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541.
by beambot 4y ago
Am from Midwest. Have seen this with chickens, but not cows. Wouldn't surprise me in the least though.
542.
by beambot 5y ago
IIRC, Place & Route is a known NP complete problem. In this regard, autorouters (whether IC or PCB) can benefit from "better" heuristics -- i.e. it's an optimization problem where AI can help.
543.
by beambot 5y ago
Figure 9 implies that the coupler drives the blue gear (shaft of lead screw). But let's assume you are right: Then how does the blue gear at top of the lead screw simultaneously turn the shaft and move upwards too?
544.
by beambot 5y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding the axial motion from the coarse adjustment. From [0]: The Ball Screw in Figure 9 has a 21 mm range. As the ball screw nut moves up, the housing moves up too -- but then the two halves of the tumbl
545.
by beambot 5y ago
How is this concern not equally-relevant in the current status quo? At least for our locale: property taxes are still based on assessed value, sales tax is collected on purchases, and income tax & business permits still apply. All of th
546.
by beambot 5y ago
I was under the impression that NASA RTGs relied on solid-state Peltier / Seebeck thermocouples that had no moving parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
547.
by beambot 5y ago
> Mechanics need to be able to turn them off when they work on them Couldn't you just turn off the car?
548.
by beambot 5y ago
I suspect that a challenging driver assessment between AVs and humans would be the most rapid driver of AVs possible... Just remember: Most drivers think they're above average. Curiously, autonomous car technology also makes it feasib
549.
by beambot 5y ago
Or read the expose directly: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
550.
by beambot 5y ago
This is called a "vibrotactile display", and they've been around for a good, long time.
551.
by beambot 5y ago
I doubt that. Ignoring confounding algorithmic factors, the very rough consensus for human brain appears to be 10^16 FLOPS. A modern RTX3090 GPU has 10^13 FLOPS. I doubt your laptop has 1000x the compute of a high-end desktop GPU.
552.
by beambot 5y ago
I'm not on anything, and I get occasional mood swings too. ;) My point: For many of these substances, I'm perfectly capable of managing my own dosing, side-effects, and knowledge resources without a government-mandated overseer.
553.
by beambot 5y ago
Is there any evidence to suggest adverse affects from all these excess scripts? Because if there's not... Then it sounds like the easiest & best solution would be to reschedule the drugs and make them (mostly) OTC. I can think of
554.
by beambot 5y ago
Whenever anyone asks about pursuing a PhD, I usually tell them it only makes sense if one of more of these hold true: (1) You want to pursue a career in academia or research where the credentialing will matter; (2) You want access to equipm
555.
by beambot 5y ago
Guild versus Union?
556.
by beambot 5y ago
Seems a bit draconian to force mob programming onto every programmer everyday, but I also find the idea appealing if I was selecting the team & when to do it -- there are definitely teams & topics where I would find this flow produ
557.
by beambot 5y ago
Yes, it's a different risk profile that doesn't suit all businesses. VCs are in the business of power-law returns: They're looking for homeruns, not base hits. It's really important for founders to select the right sou
558.
by beambot 5y ago
In many places outside Silicon Valley, you'll find that local investors are reluctant to deviate from 1x revenue or 10x EBITDA for "venture investing" valuations -- which are really more akin to mature company / PE-style
559.
by beambot 5y ago
Not everything is centralized. Internet routing infrastructure (e.g. BGP) is decentralized. Capitalism itself is decentralized allocation of resources. Power grids are decentralized loads and (increasingly) generation. It's true tha
560.
by beambot 5y ago
The professor job is an absurd ask: - Enterprise sales rep with a $500k-$1M annual quota (aka grants). - R&D manager of a team comprised almost entirely of junior employees - Lecturer and administration for teaching. - Administrator &am
561.
by beambot 5y ago
> [...] which will now be one hour earlier in real terms. "Relative" terms -- i.e. relative to sunrise. Eliminating daylight savings means that all times are now "real" terms.
562.
by beambot 5y ago
I don't believe that either does reconstruction... but for the recycling application, there are a handful of companies tackling this problem -- e.g. Everest Labs & Amp Robotics.
563.
by beambot 5y ago
Both (A) and (B) can simultaneously be true: (A) "Healthy, home-cooked Food" >> "whatever stove type" (B) "induction stoves" > "gas stoves" The entire world, in general, aspires to rapidly mo
564.
by beambot 5y ago
Heh, now it's just emojis and memes for communication.
565.
by beambot 5y ago
Decentralized consensus & trust doesn't rely on banks and all the associated cost, complexity, obscurity, and gatekeeping that comes with them. With crypto: "Banks" can't unilaterally or fraudulently print more mone
566.
by beambot 5y ago
> It can't be just a number on a computer in a bank, right? And yet people question the utility of a decentralized, trustless, public ledger -- ie. blockchain.
567.
by beambot 5y ago
Even worse: entirely new language primitives based on 10wpm mobile keyboards.
568.
by beambot 5y ago
Both statements appear un-falsifiable, which makes the entire discourse about as useful as debating religion.
569.
by beambot 5y ago
You can't think of any military use for 100 tons of cargo delivered anywhere in the world in 45min? Lats a pretty acute lack of imagination. DoD is already funding it too: https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-signs-a-d
570.
by beambot 5y ago
Another example: arxiv.org proofs of P != NP, FTL, perpetual motion, grand unified theory, etc. The signal-to-noise ratio of crackpots to experts is just too darn high. This is one example where academia & credentialing serves an impor

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