awalton

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by awalton 6y ago
I can't lie - this was one of the harder ones for me to figure out. I eventually found the speed running community to be quite good at this, as rain9441 would stream his 100% runs (that is, getting all of the achievements in one go), a
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by awalton 6y ago
> I found most of my bottleneck to be electricity. Since I played on deathworld, placing solar was tedious. If there's a major criticism to be had over Factorio, it's that power generation in the game is rather boring, and the
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by awalton 6y ago
It's 'infinite' on a technicality. Having your last few technologies on repeat all so your investment in tech-making infrastructure doesn't completely go to waste just barely qualifies, nothing more. It feels like the on
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by awalton 6y ago
The achievements in the game are a lot of fun to go after - they're mostly the right amount of painful/challenging and interesting to make you actually want to try for them. That being said, I've put more than a few thousand
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by awalton 6y ago
At my previous employer our code was littered with references to a backdoor. It was a channel for tools running in guest operating systems to talk to the host hypervisor through a magic I/O port. It's even openly called "ba
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by awalton 6y ago
That's like saying "Google is just a search engine" and ignoring the fact that "to google" is now an English verb and the rest of the impact it has had on information availability in the world. Reader was a synthesi
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by awalton 6y ago
They've got somewhere north of 3 million online subscribers paying $17/month. It's not Netflix numbers, but it's still more than $600M/year - about a third of their claimed revenue. Their writers are salaried at $11
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by awalton 6y ago
No, what I want is Google Reader back. And I know I'm far, far, far away from being alone on this. Just give me the text, not the videos and the horrible formatting and poor font choices and all of that bullshit - I'd gladly pay f
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by awalton 6y ago
The short answer is reliability per watt. Solar's got lots of ups and downs which means designing bigger than you need. Batteries need replacing because they don't last forever. Solar panels have to be kept clean of dust on planet
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by awalton 6y ago
Curiosity and Perseverance both have radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), virtually identical in design: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/electrical-p... The problem is for human inha
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by awalton 6y ago
Yeah I'm right here as well. I built my own NAS first with FreeNAS and had enough issues with it that I eventually caved and I'm now three Synologys deep into my home lab environment, couldn't be happier.
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by awalton 6y ago
Silently wishing Zoom would buy them and become the ultimate workplace productivity company...
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by awalton 6y ago
> How is the cobalt getting mixed with the stuff mined from the ground? So the term "fallout" is actually a pretty piece of propaganda. While a lot of it did or does indeed "fall out", there's still a lot of radi
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by awalton 6y ago
> Once we run out of cheaply salvageable steel, we'll likely turn to steel smelting processes that do not introduce air into the steel. This would be exceptionally difficult, as oxygen is a basic requirement for steel making as we h
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by awalton 6y ago
Yes. The demand for low background steel and lead is in the few dozen tons per year max, not millions of tons per year. Salvaging it is probably at least an order of magnitude cheaper than making new low background steel once you realize th
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by awalton 6y ago
Great. None of these do anything for the real problem: Cobalt-60.
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by awalton 6y ago
So this is all kinds of wrong. When you make steel, you typically use 99+% pure oxygen - modern mills do air separation and reject nitrogen and argon (which makes steel brittle when it's dissolved in) and basically anything they can re
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by awalton 6y ago
Is enough of the PDK open now to allow for actual hacking on devices? I have a rather simple analog chip I'd love to make for my own personal uses (I'd love a really long modern bucket brigade device to build gritty analog delay l
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by awalton 6y ago
Drink tap water? Breathe unfiltered city air? Who do you think they are, working class plebs? These people can afford to live in their third homes on the side of mountains and get Fiji water shipped in where their servants unpack and stock
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by awalton 6y ago
That's not quite the right read - the previous work (I'm not even sure if it was that lab) was to engineer e. coli to make psilocybin, but e. coli was a bad factory because it still needed a very expensive to make/obtain chem
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by awalton 6y ago
> But the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was, "Wow. That's some interesting beer." You know those researchers have already thought that one through. They've each probably got a brew going in their basem
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by awalton 7y ago
It's a salt dome underground. You could drop bombs on it for months and not crack the dome. They drilled into a salt dome in Mississippi, placed and detonated a nuclear bomb into it to see "what if". They didn't destroy
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by awalton 7y ago
You know, with the advent of Amazon and other Task Rabbitty to-your-door delivery services, did they really save me any chore here? I can get just about anything delivered to my door stop within 48 hours, why is it trouble for me to get my
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by awalton 7y ago
> Beating Factorio quickly is not the primary point. Maybe, but once you get into speed running it, it certainly feels like doing things slowly is against the point. (That and everything before robots feels so glacially slow... hard to a
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by awalton 7y ago
I'm literally 3000 hours into Factorio and haven't burnt out on it. In fact, I'm just barely starting to get into the mods; I've done two complete Seablock runs (0.16 and 0.17), and I'm currently doing a Brave New W
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by awalton 7y ago
It's built into GTK+ now as GtkInspector: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/05/15/introducing-gtkin...
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by awalton 7y ago
> It sounds like they had to torture several mice for days to get this result. The paper's very explicit on how this is done - they injected the mice either with RTX ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiniferatoxi
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by awalton 7y ago
You're going to go with the dot-com bubble era for a comparison here?
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by awalton 7y ago
> Seems like all that's happened is they just keep fat margins for themselves. Judging by their S-1, not so much... They're offering up $100M in shares on $200M of assets and $300M in debt. They spend about as much on marketing
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by awalton 7y ago
> It's really hard to know what's a good price for a mattress. I don't understand this at all. You can Google and have all the prices right at hand, so comparison shopping by number isn't hard. You can go to a mattres

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