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by crmd 3y ago
The grid needs to run at multiple voltages - transmission, distribution, industrial/commercial/residential service - which is complex on a DC grid. Synchronizing the phases is an easier problem.
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by crmd 3y ago
I wonder if this can lead to revision of “vacuum energy” theories. The idea that empty space simply has a uniform, non-zero energy level is a disappointing and kind of anti-climatic explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics a
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by crmd 3y ago
This is one of the litany of bad things that happens when antitrust precident is ignored and we allow a small number of companies to become large enough to dominate the economy.
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by crmd 3y ago
Awesome, thanks
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by crmd 3y ago
Question from a non-ham: how does the fcc define encryption? Is it ok to speak in code, like a numbers station? What about speaking in Navajo, like the Americans did in ww2? What if it was a made-up tonal language with lots of clicks that s
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by crmd 3y ago
Same here. I use linux VMs and containers for all my "hacking" where I need total control and customizability of the OS. On my workstation and phone, where I do my banking and read emails, I'm willing to trade control and cus
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by crmd 3y ago
I remember in the early days of reddit there was a guy who would post links to his Austrian economics / Murray Rothbard blog every day, and they would end up on the front page because they had like 50 upvotes.
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by crmd 3y ago
I came to that page directly from the front page of HN. I think it's reasonable to assume a significant portion of their traffic today directly to this page didn't already know what RP2040 is. Missed opportunity to educate readers
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by crmd 3y ago
It's kind of annoying that the author made me search for what an RP2040 was, rather than including it in the first paragraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP2040
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by crmd 3y ago
This meme, that the average American is stupid and needs to be told what to do about everything, is patronizing and needs to die. The average 50th percentile IQ person has a finely tuned bullshit detector. When they sense they're being
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by crmd 3y ago
Yeah, that's a good point and it makes me wonder if the modern web has shrunk my attention span. I used to often meet this exact type of engineer early in my career as an enterprise data storage consultant in the 90s and early 2000s. I
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by crmd 3y ago
Yes, but it also creates a straightforward method for triggering a TOS violation if an unlabelled AI video is detected, allowing YT to remove deceptive videos and ban bad actors without adding more subjective editorial decisions into the re
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by crmd 3y ago
The author's intentionally verbose/non-linear storytelling technique, for example the two paragraph detour that describes his ladder and the ladder company's bankruptcy, and the 19 paragraph deep dive on garage door repair bu
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by crmd 3y ago
>You'll be able to follow that steampunk vampire creator that's been missing from the world until now. Every long tail interest will be catered to. Even the most obscure and wild tastes, ideas, and designs. Stuff that would nev
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by crmd 3y ago
I’m holding out for the 8-hour Stephen Wolfram Eric Weinstein Dueling Life Arcs documentary.
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by crmd 3y ago
The economy is doing fine for people whose income comes mostly from return on capital. It is not good for people whose income comes mostly from working.
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by crmd 3y ago
As a New Yorker I find it amusing that tools are being invented that enable real estate agents to do even less work.
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by crmd 3y ago
If having your account hijacked is is a good user experience then I have no idea what UX means.
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by crmd 3y ago
Grindr (of all places!)
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by crmd 3y ago
Emphatically? The director of the NSA is required to be a four star general and concurrently serves as commander of US Cyber Command. Ostensibly non-military, perhaps.
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by crmd 3y ago
My corner bodega in a non-posh neighborhood in Brooklyn is paying $5550/month rent for a 750 square foot space. That means having to sell approx 45 packs of cigarettes smuggled up from Georgia per day just to pay rent. I don't kno
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by crmd 3y ago
Humans are bad at statistics. For example the incident at three mile island in 1979 didn't kill anyone, but the accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among activists and the general public, and accelerated the decline of e
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by crmd 3y ago
It could have been recorded in the aircraft (running under its own power or on shore power), or in the shop running off a bench AC power supply. Either way, if the unit's power supply filter capacitors are degraded (which is very likel
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by crmd 3y ago
The 400Hz* spike could be power supply ripple. * https://fcxinc.com/why-the-aviation-industry-operates-on-400...
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by crmd 3y ago
Undermining trust in institutions. Prior to the truth of the Vietnam war coming out, ordinary Americans tended to gave the benefit of the doubt to the government. They lost the baby boomer’s trust with Vietnam. Bush 43’s Iraq war did the sa
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by crmd 3y ago
Extraordinary measures are required given China’s population collapse.
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by crmd 3y ago
It's easy to forget that, in the US last spring (1) there was widespread fear of a sharp recession, and (2) Signature and Silicon Valley Bank failed within 48 hours of each other. Many smart people who lived through the 2008 crisis wer
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by crmd 3y ago
Simply duplicating copyrighted data is itself a crime in certain jurisdictions.
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by crmd 3y ago
I think it's extremely smart of Mr. Iger to keep CEO intervention at "less messaging, more storytelling", and leave it to his organization to interpret and implement. Nobody likes a micromanager.
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by crmd 3y ago
Very poor judgement by the airline's marketing leaders. Instead of asking to take the critical video down, they should have leaned into it with a "we screwed up and want to do better. How can we collaborate to help us get better?&

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