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by cmos 4y ago
We should all be crying... Practically nothing has happened of any consequence, aside from this pandemic, to have any actual impact on climate change. We need a WW2 level of change in our lives. We need better public transportation and t
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Ask HN: Why don't word processors have tabs like spreadsheets?
3 points by cmos 4y ago|3 comments
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by cmos 4y ago
Also with the leaf _how_ you drive makes a big difference. No AC or heat and accelerating slowly when safe can extend it a bit.
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by cmos 4y ago
I'm sorry about your career - this must have been difficult to write about. Sometimes it's about the journey, take solace that you just might be in a temporary dip in your life adventure. How can some of these setbacks be opport
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by cmos 4y ago
It is indeed a fact we have to face, and the best way to do it is to stop eating fish, if you have the luxury to be able to do that and other foods are available.
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by cmos 4y ago
I have found there are people who enjoy getting into the weeds of problem solving (possibly a minority) and other people who work really well with the weed divers in applying their results. I am a person who has benefited from this symbiot
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by cmos 5y ago
Throw into this confusion a badly implemented public transportation system that you find in most US cities. Public transportation and city bike rental systems should be free to ride. We all pay taxes to keep roads maintained, we should all
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by cmos 5y ago
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Electrical Engineer | Wood Hole, MA | Full-time | Onsite Looking for a job that has an impact on how we understand the ocean and climate change? At WHOI we get to build really interesting technologies t
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by cmos 5y ago
Yes, we use these in ocean bottom and subsurface buoys. However only for audio and seismic activity do we need this kind of accuracy. The cost is high, they don't always work perfect, and they consume a fair amount of power for long
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by cmos 5y ago
It was 1992 and I was a high school senior. My teacher got me a job at the local DPW in the electical department. I was to work in the warehouse under a guy named Al who was an old timer and lost his hand in a forklift accident 30 years p
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by cmos 6y ago
For 1.5 year I biked around the US camping with the occasional hotel.. I had an 11" macbook air with a data plan. Sometimes I would throw a rope over a branch and pull my phone up high to get cell signal, connecting to the phone via
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by cmos 6y ago
Never asked.. people just offered. I attribute this to being on a bicycle, disheveled, loaded with my gear, biking through towns that don't normally see a biker. I would sometimes ask if people knew a nice quiet place to camp, which
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by cmos 6y ago
I got rid of everything I owned and spent 1.5 years biking around the US. I lived at a whitewater rafting company for 3 weeks, was hosted at music festivals, taken in by hundreds of people and lived in yellowstone for a month in their hiker
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by cmos 6y ago
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute "We go to impossible places to do impossible things." - Dr. Mark R. Abbott, WHOI President and Director Some of the jobs available at WHOI: - Robotic Software Engineer to work within the VAST (Va
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by cmos 6y ago
We have a 2 year old daughter and working from home is a bit noiser but so much nicer. It's not perfect, but neither was going to the office. We are doing shift work in my lab so I go in every now and then at night.
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by cmos 6y ago
Consider the field of Oceanography! Try hacking an underwater robot to navigate under ice from a ship during a storm. Or adding software on a remote buoy over dicy network connections to help it survive a hardware failure. Work every day
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by cmos 6y ago
Annoyed by the money and harshness of interactions in a game like monopoly with 5-8 year olds we created "Friendopoly". When you land on someones property you are invited to camp on their lawn or sleep in their house or hotel. T
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by cmos 6y ago
I have done the same. Labview is confusing and destroys computers, old and new. What I recall from the 90's was using DOS labview to make a control UI and it was pretty remarkable for it's time, clean and lightweight and easy to
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by cmos 7y ago
I am working on an underwater recording studio. We are building a "3D Telescope" underwater to listen to the ocean. 28 hydrophones mounted on five 5 meter beams connected like a starfish. It will then compress the data and tele
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by cmos 7y ago
I agree, you don't have to go vegan, but you could go mostly vegan, so that instead of meat and dairy being the default they become the exception. Once you start it's a slippery slope to full on vegan. You will look at meat and d
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by cmos 7y ago
We use this website in oceanography to understand what kind of weather conditions our buoys are in. Off the coast of greenland this is helpful to shunt the wind turbines in extreme wind - not because they can't handle the wind, but be
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by cmos 7y ago
I work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Research - I started there two years ago. I run a lab that refurbishes the electronics that collects data from the sensors. Technology wise we are fairly slow to adopt new things, and making changes to t
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by cmos 7y ago
To take it a step further, if the house owner works outside home during the day it could be mutually beneficial if you throw in taking a few breaks to walk the dog to make it an even trade. It's always better for pets to have people a
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by cmos 8y ago
Another AA alternative is Alan Carr's book "The Easy Way to Stop Drinking". It's a logical approach to repositioning alcohol as a poison that somehow 90% of our population embraces as normal.
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by cmos 9y ago
I stopped drinking four years ago. What is consistently missing in the conversation about addiction is Alan Carr's book "The Easy Way to Stop Drinking" and "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" reddit/r/stopdrink
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by cmos 10y ago
I subscribe to tidal. It is expensive.. $20/month for "hifi" streaming. It is the only streaming service that offers lossless streaming. Their catalog is good - if I can't find a band it's not a huge surprise.
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by cmos 11y ago
I quit my job making video games and cycled across the country for fifteen months.. I worked a bit in the last 8 months from my tent (40-60 hours a month). It was epic! I would definitely do it all over again.
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by cmos 12y ago
I use google maps bicycling directions every day on my bike trip across the US and just saw this the other day.. that plus street view to see how good shoulders + road conditions are can be very cool tools for planning a bike trip. Sadly in
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by cmos 13y ago
Moby has a site.. though it appears to be for film, you could ask about a video game. http://www.mobygratis.com/
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by cmos 13y ago
Nest has built an expensive thermostat that is engaging. It certainly doesn't take $80 Million to do that. So perhaps they also spent their money developing a cheaper version after proving that people like it and more importantly prov

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