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by jfim 4y ago
To save everyone a search: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/
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by jfim 4y ago
> Notably, the bill doesn't pertain to medical devices, home appliances... It's unfortunate that it doesn't apply to appliances. Chucking a phone after a few years isn't good, but a whole washing machine or dishwasher
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by jfim 4y ago
For those as confused as I was, MIL in this context is malfunction indicator light, not mother in law.
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by jfim 4y ago
I think you misinterpreted what the parent is saying. He's saying that a bag that contains only vacuum would be the lightest, but as it contains nothing, it would just collapse into having no volume due to the atmospheric pressure. Tha
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by jfim 4y ago
> Oh here we go :-) and yet the world spins on C kernels and lands jumbo jets in C autopilots and regulates heartbeats with C pacemakers and, and, and … Keep in mind that many of those things are written in a subset of the C programming
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by jfim 4y ago
Both of those libraries look cool, but I'm guessing that most of the users of Go would not need them. I definitely agree that I'd rather have to write API glue code than a constraint based solver for a project that has time constr
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by jfim 4y ago
> Can I use Go or Java to program a micro-controller with 128 kB of RAM? Not really (at least no using the official, non-crippled implementation) because even "hello world" in those languages exceeds that 128 kB limit. You&#x27
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by jfim 4y ago
They've taken the popular F-150, made it electric, added a couple of convenience features (outlets and the ability to use the battery as a power source in case of a power outage), and didn't make it look different from a gas one.
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by jfim 4y ago
Not knowing anything about this, do deep sea animals have the ability to perceive light? If not, the light would be harmless unless I'm missing something.
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by jfim 4y ago
Some of these advantages are pretty dubious. Detecting whether a number is odd or even or getting the sign bit aren't impacted by endianness, as the CPU isn't working with single bytes at a time.
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by jfim 4y ago
There are some news sources that are less click baity and partisan, such as Axios, DW, or Reuters. If you can read French, courrier international is decent too.
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by jfim 4y ago
It might be a better idea to return low quality results than nothing at all. The idea is that it's pretty obvious when the bot is banned when it receives no results at all. Having to look at the results manually to determine whether on
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by jfim 4y ago
> In the good case, I can go from a dead stop to final frame buffer in <5 milliseconds. Can you even get the GPU to wake up in that amount of time? Considering the fact that there are 240 Hz monitors nowadays, which means that an enti
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by jfim 4y ago
Keep in mind that not everyone pays taxes on capital gains. People with a lot of appreciated stock can simply borrow using the stock as collateral, and not pay a single penny in capital gains. Depending on the entity that owns the stock, th
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by jfim 4y ago
> The problem with Twitter, and other social media where people use their real name and photo is that in fact people are NEVER going to be themselves. People want to show their best to the world. The currently trending social media app f
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by jfim 4y ago
I can't come up with a good reason as to why one would want to fail stalled. In what scenario would one want to have a distributed lock that fails in that way?
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by jfim 4y ago
Street legal in the US, probably not. There's always the Changli though, but it's not street legal: https://electrek.co/2021/10/18/cheapest-ev-in-usa/
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by jfim 5y ago
At least for accounts that have services that have a billing address, they could send a postcard with a special code to unlock the account. In the case of the OP, that would have solved the problem.
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by jfim 5y ago
The consumption tax is something that sounds like a great idea, but in practice isn't. For taxes to be fair, people who have more means should pay more, as it's less of a burden on them than people of lesser means. If you think of
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by jfim 5y ago
Wouldn't it be the opposite? If I had to rotate passwords frequently I'd want to use a password manager that could handle it for me.
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by jfim 5y ago
On the consumer side of things, they have. Nest guard has been discontinued, and Google play music has been replaced by YouTube music, which lacks some of the features of its predecessor.
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by jfim 5y ago
Some cities do have subway systems that are running a profit. For example, Tokyo's private companies running the various subway systems are profitable, with high farebox recovery ratios and additional revenue from station leases for co
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by jfim 5y ago
There were keyboards that were used for entering the various symbols used by APL. See for example the APL2 keyboard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols
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by jfim 5y ago
> Maybe the demand would be even higher than that - I'm thinking of all people that cannot drive (e.g. because of age in a few years for my parents & other relatives), the ones that don't own a car (too costly, don't w
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by jfim 5y ago
Keep in mind that this is Canada and that many dwellings only have electric heating. This is likely the reason as to why electricity is not allowed to be cut during the winter months. Furthermore, the kind of person who would struggle to pa
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by jfim 5y ago
> Say you go buy a Fitbit, is the manufacturer going to tell you how the protocol works to communicate with it? No, they’re going to give you an app, that may or may not track usage data, and that they can decide to stop supporting whene
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by jfim 5y ago
One of the things that blog post makes me realize is that we don't have instruction manuals that are intended for a technical audience anymore. The odds of seeing an instruction manual with pinouts for connectors and voltage levels are
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by jfim 5y ago
It was a webcomic that was popular when slashdot and kuro5hin were more popular. You can read more about it on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly
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by jfim 5y ago
L5 in major cities is a bit strange for this, since by definition L5 isn't bound by any restrictions, including geography. Did they mean the ability to take a ride between two arbitrary points in major cities with no limitations on tim
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by jfim 5y ago
The Excel team is adding support for abstract data types and lambdas. It's currently in the preview release. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...

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