changed it.
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DLR and Rolls-Royce Deutschland develop more efficient aircraft engines(dlr.de)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Isn‘t it rather sad that all screens seem to be purely optimized for video consumption today? Even on devices that are meant for work?
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by _Microft 2y ago
Tip for working with Dupont connectors: if you have N cables connecting to a pin header next to each other, then remove them from their 1x1 plastic housings and put all cables into a single Nx1 housing (there are very cheap sets with a coup
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by _Microft 2y ago
What is known as "natural gas" is chemically mostly methane if that helps with answering your question. From what I know it is just cheaper to flare natural gas that occurs as byproduct of oil production than to deal with it oth
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DLA is short for "diffusion limited aggegration"[0]. There are particles performing a random walk [1] and they aggregate (= stick together) if they come close enough to each other. In the second experiment with directional bias th
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by _Microft 2y ago
This seems to be the replacement board shown here: https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch/wiki/GoodWatch3...
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Making a Linux-managed network switch(blog.brixit.nl)
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Highlighting Journalism on Mastodon(blog.joinmastodon.org)
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by _Microft 2y ago
There is also a project called GEO600 in Germany that is collaborating with LIGO (and therefore also Virgo/KAGRA). This detector is much smaller though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO600
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WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)(sfwriter.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
If you are curious about this then you might also want to have a look at "propagation of uncertainty". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty (warning: contains math symbols)
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The unit is Fahrenheit here, that is 16°F ≈ 8.9°C. It‘s also mentioned towards the end of the article but just to give readers an idea what to expect. The difference is also compared to silk while other, more modern fabrics perform much bet
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'Scared as hell': Climate scientists risk jobs, jail to save dying planet(aljazeera.com)
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How did you write data onto the tape?
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Kikuchi urged people to maintain hand hygiene and to treat any open wounds. People washed and disinfected their hands a lot more often and thoroughly during the pandemic. At least here in Germany. They stopped shaking hands, washed them t

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