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by floxy 3y ago
Which war is causing the burrito material shortage? And what burrito materials are in short supply because of the war?
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by floxy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that CarEdge data was for the U.S. only. Looks like Toyota sold 2,248,477 vehicles in the U.S. in 2023: https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-motor-north-america-repo... ...so that jives with the 43 days
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by floxy 3y ago
Thinking about it a little more, I suppose for something like the flying toasters, the toasters were probably like 50x50 px sprites. 8 bit color per pixel. Maybe 10 frames of animation. So 25 kB, and add 5 kB for the toast sprites. And
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by floxy 3y ago
Just as interesting, what were the requirements for the original screensaver? Certainly it ran on Windows 3.0. How many floppy disks did it come on? How much RAM did it use? It almost certainly has to be less than 1MB, probably much les
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by floxy 3y ago
I guess this means that freight trains won't be self-driving in the near future(? ) Is anyone even working on automated long distance trains (in the U.S. or elsewhere)? (i.e. not airport shuttles / subways). Seems like that wou
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by floxy 3y ago
>have over 100,000 cars in inventory, or over a month of deliveries. Is that critical to their cash-flow? Seems like that is better than Toyota, which according to [0], has 261,000 new vehicles in inventory (or the dealers do), which is
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by floxy 3y ago
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/09/25/precision-physics-table... https://phys.org/news/2014-12-world-compact-tabletop-particl...
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by floxy 3y ago
>We need that ONE paper on analogue https://www.analog.com/en/resources/analog-dialogue/articles...
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by floxy 3y ago
Maybe... https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-blobs-in-image-o... https://www.astronomy.com/science/blob-of-hot-gas-swirls-aro... ...or the elongation might be due to the fact that it is sp
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by floxy 3y ago
I hesitated to use the word "construction" on purpose, because invariably someone on HN chimes in how back breaking manual labor is and how it wears out your body prematurely, etc.. :) >I don't think any amount of money c
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by floxy 3y ago
“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example,
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by floxy 3y ago
If someone is convinced that all housing is going to stay/become extravagantly expensive, shouldn't they get into real estate development to cash in on the opportunity? So they can build houses/condos/etc. Seems like t
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by floxy 3y ago
I didn't know I was supposed to be insulted by PMI, so I just paid it.
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by floxy 3y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=conventional+97+mortgage&ia...
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by floxy 3y ago
What is the genesis of this? Did someone discover this using a fuzzer? Or is this a minimal test case of a real-world program that someone was pulling their hair out over for a while.
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by floxy 3y ago
And is there any integrated circuit process that requires 100+ masks?
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by floxy 3y ago
>“You’re talking about something with over a hundred layers of substrate,” Can anyone point me in the direction of a commercially available or military product with a PCB that has more than 100 layers? Presuming that is ~50 copper layer
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by floxy 3y ago
>People opposing airport construction still want to fly. In this age of big data, is there a way to quantify this? My gut feeling is that this is a very heavily Pareto-like distribution, with maybe say 5% of the population accounting fo
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by floxy 3y ago
So is Reddit going public to raise money for infrastructure expansion or other business growth? Or is it mostly for a payday for the various owners?
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by floxy 3y ago
Adding to that, with all of the various third parties, and co-mingling of inventory on Amazon, I don't feel like the odds are good that I'm not getting a counterfeit item. No way would I trust a food/vitamin or anything that
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by floxy 3y ago
I found that it is about 180 people (according to the FAQ: https://www.savechandra.org/faq ). Anyone know the breakdown of those roles? Like there are: 4 Operators who are responsible for the day-to-day pointing of th
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by floxy 3y ago
Does anyone have a rough breakdown of the $70 million per year? Is that like 100 full-time scientists and engineers plus overhead (buildings, etc.)? Or are there ground-based hardware upgrade costs? Other?
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by floxy 3y ago
Three data points doesn't seem like quite enough points to make an interesting-looking trend curve for the man-years per copper ton. Compare to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#/media/File
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by floxy 3y ago
Speaking of curb cuts, recently in my town, they ripped up the sidewalks with already existing curb cuts, and added a new yellow pad with raised bumps in addition to new curbs (with the cuts). I was going to ask what this was for, but a qu
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by floxy 3y ago
If a new theory fits 199,999,999,985 galaxies, you deal with the remaining 15 edge cases one at a time.
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by floxy 3y ago
Seems like a matter of game theory strategy vs. tactics. If everyone were to fight back against muggers, it seems like there would be fewer muggings. But tactically, it might be best for an individual to hand over the wallet.
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by floxy 3y ago
How do we enforce every other law? If the authorities get wind of someone paying a ransom, they could investigate and then decide to prosecute if they discover that it was highly likely that a ransom payment was made. For the specifics of
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by floxy 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-...
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by floxy 3y ago
The biggest coup d'état was training an entire generation of children to be virtual mining operators.
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by floxy 3y ago
Anyone know the pressure at the top of Titan's ocean? (That is, just under the ice) At first blush I was thinking it might be pretty substantial for a submersible with that much ice, but then the gravity is significantly less than ear

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