jasonwatkinspdx

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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Cheap small trucks were killed by the chicken tax, not CAFE.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> China decides they shouldn't be allowed access to any more rare earths This is a common misunderstanding. There are plenty of alternative locations to mine rare earth minerals, particularly Australia. China cornered the market bec
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Yeah, that's just nonsense. We used sodium vapor monochromatic bulbs in my high school physics class to duplicate the double slit experiment. I suspect the real reason is that digital green screen in the hands of experienced people is
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
All RF protocols have some provision for signal acquisition. It can take a bunch of forms but what it nets out to is the oscillator in the receiver can acquire the signal from the sender. A simple example of this is "pilot" signal
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> Wait a minute, why can't I reply to bunnie's top-level comment? The powers that be here think they've found a bunch of "hacks" to curb off low quality comments.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Yup, it shifts but it's a minor shift and easily handled in the receiver. Receivers already need a little ability to tune the carrier frequency to account for ordinary variations in the circuits. From memory GPS's doppler shift is
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
There's other interesting middle ground options, like O3b's equatorial MEO ring, that has coverage similar to GEO as far as latitudes go, but better latency.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> simply because the commercial stuff is more usable and gets updated faster. And this isn't a new pattern by any means. Decades ago the UK military had a plan to replace their old analog centric radio gear with a system that integr
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Oh my family watched Jeeves and Wooster up until my dad learned of Stephen Fry's legal issues and it became banned in the house lol (evangelical extremist family).
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> I grew up with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, by far, in my opinion, the most accurate representation of the stories. Yeah, I grew up watching that on PBS Mystery! and love it. I rewatched some of it as an adult and it holds up v
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
I mean back in the day licensing Quake from iD was like that too. It was basically "hey, thanks for the $2 million, here's your cdr and never contact us again." It was night and day between them and Epic back then, which I th
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
I'm glad you ask this, as it signals very clearly the need to get up and walk out of the room. Same with your last sentence.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
On the US keep in mind elections are run at the state level and below, so we don't have a single voting system, we have 50+. My state, Oregon, for example uses a very straightforward vote by mail system. They ask if you wanna register
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
> Religion always seems like the default explanation for anything without an obvious use and it seems lazy. This is one of the bits I remember from reading A Canticle for Leibowitz as a kid. It's about monks in a post nuclear armage
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by jasonwatkinspdx 7mo ago
Yeah, they're just assuming that if you wanted to store something you'd store it at the bottom of the hill. While I'm no archeologist/anthropologist, I have seen an ancient grainery near the green river in Utah. It was a
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
My understanding is a lot of northern Italian recipes are basically the same as their pre colonial versions, like ragu bianco.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
> On the other hand it's almost impossible to imagine what food was like in the Americas before Columbus. Not at all. Many pre columbian foods remain popular today, like tamales. Corn, beans, squash, fish, nuts, and tropical fruit w
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
No, if that were the case, then Google would have made GPUs + NN cores vs TPUs. There's far more microarchitectural complexity in GPUs that actually isn't efficient for NN structures. "Systolic array" actually means so
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
No, GPUs are not what you'd design for neural networks from first principles. They were adopted for that because they offered far more parallelism than general purpose cpus, not because they're ideal. That's why Google et all
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
> Sometimes I get the impression that the spirit of states rights in the US has died. It was bullshit from day one. The origin of the state's rights argument was slave state's attempting to force free states to round up fugitiv
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Completely wrong. Globally over 95% of hydrogen is sourced from fossil fuels, particularly natural gas wells. Electrolysis is very limited to niche applications or token projects.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
> The thing that I’m really very skeptical of is the 2 month turnaround. To get leading edge geometry turned around on arbitrary 2 month schedules is .. ambitious. Hopeful. We could use other words as well. They may be using Rapidus, whi
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Yeah, lotus and ginkgo are both fairly common, I'm sure a lot of us have had them. Lichen and moss being the most ancient foods makes sense to me based on watching episodes of Alone. You can get calories from that stuff if you're
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
What you're looking for is the phylogenetic tree. Here's an explorable one: https://www.onezoom.org/ Keep in mind that the further you go back the bigger the error bars on these date estimates, and that a tidy spl
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Yeah, and whoever kicked this off I don't think knows basics of constructing/tailoring clothes. There already is a standardized representation: patterns. Some of the older generation in my family still sew their own clothing using
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Surprisingly enough you doing what you want with your stuff in your own home is different from operating a business at scale, and we can make different laws for the different situations.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
They did a stealth edit to not look as foolish. They didn't mention the holiday or weekend in what I replied to originally. That's why I snapped back with snark.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
We'll be sure to get the Avengers on it real quick! Thanks for helping us understand the urgency required.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
I met him once when we were both in Seattle for a conference, and a group of us went out to eat. He definitely gave off an odd vibe, but at the time I attributed it to the typical not very socially adjusted nerd stuff. But with the benefit
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
It's the weekend and Monday is a holiday in the US.

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