cycomanic

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   by cycomanic 4y ago

   > Electric heat pumps actually don't work in very cold weather. You can use heat pumps with a underground heat sink (not sure what they are called in english). However, they really only make sense in climates where it is extensively
2. 1592.▲
   by cycomanic 4y ago

   You seem to obfuscate pretty simple concepts through some pointless math. Yes if we burn a forest that took 20 years to grow, to capture the same amount of carbon you will need to grow the same amount of trees for 20 years (or equivalently
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   by cycomanic 4y ago

   Noise isolation is much more a function of how the actual insulation being put in. If houses are build to the lowest standard than yes they will be incredibly noisy. I mean cheap concrete apartment buildings are essentially made with large
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   by cycomanic 4y ago

   I live in Sweden,there's plenty of wooden houses that are hundreds of years old. How long a building lasts is much more a function of other factors, not the building material itself.
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   by cycomanic 4y ago

   There was a quote by an opposition politician in Germany to the argument that Germany should buy the Eurofighter (which had huge cost overruns etc.) because it creates jobs. Loosely translated: "We can also build a pyramid for Helmut K
6. 1596.▲
   by cycomanic 4y ago

   It seems a bit like you are just making stuff up without evidence to back this up. Many of the supposed issues have been solved ages ago. > The issue with wood based homes is that they are really good for SMALL individual homes. NOT for
7. 1597.▲
   by cycomanic 4y ago

   Why should anyone care about the rich owners of the office buildings having to write off their losses and instead make it easier to accommodate people like cattle. The only way they are going to recoup some of their costs is by charging sig
8. 1598.▲
   by cycomanic 4y ago

   Replying to myself, seems like I went to 1password.community which is the first result I get when I search. I guess this goes to show for the perils of having to be high in the search rankings.
9. 1599.▲
   by cycomanic 4y ago

   I replied in a different comment that I landed on the community page. But I have to say, arguing that the downloads buttons on keepass are more friction than "get started" (I don't see a app store link) which takes me to the
10. 1600.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    Replying to myself, seems like I went to the 1password.community page, which somehow is the 1st search result for me.
11. 1601.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I am not sure what you are looking at, but when I go to the 1password page from my mobile I see big buttons with: memberships, families, business and team, Mac, Windows, Linux, IOS, apple watch, android, 1password in the browser, scim Bridg
12. 1602.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    But in science at least you always should test against the null hypothesis, and that is purposefully not done here like in many other "conspiracy theories". Note I'm not saying that the lab leak is necessarily a conspiracy th
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    So, the undertones are not so strong in this article, but I have to say already the choice of topic is pondering to a certain crowd. As a good scientists she should know what she doesn't know, and her understanding is clearly limited.
14. 1604.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    You should read up on electromagnetics. c=lambda*f The wavelength of a red led is ~630nm so the frequency is ~480 THz. The energy of a photon is E=hf so proportional to the frequency. Therefore a red LED photon has approximately 20,000 t
15. 1605.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    The receiver is part of the channel. So if you do beamforming your power at the receiver is higher, i.e. your SNR is higher. Any other interpretation does not make sense, because it's completely irrelevant to the discussion.
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    > "There's also beamforming and MIMO" No. Beamforming attempts to increase apparent power by changing parameters. One could just as easily say "moving sender and recipient closer". MIMO is also manipulation of se
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I have to say I find that Sabine is more pondering to the nutjob crowd. I really enjoyed some of here posts with deep insights into quantum physics and cosmology, an area where she is a subject expert. Now she is posting on all sorts of top
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I don't get your post. On the one hand you say that you need to go to FR2, due to higher throughput requirements. On the other hand you point out beam forming, MIMO etc. as the real difference between 4G and 4G. But that's exactly
19. 1609.▲
    by cycomanic 4y ago

    But that was at least a year after the memo. They already had an incredibly polished system, Meego. Now Meego like WP7 had the problem of limited apps for the platform, but there were quite a bit more than WP still, largely due to significa
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    But all this points also apply to the N9, it was a fully fleshed Linux system and arguably qt for writing apps was significantly more comfortable for developers than the custom framework based on gtk. I even recall that it was quite strai
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I think you speak from a US perspective. Nokia phones were absolutely ubiquitous in other parts of the world, way into the time of the Razr etc.. Even at the time this memo was written it Nokia still had around 25-30% market share IIRC. Reg
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    But N9 was not a maemo it was Meego. It was incredibly polished it definitely was on par or better than android and IOS of the time. While some of the assessments in the memo might be correct (it took way too long to get the N9 out for exam
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    The N9 was not Symbian though. What I read was that there was a serious management culture issue at Nokia. Even before Elop Meego efforts were seriously sabotaged by the Symbian camp (the N9 was significantly delayed for example) . Mind yo
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    > Has any Nokia B9 user also tried Sailfish OS? Is it a proper successor to the Harmattan Meego distro the N9 had? Yes I have it installed on a Sony Xperia. It's not my main phone (I have a work phone that I mainly use), but I would
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I never said that Trump was Hitler. That's a completely irrelevant statement. Obviously no leader in a western country is going to say I will become the next Hitler, even Putin does not glorify him. That doesn't take away from the
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    > I think stronger labour laws are generally a good idea, employment is survival. The full extent is out of scope for this discussion but I've seen many deplorable examples of employee abuse beyond being fired for expressing an opin
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    During my studies when I was overseas we had a seminar on how to buy a car in NZ. The guy was absolutely awesome, he told us about a lot of the tricks employed by dealers from subtle things like mirrors where you are supposed to park the ca
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    > Cancel culture is not the result of free speech, it's the result of a toxic social environment. > Here are some actionable solutions that don't require limiting free speech: > 1. Improve labor laws so craven employers c
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I find interesting the selective examples being used for the supposed raising threat to freedom in (and from) the US. At the same time the US has had one of the highest incarceration rates in the world (largely affecting one minority), has
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    by cycomanic 4y ago

    I'd like to point out that the US had people with literally Nazi flags walking through the streets attacking people who looked different, supported by a significant portion of the establishment (including a president). I would not call