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by hex4def6 3y ago
Tangentially related, but I was at my local Home Depot, buying a grounding rod. It seemed like an amazing deal -- 5/8", 8 ft for $19.60. Weighing it, it's 6.6 lbs. Scrap prices according to the web are $3 to $3.30 for that qu
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by hex4def6 3y ago
I was in Google / Nest in ~2018 or so. I knew 20% projects existed, but I'd heard they were considered a good way to not get promoted. I knew a few people that had a 20% project they were working on, but it was the exception, not
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by hex4def6 3y ago
>If you have evidence of Apple or Google cutting a cheque to any lawmaker, personally, I'll commit here and now to paying you six figures for it, because it's worth ten times that much in the open. https://www.opense
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Humorous signs are far more memorable, even if you reach a smaller percentage of the population. A generic "OBEY POSTED TRAFFIC SIGNS," while readable by 79% of the population, is barely going to mentally register for nearly all o
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by hex4def6 3y ago
I'm curious about whether it's even feasible based on dispersion issues. My understanding is that it's hard to beat dispersion over long distances, regardless of your optics on the laser (and we're talking long distanc
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by hex4def6 3y ago
I'll throw my hat in the ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_AD-1
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by hex4def6 3y ago
This seems like the right answer. An "expert" should be someone whose field of expertise is in the subject being presented to the court. The opposing counsel can (and should) challenge it when appropriate. A PhD in medicine or PE
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by hex4def6 3y ago
The map shown here is better in my opinion -- it shows what percentage of the sun will be eclipsed for your location: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-20...
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by hex4def6 3y ago
At a certain point, isn't it just grilled pineapple with pizza crumbs?
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Probably a good reminder archive.org has a fundraiser going on right now. It would a sad day indeed to lose access to that resource.
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by hex4def6 3y ago
If you're designing a new power delivery method from scratch, I wonder if 12V is the right voltage. It seems you could take a page out of the laptop handbook and go to USB-C 20V standard. There must already be a whole ecosystem of 20V
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by hex4def6 3y ago
But those are pronounced differently. Of course, English has its fair share; Their / They're / There, beach / beech, etc etc. But I don't think English particularly stands out, and I can think of languages that are
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by hex4def6 3y ago
How so?
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by hex4def6 3y ago
That seems incredibly hyperbolic. You might want to consider broadening your news sources or travelling a bit. For starters, the US as a whole is less than 60% white. And California, while big, only accounts for ~20% of the non-white popula
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Genius! It does make me think how much you could virtualize the experience while still requiring the same mechanics / ball control. Sort of like those virtual gold driving ranges. Here's an idea: instead of requiring the whole 60f
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Feeling a little skeptical, but I'd love for someone to explain where the energy is coming from. From the paper: In fact, an Air-gen device made from protein nanowires, which was kept in the ambient environment for over 3 years, still
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by hex4def6 3y ago
I think you're putting very little weight into the ability of government organizations like the NTSB or equivalent to determine root cause of a crash. Just think of the situation with aircraft crashes. They have to deal with something
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Yeah, looks like there's a couple of differences. If you look at the top left there are a few examples that are shadertoy examples. Example 5 (Smiley face) shows some differences: * the void main() declaration difference * the inclusio
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Are you suggesting that direct-to-consumer sales would somehow result in unlicensed buyers from obtaining motor vehicles? Because it seems a trivial thing to verify that you have a valid drivers license before transferring ownership. It als
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by hex4def6 3y ago
I wonder why they don't use hot / cold mirrors to separate the visible light from the IR. You could bounce the IR energy (upwards(?) or into a heatsink) so that the scene isn't as intensely heated.
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by hex4def6 3y ago
100% a ChatGPT copy paste. Here's what I got when I asked it to finish the paragraph "In summary Matlab's rich set of features, mathematical capabilities ...": "In summary, Matlab's versatile capabilities, incl
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by hex4def6 3y ago
>Letting parents opt out of public schools means that the most committed abusers get to sidestep this safety valve. I'm glad you had a good school experience. I was lucky to avoid the worst of it, but I knew kids who grew up with li
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by hex4def6 3y ago
There is no improvement. There are a lot of negatives though. For starters: * transmissivity of an LCD panel is pretty bad (10%-25% transmissivity?). So this is always going to be extremely dim, unless you stick a really bright lamp right u
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by hex4def6 3y ago
My parents until recently had a microwave made in 1984 that had that feature. It had a port for a temperature sensor probe that (I assume) you pushed into the food being microwaved. I seem to recall that it didn't have a turntable, whi
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by hex4def6 3y ago
That's not (automatically) true. If you change the rules of the game, you change the winning strategies. By extension, you're changing which industries may be in competition with each other (or end up being completely obsolete), a
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Require all children under the age of 18 to wear a smart watch with video and microphone recording that can be accessed by a child protection agency at any point. You could have on-device content recognition, so most of the data is discarde
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by hex4def6 3y ago
This seems like an extension of pipe relining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hi-0jMnEI (Which in itself is pretty neat solution to a problem)
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Link to full paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370805319_Improving... Interesting stuff. It seems like some battery vendors don't use PET tape in their construction? In that case, I'm surprised
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Genuinely curious: * Why the hard deadline of Oct 15? * Why only 1x headcount? * Why would you be putting a complete unknown into such a high profile position? * This was posted today. How much hiring / background check diligence can y
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by hex4def6 3y ago
Completely agree. I think there's something to be said for time-shifting predictable large energy consumption events to points at which you're producing more solar energy than can be stored. Scheduling an electric water heater to

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