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by dwd 1y ago
It was before anyone thought to apply gearing with a chain. The pedals directly turned the wheel, and a larger wheel got you more distance per turn. If you've ever watched someone on a unicycle you can see how much effort a small chain
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by dwd 1y ago
The Parkes radio telescope had issues with fast radio bursts that they couldn't attribute to what they were tracking. Turned out to be a microwave oven in a nearby building where the door was opened before it had stopped. While I would
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by dwd 1y ago
If you have kids this has excellent illustrations... https://www.amazon.com.au/Mulga-Bills-Bicycle-Deborah-Niland...
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Long haul trucks frequently beat this. I look after a second-hand truck dealer's website and there are often prime movers with 1m+ kilometers and less than 5 years old. Fun fact: Heavy machinery sales advertise the exact hours they hav
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by dwd 1y ago
A great example of how things were viewed at the time is the poem by AB "Banjo" Patterson: "Mulga Bill's Bycycle", first published in 1896. 'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He tu
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by dwd 1y ago
EOS (Aust) sent 160 of these to Ukraine to be mounted on M113 carriers and Kozak MRAPs. Could also be put on the back of a Toyota Hilux or other technicals. They use a Bushmaster 30mm cannon with proximity fuse HE rounds so they don't
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by dwd 1y ago
I did work experience in high school with the state department for the environment. Got to go out with one of the rangers for a day which was actually a lot of fun. I still remember what he said as we pulled into the car park for one of the
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by dwd 1y ago
This... I once worked on a massive codebase that had survived multiple acquisitions, renames and mergers over a 20 year period. By the time I left it had finally passed into the hands of a Fortune 500 global company. You would often find co
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by dwd 1y ago
Many of the MAN trucks in Europe are fitted out by a supplier like Rosenbauer (mentioned in the article) who pair a standard truck chassis (MAN, Scania, Mercedes, etc) with a modular equipment layout. You'll know their iconic Panther t
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by dwd 1y ago
There are Jazz Standards which people have tried to incorporate into various books and lists of what songs you should know to effectively play in a group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_standards
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by dwd 1y ago
This will always be peak F1 for me. There's something about the way the car twitches like it could go faster if you let it, and the sound! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0o697F1g8
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by dwd 1y ago
Really enjoy Jesper's work. Especially "City of Rome". I'd also recommend... Gareth Coker (Ori & the Blind Forest) "9999999" from the Portal 2 Soundtrack: Songs to Test By (composed by a Valve staffer) Bria
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Someone like Douglas Hoffman and his Interface Theory of Perception is one that comes to mind. Anyone who advocates a panpsychist view of reality seem to be trying to create a mathematical/physics proof for the existence of a God like
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by dwd 1y ago
The Harvard document is a copy of Edward I's 1297 Great Charter that is still partly in force today. There were earlier versions of the Magna Carta; originally authored by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1215, rejected, re
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Gilmour Space – Mission: Eris Testflight 1(gspace.com)
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by dwd 3y ago
Udio is blocked in Australia as of this morning.
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by dwd 3y ago
Once something starts to get talked about more widely then it probably deserves a mention, even if it is a gross simplification and really not useful except for describing a very prescribed narrative.
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by dwd 3y ago
The decels would have you believe that and link AI with climate change. While LLMs might produce negligable returns, what about AI advances in material science which could lead to breakthrough ideas in energy storage or more environmentally
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Which is similar to people confusing Agile with agile. There's a perverse Newspeak aspect to the way agile is implemented as Agile. Need to go back to core values like: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools."
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We seem to refuse to admit that companies are a microcosm of the broader cultural/political environment and politics as much as we try to avoid it, plays a big part in how we work. There are clear conservative/progressive ideologi
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by dwd 3y ago
No, that's fascism; Read Mussolini's manifesto. Fascism is basically Communism (as practiced); corporations own the means of production rather than the government, and it uses religion/nationalism rather than humanism/at
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by dwd 3y ago
There is some research regarding an increase in Saharan dust storms that retards hurricane development in the Eastern Atlantic. Apparently this is still trending upwards and has resulted in fewer hurricanes forming over the last few decades
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American/Canadian-only problem. Most of the rest of the Anglosphere call "gasoline" petrol, and you step on the accelerator. Gas in Australia actually refers to LPG.
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Hell yeah; my Mk5 everyday drive will be 16 this year.
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AEW3 variant I would agree, the original was a sleek conversion the dH Comet. Pretty nice design for a plane that first flew in the 40s! The Victor was also a sleek futuristic design and the every bit as impressive as the Vulcan. Never a fa
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I sometimes wonder if B5 or Firefly would have got a better go in the current environment of multiple subscription/streaming channels where there is a lot more appetite for shows that are different. B5 obviously would have come out dif
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You have to wonder if they did it on purpose, and someone just made the call that it wasn't worth hanging onto. Remember also that Crusader was canned after one season so there wasn't a lot of love for sci-fi. The CGI could have d
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by dwd 3y ago
There was also a throwaway comment about experts: "Mixture of Experts (Yiet al., 2023) have a sparse structure in their feed forward layer. This property can be used to combine with our method for enabling larger MoEs on device."
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> You still need to have an interesting idea that people would want to watch. The point is that it is something you alone want to watch, but I agree that it needs to be entertaining. I would personally want a Grok-like AI to be generatin
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All these prompt to video (VideoPoet, Pika, Runway, etc) are going to turn TikTok and other short video sites into toxic wastelands where everything and nothing is real anymore. But the real game-changer is going to be on-demand personal en

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