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by gumby 2y ago
DC “service” is run as a special tariff (for legacy elevators) and is actually provided by an on-site DC rectifier of some sort attached by PG&E to AC service. I’m not really sure why it is tariffed and why the building doesn’t simply b
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by gumby 2y ago
> that’s what you need to burn through a quarter inch steel plate?” Do you really need to burn through steel plate? Seems like something like this is for shooting down cheap drones. Though I've always wondered about laser weapons -
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by gumby 2y ago
I’m glad to see that fraternal crypto fraud is no longer a monopoly of the Winkelvoss twins. Also glad to see my alma mater in the press.
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Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile(nature.com)
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by gumby 2y ago
> Doesn't a VC make money from valuation, not profitability Sure, but if the business is profitable that means it works. Now the investment can be spent on bending the curve up (e.g. hire more salespeople that could have been affor
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by gumby 2y ago
Ha ha, this is both hilarious and so true!
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by gumby 2y ago
> I am at a point in my career where I can be selective and only consider 100% remote roles. I assume “point in career” you mean “around the block for a while”. My kid graduated and considered only remote jobs, and after a couple of yea
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by gumby 2y ago
Leaf blowers are pretty terrible for the yard, so anything that makes them more acceptable will just make things worse. Bad because they blow away topsoil, leaving a hard pack behind that absorbs little water. Just walking around my neighb
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by gumby 2y ago
> Too many simple straightforward options are now strictly inside accessibility From outside, it feels like these are the only people with the freedom to improve the user experience at all. So they have to hide their work in the Accessi
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by gumby 2y ago
It's always the simple explanations like these that survive Occam's razor.
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by gumby 2y ago
It's hard for people to evaluate risk. This morning my gf said she was "living in dread" of an upcoming procedure: 80% chance of success, almost 20% chance of doing nothing, <1% chance of things going very wrong. She&#x2
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by gumby 2y ago
According to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, I am merely an provider and the liability rests with the employee who "posted" the cigarettes with me.
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by gumby 2y ago
> you are the operating system of a computer. "I am Jack's ALU"
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by gumby 2y ago
I remember when the cigarette companies used to hire people to stand on street corners and just give them away (little three-cigarette packs) to encourage people to start or switch brands. Teenagers never have money so this was a great way
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by gumby 2y ago
I don't know -- I do use the icloud/appleID to share cut/paste between my devices or have my watch unlock my mac, but all my files are stored on dropbox, my omnifocus is in OF's storage, passwords in 1password's sto
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by gumby 2y ago
This should not have been downvoted. I work with the shipping industry and one of our partners just bought a satellite network. All commercial ships these days have WiFi and satellite uplink is becoming ubiquitous. The tech we are buildin
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by gumby 2y ago
A few footnotes: The “stick” of the sundial is called a gnomon. Early hours were not uniform in length (they couldn’t be, really, with a sundial). The Babylonians (and the Egyptians after them) divided day (daylight) into twelve equal regi
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by gumby 2y ago
They'll be in good company: Arms Dealers and Drug Lords Are Scooping Up Property in Dubai -- New leaks of property records reveal shady characters hiding out in Dubai, a haven for fugitives (Dubai is part of the UAE) https:/&#x2F
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by gumby 2y ago
> It was always about money, and it always will be about money. There were people like that in the old days (TJ Rogers, Larry Ellison) but also a lot of hippie-influenced folks with an idealistic world view. People literally talked abou
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by gumby 2y ago
John Chambers at Cisco was a notable exception. But he was notable not just for the company performance but because he was an exception.
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by gumby 2y ago
Since there are a lot of Android and Windows devices out there, and the top applications are multiplatform (Whatsapp, FB, snapchat, much less wikipedia, google search and such) I'm not sure how much lock in there really is. Nerds like
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by gumby 2y ago
It's simply the further debasement of the language: "content" and "consume", "fleece" meaning a piece of plastic (and "lamb" being used for both lamb and mutton), "elite" meaning "
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by gumby 2y ago
Thank you. It seemed the most consistent with the HN title “rules”.
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by gumby 2y ago
> that most loathesome of words, "consumption" Amen, brother!!
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by gumby 2y ago
Don’t worry, plenty of us have. Surely a gajillion Apple employees have too. Crazy
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by gumby 2y ago
> editing text is horrifically broken, has been since the first iPhone came out. IIRC editing text was barely even possible when the phone first came out. No cut/paste! I think it arrived in the same software release as the app
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by gumby 2y ago
Mainly it makes the Apple TV+ app understand your watching history (“up next”) better. Apple has an API so that third party apps can tie profiles to appletv user ids (iCloud ids) but I haven’t seen a single 3P app that uses it. Apple could
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by gumby 2y ago
This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect. Two points that have stuck with me in the decades since: 1- find the nicest place in your property and don’t build there 2- corr
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by gumby 2y ago
Because the title itself was clickbaity (“surprise effect”) I tried to summarize both title and subtitle. I think I did ok in that regard, but as you say the two sentences could themselves overstate things. But I figured any more edit would
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by gumby 2y ago
Here is the paper: “Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07386-0

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