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by abakker 3y ago
In Boulder, I’ve noticed the opposite. Way more bees and bumblebees this year, way fewer wasps. I suspect it is highly cyclical even excluding external stimuli.
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by abakker 3y ago
And evwest.com also stocks a lot of parts. There literally thousands of videos on YouTube about conversions, and companies all over who are dedicated to doing them.
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by abakker 3y ago
if you live in a climate that freezes, I'd recommend Hops. They grow like crazy and are quite beautiful in the fall.
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by abakker 3y ago
Transmission losses in DC are higher, so you need a lot more wire. You actually can get off the shelf low voltage lighting, though, but it tends to be high end designer stuff.
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by abakker 3y ago
the thing about airplanes, is that although they are going fast, the margins for exceptions can be a lot wider. In a truck on a highway the margin of error is only feet. I don't know that a driver can really react meaningfully fast, es
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by abakker 3y ago
Ideas aren't special...execution is special. And SpaceX has not just execution but commercialization.
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by abakker 3y ago
I suspect instead a wage shortage, not a lack of people to hire.
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by abakker 3y ago
Kinda my point exactly, though. Commenting and discussing is really the bread and butter of social right now. This site included. But, pure note taking never made sense. Companies pursuing annotation missed the fact that Vbulletin, Reddit,
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by abakker 3y ago
Annotation is work, and almost nobody want to do it for free, but many people probably want to have it for free. On the internet, a conversational style accomplishes this better than a didactic one, and feels less like work.
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by abakker 3y ago
yes, but it was more circumstantial. by lucky happenstance they had arrange a significant loan facility almost directly before the financial crisis. they leveraged this heavily but because the financing had been arranged ahead of time it le
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by abakker 3y ago
You can save almost 1/3 to 1/2 of the 900 lbs going to manual seats from electric in some cars. It is amazing how much some of the convenience features weigh. Power tailgates? Power seats? Power sunroof? Sunroof at all? Glass and
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by abakker 3y ago
>why not try asking your own law clerks? Because people like John Eastman are your law clerks and they likely agree with you? It's a pretty insular bubble they're all in.
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by abakker 3y ago
as an EV owner, I suspect the answer is: home charging. Most people with EVs can start their day with a full charge, every day, so maybe the answer is that the gas station model will be relevant to many fewer people - e.g. people who have t
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by abakker 3y ago
This is a weird take for me. Compared to the time I save with fusion360, even just as a tool for solving geometry problems, it is easily worth the fees. If you need to both design and either print/cut/machine in the same tool, it
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by abakker 3y ago
You are lucky. I’ve personally had a lot of failures. I like that they don’t make heat and are brighter. (And I also like how they can be packed more densely on dedicated lighting circuits than traditional fixtures), but they are definitely
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by abakker 3y ago
Because the people making money from not having it can afford lobbyists to prevent having it. See: regulatory capture. Also see: politics as career.
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by abakker 3y ago
Antoine Boyer, Matteo Mancuso, Josh Meader, Max Ostro, Ichika Nito for new musicians, Plini, Nick Johnston, Polyphia, Julian Lage, Josh Smith...there's a ton of great instrumentalists out there. I think this question has more to do wit
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by abakker 3y ago
Maybe UBI? I mean, hard to say it's been tested enough, but that feels like an answer to this question.
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by abakker 3y ago
I'd point out at that Ginni Rometty was a bad CEO, but that doesn't mean that people there didn't do good research. Like, they're pretty unrelated. Research and Development is notoriously hard to commercialize. Over here
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by abakker 3y ago
Don't know what to tell you, man. The US is drastically more diverse than Iran, and as a result is not nearly as hegemonic. Also, the US is a lot more moderate in its views and policies than Iran. The US political party rhetoric is qui
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by abakker 3y ago
ummm. Don't think of the US this way? Think of it as a complex representative government that is federated and representing a highly diverse population, unlike Iran, which is not exactly pro-immigration. Our government is at least part
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by abakker 3y ago
That wasn't the comparison I was making. For the record, I'm all for fixing problems, but the OP asked why they were not being solved, so...yeah, money. is it a satisfying and good answer? no. Is it enough of the answer to have ex
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by abakker 3y ago
but, does it have an API for chairGPT? If you don't have generative sitting by Q3 this year, you'll be missing the market.
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by abakker 3y ago
I am pretty sure I had the same keyboard and plasma globe!!!! IIRC, you could also get the keyboard to play when you set it on top of the SCSI external CDROM drive that came with my mac 2400c.
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by abakker 3y ago
because fixing things costs money. Even when it saves money. Money is the catalyst that allows anything to happen, and not enough people have enough of it to turn good ideas into good designs into good products.
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by abakker 4y ago
Try adding a bit of curry and mustard powder to the mayo sauce. I promise it works, even with a more traditional western seasoning.
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by abakker 4y ago
"confident idiocy" is exactly what is wrong with CGPT and other AIs. (and plenty of people)
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by abakker 4y ago
SO BAD. It is NOT aware of G and M codes on a per machine basis and will create amazing crashes will full conviction that it will work. Edit to add: E.g. it fully recommended that I use a G38 instead of g31 in a macro, which would on my mac
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by abakker 4y ago
Sure, anything can leak. Brazed fittings when executed properly and tested are much less likely to _start leaking_. the issue is that the flares have a tendency to work harden during the constant vibration and thermal cycling and eventually
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by abakker 4y ago
Most mini splits use flairs, and in the context of heat pumps in the US, I see Minisplits most commonly discussed. The whole house condensers still use brazed connections.

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