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by abetusk 4y ago
Energy? I feel like it's been talked about a lot but maybe not? Solar panels are dropping in cost at an exponential rate [0]. As of this writing, consumer "new" panels are $0.75/W and used are at around $0.30/W righ
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One of the better ones I've found is Tyler Hobbes [0]. I recently found the "Bridges Archive" online [1]. It's a goldmine of ideas (I won't link to them but they have tilings, space filling algorithms, multi-scale T
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What kind of interface would you like for such a system? I created a FOSS alternative (that's not nearly as feature complete as mynoise.net) [0] but it has the benefit of being CC0 licensed including all of the samples. If you have fea
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I see, you're looking at "Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people" which has a 7-day rolling average. So, basically, during the last week or so, NZ had roughly 25 deaths per day whereas AUS had 50-70 per day in
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I just don't see what you're talking about. The same link but with Australia and New Zealand in every chart [0] just blatantly disproves your narrative. I'm just not that familiar with the mask mandates of NZ and AUS. AUS loo
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I don't really know what you're talking about. NZ looks to me to have a lower death rate than Australia. See [0]. I haven't done a deep dive of the literature but from what I understand wearing face masks is pretty well estab
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The thesis is that we should be experimenting on how to get best results. In other words, we should treat science funding scientifically, testing hypothesis, examining results and course correcting based on the evidence. To your point about
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Again, I think you've lost sight of just how difficult some of this stuff is from the perspective of someone who has no or only passing familiarity with it. As an analogy, this is like a race car mechanic saying that "for the cost
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> What draws people to start projects with AVR in 2022? There is no other community that has documentation, tutorials, libraries, support forums, modules or just sheer number of people working with it compared to any other community in t
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Succinct Data Structures [0] [1]. It encompass many different underlying data structure types but the overarching idea is that you want small data size while still keeping "big O" run time. In other words, data structures that eff
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Thanks for the links. I'm still confused though. Is the underlying assumption that the sun's energy being dumped on earth is essentially saturated? That is, "nature" has long since used all the available sun's energ
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This, to me, is another tragedy of the overly long copyright term. The author even somewhat acknowledges this ("I’ve even advocated for ... copyright terms to ... 75 years in order to limit that control"). I do respect Watterson f
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This, to me, is the crux of the zealotry for Lisp and its variants. A high level language, with functions as first class citizens, that can not only run on minimal hardware but be programmed on minimal hardware in less than 100-1000 lines o
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Well, at least that's good. Just as a note, most people record with their phones out and pointed at the subject they're recording. From watching many of these videos, police routinely ask people recording to put their phones away,
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Most police interaction goes unobserved by a third party so, if I understand the bill correctly, at a minimum this means recording your own arrest is illegal. EDIT: It sounds like recording any interaction you have with a police officer i
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Are there any disincentives in creating a solar system that's completely separate/disconnected from the power grid?
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The cost of solar technology is dropping at an exponential rate [0] [1]. I've heard (and I believe) that solar has undercut coal (and maybe gas?) [2] by at least a year ago, if not more. In the US, and I imagine Canada and other Europe
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It looks like their terms of use [0] are that information and data are under a "Database Contents License (1.0)" [1] [2] and photos are under CC-BY-SA [3]. [0] https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use [1] htt
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Looking back, I think we can be a bit more circumspect. For me, the most relevant points are: """ ... 7. It's bureaucratic. ... ... 9. It's designed for large organizations. ... ... 10. The wrong people like it. ..
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I think there's an interesting question (and answer) in this article but the author doesn't make it. Here's what I believe to be the fundamental error the author is making as highlighted by this throwaway line: ""&q
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The point isn't that the long tail hadn't existed before, it's that more people have access to it through new technology. In other words, it's the difference of approximating a probability distribution with 1 billion poi
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Looks like the license is GPL and CC-BY-SA: * https://github.com/FundamentalFrequency * https://github.com/FundamentalFrequency/LMN-3-DAW * https://github.com/FundamentalFrequency/
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LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box(youtube.com)
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Uh, you might well be right but you should really read the transcript before you jump to that conclusion [0]. I have no idea whether this is true or not but if anyone in the world has the compute capacity to create a compute system to rival
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In some cases I've offered to pay with the same outcome. Sometimes the offer to pay came after the initial email, other times it was in the form of cryptocurrency and others, I'm pretty sure, it was offered initially but, regardle
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Thanks for the feedback. I suspected as much in terms of the passive language being perceived as passive aggressive. I didn't want to come off as aggressive as most of the time I really like the person or their work and I certainly don
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I have enough of a model of people to understand why there's pushback but at the same time the leap from "asking for something" to "asking something for everyone" doesn't seem like a big one. I also find it con
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This is really great. I especially like the idea of online tutoring (for languages and other stuff) which looks to be a nice cheap option [0]. One piece of advice that I think is actually quite bad, or at least I've had extremely bad e
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Is this actually a problem? The length of sound is most likely pretty short as it's sending a short spurt of data (like a link). The speaker on the phone is also not very powerful so this would be akin to having someone playing music o
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Ah, it looks like the repo linked in the article should actually be from their personal account, not their stripe account [0]. It also looks like one of the key components is the `quiet.js` library [1] which itself is an emscriptem port of

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