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froh
4y ago
the NYTimes at this time has 4.sth Mio subscribers and 10k videos, indeed: https://youtube.com/c/nytimes
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froh
4y ago
media == tech these days. twitter, Instagram, TikTok, FB, they are media, YouTube is media.
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froh
4y ago
which mic do you use with the lovely scarlet interface?
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4y ago
sounds as if we produce complexity (instead of navigating and reducing it)
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4y ago
I love the NASA systems engineering handbook. The pdf is in the public domain, I sent it to a printer, had it bound as hardcover, ribbon bookmarks, I love it.
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4y ago
the doc should describe how you collaborate. and that shouldn't change direction frequently. systems engineering is much less about the deliverables than about how you collaborate to build them, how you ensure consistency, how you wal
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4y ago
you manage the consistency of the "artefacts", at a sufficiently fine granularity, using anchors and pointers and some semantic versioning of each, so you can contain rippling effects (fix a typo vs just add sth vs overhaul a part
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4y ago
I love his voice and how he speaks. and I wasn't aware his family controls the recordings (see the sibling comment to yours).
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4y ago
> the rest is easy ...said the physicist ;-) https://xkcd.com/793/
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4y ago
do you happen to have a recommendation handy for a trustworthy collection of his talks?
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4y ago
the centralized plants combine heat and electricity production. instead of a cooling tower or a cooling river they heat a city. thus whichever primary energy medium they use, the are (much) more efficient.
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4y ago
I very much appreciated the nuance of the detailing clarification. the "never" makes it sound like "never will you ever", not like "while you have symptoms and need treatment for..."
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4y ago
there is plenty of evidence that these amphetamines show very different effects in ADHD vs non ADHD individuals. this is my first google hit for the search phrase "methylphenidate in non adhd vs adhd" https://www.ncbi.n
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froh
4y ago
using the same binaries shares the verification for said binary. a modular kernel with a custom inird (generated by the distro) is small enough for most. so if you are into adventures or you are in the business of kernel development yes rol
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olive oil has plenty of unsaturated fatty acids, butter/ghee less so, coconut oil is outright advised against. use ghee for high temperature (pan frying), olive oil for salads and normal cooking (like tomato sauce) and leave coconuts o
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4y ago
yup. the intel Management Engine is a x586 cpu running minix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Design
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4y ago
this is what it says to me: > Self-tapping and self-drilling screws > CELO is leading the self-tapping and self-drilling screw market. > CELO's self-tapping and self-drilling screws offer the widest selection for installations
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4y ago
thank you for restoring my faith in at least that bit of basic human rights is enforced in the US.
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4y ago
while I know they exist and I can point to an interesting collection I don't know the history of how they were invented and when: https://www.celofixings.com/1663-self-tapping-and-self-drill...
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4y ago
for metal screw threads and nuts I'm with you. for other materials there has been more innovation later for threads, and for special uses of metal screws as well, for example self-tapping screws and coating of screws. side question: wh
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4y ago
in my experience the hard parts in software are remote interactions, i.e. behavior that localized unit testing has a hard time to capture, and concurrency. so the valuable tests, those which actually find issues, are the tests in near produ
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4y ago
right we have 7 years to figure this out for 80% renewables and 17 years to figure it out for close to 100% it took 1 year to build and start operation of giga Shanghai, and not much longer for giga Berlin. it's a political challenge,
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first that's not what she said. she said given what the cabinet and western intelligence knew they considered it the right approach. and second, in hindsight some writing was on the wall in 2014. however back then Germany was between
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4y ago
hydrogen has a relatively poor efficiency compared to battery storage electricity to store and back, and it's an highly flammable, infamously explosive gas. but it has a high energy density and it can be transported relatively well.
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short term weather forecasts are amazingly accurate. this allows us to deliberately "extend" the "range" of buffer storage. and even today in some situations some energy intense heavy industries have to pause productio
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> we'll pay anyone to take this power before the grid blows up that's not how that works. also: Dunkelflaute is 0.5% - 1.5% per year and only very rarely for longer than 24h. peaker power plants are turned off most of the time
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Dunkelflaute is 0.5% - 1.5% of the year and most of the events last shorter than 24h https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute in my book 98.5% easily fits the bill of "close to 100%" so the answer is exac
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Dr Angela Merkel holds a PhD in quantum physics. she stands by her cabinets decision to leave nuclear energy in densely populated Germany, as per a recent interview. renewables will provide for 80% of Germanies energy needs by 2030, and cl
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the writeup has two parts, the first half is python3 hello world, from reading the source all the way to byte code interpretation, and the second half is how the console output is transformed into pixels, by the low level part of python and
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froh
4y ago
why no hard link?
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