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by addaon 3y ago
> Local framing is very artisanal and therefore quite expensive. Local framing can be art in itself, and can definitely enhance art. As an example, I have a Vonnegut silkscreen print ("Black Heart") that I find quirky and endea
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by addaon 3y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02153-z
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Qualcomm's new XR chip sets up Android-based Apple Vision Pro competitors(arstechnica.com)
2 points by addaon 3y ago|0 comments
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by addaon 3y ago
Was Frisco, TX named because the railroad went to SF, or was it named because the Frisco Lines railroad (which itself went to SF) passed through? That is, was it named after the destination, or the railroad? Frisco, CO is named after the ra
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by addaon 3y ago
I think the challenge with this piece is that it tries to present a nuanced, balanced view of a static character. And based on the limited observations available to those of us with no special access or insight, Elon seems in no way static;
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by addaon 3y ago
The BMS is usually part of the battery assembly, so swapping batteries (to a different chemistry, or not) would generally involve swapping to an appropriate BMS. If the battery voltage is close enough to the design voltage (so no going from
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by addaon 3y ago
> It will get a software update and will charge faster in no time. This is certainly possible, especially if the reason for the slow charge is that the cells were rushed into production so fast that Tesla didn't have time to charact
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Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms Poor Charging Performance(autoevolution.com)
41 points by addaon 3y ago|32 comments
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by addaon 3y ago
> Russia is a superpower. Russia shares some of the land of a previous superpower, and has inherited some of their geriatric weapons of power.
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by addaon 3y ago
All non-safe integers are even, yes?
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by addaon 3y ago
You're missing the incentives. They /could/ change their name each operation, but then, as you note, the target would have reduced motivation to actually pay. By keeping their name, and keeping their word, customers are more
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by addaon 3y ago
If the artist happens to be reading this, and would like a place to stay in southern Utah, give a shout.
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by addaon 3y ago
The US debt is currently around 271 terabits [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(money)
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by addaon 3y ago
Laminar fog curtains show visible disruption, but it recovers surprisingly quickly. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4C_I0yCX8
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by addaon 3y ago
> the real ball drops into a concealed pit at the end of the lane just before where the pins would be The sexy way to implement this (horrible) idea is to have a smoke/fog curtain at the end of the lane, and project onto the fog. Th
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by addaon 3y ago
There are front lights as well. But, as a manual driver sharing the road with autonomous vehicles, these are probably the most useful lights to me. Even on an undivided two-lane highway, knowing that oncoming traffic is autonomous is of lim
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Turquoise taillights tell you this Mercedes is driving autonomously(arstechnica.com)
28 points by addaon 3y ago|15 comments
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by addaon 3y ago
> How long do you figure we'll be allowed to drive old cars that can go more than 500 miles at a clip and aren't loaded down with spyware? At least for the remainder of my life, I recon. (I'm in my 40s.)
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by addaon 3y ago
Look at developing for MSP430s with FRAM -- these microcontrollers have a decent amount of FRAM with full persistence, full XIP etc, up to 256 kB; but only 8 kB or less of traditional SRAM. Even in this world, where you /could/ ha
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by addaon 3y ago
> You can't get non-wireless (/non-battery-powered) noise cancelling headphones. Go on, try and find some. https://www.bose.com/p/headphones-aviation-headsets/bose-a30... The six-pin LEMO connector ca
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by addaon 3y ago
Peltier effect generates spatially-separated hot and cold sides. Electrocaloric effect generates temporally-separated hot and cold periods. The Peltier effect is simpler to harness into a refrigeration unit (put the cold stuff on the cold s
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by addaon 3y ago
Depends on the refractive index of the lens [1]. [1] https://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Bob_S...
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by addaon 3y ago
> IMHO, if a patent application is submitted, it should be required that the patent holder or a licensee releases a matching product to the market in at least five years This would complete the transition from having patents as a tool av
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Job losses likely at VW as the people's car brand becomes uncompetitive(arstechnica.com)
1 points by addaon 3y ago|0 comments
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by addaon 3y ago
> InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState In Plato's allegory of the cave, this was the true monster casting shadows on the wall.
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by addaon 3y ago
> every finite number is computable by definition Every finite integer is computable. We often represent non-integer numbers. > your encodings will, unlike those in the lambda calculus, be completely arbitrary Well, they /may&#x2
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by addaon 3y ago
The article discusses different encodings of numbers to give non-dense representations of numbers exceeding (2^64)-1. (These representations are inherently non-dense by the pigeonhole principle.) But I feel like this is missing a key point.
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by addaon 3y ago
> Unless I’m missing something, leaping over this factor, as seems to be the mainstream approach, indicates to me that some techno-utopic-transcendentalism bias is at play. Yeah, at some level. The universe that we observe doesn't s
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by addaon 3y ago
> That means the more relevant thing to ask is if a quantity of information is more likely to exist in the base reality or the simulated one. Well, what quantity of information? It seems relatively unlikely that one would bother simulati
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by addaon 3y ago
If it is possible that to make a simulation which matches our experience, then it is likely possible to make an unbounded number of such simulations. Thus, if such simulations are possible, it is vanishingly unlikely that we are executing d

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