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by beerandt 2y ago
Think of it as complimentary and/ or a confirmation, not automated or human-replacement. A 911 call plus a matching shotspotter report has a pretty strong value. Much greater than the sum of the parts alone. I had police at my door in
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by beerandt 2y ago
Newer but similar thing with Old Spanish Trail through the southern US (and similar historic trails). So many roads named after something or named some nostalgic but generic thing, that no one realizes when they are actually driving on the
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by beerandt 2y ago
Yeah, but that's actually what draws renewed interest about half the time, as a TIL. And if neither that or the overall comparison works, you probably never had a chance anyway. ETA- And 9/10 when I use it, it's in the contex
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by beerandt 2y ago
The example I use for those who didn't take calculus, which usually prevents glazed-stare onset: 1) Position 2) Velocity 3) Acceleration 4) Jerk
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by beerandt 2y ago
Honestly it bothered me waaaay more in excel than in word.
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by beerandt 2y ago
Because among other reasons, CAFE standards force quotas via mandated averages, which leads to weird incentives and unexpected results (like EPA regs resulting in larger, not smaller, trucks). If you're a company that needs to hit an m
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by beerandt 2y ago
I think ultimately we'll realize overengineered glass (even if it's single use or crushed/repurposed or landfilled or recycled) is the best all around solution, especially taking into account health and future abundant (fusio
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by beerandt 2y ago
It varies. The manufacture has an interest in delivering it undamaged, but less in storage or handling or longevity. They used to overshoot to ensure hitting the goal they car about. It's probably efficient for them. They draw the syst
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by beerandt 2y ago
Doesn't matter. Marginal savings is meaningless if the resulting product is worthless. On top of that- 99% of people who find a ruptured can with black ooze are trashing it. And the other 1% are spending more energy/resources to c
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by beerandt 2y ago
If the product is ruined, the entire package and contents become waste. Metal is at least mostly recoverable energy. The footprint of the contents lost is not. And ironically the lighter plastic packaging makes it more likely to be trashed
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by beerandt 2y ago
We hit a peak of canned food durability probably 20-40 years ago. Where we figured out manufacturing well enough, but hadn't gone fully synthetic with liners, overly minimized wall thickness, etc. Probably packaging contamination issue
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by beerandt 2y ago
It's in the title, but the abstract doesn't mention anything specifically about drug resistance, just adaptation/ mutation in general. Unless I missed it. I think it might be a (bad journalistic attempt as a) general descript
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by beerandt 2y ago
It may not be a category (imo it is), but it's at least a hierarchy.
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by beerandt 2y ago
Imo it's very different bc the ideology pledge itself is mostly distracting from the real purpose of the dei statement (again imo), which is to provide a way to select employees based on race, etc, without it being the explicit reason.
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by beerandt 2y ago
And deleting the AM radio wouldn't delete the interference, just make you more ignorant of/ oblivious to it.
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by beerandt 2y ago
I wouldn't be so sure you did. Idk how old you are, but part of the point is the 'before times' ended much earlier than most are aware. The biggest lesson of the Target story (for the marketers) was don't let consumers k
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by beerandt 2y ago
I don't remember the exact list, but it was 4-6 life events that are each potentially worth $100+ per person to marketers, and I think that was in ~1996 dollars. Iirc: College graduation/ first real job, Wedding, first home purcha
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by beerandt 3y ago
I got to see a child-lightbulb look from my wife when I said it's all potential chemical energy stored in a consumable cartridge. One's just much more specialized than the other.
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by beerandt 3y ago
7yod bought an underwater camera from a shop while at the beach. Basically a 35mm disposable inside a sealed clear case. Told her it needed film to work which she accepted pretty easily (the store didn't have any). A couple days later
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by beerandt 3y ago
The point is that there's a (>1) cheaper solution that still saves your thumb, but it's (they're) being regulated out of the competition.
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by beerandt 3y ago
I don't doubt that for a second- but I'm more curious about the requirement for some kind of printout in the first place. Especially since it ultimately ended up weighing what it did. Military/ Ruggedized is a smart choice fo
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by beerandt 3y ago
The thing that immediately jumped into my head is coded military use. Especially since they mention the printer being based on a military design. It's still rather obscure, if not still secret, just to what extent we were actually usin
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by beerandt 3y ago
We tried one in the south and it was a pretty horrible experience, because of our high humidity in the cold. The outside unit constantly froze up, which even ideally requires a defrost cycle (wasting energy pumping heat back outside), or wo
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by beerandt 3y ago
This is true, but they are also designed with a maximum deflection for a worst case head-on crash. Typical one-rail guard rails should not deflect more than 2-4ft, while the cable style you see in interstate medians are designed for someth
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by beerandt 3y ago
Yeah, primarily minimize weight and power while meeting compute requirements. Excess compute in this case is bad design. The cray was 10,000 lb and 115 kilowatts. Not payload friendly. I'm imagining Kevin Bacon doing his Apollo 13 powe
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by beerandt 3y ago
Designing things such that they don't require/ use steel reinforcement goes a long way towards having a (potentially) indefinite lifespan. Reinforced concrete and masonry design are underappreciated disciplines of modern engineeri
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by beerandt 3y ago
I paid for the YouTube premium that came with the old Google Music subscription, and the problem was it regularly showed ads anyway, especially in the kids stuff. So then we still needed ad-blocking, which broke Google in a way that it trie
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by beerandt 3y ago
Thanks! I am all about pre-emptive steering and similar, but it's something my wife just doesn't 'get'. She regularly gives the kids options that she doesn't want them to pick, which... has been it's own battle
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by beerandt 3y ago
A bit more personal background: We're primarily an android house, but have a couple of apple devices, use segregated wifis, run a pi-hole and iptables home firewall, and have some local (non-cloud, non-voice) home automation and securi
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