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by elihu 3y ago
Pumped hydro can work anywhere that has hills. It's just a lot cheaper in some locations than others, due to favorable geography. Water use just has to keep up with evaporation on average. I'm not sure why building a reservoir ne
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by elihu 3y ago
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
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by elihu 3y ago
I think it'd be valuable for anything that conducts electricity, and where resistive losses are significant or where strong electromagnets are desired. So, long distance electricity transmission, motors, generators, MRI machines and ma
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by elihu 3y ago
That's a good idea. Honestly, I find it pretty amazing that modern CPUs don't just instantly turn into a puddle of molten metal as soon as you turn them on. The critical temperature is 127 C, as the other commenter mentioned. Th
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by elihu 3y ago
I generally agree, but: > And means the hiring committee didn’t do sufficient due diligence to even ask people on his field if his work was valid. Detecting fraudulent results isn't always easy. If there was already a public contro
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by elihu 3y ago
If the "potential destination" indicator dot is under a piece it might be there but not visible.
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by elihu 3y ago
> Sears asserted that an individual with "average" skills could construct the entire house within a span of 90 days. I wonder what the actual average construction time was for owner-occupants? Three months sounds unrealistical
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by elihu 3y ago
> "this invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars through the specific material requirements, cobalt being the prime example," Goodenough was also involved in the invention of lithium iron phosphate batteries
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by elihu 3y ago
I don't know; I don't use a Mac.
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by elihu 3y ago
I would go one further and say that the default should be that programs cannot read, open, or see files at all unless they're either explicitly allow-listed to open those files, or the user has given permission for them to open those f
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by elihu 3y ago
1 ton vehicles would actually be an improvement on the status quo, at least in the U.S. where a "small" car is usually more like 3,000 to 4,000 pounds. Also, if self driving becomes wide-spread and successful, we're going to
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by elihu 3y ago
It's kind of unfortunate that eurorack cases and power supplies tend to be so expensive. My approach is to use cheap Meanwell supplies (a pair of RS-35-12s wired in bipolar configuration rather than the more common RT-65b) and laser c
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by elihu 3y ago
They would if they had control voltage out. Electro-Harmonix ships an expression pedal with the HOG2 that uses an accelerometer rather than a pot, and that also takes a power cord or batteries.
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by elihu 3y ago
That's true that it's hard to run a profitable business doing this, but I think you're missing the point. If a person's goal isn't to earn a living but just have a hobby that financially breaks even selling kits on
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by elihu 3y ago
I could see a well-motivated hobbyist or group of hobbyists doing the design for fun, or to make a point. People do similarly ambitious things all the time. Behringer has impressive scale, but honestly I think for PCB manufacture and assem
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by elihu 3y ago
Were they accused of violating patents? I thought that was a copyright/trademark dispute, and the suit failed in part because copyright doesn't protect device manufacturers against competitors making a product with the same schem
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by elihu 3y ago
I do use Alfa VCOs (or anyways AI Synthesis does, and I bought the chips through them to build some of their VCO modules), but it seems weird you'd recommend them over CEM, since presumably they're "ripping off" Curtis&#
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by elihu 3y ago
It would be funny if there was a community effort to make a schematic of the Neutron or Proton, design a board, and have it manufactured at JLCPCB or wherever. Sell it as a kit with all the SMD components already populated, all you have to
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by elihu 3y ago
You're using as an example of bad behavior one of the best examples of something good that Behringer has done. Those chips should be cloned, and now there are, I believe, at least three manufacturers of 3340 oscillator chips: CEM, Coo
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by elihu 3y ago
I like their expression pedals. Simple and functional. No power cord. Not unreasonably expensive.
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by elihu 3y ago
I suppose the interface might be covered by design patents, which are sort of like trademarks. I doubt it would be covered by a utility patent unless there was something really unusual about the interface. At any rate, patents expire afte
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by elihu 3y ago
At least with Edge and Crave they changed the UI so someone wouldn't necessarily know it's a clone unless they were familiar with both synths. I kind of wonder if this was an intentional decision for Behringer or if Moog trademark
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by elihu 3y ago
I don't think hardware analogy synthesizers are going anywhere anytime soon. Moog is probably facing a lot of competition though, and they aren't very active in the Eurorack modular space where a lot of the interesting new stuff
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by elihu 3y ago
I think the important thing is the trajectory. Is it getting better over time, or worse? It seems like a lot of software eventually hits a peak and starts a long, slow decline -- especially internet services and social media platforms.
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by elihu 3y ago
Sure; maybe you want a type of vehicle Tesla doesn't offer, or you want to buy from a vendor who's more open about making parts and service information available to users, or you want a more traditional car interface with normal s
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by elihu 3y ago
I suspect there's an aerodynamic cost as well. Over time, that might be significantly more expensive than the manufacturing costs. Weight is also an issue, though in this case at least the weight is low to the ground and would improve
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by elihu 3y ago
It's probably mostly standardization, I'd guess. I think a more sensible design would be to have the middle of the trailer low to the ground with a floor hump above the rear wheel well and the front where it hitches on to the truc
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by elihu 3y ago
> "The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, a lobbying outfit representing semitrailer builders, had little desire to make safer rear guards. In correspondence with the department, the TTMA said it would be 'far more practi
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by elihu 3y ago
I'd say that Eagle was more like the hobbyist's standard than the industry standard. It's what you used if you want something that would do small 2-sided boards for free.
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by elihu 3y ago
There are a lot of good tutorials on Youtube. I don't know of any particular one that's better than the rest. I haven't moved to Kicad 7 yet, I don't know how many tutorials have been updated to the latest version.

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