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by huppeldepup 3y ago
565 MWh = 2 TJ Fat Man was 88 TJ
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
The meaning is found in the combination of the name and verb in the title, afaik the first occurrence.
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
You need a very diverse community to address these subjects. HN is IT-centered, there’s overlap with a lot of fields and occasionally you’ll get a (few) people who are at home with the subject at hand to explain the subtle intricacies. But
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
Thank you very much for this tip.
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
It's also becoming normal that these subscription services make you jump hoops to terminate the contract (tried to close your vpn subscription recently?). A few years ago I could just let my paypal run dry and that would stop the payme
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
I'm following, but when it comes to "widely held position" I should remind you that along those lines it's a widely held position that an invisible superbeing created all this stuff. I don't enjoy discussing "w
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
and am not aware of that being a widely held position I’m a (edit: popular) sci-fi addict. One of the prevalent tropes when the human races is battling another intelligence is that we’ll win because we have a soul/something ex
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
What society thinks it is can be understood through the filters, "guard-rails" and boundaries some want to erect around that raw image. Never looked at it like that. In the same sense one could look at law and see which o
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
Something I didn’t find in the article is that in AC systems sparks are self-extinguishing because of the zero-crossing. There are a few domestic circuit breaker teardowns on youtube. I suggest watching one and then asking the question: how
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
Can we remind ourselves that these platforms, games, websites- whatever form or shape - employ busloads of psychologists and every dirty trick in the book (developed by, among other things, the ad industry) to get people hooked on the produ
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
MWh-scale quantities of electrical power Doesn't have to be electrical. I was part of a "demand response" study a decade back where a cold store was provided a prediction of electricity prices. When electricity price
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
That's not what I mean. You can instruct the phone - over bluetooth, within the bluetooth functionality - to dial a number. No lock screen or dial app to access.
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
If you can silently pair to a phone, you can make the phone dial whatever number you want. Recently found this out when connecting the serial terminal to an earbud for repair (it wouldn't auto-connect to the other earbud).
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
The "massive release in glutamate" reminds me of some references I read wrt Glutamatergic Storm or Excitotoxicity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133642/ https://en.wikiped
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by huppeldepup 3y ago
why digest plastic if you can photosynthesise