jfengel

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by jfengel 4mo ago
Historically, woks are only supposed to heat a fairly small section at the bottom. They were designed to move food through an extremely hot pool of oil at the bottom, then out to the edges. That produces the classic "wok hei" flav
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Neat. I've been looking for a singing coach, and I'd be willing to give AI a try. I'd worry that you're focusing on the wrong things. There are many ways to extend range wrong, in ways that won't suit you well later
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by jfengel 4mo ago
It's not easy to add a heat pump to an existing building. You can't add it to a radiator system. You need to add a whole air handling system. The heating system in place was good enough. It used existing infrastructure. Heat pumps
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Sure. Diagnostics are unit tests. They can only tell you what's wrong if you think to look there. Just because you have a green check doesn't mean that your system works. This is a system containing the equivalent of quintillions
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by jfengel 4mo ago
We've already got ICBMs. Delivering something to a particular place is something we can already do. Delivering it without blowing up is the hard part.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Actual source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234... But it doesn't matter. The harassment happened. There is no recourse for it. A bunch of subpoenas get quashed; a bunch of documents ge
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by jfengel 4mo ago
How much death and suffering does this guy have on his conscience? His what now?
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by jfengel 4mo ago
If you wanna get technical, it's about heating your apartment using heat from the outside. Remarkably, it can do that even when it's colder outside than it is in your apartment. The technical distinction is important, because you
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by jfengel 4mo ago
You use the scroll wheel with your index finger? I've always used the middle finger. I dunno if the biomechanics are that different, but I've never had a problem. From the videos, the rotary motion with the index finger looks tiri
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by jfengel 4mo ago
No, it shows that even trust has been utterly undermined by a police force that cannot control itself. This is just the latest in a long line of abuses, and completely eliminating Flock would not even touch the underlying problem.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Cheaper, yes. More entertaining, not for a lot of people. Many play the same way you'd play a video game, with the actual stakes giving it a bigger rush. Enough that some become addicted. If it weren't fun it wouldn't be nea
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Managers love the idea that contractors can be fired more easily than employees. Except that this flexibility comes at a cost; people insist on being paid more to have an insecure job. The uncertainty never goes away. You can pay someone el
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I still don't understand why audio dB are negative. That's relative to what? What happens at 0dB?
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by jfengel 4mo ago
FTA: "We may call this problem the ‘tyranny of the wagon equation’ as a number of readers have noticed the similarity to the tyranny of the rocket equation."
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by jfengel 4mo ago
The ones who most venerate the Founding Fathers are the ones who usually claim that the status quo is good. The status quo can always be attributed as the will of the Fathers. Sometimes that means using a ouija board to assert that some vag
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I think just the fact that it was the first thing on offer that wasn't the thing they were already using. There are better alternatives, and if legislatures were designed to come up with optimal solutions, we'd probably have use o
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by jfengel 4mo ago
A local media channel running the same wire service report: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ktvu.com/news/report-white-...
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by jfengel 4mo ago
You must have missed the 2000 election. We hung for weeks on the vagueness of paper ballots. Both sides filed motion after motion to exclude some batch of ballots or other. There was a huge number of extremely unlikely votes in a place with
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by jfengel 4mo ago
As I understand it, JPEG cuts out a lot of detail in the blue range, because we don't see it as well. Is that due to the same thing as you're saying here?
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Environmentalists did have the nuclear industry's help with a few high profile disasters. Plus the lingering connection to nuclear weapons. That makes it easier for people to take the threat seriously. But that's still insufficien
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Renewables don't need to fulfill everything all the time. If they need assistance from fossil fuels 10% of the time, that's a 90% cut in greenhouse gas emissions. The last 10% won't be the biggest issue to deal with. So you c
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by jfengel 4mo ago
The reports are only as neutral and honest as the prompts given to them. If you want the reports to be honest, then the Congress would write the prompt. If the Pentagon writes the prompts, then it can keep re-asking the question until it fi
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by jfengel 4mo ago
You are correct. He is the greatest founder of all time. That much is true. He is also a prolific liar. He massively exaggerates his technical contributions. He uses his wealth to persecute his perceived ideological enemies. Quite a few of
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by jfengel 4mo ago
But on the other hand, the faces were delicious.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
How much would such a device cost? I think the biggest bar to having an espresso machine is that a good one is hundreds of dollars. The control device in this experiment (Sanremo Cube espresso machine) runs nearly $3,000. You don't hav
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Well, the US did get away with blowing up a lot of Iranian stuff, without suffering much physical damage of its own. It destroyed Iran's navy and air force, and killed a lot of top leaders. You could call that a win, if it weren't
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Editorialized headline. Original headline was "Trump signs agreement with Iran at Versailles" Though the text of the article does somewhat justify the editorializing: “He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles?” Kruse wr
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by jfengel 4mo ago
A three year lease locks in the lower revenue. If the market recovers tomorrow you can have the full price for nearly as long. But I'm not convinced the risk-reward calculation fully explains it. You can see plenty of places where they
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Ezra Klein is legitimately considered left wing in the US. Sam Harris is not actively a psychopath, which passes as "left wing" in America.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I believe it's a fairly common attitude. Thus far it doesn't seem to be down voted. I wrote what I think of as a fairly coherent objection. I expect it to be voted down. Would you also recommend "pre vouching" for it?

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