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by a9h74j 4y ago
Next crypto class: Proof of coin tosses.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Let me guess. It's the 91st second that really really hurts.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Facebook changed name to Meta. Imagine if Microsoft had renamed itself Clippy.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> Taking Calculus at not-Stanford may have led to a very different result. Thomas Sowell, in Inside American Education , argues that promoting students to more difficult colleges while ignoring SATs is not doing those students any favor
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by a9h74j 4y ago
In probably 1976 for $1 I bought a one-page schematic for such a thing, from classified ad in the back of a magazine. I suppose it was a related version, but IIRC it relied upon 74123 style monostables.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
One bit of advice I took from an old decluttering book: You can only sentimentalize a limited number of things, so any mementos of yours beyond what are displayed on a single set of shelves should be stored/rotated or discarded.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
They will do what NASA did: forget how to read all the old tapes.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Make it a bootloader for a merely tiny MCU?
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Given the yield of useful content vs. rock in mining, I suspect the more limiting factor is space for all the mining, not space for disposal of the 0.1% metal etc yield for making industrial goods.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
To me the human voice samples have a bit of NPR in them, compared to the TTS.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Nice. Hacksaw, 5mm hex wrench, imagination.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I don't know if I dreamed this or read the idea somewhere. It would be to have a nuclear reactor submerged in a canal (achieving cooling) and it could be propelled (via tracks on the side) from place to place. Don't pump the water
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I suppose they do fine on land as long as you don't drop them: https://trainfanatics.com/locomotive-dropped-dock/
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by a9h74j 4y ago
And get from the port inland, if you need to be particular about location.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Wheel-steering or axle-steering perhaps? Some actual locomotives have linkages to consistently steer individual axles to match the overal curvature of the track.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
My impression from the first picture in the article was that these might be so tightly coupled car-to-car, a single car tilting (L/R) into a hole might be impossible. More fancifully, imagine they were so tightly linked wrt front/
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Three-quarter- or one-inch diameter EMT could give a similar look, be easier to cut (if required), be less expensive, and be strong enough. It might take a little figuring how to do the joins, but that can be the case with threaded iron pip
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by a9h74j 4y ago
It this happened, would we need to say "gnu/ghostscript/linux", to be proper about it?
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by a9h74j 4y ago
There's also a YT video showing troubleshooting on an LCD TV down to a bad multilayer ceramic cap. Used a microohm-meter to identify the shorted cap without replacing all of them.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
It's all fun and games until you realize your country has no deniability about being at war with Russia.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Pro tip: you'll want to splurge on that second overtemperature limit on your heated bed.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
YT brought me this[1] next, another jolly bunch with explosives. One of them before an attempt with water between the explosive and the target wall: I predict it will either go through or the wall will be really clean. [1] https:/&#x2
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Darn, I thought this was going to be my solution to outliers in scientific data plots.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
FWIW, John Michael Greer recently outlined[1] some alternative philosophies in political economy (including cooperatism, distributism and social credit), aiming to spur increased imagination. He cites numerous alternative resources, enough
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Imagine if a Prius or Tesla instead had as much noise/HP as a conventional vacuum cleaner.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Same intent here. I don't know what cable I will eventually upgrade to, but the first step will be easily-snakable conduit to every room.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I also once heard a vacuum cleaner salesman say (and yes, that used to be a thing) -- we know we can make vacuum cleaners less noisy (drop the universal motor IIRC), but people buy vacuum cleaners assuming the noise == power.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I've imagined utility in making a crown molding be a c.a. 10cm angled piece with space behind, for just these reasons. Held with screws of course, or otherwise removable and replaceable.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> just replace the fluid Jiffy Brain franchises on the way.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> we were explicitly forbidden from looking at any software patents I wonder if any companies suggest a filter to only look at expired patents. Such expired patents might more safely improve innovation -- eventually.

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