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811.
by dgacmu 3y ago
The investigation for S is pretty tame. But for TS they do a lot of interviews. I had a long conversation with an OPM investigator about one of my friends' past drug use (he got the clearance).
812.
by dgacmu 3y ago
It has a microphone built in. And that's a good idea, thanks. I've been dreading the idea of using ebay.
813.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Edge TPUs are low cost, low power inference devices the size of a dime. I have a hundred of them sitting in a closet. (Alas. Anyone want to buy 100 coral minis? :-) The TPUs you rent that are being discussed here are capable of training, co
814.
by dgacmu 3y ago
That is a part of what long distance running and cycling training accomplishes: shifting your consumption to a higher mix of fats vs glycogen at the same intensity level. (To avoid the pedantic "buts" here, yes, your body is still
815.
by dgacmu 3y ago
It's more expensive per unit power but heat pumps are more efficient than natural gas boilers. I can't easily retrofit, but a very high SEER heat pump comes out to a similar annual cost as my existing 96% efficient natural gas boi
816.
by dgacmu 3y ago
In Pittsburgh, my summertime natural gas bill is about $25 - That's with a gas stove, gas, water heater, and gas dryer. Of that, $14.50 is just the cost to be hooked up to gas. IOW, the connection fee is substantially higher than the c
817.
by dgacmu 3y ago
You're somehow ignoring the fact that natural gas is ... an energy source. Cooking uses energy, period, whether it's delivered in a pipe or a wire. The difference is that electricity _can_ be generated in a carbon-neutral way, but
818.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Congrats, Jean! Hope it's a good integration. -- Dave
819.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I chose the expensive one. The RadPower is a lot - a LOT - cheaper. The Tern is a bit nicer but not 3x nicer; just as with cars, there's diminishing returns on price, but I had the money and wanted to get the nicer one. But at $0.10 vs
820.
by dgacmu 3y ago
It could happen. I don't leave it parked outside very much - it stays in my garage at home and a lot of my uses for it are short, like dropping kids at school or taking kids to brief activity (this morning I'm talking 10yo to Kung
821.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Sure it is - it's less CO2, I'm in better shape, it's less wear on the roads, I don't take up parking spaces as much, and it lets us avoid buying a second car. (And it's a lot cheaper per mile) The perfect is the en
822.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I mean, maybe? I bike my two children to preschool + elementary on a cargo e-bike, weather permitting, and it's fantastic. Sometimes I take both at the same time, sometimes my wife and I split them up. Works great. When the weather suc
823.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Languages are turing-complete. Tools are not. Example: there are some shapes you cannot physically create as a single unit with a milling machine; they can only be created by additive deposition methods. Or more simply, while you _can_ scre
824.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I think this is mostly poor writing on the part of the author. You being able to "immediately notice" is contingent upon having read the data sheet, which was not linked nor reproduced, but the way it was presented made it seem li
825.
by dgacmu 3y ago
There were a lot of advertisements about " they call it pollution, we call it life" about 15-20 years ago, and I still see some billboards to that extent in PA, funded by groups like CEI: https://www.npr.org/templa
826.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I'd be curious to see examples of very tastefully concealed / unobtrusive / or well integrated access panels. (Asking for myself, because I agree with both of you - I hate having to open my lathe and plaster walls, but I also
827.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I believe all of these entities are currently _losing_ money hand over fist, but remain in the game because of the expectation of future profits.
828.
by dgacmu 3y ago
https://da-data.blogspot.com/?m=1 "Dave's Data" - very much a "whatever I want to post about" blog but with some of my historical cryptocurrency mining exploits, some CS professor babble, some cooki
829.
by dgacmu 3y ago
It's only 2^69, or 512 exa-decryptions. A 4090 does 44 tera ops/sec (roughly 2^45), so we're left with 2^24 × ops per decode. If it takes 1000 ops to check a key, that's 2^34, or 16 billion seconds. About 500 years. Give
830.
by dgacmu 3y ago
This may be true in some fields but it's generally not the case in academic computer science. (Generally.)
831.
by dgacmu 3y ago
LFP batteries have a much longer lifespan.
832.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Batteries are amazing for short term supply / grid stabilization. They can supply massive current on very short notice. But the cost per kilowatt hour is still painfully high if we're talking about more than a handful of hours. Fo
833.
by dgacmu 3y ago
No, it's more restricted than that. Think of 2d planes in 3 space: There are an infinite number of planes that you can construct on a line from A to C (they're all rotations of a plane extending out from that line).
834.
by dgacmu 3y ago
The heating is done by a solid state laser diode. It should be very reliable other than adding one more thing to an already complex drive head. (Which undoubtedly means the first generation or two will have some kinks to work out, but that&
835.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Yeah, but - the proposed congestion charge is only below 60th, and Columbia is up around 116th and higher. Much much easier to park near Columbia. Maybe a little more risk of having your car stolen, too. :) Also (adding this a few minutes l
836.
by dgacmu 3y ago
I mean, the answer is that this is New York City, not Seattle, where parking is going to cost you $30+ in the areas affected by the congestion charge. So we've already limited the discussion to the pretty well-off. Per the article itse
837.
by dgacmu 3y ago
50k had access if they wanted it. Most didn't use it. I'm confused why you don't believe me that internet penetration in the salt lake valley was very limited in 1994 - I was there, I ran an internet service provider, and pri
838.
by dgacmu 3y ago
It wasn't "way after" in Utah. Xmission turned on in October 1993. They grew a lot in 1994 but most people in the valley still did not have internet access yet. By 1996 the situation was very different - but 94 was still earl
839.
by dgacmu 3y ago
Population density helps a lot with internet access. Distance to COs is smaller, easier to wire, shorter backhaul, etc. The salt lake city metro area had reasonable density but, particularly 30 years ago, it wasn't like .. most places
840.
by dgacmu 3y ago
This is not correct for access open to the general public. The first commercial ISP in Utah, Xmission, was founded in 1993. Yes, many of us had internet access through the University of Utah before that (Pete Ashdown, the founder, had worke

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