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by jakedata 3y ago
Are you serious or doubling down on my -3 so far sarcasm? Hacker News hates sarcasm.
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by jakedata 3y ago
Yes, Wayland is pretty good. https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/wayland-middlesex-ma/ra... Unfortunately the whole Linux display thing has rather confounded searches about the town. Any open source contributors
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by jakedata 3y ago
Slightly obligatory Futurama quote: Leela: Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet! Farnsworth: Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure. Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand? Farnsworth: Well
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by jakedata 3y ago
While I was passingly familiar with the system previously, this came as a bit of a surprise: "...faculty and researchers at the Michigan Technological University (MTU) School of Forestry and Wood Products have found that the Project EL
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by jakedata 3y ago
Flawless instant access for me. Clearly not a total impact. Didn't even notice until I saw the headline.
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by jakedata 3y ago
Don't confuse magneplanar speakers with electrostatic speakers. Other than them both being flat they are quite different beasts.
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by jakedata 3y ago
Alas it doesn't allow access to the comment section of the WSJ which is the only reason I would visit the site. WSJ comments re-enforce my opinion of the majority of humanity. My father allowed his subscription to lapse and I won'
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by jakedata 3y ago
Back in 1986 I was asked to build a set of "game show" buzzers that would allow a number of contestants to hit their button and it would show who pressed first. I ended up creating a system that used relays that would latch the fi
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by jakedata 3y ago
A smidgen is the single, slightly oversized bite of food you have after finishing your first serving and are basically full but it tastes too good to stop eating. OK, just a smidgen more... Followed in our family by "a stopper" if
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by jakedata 3y ago
wow -3 and counting! Didn't anyone ever toss you a charged capacitor in class?
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by jakedata 3y ago
The danger of improperly handling capacitors is well documented, but if they are deceptively small it might lead to carelessness. One of their little chips is probably innocuous enough. In series you had better be careful. Best case you mel
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by jakedata 4y ago
We should train LLaMA and DALL-E on the Mad Magazine archives and create AI-Jaffe.
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by jakedata 4y ago
http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/us/massachusetts/framing... The averages do not illustrate the extremes very well, we see many days where the nighttime temperatures never rise above 0F.
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by jakedata 4y ago
This is why I couple my heat pump operation to solar output from my panels. Any time I can fully self power it is a 100% win. During the darkest and coldest months however, the existing gas boiler takes the lead. My heat pump is 5 years old
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by jakedata 4y ago
Fortunately I am working on my home, not yours. I have RG6 quad shield home runs to lots of useful places but I didn't want to pop for MOCA bridges.
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by jakedata 4y ago
For houses that have coaxial cable tv runs to many rooms it would be great to find a 75 ohm f-connector wi-fi antenna that you could just screw onto the wall plate. You would need to match impedance with the WiFI device at the other end but
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by jakedata 4y ago
The sun has already fired a warning shot at us this month. If we as a species need a timeout, a Carrington-class event would certainly do the trick. If there is a huge uptick in hardening power and information systems then we should be look
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by jakedata 4y ago
Then why is it randomized? Oh yeah...
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by jakedata 4y ago
First impression: "oh god, I'm old" Second impression: "I should dig out the SE30 and let the kid have a go at it" Third impression: "I'm probably being emulated too."
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by jakedata 4y ago
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. - Maya Angelou
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by jakedata 4y ago
After this hack I have zero Bitcoin.
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by jakedata 4y ago
AI bootstrapping AI is a sci-fi trope that goes back decades. I first encountered it in The Cybernetic Samurai while in high school. While the details differ, the reality is that AI is a catalyst for more of itself. I don't remember ma
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by jakedata 4y ago
I wouldn't try to over complicate things. A 5KW DC solar controller does not need to be included in every product. The system could allow for DC power input in a manner controlled by software that could offset power delivery from the A
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by jakedata 4y ago
You should give some thought to offering an AC-DC power supply. Being able to dedicate several solar panels directly to heating or cooling might get people out of a regulatory bind with crazy interconnect fees and local regulations. The tri
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by jakedata 4y ago
Diet Coke vs really really OG classic Coke.
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by jakedata 4y ago
"When given a choice between cocaine or water sweetened with saccharin, rats will almost always choose the artificially sweetened beverage." This is how I know I am not a rat. Not that I am in the habit of drinking cocaine water b
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by jakedata 4y ago
Ox bile is very helpful for folks who have had their gallbladder removed. It becomes more difficult to digest fats which can lead to "discomfort".
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by jakedata 4y ago
While the monkey bars/climbing frame provided exercise and adventure in my elementary school playground, there was also this rotating hoop called a witch's hat which taught early lessons in conservation of momentum and unbalanced
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by jakedata 4y ago
If we can see it we can shoot it with a laser. Getting spectra on whatever it uses for a shell might be illuminating (ahem). If it runs away at Mach 1 we have also learned something valuable - like "use 2 lasers".
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by jakedata 4y ago
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/5ML14k... They claim the Gmail specific issues are resolved. We shall see... Feb 27, 2023 2:03 PM UTC We experienced a brief network outage with package l

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