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by fghorow 3y ago
Respectfully, I disagree with the OP. I'm using a router distribution -- no names please -- where the firmware build process is so intricate that their documented way to build LTS .iso images is via a docker based system. I've had
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by fghorow 3y ago
Bouncy, bouncy.
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by fghorow 3y ago
There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who understand ternary. Those who don't understand ternary. And...
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by fghorow 3y ago
I'd be quite eager to see the elevation comparison (residual) between LiDAR and your surveying. In my game (geophysics) LiDAR is basically known for its ability to see through canopies -- through the virtual holes between leaves. They
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by fghorow 3y ago
So, who gets to tell J.C. Maxwell?
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by fghorow 3y ago
Summarized in 3 words: Eat Your Veggies.
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by fghorow 3y ago
Please, please don't store any passwords, health, or financial information in your stack unless you solve this!!!!
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by fghorow 3y ago
Can somebody please explain to me why a VP of Marketing is talking about engineering problems? Simple declarative sentences with pictures will do.
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by fghorow 3y ago
Back in the Usenet days, I saw some greybeard's .sig line: \\GO.SYSIN DD * DOO DAH DOO DAH (Checks beard color and blushes.)
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Ask HN: Alternatives to (Enshittified) Google Voice?
11 points by fghorow 3y ago|1 comments
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by fghorow 3y ago
MacKay's entire analysis is posed using KWh (and multiples) as a standard unit for energy. Why? From memory he stated it was because everything would otherwise need to be converted to Joules (or multiples) and KWh were at least a commo
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by fghorow 3y ago
My understanding is that it is "simple" resistance heating of the transmission lines (P = I^2 R). Which is why high voltage lines are good ideas ( V = I R ) -- they lower the current.
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by fghorow 3y ago
Yes indeed. Thanks for the pointer!
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by fghorow 3y ago
A great follow-up study would be to estimate any effects on this from Paxlovid treatment on cutting down the viral load. Naively (from a layperson) it make sense that leaving some cells uninfected via a lower load would help ameliorate the
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by fghorow 3y ago
So C = NC?
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by fghorow 3y ago
Hmm. I'm wondering how the short lengths of these papers might cause them to have lower information-theoretic entropy than the (in)famous "chicken" talk[1]? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
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by fghorow 3y ago
As always, look for the source of the stored energy. The Wikipedia article [1] is a good overview. Also, CO2 is a major byproduct of industrial production. While that might be a good feedstock for carbon capture and storage were this approa
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by fghorow 3y ago
Am I the only one to think of the Boxing Day tsunami -- ~200,000 dead -- or Fukushima, for that matter? There might only be minutes of warning to get one of these away from a shore connection...
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by fghorow 3y ago
Speaking as a geophysicist who worked in the research end of the Australian mining industry, just the fracturing of rock itself already consumes a LOT of energy. Thermodynamically, think of all the fracture surface area being created. If yo
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by fghorow 3y ago
I'm a scientist with an extensive scientific/numerical computing background. I was taught PL/I as my first language. My "load bearing" language path was Fortran -> (Forth) -> C -> C++(YUCK!) -> Python&#x
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by fghorow 3y ago
Something weird is going on. This site [1] suggests the MOID was about 0.02 AU. [1] https://www.projectpluto.com/neocp2/mpecs/ZTm0038.htm
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by fghorow 3y ago
According to a site [1] pointed to by another post in this page, the estimate for "Minimum Orbit Insertion Distance" was about 0.02 AU or about 3 million km (in round numbers). Luna's distance is roughly 384,000 km -- so call
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by fghorow 3y ago
Which following the contained link to Terrestrial Time (TT) states that TBD is relativity corrected TT, which itself is about 30 +/- seconds from UTC -- something much more familiar to we groundhogs...
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by fghorow 3y ago
While I suspect that your point is indeed valid, I think that contracts are a special case. Heck, I'm a native English speaker with graduate degrees, and even I can't understand many legal contracts written (ostensibly) in my nati
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by fghorow 3y ago
Errr, assuming that your electricity comes from a combustion source and a simple cycle power plant, at _best_ the work derived from the heat is about 35%. You need to account for that in your 80-90% calculation. (That is, .9 * .35 = .315 us
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by fghorow 3y ago
(Disclaimer, I have not read the paper, nor is it my field.) Taking "greater than 5 sigma" at face value, that sounds reasonably legit...
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by fghorow 3y ago
Planes are great for high frequency signals, granted. Deep stuff requires much longer frequencies.
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by fghorow 3y ago
Not to mention no more HUGE and HEAVY field coils to lug around and bury...
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by fghorow 3y ago
An oddball question for the device physicists here: Assume for now (subject to verification, of course!) that this material is a non-Cooper-pair superconductor. Could one still build Josephson junctions -- and SQUIDs -- from this material?
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by fghorow 3y ago
AVERAGE rate of renewable growth from 2004 to 2022 is less than the AVERAGE rate of growth in hydrocarbons over the same period. Just coincidentally, that period includes all of the boom in "unconventional" gas (i.e. fracking) whi

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