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811.
by elihu 4y ago
I wonder what hobbyists and historians may find in future decades in our old chips. Clever techniques that were invented much earlier that anyone suspected. Weird Easter eggs. Security flaws and backdoors. Features that were implemented
812.
by elihu 4y ago
A random anecdote: there's a guy with a YouTube channel called LookMumNoComputer that features unusual electronic musical instruments and modular synthesizers. Most modular synthesizers use the Eurorack format popularized by Doepfer,
813.
by elihu 5y ago
I agree it's kind of confusing. It's been awhile since I played and I never understood it 100%, but anyways there are certain kinds of buildings that expand your territory, and their range of control goes up with tech level. If
814.
by elihu 5y ago
I was thinking more about the copyright on the score, and whether other people would be able to freely copy it, make their own recordings, create derivative works, and so on.
815.
by elihu 5y ago
Kind of a weird corner case for copyright law; a piece whose copyright expires part way through the performance. Presumably it expires (in the U.S.) 70 years after John Cage's death (1992 + 70 = 2062), but if it had instead been produ
816.
by elihu 5y ago
That generally applies to small airports. Single-engine planes often use leaded gas, but the big jets don't.
817.
by elihu 5y ago
Tungsten is 19.25, gold is 19.3, and osmium is 22.59 g/cm^3. Tungsten isn't quite the densest material around, but it's in the general ballpark.
818.
by elihu 5y ago
I do a little TIG welding. The electrodes are made of mostly tungsten. (Tungsten is used for its high melting point. Lanthanum or some other elements are often added to raise the melting point somewhat.) The electrodes aren't very b
819.
by elihu 5y ago
I once bought a band saw from Amazon with free shipping. (I didn't have Prime, it was just regular free shipping.) I could have bought it locally, but I didn't have a convenient way to get it home. In my case, free shipping didn
820.
by elihu 5y ago
That seems plausible. Netflix has an obtuse interface in order to obscure the fact that their catalog of content isn't very big, and has shrunk considerably in recent years (due largely to other content owners realizing that it's
821.
by elihu 5y ago
(Article is from July 23, 2021.)
822.
by elihu 5y ago
Does "motherboard" even make sense as a term? It's not like a motherboard gives birth to little baby boards that eventually grow up to be mother and father boards of their own. It's just one of those weird words we acc
823.
by elihu 5y ago
> If you are trying to figure out why you'd pay for this you aren't their target market. It's far more interesting (to me) to think about why some people WOULD pay for this and what a market looks like that you are not a p
824.
by elihu 5y ago
Honestly, this thing works pretty well for my use case: https://www.amazon.com/Moukey-MK0149-RD-FR-Ultra-Low-Noise-6... It's not quite the same thing as the TX-6, but if I were to go to the substantial effort of maki
825.
by elihu 5y ago
I think I would be a little bit relieved to discover that alien civilizations exist and they haven't destroyed us yet even though they probably could have. (Granted we haven't had radio very long, so it's possible they'
826.
by elihu 5y ago
In those farming/logging videos, the helicopter is picking up stationary objects and depositing them in a desired location. I have trouble imagining that catching a moving object would be less dangerous, except to the extent that the
827.
by elihu 5y ago
The brine is injected back underground, quite a bit cooler and minus some amount of lithium and chloride.
828.
by elihu 5y ago
I agree with that, and would add that gas stations aren't particularly suitable for EV charging. They're often built on small lots and rely on high throughput to serve a lot of customers. EV charging is slower and therefore requ
829.
by elihu 5y ago
What's the alternative? To use absolute paths for everything? That seems kind of tedious, and may be slightly less performant if the kernel has to do more dentry lookups. I think the idea of a current working directory is a reasonabl
830.
by elihu 5y ago
The basic POSIX interface works, but it's hardly optimal. It has a lot of weird built-in assumptions that we're just so used to working around that it's hard to imagine it being any other way. As an example: why can a proces
831.
by elihu 5y ago
Nickel isn't essential, or cobalt for that matter. It's used in high-end batteries, but LFP is good enough for use in EVs and using nickel-based batteries for grid storage is just plain wasteful.
832.
by elihu 5y ago
What key part of the battery supply chain is Russia involved in?
833.
by elihu 5y ago
If (presumed) single protons can be considered "objects" there's also the "oh-my-God particle" of 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
834.
by elihu 5y ago
Access to services is probably the main thing: schools, hospitals, grocery stores. Plumbing and electricity is a pretty low bar since wells and septic fields are a thing, and even electricity can be generated on site these days if it'
835.
by elihu 5y ago
> Welcome to Russia. They don't fly SEED. I assume you mean SEAD? (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses)
836.
by elihu 5y ago
There's an interesting theory I came across that a lot of the cheap housing of that era was due to the interstate highway system, built partly during WWII. A lot of land that before was too far from cities for people to commute sudden
837.
by elihu 5y ago
John Oliver did a video a few days ago [1] about some of the problems that truckers face. I can see where having an employer and a fixed salary, even if it's from Walmart, might be preferable to having to deal being an independent truc
838.
by elihu 5y ago
My non-expert impression is that antidepressant drugs, therapy, and exercise are each about equally effective against depression but whether they work or not varies from one person to the next. So, it's worth trying therapy and exerci
839.
by elihu 5y ago
Yep, that's all true. I meant that L1 and L2 use an external AC power source.
840.
by elihu 5y ago
I can believe this is true. It's easier to make reliable AC switches because whatever arcing you get is self-extinguishing because the voltage passes zero 120 times a second. With DC, if you get an arc it'll just keep going as l

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