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by fghorow 3y ago
"I fart in your general direction." </ObMontyPythonOutrageousFrenchAccent>
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by fghorow 3y ago
Nope. Use it for grant proposals...
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by fghorow 3y ago
Microgravity surveying is great for this and other geo applications. I know of many geothermal fields mapped the same way to monitor fluid level and steam migration. Good stuff!
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by fghorow 3y ago
OK, dig responses: DNS1 8.8.8.8 (google, obviously) """ dig -t AAAA ipv4only.arpa @8.8.8.8 ; <<>> DiG 9.18.13 <<>> -t AAAA ipv4only.arpa @8.8.8.8 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEAD
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by fghorow 3y ago
Honest question: Does anybody have experience with this behind an ISP CGNAT network that provides IPV6 as well? I'm getting worn down from trying to deal with CGNAT and IPv4 for my homelab...
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by fghorow 3y ago
Prior to the 2017 "Great American Eclipse", I made reservations at two hotels -- each within a day's drive of my location that were near the path of totality. I then built a screenscraper from one of the weather sites (WUnder
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by fghorow 4y ago
I have (air source) heat pump water heaters in two different basements. (Don't ask.) A big win for me is that I no longer need to run a dehumidifier in those basements. The cold air output from a water heater alone is good enough to ke
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by fghorow 4y ago
Not to mention the Carnot efficiency losses causing ~50-70% of the heat energy at the generator to go out its cooling system. Yes, It's not clear at all that heat pumps are always a win -- depending on the energy source mix of your loc
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by fghorow 4y ago
Personally, I LOVE my (2019) Volt. FWIW, it also has AA/Car Play. First they kill the Volt -- IMHO the best PHEV on the market when I bought it -- now they kill a vastly superior interface to anything I've ever used in a car. S
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by fghorow 4y ago
Honest question. Schwab owns TD Ameritrade. What happens to customers of TD Ameritrade if Schwab implodes?
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by fghorow 4y ago
The actual journal article (Magee, et al. 2023) is Creative Commons licensed. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36655-1
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by fghorow 4y ago
"Fair cop, then."
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by fghorow 4y ago
It's not just granites or other igneous rocks. A major rock-forming mineral is Potassium Feldspar (K-spar to geologists). The weathering products of K-spar include many varieties of clay. Those, in turn, wind up incorporated in sedimen
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by fghorow 4y ago
Your guess about the airframes being booked has a ring of truth to it. I hadn't thought of that, and was wondering why radiometrics wasn't being used from the beginning.
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by fghorow 4y ago
The only way out is through. It was true for me in the '80s, it's still true now. Just finish the bloody thing.
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by fghorow 4y ago
For my tastes, Strang's Linear Algebra book is a winner! I'm somewhat surprised the nobody has mentioned it yet...
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by fghorow 4y ago
A tricorder with a fancier name, eh? I know some geochemists who would love a portable mass spec...
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by fghorow 4y ago
Szilard certainly nailed it with this piece.
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by fghorow 4y ago
Yeah. Kinda like deploying SAP. But this one bolted to another unsuspecting org when the shitshow that everybody was warning them about became reality. Feh.
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by fghorow 4y ago
A long time ago -- in a continent far, far away -- I did a back of the envelope calculation for the area of solar PV required to power Australia's total energy consumption (not just electricity, but heat, industry, and transportation t
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by fghorow 4y ago
"Base eight is just like base ten, really... If you are missing two fingers."
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by fghorow 4y ago
I was forced to use an SAP product at an old job about 15 years ago. Unfortunately, I find it completely unsurprising that any SAP.* product is a dis-organized mess of a kludge, with no rationality evident anywhere. Oh, and the CIO who fois
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by fghorow 4y ago
Now there is a budding seismologist's answer! ;-)
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by fghorow 4y ago
"Undersea mining" is mostly scooping up mineralized stuff ("Manganese Nodules") using a dredge-like apparatus. To my knowledge, nobody uses explosives for that style of mining, and undersea mining is relatively rare anyw
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by fghorow 4y ago
Paging Erich Von Daniken.
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by fghorow 4y ago
News item. " MY research is TRANSFORMATIONAL."
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A live animation of Starlink satellites on orbit(satellitemap.space)
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by fghorow 4y ago
Overkill? Maybe. Maybe not. https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/uk-nuclear-power-decom...
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by fghorow 4y ago
Long term nuclear storage is one problem. Who pays for the decommissioning is another one. In many cases it turns out to be the taxpayer.
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by fghorow 4y ago
Chena Hot Springs geothermal is a heat pump. It's an absorption chiller used partially (primarily?) to keep an ice house chilled as a tourist attraction. It works for such relatively low geothermal temperatures because the average Ca

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