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Off topic, but analogous: About a year ago, the last time I checked the Wikipedia page on energy use, I counted IIRC 10-20 different units being referenced. It is almost as if people were working to prevent uniform understanding and intui
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The battle between the "odds" and the "evens" was particularly fierce.
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One step up from sheets or extruded shapes, perhaps grow hexagonal comb. Could have useful mechanical properties, and still be generically useful.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Thinking of bone, perhaps stress/strain during growth could be applied as well. FWIW, there are also videos around of growing fungi into forms (aka growing molds into molds?).
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With all the interviews and speaking the principals are doing, some say they are narcissists and/or feel immune. There might also be a lesson in here: Any exceedingly wealthy person who's lawyer is their father has a fool for a cl
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Am I correct that the 32nd prime is 1,453,168,141, and the 33rd prime is 2,300,942,549? I've noticed good times like that getting fewer and farther between.
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Evidently your lightly-clothed body starts working harder once air temperature reaches 18C/64F. At 10C/50F your brain will work more slowly.
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Interesting post. It focusses on efficiency considerations, given the blower energy required to move air (the working medium). > As demonstrated in the above analyses, a system in which heat is stored in a sensible heat storage material,
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Another reason I asked is that in the evening before the Artimis launch, comments there were practically rooting for a compassionate ("WickWick"/explosion) end to the program. Twitter is sounding like a stellar implosion wher
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> But it does strongly suggest that he is starting with a conclusion and then working backward, which is the antithesis of proper scientific research. His is not scientific research, but the book IMHO is a surprisingly effective and prof
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Not endorsing the death penalty, but same question. NPR just had a report on PTSD in prison employees and witnesses participating in executions.
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The comments at ArsTechnica are wild. Is there something in the air or in the water these days?
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In 1906 it was not the earthquake, it was the fire.
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IIRC, Russel's thesis was something to the effect of ultimate supremecy of man over machine. I associate "Sept 1952" as the issue. The last frame suggested a certain obviousness and nonchalance in the man unplugging the comp
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Notably, a combination of: 1) significant (improbable) information content, and 2) appearance of fulfilling a functional specification ... is taken by some philosophers as supporting a hypothesis of design. FWIW, Return of the God Hypothes
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Very good point. From the website it appears their editing/live-view environment will be browser-based, so that might help.
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> (p.7) This thesis was written in Typst. Looks good. > The Typst language is Turing-complete, dynamically typed, and not macro-based. It provides capabilities for user-defined, possibly variadic functions, variables, arrays, diction
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> no one else in the trading community was able to reach your company’s level of confidence So his work contributed to community wisdom, and that influential community has probably had some say in cancelling leap seconds. I wouldn't
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> Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution I once came across an early 1950s Scientific American article by Bertrand Russel, IIRC. It included a cartoon. Frame one: Computer beats man at chess. Frame two: Man unplugs compu
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Is this timed for possible rapid upvoting tonight? (Artemis launch.)
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> people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have no idea how to verify Every rightful critic of radio and TV propoganda, and now AI.
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No expert, but the shape of the head of the cuttlefish (as drawn) somewhat suggests a pair of parentheses.
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Embellishment: 2-year old prodigy nonetheless fails to grasp the concept of [non-] idempotent . Useful: Tom Scott on the Night of the Multiple Orders[1] Extra embellishment: The ABC news video shows a very young Tom Scott lookalike. [1] h
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by a9h74j 4y ago
Check out fastmail.com ... Given an email account, hosting a new website is nearly as easy as uploading an entire directory (to file storage) in one operation, then assigning a url to it (under one of the 20-30 fastmail domains). I have not
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> “Cats don’t do what you expect them to do. But if cats don’t come when we call them, it may be because they’re busy doing something else, or they are resting,” she said. “People have these kinds of expectations because when you call a
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by a9h74j 4y ago
> "the fucker was playing League of Legends through the entire meeting." If he ends up on trial at any point, perhaps he can pioneer the League of Legends Defense . ... "Yes, I was there, but I was playing League of Legen
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5:20 in length. And as cringe as you say. Will we find out someday that Elon's 420 s are actually derivative of this [science fiction convention] video, and he is commenting in some way on his own presentations?
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I want to call this the 'freeze plug' -- as with molten salt nuclear, extract liquidity in case of emergency.
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He was going to tunnel his ultimate do-gooding to a future century. Turns out, it seems, remaining funds were tunneled out via a freeze-plug, and the founders are trying to tunnel to Dubai.
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> At CERN, a variety of data is already available This proposal was more CERN-focussed than I had imagined. That said, my search came up negative on each of 'math', 'formula' and 'equation'. Was this a strat

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