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by dave333 2y ago
Musk's right wing shift and naked conservative bias do not serve Spacex well when the opposition is in power. Most commercial enterprises with operations that fall under federal control play both sides of the street.
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Raising the foot end of the bed eg with a few thick books under the mattress is supposed to give health benefits by stopping the blood pooling in the lower legs where DVT blood clots most likely occur. Wondering if it also benefits by incre
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by dave333 2y ago
Amazing that you can get much the same functionality in a off brand $30 watch these days - at least monitors sleep and blood oxygen - although it explicitly does not do medical diagnosis. Still every senior should have one for many reasons.
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To view a diagram, select the Get Grammar tab, select a grammar, then click on the View Diagram tab.
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If there's a gas shortage we just go back to work from home as in Covid. That's what the long term plan should be anyway.
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I have no interest in or relation to Brilliant Light Power other than as a long time follower. Mills went to court to defend himself against an accusation of fraud I believe. Wikipedia is about 10 years out of date. As for 'crackpot &#
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by dave333 2y ago
It's worth repeating for the Nth time that dark matter may be a previously unknown form of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light because the electron is bound in a lower energy state than the traditional ground state. This is
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So physically inactive people, over a 10 year span, are 10-20% approx more likely to die from all causes than those who are physically active. Am I reading the conclusions/statistics correctly? I wonder how this varies with age. I woul
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Unforgiven Moonstruck Sense and Sensibility Enemy At The Gates Das Boot Sink The Bismark The Cruel Sea
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A similar exercise but much easier to do in an interview is to give a short piece of code that does something a bit non-trivial and ask them to write (paper or whiteboard) test cases for it. Can then either run the test cases and see if the
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by dave333 2y ago
Sudoku app made with about 4 prompts - quite buggy still and needs further UI/styling work but as a 10 minute rapid prototype it's impressive. https://llamacoder.together.ai/share/-Pb1A
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by dave333 2y ago
Sexist joke recycle: Heaven is an American boss, Chinese cook, Russian wife and English house. Hell is an English cook, Chinese house, Russian boss, and American wife.
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by dave333 2y ago
This is the other mistake I made - not moving away - now I have grandkids here and have to stay - tough life I know :-)
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A compromise would be joining a Unicorn that is post IPO but is hiring like crazy and growing fast. Hang onto the company stock rather than diversifying into index funds hoping it will grow much faster than average/split etc. No risk a
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by dave333 2y ago
The traditional view is that young engineers should join startups in hope of a massive payoff if one goes big, but working for 10 years at BigCo with good salary and stock plans can set you up for life without any risk. One path to avoid is
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by dave333 2y ago
They have trained their best customers to expect a BOGOF deal. We had Subway about a dozen times this year but only buy one get one free. Maybe they need to adjust their deals - buy one sandwich a month and you get $1 off a footlong, buy 2&
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by dave333 2y ago
Why do you need a tunnel? Proton beam is happy in a vacuum and magnets can be shaded a la James Webb for superconducting temperatures. Might need to put the collision area underground to minimize solar and cosmic noise.
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Presumably only the collision area needs to be underground to minimize noise. The rest of the ring can be above the surface. Building things on the moon is hard especially materials much easier to ship them from Earth using Starships or a d
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by dave333 2y ago
Next thought is to build it in space where there can be unlimited expansion of the ring diameter. Problem would be focusing the beam by aiming many freely floating magnets. Would require some form of electronic beam aiming that can correct
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Could this be made out of a large number of starships that land on the moon and have a magnet payload? Would require something on the order of 1000 starships 50 meters tall but only about 100 starships 100 meters tall. Perhaps an existing s
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by dave333 2y ago
There's a difference between freedom of speech and inciting riots with lies. Also what can get by in normal times may not do so in an emergency.
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One of these with a rocket mass heater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater would solve the smoke and heating problems in one go. Wouldn't need trees either as you could burn whatever is providing the
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by dave333 2y ago
Why does this remind me of the Four Yorkshiremen comedy sketch - "You were lucky! We lived in hole in the ground." https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE?si=exz-ZT2YMmZwmi1G
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To talk politics in a hopefully unbiased way, he notes that red/blue state level maps of politics gloss over a lot of detail and that maps at the congressional district level reveal the battleground districts and also gerrymandering.
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Glucosamine seems to be taken to treat joint pain and osteoarthritis but would a general anti-inflammatory effect be what causes a reduction in mortality if any?
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Off ramp speed limits are designed for all vehicles and drivers. Boy racers with go faster stripes can probably just double the number.
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Not sure about optimal speed, but long term it makes sense to have technology police speeding and minimize accidents whatever that takes for free.
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Far more interesting, novel, and deserving of more attention is Mills classical model of the atom as electrons in spinning fluid shell orbitspheres. Lots of predictions first made in the 1990s like accelerating expansion of the universe, da
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by dave333 2y ago
Simpler just to limit speed to the limit. Have the car do the policing for free. I just drove from LA to San Jose on I-5 (400 miles of mostly two lane freeway) using speed control set at the speed limit and it was very easy when everyone is
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Just knowing how many steps away from solved it is is a big help. If only a few steps away each move has to improve the layout visibly and if not it's probably wrong and you can revert it before you get too far into the weeds.

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