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by blendo 7y ago
I've used Etymotics for years. Cheap ($20), comfortable, easy to carry, and a wonderfully flat frequency response (at least compared to cheap foam plugs). Also, Etymotics makes great wired ear buds.
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> Show me the incentive and reward and value-creation structure of a pandas developer?! What incents a teenager in the profound belief that their first program was their best: 10 PRINT "This class sucks!!!!!!" 20 GOTO 1
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And the motor _should_ be a lot more reliable. But discouragingly, just last August, in Norway, a Pipistrel Alpha Electro lost power shortly after takeoff and crashed. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228207 Hopefu
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Perhaps they used salt as a preservative?
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The Age of Disruption – Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism(lareviewofbooks.org)
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Probably the cheapest “mass” transit system I’ve ever heard of in the US. And some unique capabilities: “Two other van lines connect Jamaica Center to the Rockaways. During Hurricane Sandy, when thousands in this area were left stranded, do
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They just haven't yet figured out everything behind ./a.out
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Even though this is the view of the CEO of Generac (an AC generator manufacturer), there's some truth here. The operation of electrical distribution in California has changed radically in the last few years, as the risks at the wildla
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When I took it at Boston University in 1987, it was my last class for the BS/CS. And one of the toughest because I had so much imperative/side-effect ridden code to unlearn. Does the MIT Python replacement go "functional fir
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I'm encouraged to see proper wings and empennage, glad you're not making an octocopter. Bonus points for conventional (tailwheel) landing gear. But questions: How fast can it fly and for how long? Article says "weighs about
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by blendo 7y ago
Steampunk helps me come to grips with the industrial revolution, 150 years on. In an age of gigahertz radio waves and nanosecond computer speeds, I like thinking about 1 Hertz, 1 Volt, 1 Ohm, and 1 Farad (!) alt-histories. As the story said
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If you're flying airport to airport, I'd expect an airplane (King Air for 6 pax, Cirrus SR22 for 2 pax) would be cheaper, quieter, and safer. Although maybe it's easier to get into SFO using a helicopter instead of a General
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I chose Anaconda for this use case: 1 Setup a production Python environment on Windows Server 2016 2 Write a README on how to set up a prod Python env on Windows Server 2016 (pretty short) 3 Tell my Win 10 coworkers to refer to the README t
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I'm speaking from a California perspective, so yes, we have fair number of poor drivers. But I have NO concerns with Porsches on the Autobahn. In fact, I had a Porsche up to 270kph between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe once. Thrilling, bu
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"Even before modifications, the LEAF has some distinct handling advantages. First, the car is much lighter. ... Or, in short, the LEAF’s battery weighs less per kWh than the Tesla’s, and it has fewer kWh." As Lotus's Colin C
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Preach. I bought an e-bike a few years ago, and I ride 20mph _everywhere_ now. I might upgrade to a 26mph speed pedelec, at which point a full-face may be prudent. I'd recommend a white helmet, with stick-on reflective tape, to maxi
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After a 40 year gap, I've started to re-learn assembly language programming via via https://embedded.fm/blog/ese101 . Also, last spring I took the basic Electronics 101 class at our local community college ( http:&
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by blendo 7y ago
About 300,000 cars cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge every day. I think the author's point is that if they were all electric, there would _still_ be 300,000 cars crossing the bridge each day, and the problems of road maintenan
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by blendo 7y ago
"In classes that fall, Mr. Wani and other graduate students turned the problem into a project. Using crowdsourced ground-shaking reports from previous earthquakes, they trained a computer system to predict the areas of greatest impact
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Thanks for adding this -- I can see the total economic impact of this could be huge. Until April, they were producing 52 planes per month. Then they reduced to 42/mo. Now maybe zero for some while. At $100 million per plane, that&#x27
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You are correct, the Krebs article I cited does not say that. But it's my strong hunch. There was much discussion of the poor state of Baltimore's IT infra (see https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2019/05/21&#
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What are the odds their vulnerability was due to IT staff choosing to not patch their Windows servers, as doomed Baltimore in May? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/report-no-eternal-blue-e...
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France, from whence fuselage, empennage, aileron, longeron. You may know of Louis Blériot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot , but also "Pilot Flies Through Arc de Triomphe" (1919) https:/
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Surprising quote: "Several instructors reported that female students like the HtDP curriculum exceptionally well. In a controlled experiment, an htdp-trained instructor taught a conventional AP curriculum and the Scheme curriculum to
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It's important to point out that in California, if you are treated "out of network" AND your health insurer is an HMO (such as Kaiser), you WILL NOT receive a surprise bill (see https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-
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I tend to agree - they'd work better on smooth, wide, grade-separated pavement. In other words, bike lanes.
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From the article, "Meanwhile, traffic congestion, measured as the time people spend slogging along freeways at speeds of 35 mph or less, grew 80 percent from 2010 to 2016". I'm all for increasing mass transit speeds and conve
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Construction, agriculture, food service, health care, and transportation employers are always looking for workers.
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As a thought experiment, how would violence in Mexico be affected if the Western Hemisphere (Argentina to Alaska) were a Schengen Area ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area ). That is, true freedom of movement: n
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by blendo 7y ago
As I understand it, previous 737s did maintain stick force on approach to stall. The MAX, due to different engines, has decreasing stick forces when the lightly loaded, and/or with an aft center of gravity. My simple solution? Disabl

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