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by gravescale 3y ago
I know it's a trivial observation but Fig 1 really shows how huge these blades are: that relatively tiny winglet tip is nearly 3 metres long, much taller than an adult. The rational side of me supposes it's not surprising that a s
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by gravescale 3y ago
Such a tedious stat. Because nearly all greenhouse gas emissions are from energy, it's a measure of energy-sector corporate consolidation. If we exploded all energy companies into millions of tiny companies each with a single oil or ga
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by gravescale 3y ago
I've always assumed it was a name for a clever way to improve on limitations of simple bang-bang control with on-off sensors and actuators plus some 7400 series-type logic. Nowadays you can have an STM8 with two dozen 10 or 12-bit ADCs
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by gravescale 3y ago
I worked for a company under a big corporate. Or they thought they were. Lots of Big Business Talk, earnest Reports (not sure if they were TPS but they might as well have been) and lots of Management Structuring, no actual products except f
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by gravescale 3y ago
Yep, there's definitely an "owe the bank a billion" joke in there somewhere. Actually, you know what, "Here's what ChatGPT said" may be trite but it did work: > Can you make a joke along the lines of "o
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by gravescale 3y ago
Ok, so we went back and looked at other correlations. The bad news is that reducing the late night alcohol sales between 2018 and 2022 has increased opioid deaths. The good news is that increasing opioid deaths between 2018 and 2022 has low
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by gravescale 3y ago
Even if that were the case (big "if"), that can't go on forever. Even if it's literally just a matter of who has enough data and training core-years, at some point a competitor, maybe with state-level support, will hav
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by gravescale 3y ago
Right? And even if they did score a virtual monopoly in the US through assiduous lobbying, they can't keep a global lid on development forever. Especially that if they do crack it, they prove that it both can be done and it's &quo
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by gravescale 3y ago
You can skip the account step. It's not ideal because you have to connect with USB and fiddle a setting in a file to get it into sideload mode, but it's not especially hard or even secret. And then you can install open-source read
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by gravescale 3y ago
I still have never understood the valuations. Sure, they'd make sense if Tesla ended up being the only game in town, forever. But even though they undoubtedly have been streets ahead in many places for a long time and Western manufactu
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by gravescale 3y ago
I really hate writing these compile/build time conditional things. It's hard to have tests that it's enabled when it should be and disabled when it isn't, especially if it's in the build system where there's no
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by gravescale 3y ago
In that case, that "core" of the population also doesn't need to know about benzene molecules, river erosion processes, history of some ancient kingdom and all the other trivia they load you up with at school. So, to me, it d
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by gravescale 3y ago
Headlight alignment is at least part of the yearly vehicle check for vehicles older then 3 years. Aftermarket lights that are illegally bright will (or rather, should) also fail that check. But I would assume if you're knowingly puttin
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by gravescale 3y ago
I think a lot of it comes from following advice similar to "Write a Catchy First Paragraph" and it goes too far. You end up starting out with bizarre barely-sequiturs like "Fiona was a graduate student in lower New York in a
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by gravescale 3y ago
I think some parents and kids have realised that much of that slog is ever less about the education and more about using children as tools for buffing the school or district stats in the best case or it's just riot control in the worst
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by gravescale 3y ago
Crippling your website on mobile to push your app is a scumbag move and guarantees I'll never create any persistent account on your system. Definitely won't be installing the app, because if you're already scum, you probably
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by gravescale 3y ago
You're right, but there's a lot of people here making excuses predicated on treating entirely socially-voluntary problems (like providing no public transport, or allowing regulatory capture to inflate costs) as laws of nature.
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by gravescale 3y ago
I know the economics must somehow make sense, but it's still hard to wrap my head around the fact that even with quite literally once-unimaginable computing power, semi-magical modern materials, structural theory, decades of recorded r
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by gravescale 3y ago
Drag when sailing into the wind and going under bridges, as well as not having them torn away in a storm, is addressed with this design by folding them flat against the deck.
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by gravescale 3y ago
I'm always sad when I visit Jared Tarbell's sites ( http://levitated.net and http://complexification.net ) and the applets no longer work. They were really formative in my early and mid explorations of the in
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by gravescale 3y ago
Funny how that money wouldn't have been there when someone suggested doing it right in the first place. Of course the MBAs see this as a win as their names aren't on anything except the profits at the time. Parasites.
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by gravescale 3y ago
FYI, KiCAD explicitly guarantees that old designs will always be readable by all future versions.
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by gravescale 3y ago
Especially from languages that don't have the same final and consonant cluster options that English does. For example Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in
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by gravescale 3y ago
Much of the hype around "AI" is based on it allowing a cost-driven race to the bottom. Some fraction of AI will be used for genuinely better products. Much of it will be used to provide a merely tolerable product with nearly zero
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by gravescale 3y ago
If he had had loyalty, it clearly would have been misplaced since they laid him off.
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by gravescale 3y ago
> They see success as a threat to their artificially fair society Bro, this is in the UK. Fair play is a long way down the government list of priorities these days.
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by gravescale 3y ago
> Social media activity generated by click farms can be hard to detect because the online behavior appears similar to that of a legitimate user. The premier AI-peddling companies in the world can't deal with basic fraud. Is it that