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by geenew 4y ago
>> That might be an interesting project, configuring a Raspberry Pi to emulate a single transistor and then using them to build a computer. > Building something useful out of that would end up comically large. The transistors are M
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by geenew 4y ago
Politeness is free. 'Fuck off' is unnecessary, just drop it and say there are only two F's. Users shouldn't be jerks, neither should maintainers.
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by geenew 4y ago
I don't think at-sea refuelling is common for commercial ships, but if needed presumably a electric equivalent of an oiler could be made, with a electric cable instead of a hose used to transfer power from one ship to the other. For th
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by geenew 4y ago
Your first point is a good one, these ships base at locations specifically designed for transferring heavy loads. Adding battery swapping to the to-do list at container ports does not seem unreasonable at all. To your second point, let it a
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by geenew 4y ago
One data-heavy but useful addition to maps like these would be incorporation of time-of-day and day-of-week. The distance you can travel on Monday morning at 9am differs greatly from the distance you can travel on Thursday at 3am, for examp
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by geenew 4y ago
What do you mean by 'black ball'? Like 'black balling', eg shunning? Or 'black box', eg poorly understood technology?
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by geenew 4y ago
The article mentions the ability to take pictures with blurry backgrounds (aka bokeh).. fwiw, that feature exists on the SE 2nd generation. To join in the old-man-fist-shaking, the SE 1st generation was a far better size. You can use the SE
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by geenew 4y ago
People get funny about accuracy in maps. Being able to specify accuracy, even a limited accuracy, is worth a lot. Saving bytes by reducing specified accuracy is in a lot of use-cases better than saving bytes by fuzzing data.
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by geenew 5y ago
So cool to see this here! Ceephax is quite good. In the same circle as Aphex, Squarepusher (his brother, don't you know), BoC, and the rest of the Warp/Rephlex adjacent stuff. But he's got his own style, and his own things to
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by geenew 5y ago
Could you accomplish the same thing in a ground based lab with a fan blowing air up at ~80 degrees? If airflow is used for orientation, then the test subject should orient to be parallel to the direction of airflow as it is falling. All for
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by geenew 5y ago
> my emacs config is a work in progress And so it shall remain
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by geenew 5y ago
I think the same thing has happened to me. I’ve lived in the same apartment for a few years. Pre Covid I did notice noise, but it never rose to the level of a problem. Now, I cannot stand the noise from the refrigerator, the baseboards heat
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by geenew 5y ago
That is the case on some government websites. The added friction to reject unnecessary cookies is a type of dark pattern, I believe. I do wonder how necessary invasive cookies are. Site file access logs, referral addresses, and geolocation
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by geenew 5y ago
This one from 1967 at Fairchild is also good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47Gv2cdFtA
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by geenew 5y ago
Any idea why the colour on the fab floor is an odd yellow hue? Is the standard colour spectrum for interior lighting not compatible with chipmaking? I'm imagining a situation akin to the darkroom requirements for processing photographs
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by geenew 5y ago
The talking horse is especially offtopic for those of us who are case-sensitive.
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by geenew 5y ago
Richard D James == "Aphex Twin" || "AFX" || "Caustic Window" || "Bradley Strider" || "GAK" || "user48736353001" || "Polygon Window" || "Universal Indicator" ||
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Living with Gusto Despite a Rare, Fatal Disease, and Hunting for Answers(nytimes.com)
3 points by geenew 5y ago|0 comments
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Inside China's electric drive for swappable car batteries(reuters.com)
2 points by geenew 5y ago|0 comments
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by geenew 5y ago
I would think you would only need a standard size battery, and have vehicles capable of holding as many standard-sized batteries as necessary for their weight/performance. So a compact car would have 1 C-sized battery (joke), and a F15
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by geenew 5y ago
Not exactly the same, I know, but it's worth keeping in the common memory the fact that battery-swapping EVs have been around for a very long time. See this[1]. Quote: " the excessive noise of these vehicles annoyed residents of s
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by geenew 5y ago
They must be rare, I’ve never seen them in North America.
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by geenew 5y ago
This episode of BBC Discovery from 2015 covered the topic and was quite interesting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rmjbd
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by geenew 5y ago
Very neat use of the data. I wonder what other radar systems could be detected, like weather radar.
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by geenew 5y ago
Another post has a better link (to the original source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30667406
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Locating Israeli Patriot batteries using radar interference(fas.org)
3 points by geenew 5y ago|1 comments
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by geenew 5y ago
IANANWEONWP, but: For the number of decoys vs warheads, I /think/ the only real design limit is the throw-weight of the missile and volume of the fairing. This[0] has slightly more information on decoys. The 'it depends'
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by geenew 5y ago
In this case, it's more of a proxy for discussion of fears of nuclear war given the rise in tensions since the invasion of Ukraine, I think.
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by geenew 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hyperso
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by geenew 5y ago
I remember hearing that, back in the bad old days of (first) cold war, there was a perverse kind of civic pride about being on the presumed target list. If your city was going to be nuked, then it had to be important.

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