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by frankus 5y ago
There’s a related product (can’t find the link) that has a physical connection to the bike that includes a load cell that drives a motor in the trailer to keep the net force (when accelerating or braking) at zero. In fact if you know the gr
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by frankus 5y ago
The rule is under 100Wh per battery, usually without a clear limit as to how many batteries. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
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by frankus 5y ago
That might be a bit over the limit as far as the insurance that they offer.
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by frankus 5y ago
Tungsten is about the only minimally-hazardous substance I could find that could max out the 70-pound weight limit on a (US) Priority Mail flat-rate envelope, but that would be an expensive stunt.
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by frankus 5y ago
I remember back in the late 90s I had a BeBox and there was this cool nodes-and-connections audio program where you could add various effects. My friend mentioned this delay effect and so we rigged up a graph where one stereo channel was d
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Is Geothermal Going to Be a Thing?(austinvernon.eth.link)
5 points by frankus 5y ago|1 comments
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by frankus 5y ago
> Don’t we grow food specifically for livestock though? I think that’s the central point of this thread where folks are talking past one a other. In a hypothetical scenario where animals are more or less only eating food that humans can’
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by frankus 5y ago
There’s the question of what sort of feedstocks they’re using and where they come from. I would assume that it’s something like what the animals they’re replacing eat, but presumably in smaller quantities since they’re only growing muscle t
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by frankus 5y ago
I’d love to see someone make insulation displacement crimping work for wiring. Maybe even build it into the wall box rather than the fixture, and just have the fixture plug into to wall box.
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by frankus 5y ago
The requirement to have a license for these types of fields is reasonable. What tends to happen, however, is that the requirements to acquire a license grow beyond basic health and safety to include a ton of formal education. This is probab
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Inertial Electric Assist(metromotive.com)
2 points by frankus 5y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 5y ago
Sort of unrelated but I wonder if this could make certain kinds of latitude/longitude calculations easier.
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by frankus 5y ago
Commercial-grade dishwashers (or at least the ones we foolishly installed at an office I worked at) are also more about sanitizing than removing caked on food or whatever. You can probably get away with putting unrinsed glasses but plates a
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by frankus 5y ago
I’ve gradually developed the same instincts around mechanical and home improvement tasks. “How could this five-minute task turn into a multi-hour nightmare?” Examples could be spilling a poorly placed can of paint all over the carpet, or ha
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by frankus 5y ago
This kind of wattage opens up some non-computing applications like charging small electric vehicles and power tools.
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by frankus 5y ago
This is probably more of a thriller-novel MacGuffin than a hypothesis, but if you compromised a few nearby cell towers to interfere with each other just so, it might be possible to create a small pocket of very intense radiation without nee
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by frankus 5y ago
I suspect because it’s a lot easier to send a DMCA takedown notice of questionable legitimacy than to litigate patent infringement.
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by frankus 5y ago
One of the downsides (or maybe double-edged swords) of kinetic energy storage is that it's relatively easy to accidentally get all of the energy out at once. A stick of butter and an 2-tonne truck at 216 km/h both "contain&qu
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by frankus 5y ago
Not an epidemiologist but a bit of googling suggests that humans are the sole reservoir for the varieties of parasites that can cause malaria in humans. I wonder if how much closer a 77% effective vaccine could bring is to eradicating the
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by frankus 6y ago
Maybe not exactly under the radar, but when I was last doing professional EE/hardware/embedded work around the turn of the millennium, the software (EDA, compilers, CAD) and hardware (instrumentation, evaluation boards, PCB fabric
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by frankus 6y ago
Related post by Scott Alexander: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...
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by frankus 6y ago
Here’s an article from 2001 discussing a very similar issue: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/
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by frankus 6y ago
Fingers crossed that they bring it back with the M-whatever iMacs when they come out. 100% speculating but I could see it being something that Intel's TB3 chips weren't set up to handle and that's why they dropped.
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by frankus 6y ago
What you have to watch out for is displacing housing to build vertical farms. It’s absurdly cheaper and easier to move food for a person into a city than to move that person in and out of the city on a daily basis.
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by frankus 6y ago
Are there materials that fluoresce at a shorter wavelength than what they absorb? I was under the impression that it was a one-way thing (absorb short wavelength and emit longer wavelength).
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by frankus 6y ago
Being a bureaucrat in the US doesn’t pay especially well, probably because US taxpayers are price conscious in a sort of penny-wise-pound-foolish way. (In most states the highest paid public official is the coach of the football team of the
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by frankus 6y ago
I'm trying and failing to come up with a use case where this is more practical than a rechargeable (and/or swappable) battery in a scooter. Refueling something like this would be faster than recharging, but if "quick recharge
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by frankus 6y ago
I think the main difference is in the quality of the experience. Their mobile app is a joy to use, and the integration with the actual banking side of things is reliable and instantaneous. Instead of a separate budgeting app and banking app
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by frankus 6y ago
I'm not familiar with how YNAB ingests transaction data, but I seem to remember when I looked at it last that at least some transactions have to be logged manually. If you used Simple pretty much exclusively you wouldn't have to m
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by frankus 6y ago
Of course. I should have made it clear that I'm slightly in favor of a switch to permanent standard time (with liberal application of things like winter and summer hours for businesses and schools), but would prefer the current system

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