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781.
by dmurray 2y ago
Yes, the values are produced by a geometric series. For E6, the series has a ratio of R, where R^6 = 10, and the values are further rounded to two significant figures.
782.
by dmurray 2y ago
If you can measure them with that precision, would it make sense to sell them with that accuracy too? So if you tried to manufacture a resistor at 68kΩ +/- 20%, and it actually ended up at 66kΩ +/- 1%, couldn't you now sell i
783.
by dmurray 2y ago
At some point a politician does have to make a decision on these things. The decision won't look like "should anyone who introduces an additional brand of deodorant be thrown in prison?" but more like "should we give a t
784.
by dmurray 2y ago
If it works like any other electronics product I've bought in the last ten years, the "AI" version will soon be cheaper thanks to subsidies from advertisers, while the "normal PC" will be twice as expensive and the
785.
by dmurray 2y ago
Thinking about this a bit more, I think I see what you mean - the example where you fold it into a torus is "intuitively flat" because when you leave the portal travelling north, you re-enter travelling north, etc. That property d
786.
by dmurray 2y ago
Why can't I do the same thing with the surface of a sphere? Take two circles, side by side, connected by an infinitesimally small overlap, and put portals all around the circles to their equivalent point in the other circle. Then fold
787.
by dmurray 2y ago
It seems like a reasonable complaint, but a subset of "Your bug is neither a regression nor a severe issue." Since the paid developers, just like literally everyone else who contributes, do fix the most serious bugs in their areas
788.
by dmurray 2y ago
> my recent 20 mile bike ride in Loudon county was nothing but massive datacenters and crisscrossing powerlines to support them. The western side of neighboring Prince William County is now being consumed for data centers. Is this actual
789.
by dmurray 2y ago
That's a commercial unit again, not something you throw in your trunk. That's probably the right solution to this - and something every tow truck will carry in 10 years - but it's not the "capacitor in the back" ana
790.
by dmurray 2y ago
Do these exist? A quick Google turns up this kind of thing [0] which, based on the price point and form factor, is aimed at tow truck operators rather than individual drivers. Costs $10k+ and will take up most of the back of your car. [0]
791.
by dmurray 2y ago
Nobody needs any more evidence of fraud at the large scale: SBF is already in prison. To claw back individual investments (some as low as $1,000, which can't justify much DD) you'll need more evidence than "this was made with
792.
by dmurray 2y ago
For some artists, embracing commercialism is more authentic than pretending not to care about money. Being a successful businesswoman is part of Taylor Swift's artistic identity, where it wasn't for Loretta Lynn. Selling sneaker
793.
by dmurray 2y ago
I'd say Jobs would have blown them away. He was a businessman and an obsessive who knew when to focus on the design versus the product versus the money. If investors in his era wanted a perfect pitch deck, his pitch deck would have bee
794.
by dmurray 2y ago
The article seems to be making the argument that - these "megasites" were bigger and more urban than your typical Neolithic village, and certainly than a typical group of nomads or hunter-gatherers. - normally, increased urbanisat
795.
by dmurray 2y ago
I would have said the opposite: if the ambitious microreactor part of their business plans fails, as is likely, it's more palatable to spin that as "we are concentrating on our nuclear fuel logistics and consulting arms" rath
796.
by dmurray 2y ago
The planet still shields you from half of those.
797.
by dmurray 2y ago
Most of the materials could surely be found on Mars. A shelter built out of sandbags would be a low tech solution that would get you a large part of the way there. Further, Mars itself shields you from half the radiation (at night), the Mar
798.
by dmurray 2y ago
I haven't changed anything! It's right there in the Wikipedia article - the 1950s frauds were in fact mainly about rigging the shows for entertainment value, ensuring the right contestants won. The FCC doesn't (didn't?)
799.
by dmurray 2y ago
Right, the show needs some winners. Management and producers might go a step further and realise that a charismatic underdog winning dramatically from hopeless circumstances would bring in even more viewers - perhaps something could be done
800.
by dmurray 2y ago
It's a triumph of regulation that he got his money. It would have been very natural for CBS to cite technical difficulties or find some other way to change the rules of the game, but US game shows in this era were terrified of the FCC,
801.
by dmurray 2y ago
> What if they worked for a dept. that didn't promote these things and may have had policy against them? Then they lack experience relevant to the job, right? That's like asking "what if the applicant has no experience tea
802.
by dmurray 2y ago
Wait, you're saying that British voters in 1989 couldn't reasonably have known the Conservative Party favoured water privatisation, because they wouldn't have read the small print of their manifesto? And also that voting marg
803.
by dmurray 2y ago
That's consistent with the article, which says that (a) a large part of PayPal's margin comes from convincing individual consumers, as opposed to businesses, to keep money at PayPal and (b) that while it's tempting to assume
804.
by dmurray 2y ago
Does Musk vote? I thought this had to be approved by a majority of disinterested shareholders.
805.
by dmurray 2y ago
Maybe Dell? Not exactly a consumer darling, but certainly a successful story for a PE LBO. There was a side plot of "PE partners with charismatic former founder", but the main story was PE cost-cutting, layoffs and loading the com
806.
by dmurray 2y ago
The "private equity kills beloved brand" stories are usually overcooked, as far as I can tell. They usually involve PE taking over firms that were already in financial trouble, which is what made them attractively priced to PE in
807.
by dmurray 2y ago
So does this set a precedent that OpenAI knows it should be paying the millions of rights holders who didn't grant it a license and yet saw it use their IP to generate billions of dollars of revenue?
808.
by dmurray 2y ago
Unsurprisingly, Mythbusters have tried it - not at the scale of an aircraft carrier, but a boat displacing a few tons: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a4101/4313387/
809.
by dmurray 2y ago
It seems like her main complaint is not that she's being expected to travel with adults or lie in the bassinet - but that the airport didn't know to provide her with a wheelchair. I would not expect that to be tied to age! I thoug
810.
by dmurray 2y ago
A bit more than "camaraderie" - they were almost certainly in a romantic relationship, whether or not it was physically consummated.

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