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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Thanks. That could be it, too. The description fits what I had.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I think that's it!
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Are there other fruits that look like durian but are different inside? I once ate an odd fruit which grew on a Caribbean island. It had black seeds and creamy white flesh surrounding the seeds, was very sweet and not tart.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
So a wet bulb condition occurs at 50% relative humidity and 46 °C (115 °F). Many places are reaching that already. Thanks for the tip, I hadn't heard of this.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
“TeXmacs-1.99.10” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer." Why not become an identified developer?
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Carmack: Over the entire course of Doom and Quake 1’s development we probably spent $100,000 on NeXT computers https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/01/why-john-carma...
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Their one NeXT computer cost even more, $6500 base price.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I agree with you, and wonder why it's so hard to make chips 3D, but have a quibble. Jack Kilby's integrated circuit wasn't planar. Gold wires connected each part. Jean Hoerni at Fairchild is the inventor of the fully planar p
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
It's due to the "trigonal bipyramidal" lattice structure. By changing atoms in the structure, they've created pigments with a range of colors. https://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=9
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Call it demystification. It happens in every field. For me, it was when exotic vocabulary lost its luster, and my writing improved. (Ah, youth.) It happens in relationships too. Demystification is generally forward progress.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I'd recommend reading Matrix Logic, by August Stern. It's an approach to logic using vectors, aka matrices. This article doesn't answer why the math works out such that some gates are universal, but Matrix Logic does.
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IEEE Announces 14 New Open Access Journals(ieee.org)
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I wonder if they will use this tiny high def LED: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelect...
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Brown marmorated stinkbugs mentioned in the article are a problem where I live, southeastern US. Somehow they get into the house, then crawl into the light fixtures and die. I always wonder what natural predator is absent when there's
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Algal slime, barnacles and mollusks too. Actually, the slime might be useful in methanol production. It grows amazingly fast.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I agree. When you see them IRL, luxury cars are inspiring, because they're engineered to be the best they can be, with attention to every detail. They may be impractical as transportation, but they're beautiful in many dimensions.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
You left out sense of humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
"It looked to the pilot, Lieutenant Graves said, like a sphere encasing a cube." That was oddly specific. A search on UFO + cube leads to this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPquewvNAE4 with alleged photos
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Richard Prince could take a photo of a photo of it too: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691257/richard-prince-in...
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiP2IcE-c5A
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Bromide is the safe form. Bromate is the carcinogen, a side effect of sunlight and chlorination, but it also forms if ozone is used to sterilize the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromate
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
There's a relevant article on the HN front page now. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-gore-artificial-corn...
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I have high hopes for desalination with graphene or nanotubes, so I hope when Prometheus is up and running, you look into it again. I'd love to know what happens in your nanotube filters. I read somewhere that water can be ballistic in
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I always wonder about their use as movie extras. Does anyone here know what's happening in the realm of movie-making? I had friends who did that as a lark, but there were pay minimums, so I imagine it's a substantial expense to st
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I made a similar comment on HN last week and was downvoted, for reasons I can't fathom. I agree, it would be a valuable trove of info, an "objective history."
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The same is reported in the journal, Nature, which requested a comment from the FCC but didn't receive a reply. The Hackaday article contains this line: "FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected the request, stating that there was an “absen
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
That second culture being instrumentalism, which has a very long wikipedia page. I didn't enjoy reading the article, because it's overly vague, inflated with intellectualism, but it's interesting to know that a non-instrument
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I wonder if the "data suckers" have any intention of creating a history of the world, in which no author imposes an interpretation of events. Besides remembering all the data, these companies have tools to parse the data and rende
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Tell them "a stitch in time saves nine." Somehow, that simple saying gets through.
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by beautifulfreak 8y ago
Yes, it's a joy to be able to switch out RAM, HDDs, and batteries so easily in those white MacBooks. The only serious flaw with them was that the plastic around the keyboard became discolored with use, but that's just cosmetic. I

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