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by buescher 4y ago
You want the 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica.
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by buescher 4y ago
I started down the path to be a materials scientist and wound up in embedded hardware, so take my opinions with a big grain of salt. For self-learning, I don't know if anyone would work through the problems in a statics textbook. Shig
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by buescher 4y ago
Free trade, comparative advantage, etc are mental models for thinking about trade. They make about as much sense as an ideology as having an ideology of frictionless pulleys or spherical cows.
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by buescher 4y ago
Also in that vein, battery pack thermal management is key to operating an EV successfully (i.e. at all) over seasonal temperature extremes
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by buescher 4y ago
The future is going to be great!
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by buescher 4y ago
dtksh did that, more or less. not with xml. https://www.brendangregg.com/dtkshdemos.html
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by buescher 4y ago
Detecting BS is going to matter even more now that we have ChatGPT - expect discussions of just what is BS to have a lot of currency. I did like "it’s easy to promise things, especially if you have a good rep; you have to be careful no
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by buescher 4y ago
Yes, and wolfram alpha is loads of fun and super useful in other ways as well, but I still use google calculator for practical unit conversions for the mentioned reasons.
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by buescher 4y ago
I usually just use google (calculator) for unit conversions, because it is less rigid in what it expects and it returns faster.
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by buescher 4y ago
Of course Stephen Wolfram would (implicitly) beat me to this hot take: Wolfram Alpha is, and has been, more impressive in its domains than ChatGPT is at anything in particular.
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by buescher 4y ago
Kudos to the author for a cool reverse-engineering job. Nice hack. The sign wasn't the most problematic "mininum viable product" I've seen. If it were a rapidly developed first prototype, I'd even be impressed. I
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by buescher 4y ago
It usually takes literally decades for new materials to go from the lab to common or even uncommon use. The good news is that if OP doesn’t know that, he or she probably doesn’t know if a new material is really required either.
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by buescher 4y ago
The first-generation Nest thermostat.
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by buescher 4y ago
I recall seeing the technique used in the Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American, with epoxy or casting resin. The verdict was the result was "maybe for infrared"... found it: https://optica.machorro.net&#x2F
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by buescher 4y ago
Do you mean something like Scratch/Snap!? https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://snap.berkeley.edu/
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by buescher 4y ago
Iris Explorer. I would probably still be blown away today. The examples that came with it made you think you were driving a supercomputer. It turned out to be rather hard for me to get it to do anything it wasn't already set up to d
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by buescher 4y ago
A whole lot of those home computers got used with old vacuum tube sets. I used a B&W GE portable tube set with my VIC-20. There are a lot of NOS television and radio tubes out there, and they are mostly less expensive than the ones use
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by buescher 4y ago
I think you misunderstand. "Mind-blowing" is not about the courage or skill it takes to work on them, and it's in relative terms. They didn't have contemporary safety standards back then, so I don't think the manu
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by buescher 4y ago
The hot chassis design is mind-blowingly dangerous by contemporary standards. These things weren't designed to modern creepage distances either. I would worry about creepage to controls on these things. THe article mentions screws po
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by buescher 4y ago
Not specifically - there are lists online and the games I remember playing a lot aren't on them, so my memory must have gone fuzzy over the last 35 years. Here's a neat example, though the video on the page uses the MT-32 for musi
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by buescher 4y ago
Back in that era, '87 +/- 1, a friend loaned me a CZ-101 for a little while. We both had Atari STs, which had built-in MIDI ports, and many games supported MIDI out and specifically the CZ-101 (this was very pre-General-MIDI). I
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by buescher 4y ago
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/07/the-unluckiest-m... "In fact, Chatterbox has since learned, Goldstein almost certainly did not die in the Holocaust."
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by buescher 4y ago
Ordering takeout is too complicated, and they always botch my special orders, so I’m remodeling my kitchen. Again.
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by buescher 4y ago
Haier bought GE appliances a while back. They are just using the name under license.
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by buescher 4y ago
Emacs-cess!!!
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by buescher 4y ago
Medicare is a single-payer system. The whole article is about waste, fraud, and abuse in a single-payer system.
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by buescher 4y ago
Take a look at pre-1970 issues of Datamation.
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by buescher 4y ago
Nice real estate and art send a very different signal than an exotic car, even if they're kind of high-life blingy.
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by buescher 4y ago
>The audit firm for the Dotcom Silo was Prager Metis, a firm with which I am not familiar and whose website indicates that they are the “first-ever CPA firm to officially open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentra

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