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by dogsgobork 4y ago
Until fairly recently heat pumps didn't operate at the temperatures regularly seen in the northern US and Canada. Hard to shift a lifetime of the choices being expensive resistance electric heating or (comparatively) cheaper burning fu
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by dogsgobork 4y ago
I think 5mph is pretty typical on a standard 15 amp circuit (pulling 12 amps per code). That would get 40 miles of charge in 8 hours.
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by dogsgobork 4y ago
I'm reminded of the anecdote about head injuries rates going up in war after helmets were issued. More head injuries due to fewer deaths.
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by dogsgobork 4y ago
Also worth noting that the most recently sold device (correct me if I'm wrong) that this release is supporting is the 6th gen iPod Touch, which was discontinued in May 2019. That's over 3 years of security updates at the worst cas
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by dogsgobork 4y ago
A quick search reveals that there have been about 15,000 deaths from covid in Cook County (The county Chicago is in, and makes up a large portion of). There's been about 110 weeks since the start of the pandemic, that averages out to a
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
The phrase "Eternal September" was coined on usenet once ISPs opened the floodgates of users to what was once a small community. The "September" referring to the yearly influx of new freshmen gaining access via universit
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
I think you just yell "Jesus take the wheel!" and hope for a miracle.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
As I understand, braking occurs across the entire train, not just via the drive axles, so the hybrid regeneration method would be a considerable departure from normal operations.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
For anyone interested in how terrible Chlorine trifluoride is, it's on perpetual HN favorite Derek Lowe's list of "Things I won't work with" https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-w
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
I hadn't really thought about it, but that makes a ton of sense. Smoke detectors typically use an alpha-emitter, smoke absorbs alpha particles, so a failure to detect is what triggers the alarm. The cost for a false-negative is much hi
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Except SpaceX's Starship design does include moveable wings/flaps.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Someone did a cannonball run in a Tesla in October, and also only charged for about 7 hours on their coast to coast run. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a38095522/ev-cannonball-re...
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Stand-up Maths did a video on this a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTDKqW_GLkw including creating a much larger version.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
The Smarter Every Day channel on Youtube did a series onboard a sub, and a couple of specifics that I remember being censored from the videos were 1) Performance characteristics of the sub (ie, how fast it could dive, how deep) and 2) How i
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Based on other recent events, any foreign power interested in secret submarine specifications should just create a "World of Subs" game.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Reminded me of Janet from The Good Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vo4Fdf7E0w
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
I noticed a few days ago that it didn't work for me, but used a site up/down checker that also said it was down. Figured they were having issues and didn't think any more about it. I just added a static entry to my pihole, so
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Solar might not work well if you're generating clouds.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
The issue is that Bolts are limited to 50kw of charging, even if the charger can offer more power.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
For anyone curious, Apple has release a few updates for iOS 12 since support for some devices was dropped with iOS 13, with 12.5.4 being released in June. The iPad Air mentioned above being a nearly 8 year old device. Are any Android device
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Drawing solar from states to the east would only make the duck curve worse though, right? Power production would taper off even earlier than the peak demand.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
With bitcoin you really can take it with you.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
The map appears to show the route as being mostly highway, with the destination being the airport. Depending on the time of day it wouldn't be unreasonable for that to average to about 60mph.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
Zuck's trying to catch up to Larry Ellison who owns nearly the entire island of Lanai in Hawaii.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
I would much rather be recognized as a pedestrian than a cone. Hitting a cone isn't great, but usually fairly harmless, the same can not be said about hitting a person.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
The US doesn't have an official language, nothing preventing anyone from running a store using only Lojban if they wanted.
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by dogsgobork 5y ago
"Shoot first and ask questions later" isn't a great doctrine for diplomacy either.
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by dogsgobork 6y ago
The dinosaurs really messed up by not having a space program.
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by dogsgobork 6y ago
I think people are conflating watts and amps, watts measure power, amps measure flow. Watts = amps * volts. High power usage with low voltages results in high amperage.
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by dogsgobork 6y ago
Inbreeding?

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