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by femto 5y ago
Lint can catch fire. https://www.consumerreports.org/clothes-dryer/how-to-prevent...
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by femto 5y ago
The real test of a self driving car is whether the manufacturer is prepared to back it by up-front accepting 100% liability for it. Anything less than that and they are passing risk onto the customer.
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The article is basically a link to: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...
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I'd propose that joy can trump health and autonomy. Some people have neither health or full autonomy, but they find joy in whatever situation they are in. As such, joy can also be resilient.
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I'd say it is an engineering truism, gleaned from experience with designing and building physical things, that has been adopted by the software community. The way I originally heard it was that problems are 1 x harder to fix during des
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Related to Reconfigurable Computing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurable_computing It was big in the 1990's, but never took off. Maybe it's time has come?
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by femto 5y ago
Please do put a submission into Australia's currently open inquiry into the Right to Repair, being run by the Productivity Commission! Submissions are due by Friday 23rd of July. https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/cu
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by femto 5y ago
A nice visualization, but can I using the per capita numbers (page 14 of the paper)? The absolute numbers essentially colour codes the map according to population. --- Edit: Please disregard the above, as I just realised that you generated
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> ..., no work to do, Generally the case is that there is still way to much to do, so you can't do your own thing: but your assigned tasks are meaningless. Think of being paid to dig a hole and fill it in again, and you will be fir
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Right to Repair – Submissions Open to Productivity Commission(pc.gov.au)
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Don't we already have that, in the form of the numerous food delivery services? You can log into your "machine" (ie. phone) and order whatever you want. It then magically appears at your front door. It doesn't pop out
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by femto 5y ago
A comparison with reverse osmosis: 2.46kWh/m^3 (energy consumed per unit of water produced) is claimed for reverse osmisis [1]. This equates to 8.86MJ/m^3. Output for this still is 7L/(m^2.h) Assume a solar flux of 1kW&#x2F
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I disagree, in that the problem is the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese people. It's also contradictory to counter a bully by being a bully. Having said that: iron ore, not food. As a thought experiment: it would be most effe
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Less than 1us is relatively straightforward on an embedded system. My application was simulcast for a software defined radio. It was running on a TMS320 DSP (192MHz) with DSP/BIOS as the operating system. Timing was driven by a GPS 1
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Parents urged to keep Apple AirTags away from children as safety precaution(accc.gov.au)
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I prefer the actual SBB clock in that its second hand sweeps smoothly, where as the second hand on the Mondain watch ticks. It's the combination of the smooth sweep and the stop that make the railway clock. Each revolution is a remin
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Missing from the list are the space telescopes that look inwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
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Typically there is less damage in the areas where tourists dive. As the reef experiences more bleaching events and dies, the tourism operators cherry pick the parts that aren't bleached. The reef has pretty well had it due to climate
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With pumped storage you don't need anywhere near the amount of water or storage needed for straight Hydro. In a 24 hour cycle, you can empty the top dam into the low dam, running the generators flat chat (unlike typical hydro which is
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by femto 5y ago
srsRAN (srsLTE until recently) has UE (modem) code. https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN/tree/master/srsue
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Interestingly their jobs page lists countries next to each remote position. I assume that this is because their HR system can only deal with a finite set of labour laws? Do those "employ anyone anywhere services" really work in a
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This will be about the traceability of the approval. The standards and procedures used by an accredited lab are calibrated against a chain of standards that can ultimately be traced back to the body that maintains national measurement stand
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Reading Wikipedia, David Warren died in 2010, and his coffin was labelled "FLIGHT RECORDER INVENTOR DO NOT OPEN". Nice. https://www.wsj.com/media/072310pod05.jpg
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And elections are run by the Australian Electoral Commission, which is largely independent of the government. https://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/
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As an Australian, I've always understood the "Great Southern Ocean" to lie south of Australia, and never realised that it wasn't called this outside Australia. I guess that's where the Australian government's
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is covering it in more detail than the Reuters article, including some of the mechanics of how it was pulled off: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-cr
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by femto 5y ago
Mining [1] worth $160+ billion per year. There are mammoth automated iron ore mines in that area [2], with railways to Port Hedland [3]. No doubt their communications links follow the railway alignment to Port Hedland, then join the under
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by femto 5y ago
HVDC can go much further than across the Channel. Suncable is scheduled to go live in 2027. It will connect Australia with Singapore (3350km), the plan being that Australian solar arrays will provide 20% of Singapore's power. The cu
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by femto 5y ago
It would be interesting to have a similar map for submarine power cables. It's early days, but the power grid will eventually go global too.

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