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by extrapickles 4y ago
If the thermal plant uses clean fuel (eg: gas fired) the CO2 in the exhaust would be useful for the greenhouse as well.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
This isn’t really about copyright, its about them promising to pay X for work Y, then refusing to pay X. The bigger authors in this case can afford good lawyers so they don’t have this problem. Its the authors who make 40-70k/yr where
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by extrapickles 4y ago
You use CO2 blasting to clean optics as it can be quite gentle when the system is tuned right. For some optical coatings, CO2 is pretty much the only way to mechanically clean them without damage.
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by extrapickles 4y ago
The Pioneer spacecraft speed anomaly turned out to be forgetting to account for the small amount of thrust from photons generated by the heat of the spacecraft (~1kph per decade).
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by extrapickles 4y ago
That is where the “Earn $XXX/mo for doing nothing” scams come in. The victim would be effectively laundering the money from any KYC. The victim would not be sophisticated enough to point law enforcement your way. So the chain would be
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Its a molten salt thorium reactor. [0]: https://thorconpower.com/design/
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by extrapickles 4y ago
Some of them compensate for wear if the wear rate is known (eg: 1000 welds cause .5mm erosion on the electrodes). You can only do this until the tool geometry becomes unsuitable for that particular operation.
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by extrapickles 5y ago
I'm involved with pneumatic connector manufacturing, and we had trouble for awhile getting raw aluminum at any price to make them. At one point we had to buy 3" aluminum bar and use our lathe to turn it down to the size we actuall
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by extrapickles 5y ago
They likely had trouble making it cheap and durable enough for the target market. Looking at the design files, the unit is quite fragile, thanks to the cheap vacuum formed plastic. What needs to be done is using some of the GIS tools they r
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by extrapickles 5y ago
That is where you fill the battery to 100%, this puts extra wear on the battery so you want to minimize the amount of time at 100%.
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Running out of fuel is pretty common in military vehicles as the fuel gauges are at best reliable to half a tank. Drivers are supposed to track how far they have driven, but if its driven by multiple people and someone forgets to log distan
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by extrapickles 5y ago
It's likely cheaper to have people that to automate further. One problem with automation is that if you are making bespoke products, engineering and capital costs for the automation cost more than a person. A printing press operator co
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Yes. When you leave is extremely important as its mostly about the relative alignment of the planets. You can trade a massive amount of fuel to get their faster, but waiting a month can sometimes shave 3 months off the travel time. If you l
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Adding noise helps, but an attacker can trade bitrate for noise immunity. Probably the only way of keeping data secure would be to heavily insulate (noise, thermal, RF, power, etc) the room so that any signal would take weeks to pass throug
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by extrapickles 5y ago
You could in theory do that. The downsides are that a turbopump needs comparatively perfect fuel, requires liquid oxygen instead of air, and would be inefficient in non-rocket applications (the ‘waste’ has other uses like cooling/prote
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by extrapickles 5y ago
It would help with scale if practically every well equipped gym and veterinarian had one. Also, a large supply of used machines will eventually exist so even poorer locations can afford one. This might have some interesting industrial appli
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by extrapickles 5y ago
I think the problem stems from that reducing redundancy and squeezing your labor is the easiest way to reduce costs. Then, when things 'blow up' you get to jack up prices and pocket the money for fixing the problem you created. Wi
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by extrapickles 5y ago
You would have to design the article to be repaired. The core material would need to be dissolvable so it can be refreshed along with the epoxy. I imagine the repair process would be something like: 1. Place bike/boat in mold/
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by extrapickles 5y ago
This may make it so carbon fiber items could be repaired as the epoxy can be removed and reapplied. Being able to repair goods is much better for the environment than being able to recycle them.
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by extrapickles 5y ago
I prefer to write SQL as most alternatives ether have runtime surprises or require more roundtrips to the database. I mostly work on line-of-business software, so if I was doing simple CRUD apps I might have a different opinion.
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Unless you are in an apartment/condo in the US (which can have 208V), you likely have 240V power in your house. I have a 240V 15A outlet in my kitchen so I can use a British kettle with a swapped plug. It would be nice if it was standa
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Earmarking revenue to a "noble cause" is a great way to protect the thing that is generating that revenue. It becomes a "you don't like firefighters/children/etc" argument whenever you want to remove or re
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by extrapickles 5y ago
They made nuclear artillery shells and bunker busters. This indicates they are not sensitive to shock. Since the impact is a known force & vector, you can pre-deform the mechanism so the impact causes the geometries to be correct, and&#
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by extrapickles 5y ago
The current record[0] in exploiting a timing difference is on the order of 100ns over the Internet. You can do much better if you can get your attack to execute on the same CPU as the victim (eg: the cheaper cloud servers you typically shar
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by extrapickles 5y ago
The GBU-57A/B is rated for 61m of penetration. I believe there has been testing of munitions that can do 100-150m, and that is roughly the depth you need to have a hope of fully containing the blast to eliminate fallout. I’m not aware
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by extrapickles 5y ago
The 2+ km CEP[0] of early ICBMs required a large warhead to ensure that the target would be taken out. With this large of an error, you can easily make fortified structures and bunkers survive a 'close' hit, so civilian targets we
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by extrapickles 5y ago
I think its 5-10 years before complete automation. We are seeing more partial automation, such as a deep fryer that will automatically lower/raise the fryer basket, and being able to order without needing waitstaff to take the order. T
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by extrapickles 5y ago
The plate also makes it easier to clean as without it peoples handprints will be in a wider area. For wood doors its even better as wood can be time consuming to clean well.
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by extrapickles 5y ago
Creating content is somewhat expensive, but not unreasonably so for their subscriber counts. A live action TV show costs $3-15 million to produce. They have ~116 million subscribers. If they “invest” $2/subscriber/month into new c
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by extrapickles 5y ago
There is a pin that provides access to the 3.3v standby bus, and a wake pin that can be used to wake the CPU.

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