emanuensis

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by emanuensis 7y ago
Eh, i skipped the whole 5" era - i guess i saw them as too fragile. i developed and wrote my dissertation on 8"ers (mostly the "newer" ones with a capacity of 1MB). But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I&#x2
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Hemp? Long history of industrial usages (before prohibition) An excellent material for engineering. Grows anywhere, fast, a good greenifier.
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by emanuensis 7y ago
...only at the high end. There is still a rapid shrinkage of space for ordinary folk...
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Thanks, i will keep studying. In the mean time my actions will veer more towards IA than AI
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Sounds like @benl has been afflicted with the "Cartesian wound". Such dualistic thinking and ideas like free will are ~hard for us to work through. But perhaps the more important, and immediately tractable, question @benl brings u
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by emanuensis 7y ago
It is very simple: the big corporation that made them, owns them. They have the scale and tech to do decent refurbishment and/or recycling. It is simply done and ~swapping batteries is much faster than charging them. Standards exist an
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Cardboard is great! i use it to keep the weeds down, as it composts. Amazon's is much better ... any other box requires a very laborious removal of plastics and metals.
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Good design may not have made up for the "wealth inequality" aspect of ancient bike production ... but it could have surmounted the issue of bad roads: The Rungu 3-wheeled electric bike seems to be well suited to rough, off road,
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by emanuensis 7y ago
i get around the almost ubiquitous usage of the "more" page design by: 1) going to end of page (END button) 2) clicking 3) repeat until there is no more mores i only have to move mouse once, as the END button scrolls to the next m
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Great review! Yes both the review and the recent article i cited mention the use of hot and/or/both cold sources to boost efficiency. with high grades of both one can approach 100% Even low grade (AKA heat pump type) sources boost
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Much simpler would be join the scooter scheme of ~swappable rechargeable batteries ... a ready made standard that could then work for any vehicle up to a car By forcing ownership of batteries outside of consumers effective recycling could b
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Much better than batteries or gravity storage mechanisms is liquid air storage. It is not for small scale sites, but the bigger, the more economical, it becomes. As an OTS (off the shelf) solution i do not know why it is not used more... Li
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Liquid air storage offers cheapest route to 24 hour wind and solar(rechargenews.com)
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Genesis is but one example of an oral folklore. All cultures had them (before writing ... which invented forgetting, ref Socrates). i would not at all be surprised if their cladogram is pushed back in time to when we shared the earth with o
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by emanuensis 7y ago
If they could get over their proprietary dreams and just ~swap, instead of charge, the batteries it would be a lot faster for the users, would shift the recycling to entities that can do the job AND almost instantly build the needed infras
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Well to increase safety one can use a fuel like ~methanol with a regular ICE, no need for electric conversion or reformation, just a new carburetor! i was suggesting NH3 because it is much more dense and involves NO carbon at all. Like i sa
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Those languages where the tensor/array is the fundamental unit: such as the APL family. J and K have optimized builds using AVX.
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Haha, not so bad as loss of H2 containment (as seen IRL in Norway) ... and of course farmers deal with it every day.
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by emanuensis 7y ago
How 'bout Ammonia fuel cells?
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by emanuensis 7y ago
i would still like to know what "controlled experiments" exist. Has anyone done the studies to show it is not worth the while, eg that it does not remove carbon? Although just not removing carbon does not say seeding is not benefi
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by emanuensis 7y ago
i would be interested in what/where those "controlled experiments" were... my understanding is that even experimenting is a no no in the field of geoengineering. Versus reflective schemes this actually "removes" car
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by emanuensis 7y ago
A form of geoengineering is seeding Fe and P into appropriate places (good currents) of the ocean. This kickstarts aquatic life and removes carbon fast ... and as a by product creates whole new fisheries. It is fast and cheap enough that sm
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Never could figure out people who actually wanted an internal PSU ... i thought big tech forced them on us for reasons of their bottom line: Ie as planned obsolescence. Eg one could easily make a svelte "phone" with a 30 second ca
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Easy to digest food for us ... is also easy to digest for bacteria, so they can forget about us and go straight to the source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-overfed-bacteria-people-sick.h...
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Microbiome: Overfed bacteria [make] people sick(phys.org)
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by emanuensis 7y ago
>Bicycle brings you to public transit. Problem solved EVehicle brings you to public transit. Problem solved OW known as Park&Ride
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by emanuensis 7y ago
>I have seen an equally shocking occurrence on a bike. Yes, as a pedestrian in C in the 60's i was hit by a Cliffe on a bike ... going the wrong way on a one-way street, mind you. We, as a species, need to integrate more with others
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by emanuensis 7y ago
This is a shift from car centricity to a transport centricity for roads. Looking back in time we had one from horses to trolleys to cars. Now we could be beginning to see them in a broader light. Transport is growing now to include all kind
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by emanuensis 7y ago
Arest footage: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/media/ruptly-rt-julian-assang... >Russia has long expressed support for Assange. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in
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by emanuensis 8y ago
AWS is by far the market leader in cloud ... this is a good reason to switch to its main competitors: Azure & GCP. They only got to be No! by network effects, not by being better.

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