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My Roomba could do it in 2007. Then, in 2015, Tesla tried and gave up.
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I kind of agree in the sense that utilities at least need regulation. You can't leave it all up to the market. (I've lived through the winter storm days-long blackout that lies down that path.) But, I don't think this particu
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Alternatively, apparently you can make a true vector display by steering a laser. Here's a DIY example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdo3djJrw9o I suppose you could even point that at a screen with phosphors on it f
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AT&T getting out of telegraphs.
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You can view this as a natural or even beneficial feedback mechanism that keeps solar generation and battery storage on par with each other. Too much solar leads to crashing prices which leads to more battery investment. Once the batteries
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It doesn't exclude construction. The abstract says they analyzed levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). LCOE includes investments, operations, and fuel, so it includes construction.
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This is great stuff! Any plans to make it so one format can reference another format? Sometimes data of one type occurs within another format, especially with archive files, media container files, and disk images. So, for example, suppose s
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I guess you could do this: echo "TMOUT=$(units -t '7 days' seconds)" >> .bashrc If a shell has been sitting at the prompt for 7 days with no input, it's probably OK for it to close. I'm sure it&#
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I've always wondered if any CPUs have tried to reduce the branch penalty by speculatively executing both ways at once in parallel. You'd have two of everything (two pipelines, two ALUs, two sets of registers, etc.) and when you hi
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Hmm, my records show I only used the bear spray on 1 out of 10 trips.
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I wouldn't mind help with grocery orders. I like to check which apples are on special and maybe buy a different variety from normal depending on the price. My grocery store makes this really tedious because they don't have a featu
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You could probably do it with timing tricks related to video refresh. Wait until the monitor has finished refreshing, then draw the text into the framebuffer. Leave the text there a short while, but erase it before the monitor starts refres
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From https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-... : > Appearing on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday, Carr suggested that the FCC has “remedies we can look at.” > “We can do thi
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They've managed to automate it but reduce the labor costs by zero in the process. Now that's innovation.
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Acknowledging your responsibility doesn't make the problem go away. It's still better to have extra layers of protection. I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to drive safely, and I take that responsibility seriously. But I
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They can also improve that balance by adjusting the qualifying times from year to year, and they do. They could even make a projection of future cutoff times and take that into account when setting the baseline qualifying times. In other wo
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Hmm, if you have an appliance (like a clothes dryer) with a dedicated circuit, it seems like you could solve this by connecting there. If you have the balcony solar device plug into the wall and the appliance plug into the balcony solar dev
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I attribute some of it to the Great Depression. My grandparents grew up during it, and it had an effect on them. They never wanted to get rid of anything because what if times got really hard again? You might be so poor that you couldn&#x27
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Macs have a completely different operating system managing what happens when the laptop is doing its standby stuff, though.
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It's probably done because Statues of Liberty is the ultimate "freedom unit".
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I'm no historian, but looking at a map, Turkey seems geographically prone to getting trampled over and over. It's basically the hub that connects Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia together. If someone builds an empire in a
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Do you mean David's? Their web site says it's "fluoride free". https://davids-usa.com/products/davids-sensitive-whitening-n...
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I think they're answering a question about whether there is a distinction. To answer that question, it's valid to talk about a conceptual distinction that can be made even if you don't necessarily believe in that distinct
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Wait, is this why when I'm having trouble seeing something small, it becomes easier when I get way more light on it? I just assumed more photons results in a stronger signal to my rods and cones. But maybe it's making my eye shrin
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> IPv4 would have had 36-bit addresses, about 64 billion total. That would still be enough right now, and even with continuing growth in India and Africa it would probably be enough for about a decade more. [ ... ] When exhaustion does
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I don't think the theory is that the muscle memory sequences resemble each other. Instead, it's that because muscle memory allows you to do things without thinking about it, you can get mixed up about which action you meant to per
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> With the DuMont Duoscopic, two different channels were broadcast on a single screen. To the naked eye, the images appeared superimposed on one another. But a viewer who wore polarized glasses or looked at the screen through a polarize
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> Was it some technical constraint of the typewriter that caused “1” to become more like “l” come XX century? The typewriter I grew up with simply didn't have a key for it. It also didn't have a 0 or an exclamation mark or a
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> having the index as part of the file. Sadly, gzip doesn’t have the concept of a skippable frame Looking at the file format RFC ( https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt ), the compressed frames are called "membe
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The concept reminds me of that story from Reddit that was going to get turned into a movie but never did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Sweet_Rome I think this is the original Reddit thread: https://ww

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