asteli

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by asteli 8y ago
oh man, all the hours I spent futzing with xorg.conf as a kid. or trying to get wifi on my laptop working using ndiswrapper. kids these days will never know the pain (or eventual satisfaction)
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by asteli 8y ago
I have friends who worked at Craigslist, and was astonished to hear them describe a team of IIRC 35-40 employees. They have somewhere around 50 now? Makes you wonder what those 3k+ employees at Twitter all do.
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by asteli 8y ago
There's speculation (not sure if it's more substantiated than) that the obesity rates seen in the Pacific islands may also involve selection for humans who could amass energy stores necessary for long oceanic voyages.
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by asteli 8y ago
I'm not a software person so I can't speak to your other points, but for 2): I think you'd be surprised how repairable MacBooks are. The screens aren't hand replaceable but you basically need a couple of small Torx screw
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by asteli 8y ago
Google's facial recognition engine spotted me in a photo my partner took months before we knew each other. I was visible in a crowd in the corner of a photo at the Women's March. Clearly Google knew who I was and only chose to exp
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by asteli 8y ago
That's not limited to any one bombing -- it was pretty typical of them to time their bombs would go off at night, as well as phone them in. They would also locate the bombs in places where they were relatively unlikely to hurt people:
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by asteli 8y ago
Have you looked at Monoprice's stuff? They sell displays using the same panels as some of the nice name brand stuff, and I'd personally be surprised if they packaged the same BS into their house brand displays.
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by asteli 8y ago
When I was a kid visiting family in Bangalore, a motorcycle hit the rickshaw we were in. The rickshaw driver and motorcyclist stopped right where they were, in a large (4-6 lane?) roundabout, and proceeded to argue with each other for a cou
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Nimbys, Bananas and Beyond(talkwellington.org.nz)
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by asteli 8y ago
It's a strange world we live in when people speak poorly of 38% revenue growth. To me, that seems like a staggeringly huge growth rate. I looked up the numbers independently to double check, and yep. 63% revenue growth between Q2'
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by asteli 8y ago
this was contrary to my city-dweller's understanding, so i did some quick wiki-reading and it seems like the reality is somewhere between you and GP's statement? i.e. they do biodegrade waste via anaerobic bacteria, but non-degrad
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by asteli 8y ago
lazy way to solve this is to tape a 1:1 scale printout of the pattern to the workpiece and use a center punch to mark the hole positions. you could also do this with a ruler and a pencil. I'm not at all trying to say that you shouldn&#
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by asteli 8y ago
You could also do this with a couple chunks of wood and a drill press.
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by asteli 8y ago
That's also terrible from a vehicle agility/stability perspective -- generally you want to centralize mass as much as possible to reduce moment of inertia. Additionally cylindrical cells waste mass on metal casings -- li-poly pouc
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by asteli 8y ago
Retroactively changing terminology is a pain, but if you're doing greenfield development, you can just as easily use "Primary/Replica," which in addition to being a tasteful use of language, is actually more accurate in
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by asteli 8y ago
It gets used a lot in electronics assemblies, and places where you need high temp resistance (reflow ovens, SPACE), and low-to-no outgassing (important in vacuum applications). So it makes sense that they'd have it onboard. So, uh, tha
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by asteli 8y ago
At 1.5mm, a piece of tape would come closer than you'd think to being a permanent fix... The vacuum of space seems drastically hard to keep at bay, but consider that you're only holding in enough gas to replicate sea-level air pre
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by asteli 8y ago
I heard a possibly apocryphal story about finding leaks in military transport aircraft -- they'd toss rolls of toilet paper around inside the craft and watch for it drifting toward and sticking to the inside of the fuselage. Apparently
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by asteli 8y ago
The tech has existed for a while to embed components inside PCBs --- inserting them into voids during the lamination process. Small discretes (capacitors, resistors etc) up to full magnetics are being embedded in production. Example of an e
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by asteli 8y ago
Tangential, but designing devices to handle shock is surprisingly hard as well. I was once tasked with building 900MHz GPS transponders that would allow us to see the shape of a tether being pulled behind an airplane. The device was about t
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by asteli 8y ago
IME it's a pain in the ass to backup your phone this way -- you have to download and setup development tools, and sometimes things fail in ways that are hard to explain. Inaccessible for the non-technical user, and frustrating for the
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by asteli 8y ago
It's a nylon (polyamide) mesh. It's not going to spew microfibers in the same way that a polyester fleece would. For reference, I found you some micrographs of the materials we're talking about: poly fleece: https:/&#x2
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by asteli 8y ago
Re: microfibers making it into water systems: This is a con to synthetic fibers that I hadn't been considering before. Recently I learned that cotton has a pretty high environmental footprint (land use, highest pesticide use of any cro
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by asteli 8y ago
partner juggling is a thing! I picked up juggling a bit ago, as my romantic partner is an avid practitioner. spent a half hour after work working on a 3-club Cascade. One of the beautiful bits is, if you're working on something new, th
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by asteli 8y ago
> 8. Your movement transforms universal observations. I interpreted this one as referencing doppler shift of light emitted by celestial objects due to relative motion, but apparently I was overthinking this.
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by asteli 8y ago
That's pretty mind blowing. The top of the list there is Rüppell's vulture, which was confirmed in 1973 to have been flying at 37,000 ft, identifiable by feathers it left behind when it was ingested by a jet engine. Unlucky bastar
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by asteli 8y ago
I'm not a pilot, but at 3000 feet AGL, you have a lot more room for emergency maneuvering / diverting back to origin or alternate right? I remember hearing something about how many small aircraft incidents occur at low altitude on
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by asteli 8y ago
In fact, yes. The illumination spectrum of sodium vapor lamps is very specific -- they emit almost all of their light around 589nm (amber) [1]. You could easily replace the light from a sodium vapor lamp with an LED lamp outfitted with LEDs
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by asteli 8y ago
The original question asked about "closely packed, but uncompressed" blueberries. I think it's more reasonable to assume this means berries with a small amount of air between them (the state of blueberries as the writer was p
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by asteli 8y ago
I once was in a Cessna 206 on a flight plan that took us up to 17,000 ft. You can fly that altitude fine, as long as you have supplemental oxygen (via a cannula in our case). We took off at about 3AM, and I fell asleep immediately. Woke up

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