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by adolph 2mo ago
Example n+1 of why I only use web and not download an app
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The thing about the EcoFlow Stream is that has things like phase alignment which allows it to be plugged directly into a household outlet without transfer switches to segregate grid phase from the phase of power created by the V2X inverter&
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The cost/invasiveness of cutover is dropping. There is a relatively new category called "plug in solar" where the inverter/battery is smart enought to detect, sync and use grid power. The Stream system: Connect the devi
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I think the elephant-in-the-room arguments against Penrose's quantum microtubules [0] are the complex behaviors exhibited by organisms without neurons hosting quantum effects. As a result, I think the more promising area is in bioelect
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Ok, what is your stack? Which MDM did you put on your tween's devices? What about the 15 year old who really wants Graphene OS? Do they VPN back to your home network to ensure your DNS and IP block based filtering applies to their mobi
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by adolph 2mo ago
> And before anyone blames the parents, parents will always be shitty. They are an impediment to children's health society must work around. Zuckerberg was not a parent when he conceived of Facebook and "society" as a whol
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While direct government subsidy is one way to increase battery adoption to increase power generation efficiency, a market based approach is for electric power companies to use batteries installed on customer premises as a power bank for the
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Having read these outloud to my kids many times, they have genuine insight into psychology and the condition of the child as a developing person.
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From the preamble of the edition published by PG: Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition, but many modern words are still missing. About 1500 v
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Not certain how well LOCKSS has done over time as Internet Archive seems to get all the press, but it seemed to be a solid concept with some level of implmentation: Taking its name (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) from the idea that a fil
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Not PBS but an affiliate broadcaster and the data is not lost as in destroyed, but legally encumbered. Full headline: PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes
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I think this is an economic problem to solve, not a legal one. The telephone, like postal mail, email, http and a myriad of other protocols suffers from a lack of transaction costs. Why is there so much junk postal mail? Because the post of
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I don't have a prior for this topic so yes, it is new information. The perhaps surprising part is the difference between men and women. The paper found that partnered men who take GLP-1 are more likely to exit partnership than women in
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The original paper is quite readable and interesting in how the researcher works through a number of alternative hypotheses. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35387/w353... An tangential
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What situations call for "Pervert glasses?"
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I found "Change Order" a pleasure craft out of Alabama. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n... It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AI
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by adolph 2mo ago
> Unlinking one's identity from one's actions and speech This is an odd formulation. What is one's identity other than one's actions (physical body) and speech (mental state serialized into language)?
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It is interesting that Western Sahara never developed piracy enterprises similar to Somalia. Is it some combination of: * stronger government control from Morocco than Somalia has had internally * little indigenous sea-faring populati
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by adolph 2mo ago
"Dean and Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider.: Kinsley Gaffe: A mistake whereby a politician inadvert
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Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving in AI reshuffle(cnbc.com)
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I found it worthwhile and interesting. I'm not in deep with proxies every day and have never had to profile performance like this. The writing was very comprehendable to me and the summing conclusions rounded things out nicely. The fir
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by adolph 2mo ago
Normalize usage of "have been granted a limited license for" instead of "own." The word "own" implies all manner of things that don't exist for things like Xbox games, Kindle titles, etc.
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> Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process. Kinda. There are also interesting technical reasons. From my lay person understanding: 1. IMAX film is physically la
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The upper level of YouTube creators use direct product placement in their videos. This is direct content and ad integration that could be part of the content delivered via RSS as opposed to tracking systems and generic ad placement that can
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> lose the ability to control the feel of the post. Agreed, rss was popular with people who wanted to decrease noise. > RSS also kills monetization, since you can't have ads This was the killer and the dumb part, because it could
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On the bright side it isn't growing and is down from the pandemic-era 132% of GDP. (Although maybe that was because GDP shrank rather than any change in fundamental debt.)
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There is a nine box chart with x-axis of doctrine or how it is used and y-axis of structure; each axis has three values, purist, neutral and radical. For the purist in doctrine and structure, wood is not a battery. If one is somewhere betwe
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by adolph 2mo ago
Ukraine war inspired school safety subsidiary of Mithril Defense of Austin, TX. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-sho... https://www.campusguardianangel.com/ http
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by adolph 2mo ago
1. This CEO is a Canadian. 2. We already have a gerontocracy. Tying income to vote-weight just solidifies the problem since most people earn more as their career progresses. 3. An alternative: grant voting rights to all under 18, proxied by
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by adolph 2mo ago
What sort of interesting actuators are used that people might not commonly think of? (I'm thinking of interesting solutions like the JWST's mirror actuators [0].) 0. https://hackaday.com/2022/02/08/w

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