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by alexose 3y ago
I agree with you. It's okay at really simple code changes for really simple repos, but it falls apart for anything outside the ordinary. I'm sure I'll have to eat these words, but: This just doesn't feel like the right
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by alexose 3y ago
Totally agree. We're a lot closer to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) than we are to electric airliners. Another thing to consider is that aviation only accounts for around 2% of global carbon emissions. If SAF ends up being harder to
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by alexose 3y ago
> Are we really supposed to expend as much energy as we expended in the entire industrial age just to remove the excess CO2 in the atmosphere? Basically, yeah! The last IPCC described the need for carbon removal in their last report[1].
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by alexose 3y ago
I've spent a decent amount of time learning about this stuff. Here's the lens I use to understand advancements in CO2 reduction: Carbon monoxide is, indeed, an incredibly useful and versatile precursor in many industrial processe
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by alexose 3y ago
Cosworth appears to have developed a microturbine for this purpose. And it (maybe?) has found a home in Ariel's latest insane car: https://www.carscoops.com/2022/09/ariel-hipercar-is-an-1180-...
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by alexose 3y ago
That's a cool use case. You should be able to use several DHT22 sensors per unit without too much trouble. If I were you, I'd consider mounting the unit on the wall near your radiator, then running some flexible 3 wire cable to
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by alexose 3y ago
Yes, definitely. Thanks for motivating me to improve the documentation! I switched the main project page over to GitHub, since it's a little easier to navigate. Check it out here: https://github.com/alexose/3D-P
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by alexose 3y ago
LoRa is really a fantastic tool for outdoor sensing. I built a (free! open source! 3d printable!) sensing platform on top of LoRa that I use all over my small farm. The nodes run on batteries and just send plaintext strings straight to Infl
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by alexose 3y ago
I used to sometimes catch the previous day's Coast Starlight when I'd travel from Salem to Seattle. The passengers already on board never looked too happy.
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by alexose 3y ago
In the novel version of "Contact", the billionaire character made his money off of a device called the Adnix. The idea was that it could automatically mute ads on TV. I always loved that part of the character: That he was smart
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by alexose 3y ago
This is what all web apps should be like: Zero barrier to entry, loads instantly, self explanatory UI, privacy first. While I probably won't use it to track workouts, it only took me a few seconds to evaluate. Complexity will set in
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by alexose 3y ago
What about tissue culture?
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by alexose 3y ago
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection is, unfortunately, a third rail in the climate community right now. The perception is that it's very dangerous due to the unknown knock-on effects. Plus, the way it's depicted in sci-fi (e.g., Sno
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by alexose 3y ago
Pretty sure these are based on (relatively) inexpensive KrCl excimer lamps, which are available on Aliexpress and such. The big question in my mind is whether or not it's a big enough dose to actually sterilize a room.
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by alexose 3y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to have a small, battery powered device that could gently blow sterile air back at you for a couple of hours. Or maybe something you could wear around your neck?
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by alexose 3y ago
I'd love to see the 222nm LEDs finding their way into sterilization products, but unfortunately that's still a long ways off. They're really only useful for sensing applications at this point (although that's still a ve
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by alexose 3y ago
It sure feels like every remaining hard problem (i.e., the ones where we haven't made much progress since the 90s) is in line to be solved by transformers in some fashion. What a time to be alive.
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by alexose 3y ago
Is far as I can tell, this is the first time an OpenAI project called Q* has been mentioned in the news. I don't see any prior mentions on Twitter either. (I wish they'd picked a different letter, given all the Q-related conspira
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by alexose 3y ago
Yeah, I can understand that there are some counterintuitive parts to broadcasting an F1 race. Still, it seems like a waste of effort to host it in Vegas but only show it to Europeans. I wonder how much input the city had. Maybe they decid
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by alexose 3y ago
To be fair, it _can_ get cold. The average low is in the 50s. The more puzzling thing is why they decided to start the race at 10pm local time! If this an attempt to introduce Americans to Formula 1, I’m not sure it’s going to work.
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by alexose 3y ago
The headline doesn't really match the point of the article, which is that they're using half the vehicles for rideshare, thus causing more wear and tear than a typical rental. Apparently they didn't factor this into their ma
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by alexose 3y ago
Yes, I would say that's a good assessment. Anyone who's read Michael Lewis should have similar instincts: He's a great storyteller with a sixth sense for what makes characters jump off a page. But he is not a journalist, a
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by alexose 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what brand(s) did you switch to?
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by alexose 3y ago
It would be cool if someone borrowed from the Factorio interface and let you paste in blueprints. I'm not an experienced enough PCB designer to know how terrible of an idea this is, but it sounds mildly feasible.
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by alexose 3y ago
My pet theory as to why pinball has gotten so popular in the Northwest is because it's a way to pay a few quarters to temporarily avoid interacting with other people. A win-win for introverts and bar owners!
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by alexose 3y ago
That's fantastic! And much more comprehensive than mine. I love all the weather station readings.
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by alexose 3y ago
I appreciate that! It took a lot of trial and error to get it to this point :) I live on a small hobby farm, and I use these sensors to measure things around the garden. We have very hot, dry summers so keeping track of the soil moisture
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by alexose 3y ago
LoRa is fantastic for outdoor sensing applications. Shameless plug: I just released a low cost, 3D-printed, LoRa sensor platform: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6170483
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by alexose 3y ago
> but also why the samples seem to teeter on the edge of superconductivity so frustratingly. Interesting! The uneven chunk shown in the original video was probably the best specimen they had after decades of attempts. When I first saw i
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by alexose 3y ago
The 'nays' getting lots of traction on twitter right now https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684642852616192000

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