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by elihu 4y ago
I tried that once over Christmas break in high school. I like the idea of it, but the mouse-over text seems like a fairly accurate representation of my actual experience.
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by elihu 4y ago
Radiation on Mars can be resolved in the same way, by living in a cave. I expect the first permanent settlements on Mars will either be in sealed sections of lava tubes or in underground artificial structures.
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by elihu 4y ago
My heuristic is to just buy LEDs made by Phillips or GE, since invariably any generic or store-brand LED I've tried seems to lack rectification and/or filtering and stobes at 60 or 120 hz. I haven't tried any fancy/expe
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by elihu 4y ago
Perhaps the version of the upper stage they're launching is not equipped with whatever the relevant control surface hardware (ailerons / grid fins / etc..) is?
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by elihu 4y ago
From the article, they actually get most of their waste material from battery factories, which is interesting. > "That’s not to say there are enough old batteries coming in to fill the factory. Currently, 80 to 90 percent of what’s
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by elihu 4y ago
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/comparisons
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by elihu 4y ago
> Personally I think if they can't prove that you are cheating that you should be allowed to continue to play as long as you feel like and the casino stays afloat. I think it should be within the casinos rights to decline to continu
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by elihu 4y ago
NASA used that image, but the first words under it were "this is an artist's impression of..." which is the right way to label things if you don't want people mistaking an illustration for real data.
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by elihu 4y ago
This article is even worse, that it shows an illustration without a caption identifying it as an illustration, which is very misleading. (Later they show it again with the caption saying it's an illustration.)
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by elihu 4y ago
Bretton Woods officially ending in 1976, and was effectively killed in 1971 by Nixon when he ended the convertibility of dollars to gold.
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by elihu 4y ago
Kind of weird article that doesn't talk about either the main benefits or design hurdles. The advantage of the LiquidPiston design is that at the time of ignition, the combustion chamber is a roughly round shape, as opposed to a tradi
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by elihu 4y ago
I think the main positive impact Microsoft had on the tech industry that they don't get enough credit for is that they allowed a competitive market for hardware to exist. (This was in part because IBM didn't insist that DOS be ex
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by elihu 4y ago
Yep, can confirm I have no interest in using Apple products. The user experience may be better and they might have a better track record in some regards than Windows and Android, but they're still a walled garden and they still behave
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by elihu 4y ago
I don't doubt that apps installed by Lenovo are exacerbating the problem, but even with a clean install it's still Windows. I use Linux for a variety of reasons, some technical, some aesthetic, but mostly because the systems are
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by elihu 4y ago
...and they're congratulating themselves on having reduced the memory overhead of a chat app from ~1GB to ~500MB.
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by elihu 4y ago
I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad from Costco for about $500. The last time I bought a computer preloaded with Windows was about a decade ago. My experience so far: I turn it on, there's a license agreement. Actually, there's two.
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by elihu 4y ago
That's one theory. There's a competing theory that corporations have obligations to shareholders, customers, employees, and the community in which they operate. And as a practical matter, corporations can usually get away "
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by elihu 4y ago
It's like a conference, but there isn't an attendance fee or pre-scheduled presenters. At the beginning, there's a big board with a grid of timeslots and rooms. If you want to give a talk, you write down your name and what
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by elihu 4y ago
I wonder if being multiplanetary actually makes a civilization more vulnerable rather than less? The thing about nuclear war on Earth is that it's basically unwinnable because of mutually assured destruction, and the threat of nuclear
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by elihu 4y ago
> "After it launches, the Super Heavy rocket will fly from SpaceX's Starbase launch site eastward, over the Gulf of Mexico. For this test, the booster will not attempt a landing. After stage separation, the Starship upper vehic
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by elihu 4y ago
Maybe that percentage is too high? If they were to drop it down a little, they'd give industrious researchers some motivation to apply. Requiring 100% to go to R&D implies that the only companies who would ever apply are the ones
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by elihu 4y ago
My most recent job was with Intel. I got invited to some kind of recruiting event, I'm not sure how. One of my friends was trying to get me to join, so maybe he sent them my email address? Or maybe they spotted me on LinkedIn? I ha
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by elihu 4y ago
Thinking back on my life, I can't remember a single example where I ever got a job just by submitting a resume. Either I already knew someone in the organization or otherwise had a relationship with it to begin with (e.g. I got a summ
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by elihu 4y ago
The way it /actually/ works in the U.S. is that the government directly funds a lot of basic research, and that research is done mostly by Universities. The researchers build prototypes and run experiments and write papers, and s
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by elihu 4y ago
One thing the U.S. does is put out grants to investigate some thing. They might want someone to do some preliminary research, or build a product, or whatever. One of the stipulations of many of these grants is that some large percentage of
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by elihu 4y ago
It's perhaps worth mentioning that metal halide bulbs are an alternative to LEDs that are efficient and produce high quality light. They use an electric arc in an inert gas between tungsten electrodes. The old high pressure sodium li
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by elihu 4y ago
LEDs are sensitive to heat. It might be that recessed lighting is causing your bulbs to overheat and fail early because they don't have enough ventilation.
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by elihu 4y ago
> Also, if you haven't changed brake pads, I wonder how many miles you've driven it. Was this your primary car? I don't know about Leafs specifically, but brake pads usually last a long time in EVs due to regenerative brak
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by elihu 4y ago
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is opposed to the TikTok ban. About 5 days ago, she posted a video on TikTok explaining her thinking here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aocinthehouse/video/7214318917135830... The summary is:
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by elihu 4y ago
I think they have half-doors now. It's kind of a weird thing not to have fully figured out at this point, but I give them credit for actually releasing a product and iterating.

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