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5y ago
> In my experience, the more in the way of cars you are as a cyclist the safer you are. You still need to have clear markings, but you should always be in sight of drivers IMO, as an active participant in traffic. I definitely agree with
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5y ago
> What bike infrastructure would you like to see, if not bike lanes? Actually, let me show you my commute when I was a student several years ago. This is in North America. 1. Walk to the local park ( https://goo.gl/maps&#x
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5y ago
There's always DigiKey if you need something like that, which also happens to have a parametric search that's actually useful. For your example, from the fuses search page ( https://www.digikey.com/en/products&
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5y ago
> Many of those streets, to be fair, have bike lines that are shifted 3+ feet away from the parking lane, with stripes to indicate the door zone That sounds pretty great. Unfortunately in my area the bike lanes are straight into the door
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5y ago
How is unleashing imported predators and contributing to native wildlife extinction [0] not animal abuse, including 33 species that are now extinct [1]? [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 [1] https:/&
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5y ago
> A battery just has two wires sticking out and that's it. What about thermal management, the outer shell that can hold the battery cells and modules, and the battery management system?
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5y ago
Are you sure that the passwords that were the object of the study came from the password manager itself? The paper that is referenced says this in the introduction: > In this paper, we seek to fill in the gaps by gathering and analyzing
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5y ago
Oh that's not too bad, mine looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/7weijF7 with a sampling rate of 1Hz, without smoothing. As another poster pointed out, with automatic background calibration and opening the windows
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5y ago
It's a bit tricky, because one of the most expensive parts of an air quality meter appears to be the CO2 sensor. Less expensive sensors approximate CO2 concentration (it's referred to as "eCO2") and can be wildly off due
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5y ago
I'm not sure about the MHZ-19B, but I've been using the SenseAir S8 and the data that comes out of it has been rather noisy when powered by a switching power supply. If you have an oscilloscope, you might want to check whether you
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5y ago
Unibody 8 [0] is pretty excellent if you're dealing with a low resolution raster device. It looks like this in action: https://twitter.com/underware/status/947439103645245440 [0] https://underware.
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5y ago
> Do you have an example of even one small town where average or median wages or benefits were decreased as a result of Amazon? A couple of quotes from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/econo
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5y ago
These costs are not only on egress traffic to the internet, but also on other ways to get data out of AWS. For example, the snowball appliance that is basically a pile of hard drives that can be shipped to AWS has free ingress, but costs a
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5y ago
> The Professional Chef It's a great book. Most of the recipes do need to be scaled for home purposes (eg. soup recipes are one US gallon, mains are "makes 10 servings"). One of the neat things about the book is that many
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5y ago
That's a really cool visualization, had never heard of nullschool before.
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5y ago
This varies on the manager. There are managers who do want to see butts in seats, but there are also managers who want to know their directs outside of "what's the status of JIRA ticket X-1234" in a scheduled zoom meeting. Su
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5y ago
> One of the most annoying and ignorant dismissals of climate change you can hear from denialists in Canada is "oh it won't be so bad for us, we could really use the warmer weather up here in Canada lol". You can always as
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5y ago
I'd have to think more about it, but assuming a mild skewness in the distribution, it shouldn't matter too much. This is not unlike the Mann–Whitney U test where the sign of the difference matters, not the magnitude of the differe
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5y ago
It makes more sense in the context of the paper. The previous sentence ends with > [...] since January 1, 2000, there had been 291,237 record high maximum daily temperatures set, and 142,420 record low minimum daily temperatures, or a ra
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5y ago
If that was the case, the number of record lows and record highs would be roughly equal, assuming no shift in distribution. However, according to this paper ( https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029
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5y ago
> Shower thought: when will we see a company like Amazon or Costco experiment with providing an entire city, leveraging their efficient production chains and cost-cutting techniques? This was a thing a century ago: https://en.
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5y ago
Not exactly what you mentioned, but the Punkt MP02 has support for SMS and Signal I believe. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
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5y ago
Would moral rights have a longer period in this case? In the current US copyright regime with a long forward, moral rights aren't really considered too much, but with a shorter covered period it might actually happen during the author&
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5y ago
It's interesting that the report begins by mentioning water infiltration issues in some units and that the part about structural damage only starts on page seven. I wonder if that's usual for this kind of report to put the major e
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5y ago
Chickens have been bred in the US to maximize yield to feed ratios and breast size. This news article has a figure from a paper from the University of Alberta showing chickens breeds from different decades as well as their size given the sa
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5y ago
The worst part about the MathML debacle is that it actually used to work in Chrome a decade ago or so, but then it got removed because there was no real support for maintaining it within the Chrome team.
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5y ago
Out of curiosity, what is it that remarkable should be doing differently? They seem to have the source code on GitHub ( https://github.com/remarkable ) and have ssh root access to the device usable without any major hoops to
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5y ago
> To save a planet that you then have far less ability to explore and enjoy? Or maybe letting future generations have an environment that they'd actually be able to explore and enjoy?
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5y ago
One of the gains from using lidar is also that it's a different sensor altogether from cameras, with different failure modes. For example, cameras are sensitive to glare from reflections (sun near sunset or reflecting on metallic objec
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5y ago
Why would it? If brand X adds anti counterfeit detection in their products and makes a brand X validation app, what's the added value of the ledger?
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