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by blendo 7y ago
Here's one scientific question I'd like to see answered: If a patient is currently taking anti-depressants (or other meds) for the treatment of PTSD, depression, or addiction, and if a physician thinks a psychedelic treatment migh
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by blendo 8y ago
There's a picture of the electrode array on the Nature site, and it looks about 3cm x 3cm, with about 16 x 16 sensors. So 256 inputs to the analysis system. I know nothing about these kinds of electrodes, but how sensitive do they hav
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by blendo 8y ago
But the Audi e-Tron is incredibly massive: curb weight of about 5600 lbs/2500 kg. The Model S is closer to 4600-4900 lbs. The Niro EV is about 3800 lbs.
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by blendo 8y ago
If you store your BLOBS outside the db, you'll have to write your own two-phase commit logic to ensure when row X is deleted, then /wherever/X.jpg is also deleted. Similar for inserts. And you'll need to provide a detail
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by blendo 8y ago
From the SciAm article: “The hygiene situation is just horrendous” for people living on the streets, said Dr. Glenn Lopez, a physician with St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, who treats homeless patients in Los Angeles County. “It
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Fortran COME FROM statement (1973)(fortran.com)
1 points by blendo 8y ago|1 comments
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by blendo 8y ago
This would be huge, and Cadillac has already deployed this in some of their models. The basic idea is simple: your car broadcasts its position and velocity vector multiple times per second (and your "car id" is periodically rando
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by blendo 8y ago
Sounds like a good, challenging course for 9th graders, but is there room in the curriculum to provide this course to all kids? They already have 4 separate courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies/history/poli
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by blendo 8y ago
The tower carried 115 kV and was built in 1919 according to https://www.chicoer.com/2018/12/07/it-was-originally-built-i... San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and the California Gas and Electric Corporati
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by blendo 8y ago
When you're younger, the problems are harder, and the success sweeter. I earned my spurs (well, perhaps an enlisted stripe) back in the 1980's when I inherited a non-functional mess of an HP-85 Basic program to control an antenna
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by blendo 8y ago
Llamas. And lots of 'em.
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by blendo 8y ago
So is the peak of Chimborazo the point on Earth with the lowest delta-v to orbit? Compared to a sea level equatorial launch, https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8486/where-is-the-... claims a 0.2% gravitatio
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by blendo 8y ago
Cool. Cox/Comcast/Viacom/Charter/Showtime/Disney/Fox ( https://www.ncta.com/about-ncta ) vs GM/Toyota/VW/wi-fi geeks. Grabbing popcorn for this one.
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by blendo 8y ago
I think the author is perhaps putting the cart before the horse. They pre-suppose widespread deployment of either DSRC, or Cellular V2X. There is still debate as to which will win out ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09&#x
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by blendo 8y ago
I wish them best of luck, but am more optimistic about Paul Allen's Stratolaunch system: https://www.stratolaunch.com/2018/08/20/stratolaunch-announc... They hope to orbit a 370kg payload in 2020. That
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by blendo 8y ago
From the article: "General Motors has embraced DSRC [wi-fi], and it’s already a standard safety feature on Cadillac CTS sedans. Toyota and Volkswagen have also committed to make DSRC systems standard equipment on new cars beginning nex
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The Auto Industry’s VHS-Or-Betamax Moment(nytimes.com)
1 points by blendo 8y ago|1 comments
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by blendo 8y ago
About six months ago, Google began presenting unsolvable Captchas on iOS/Safari while using a VPN (Private Internet Access). DDG just works.
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by blendo 8y ago
If we stayed on a single time zone, my life would be easier. First, I wouldn't have to avoid starting starting a cron/scheduled job between 1am and 3am -- once a year a 2:30am job may not run, when we skip from 2am to 3am, and onc
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by blendo 8y ago
Over 50. Just read Judith Shklar's The Liberalism of Fear https://philpapers.org/archive/SHKTLO.pdf , which argues that minimizing fear is a valid political principle: "Every adult should be able to make as
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by blendo 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville%E2%80%93Thermalito_Co... is in northern California. "Water released for power in excess of local and downstream requirements is conserved by pumpback operation during off-pea
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by blendo 8y ago
At our 40 acre walnut orchard in Northern California, we water via two wells (30 foot water depth) powered by two PG&E-powered electric pumps (60hp and 20hp). There is an agricultural discount if we run them nights and weekends, so we
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by blendo 8y ago
We'll need "commerical astronomers" to help find promising asteroids. At last February's AAAS meeting in Austin, Martin Elvis (quoted in the article) noted that over the next several years, a number of larger (20 to 30 m
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by blendo 8y ago
If you’re in the SF Bay Area, Palo Alto airport has several clubs offering primary flight training in the Citabria 7ECA ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Champion_Citabria ). Student in the front, instructor in
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by blendo 8y ago
It’s true that the probability of collision is likely lower on the dry, wide, and well-maintained roads of Phoenix, but given the higher speeds (higher kinetic energy), the probability of injury/death per collision is likely higher.
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by blendo 8y ago
Me, as an Air Force Staff Sergeant, on a USAF C-141 parked on the tarmac at Elmendorf AFB, AK. In 1986, we had flown out of Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, as part of a "fly-off" antenna test on two C-141s, and the software was HP Basic
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by blendo 9y ago
"And who the hell can agree on just what 'embedded' means these days?" Or what it'll mean in 10 years, as power/radio/processor/sensor specs continue to improve. I'm speculating, but perhaps MS
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by blendo 9y ago
I cut my unix teeth in the early '90s, on SunOS, and Cantrill really keeps the history relevant. But truly, his Oracle rant was one for the ages. And this from me where our system RDBMS is Oracle, sigh.
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Command and control: A fight for the future of government hacking(cyberscoop.com)
1 points by blendo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blendo 9y ago
A 4000 lb SUV, traveling nearly 40mph, at night, on a 4 lane divided highway, hits a pedestrian walking a bike. The kinetic energy mismatch is the real problem, and at the very least, these companies should be testing at only 20-25mph, with

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