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by bdamm 2y ago
The Bernoulli effect only contributes to making wings more efficient. It isn’t fundamentally why lift occurs. You can make almost anything fly if you have enough power and a tail. But how efficient will it be? Not as efficient as an airfoil
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by bdamm 2y ago
And many problems, namely, enormous keys and signatures that make PKI nigh impossible for the embedded/IoT space.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Probably because structural materials are reaching their age limit, and things like preventing mold are just going to keep getting harder and harder. Sure, the station could be re-orbited, but maybe it is better to spend that money on som
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by bdamm 2y ago
There is no "first charge of the day". The only first charge is the one following a power failure of the grid. During billing rollover, the charger's battery is powered up from yesterday's power.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Nanoplastic and microplastics are basically everywhere now. So there's no need to wait, your concern is already realized.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Many DCFC car charges already use batteries so as to avoid more expensive service links while still providing rapid charging.
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by bdamm 2y ago
And I can create an infinite number of "real" bicycles since they don't use a battery at all, plus they're even better for your health than an e-bike! Snark aside, e-bikes are great, I don't have one but that's
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by bdamm 2y ago
Nobody actually runs HSMs in FIPS mode anyway. FIPS certification just means it can be run in a FIPS mode, and that it did at one time pass the certification. So while it is a very useful hurdle to jump over, it is impractical to use (for
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by bdamm 2y ago
Certain forms of security cannot be provided by other layers of the stack.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Dense cities are only one type of population center. There are suburbs all over the world, there are diverse forms of low population areas, and there are frontiers. The majority of car use is not in city cores, it is in the medium to low ar
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by bdamm 2y ago
Replacing Internet infrastructure is incredibly difficult. We'll all be switching over to IPv6... any decade now. DNS was flawed, but it was very good for the time, and it still is the keystone around which the entire Internet function
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by bdamm 2y ago
It will be laid by first understanding reality, which includes the enormous road network we have today and the social motivations to expand it. Just bleating about how great it would be if everyone used transit isn’t going to change a damn
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by bdamm 2y ago
If this is a local pattern matcher trained on some text pool it could be really useful.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Tragedy of the commons?
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by bdamm 2y ago
While I agree with your general slant, it's not correct to say that evolution can't act quickly. Evolution can act, and does act, slightly faster than a single generation. Populations change rapidly, and the success, failure, life
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by bdamm 2y ago
There are possible physical answers; it could be lack of inertia on the hair triggers growth. It could be that when you rub your arm, an action as innocent as a yawn, you are also informing the growth of hair. Could it be as simple as looki
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by bdamm 2y ago
I did this with my boy too, it was so much fun and great bonding over easily understood teamwork!
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by bdamm 3y ago
Nah. What's really happening is going to be: Emerging new use-cases and rising costs from specialized vendors for replacement parts that match the existing system are driving a desire for the agency to replace the control system. The f
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by bdamm 3y ago
Some similarities; with a small amount of math, planning, and investment in understanding tools, you can quickly achieve things that the non-practitioners think are cool and useful. Plus the tactile experience provides a nice antidote to th
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by bdamm 3y ago
There's nothing gentle about 38kV. You're not going to lower down a line and bleed off some charge. Once there's a viable path to ground, current will flow all over whatever is making that path, including the very air around
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by bdamm 3y ago
This opens up all kinds of legal issues. The military applications could be very interesting as well.
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by bdamm 3y ago
This would vaporize the drone, the wire, and anyone or anything nearby, sending flaming battery and electronics shrapnel in many directions. High tension does not mess around.
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by bdamm 3y ago
The 1916 poem was based on a true story about a boy that Robert knew, who died in 1910. They did have circular-saw like machines in 1910 that were popular for cutting firewood, according to my wiki dive.
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by bdamm 3y ago
The newborn baby is "just" an assembly of atoms and molecules. What is it about this particular assembly that makes it so special? That's the key question. It might very well turn out that there is something very special abou
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by bdamm 3y ago
I left the consultant career track for precisely this reason. It is a damned hard problem, maybe even impossible, and is an endless source of guilt and shame because inevitably there will be time where I'm daydreaming - it turns out I
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by bdamm 3y ago
You are a contemporary yet timeless sort of gentleman. Well done.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Yes, but the point was that they can't launch starlinks or just about any commercially meaningful payload until they are reliably in orbit, and they can't reliably get into orbit until they demonstrate at least one relight, becaus
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by bdamm 3y ago
Yes, I remember OS/2. I was a middle school kid. A family friend provided the installation media and said it was the future. I was excited! I saw the pictures of the desktop! I tried and tried to install it, but time after time ended u
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by bdamm 3y ago
I have. One EV consumes, over the lifetime of the car, 7x less mining in terms of product volume than a gasoline car.
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by bdamm 3y ago
> and called Tesla owner Elon Musk a "technofascist" whose "green capitalism" is "a totalitarian technological attack on society." This seems insane to me. Is there any justification for this whatsoever? It

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