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by a9h74j 4y ago
I haven't gone beyond reading the page, but the intent matches my intuition that we need tools for better following (and agreeing upon?) good "geometries" for arguments.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> randomly ending up in spam If only we had some technology that could reliably execute if-then instructions. (Recalling a time when people would say: "If only we had something [Google] that could look up an answer for that.")
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I recommend a look at https://healthyhomebuilders.com/ and reading their book, in particular. They explicitly use closed-cell foam and appear to use ZIP-system outer sheathing. The methods they advocate seem in agreement wi
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I somewhat recall he was warning working engineers, who had not yet learned to anticipate the inevitable, and were not, he felt, being given representation by the IEEE.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
My high school electronics teacher stayed in his office muttering "I know enough mathematics to be an engineer." ... while we dry-lab'd all our circuits at our benches.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> and give them a nice loud master caution or warning if they're about to break their assignment. Back in the days of the Exxon Valdez tanker incident, I wondered if the technology did not exist to positively track such major asset
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by a9h74j 4y ago
FWIW, while in memory lane an obligatory shout-out to Irwin Feest, saying basically before the 1990s: If you outsource the manufacuting, the engineering will follow.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Is "being on the slopes toward a singularity" locally distinguishable from "pulling up the ladders behind you"?
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by a9h74j 4y ago
And thus it begins.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
This seems to provide a quick overview of chess varients: https://greenchess.net/variants.php
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Lost manuscript: How to overcome procrastination and achieve higher daily LOT as a scribe.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Thanks! > Originally developed in China to feed millions, Chinese greenhouses are earth-sheltered, solar-heated, east-west oriented, intelligently glazed, and well-insulated. They have proven highly effective in growing warm-weather vege
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Aren't there many similar bermed (plus very-wide) greenhouses in China, including motorized deploument of insulated covers at night?
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Pre cell phones, when wireless pagers were important, I used to wonder: What if everyone had their own 1-baud worth of spectrum.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
For different definitions of 'elevate'. For example, some will seek power, which will still be scarcer for others.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Yea, recalling the book of that name might have contributed to my drift of recollection. Solvable earlier on land (but not sea) on terms of clock synchronization.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I just found this[1] which mentions rubber vs. foam surrounds (suspensions), and butyl rubber with apparent good life. (That might have been the simple difference; the normal-looking speaker was already sourced; I came in to do embedded&#x2
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I once attended a workshop by a guy who had been a salesperson for Piano I, Piano II etc books. He noted that sales of those fell off geometrically for each successive book. So he basically advocated/hawked an improv and "fakebook
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by a9h74j 4y ago
This and the posted article mention a speaker or driver. No mention of how they deal with aging or fatique effects in e.g. a flexible ring connecting to the frame and holding the cone. Have done applications where a special "high cycle
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> some perspective on our own biases/limitations This is sometimes prescribed in such form as: "Fraction X of your reading should be of authors writing at least 100 years ago." Similar: In defense of the reading of old bo
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Darn, at some point I started imagining he had a protocol for synchronizing clocks over a distance. assuming the difference was in longitude. (E.g. Symmetric NTP over carrier pidgeon.)
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Perhaps "petty dictator" for connotations (a would-be not an absolute dictator). We might or might not have many too-distant impressions of what ancient feudalism involved. For example, I have heard suggested that it was a system
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> 2.5 liters is well within the safe range of water intake as far as I know I have seen 2L/day of urine output recommended as a target minimum for preventing kidney stones.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> This is why we can’t just keep turning the operation of more and more of our infrastructure and our lives to antiquated software and self-interested executives. Technical debt is real debt. It will eventually be paid by someone. And un
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by a9h74j 4y ago
One key word there, AFAIK, being representation . To lower the abstraction level a bit: In tangible 1-D Schrodinger first-year QM terms: 1) All of the information about the state is in the wave function. 2) Per Fourier type limits, you can
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> Risks Digest is still around Been so long. Interesting the added attention toward AI, compared to e.g. real-time and high-reliability
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by a9h74j 4y ago
I wonder if WeChat as a portal facilitates direct-from-manufacturer sales. Is Amazon a contender in China?
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Same strategy. I find ordering at Aliexpress like buying at Costco -- always in more quantity than necessary.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
One model: YT for persons without an adblocker. Or: This lecture brought to you by Pepsi.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Make of it what you will, I just saw on the project censored website that protecting student data is seen by some as a major priority. The article seems more PII and cybersecurity focussed, rather than recognizing the threat of intentional

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