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by jkqwzsoo 3y ago
Whole Foods carries a store brand short grain brown rice at a reasonable price that I really like. It’s one of my go-to rices and essentially the only thing I go to Whole Foods for, as I haven’t found a comparable product or price point els
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by jkqwzsoo 3y ago
Keep seeing this take (just an installation issue), over and over and over again. I think it's much worse than a design flaw. Even very carefully-engineered systems can have flaws. Engineering flaws, once identified, can be engineered
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by jkqwzsoo 3y ago
I'm not sure what your point was, but just to be clear the discussion of black body radiation has nothing to do with the switching frequency discussed in the article.
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by jkqwzsoo 3y ago
> As it turns out, doing that takes a lot of energy, so we use reverse osmosis as a cheaper alternative: we exploit the hydration shell of the ions by putting them behind a semi-permeable membrane with very small pores, "nanopores&q
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the abstract was that existing bipolar membrane electrodialysis processes already provide a convenient way of performing the pH swing process they are developing, but with membranes that are alre
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
> Sounds like a promising area to explore. Indeed, and it has been. Google's Project Foghorn's process was (2014) was based on the same concept.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
This answer is, unfortunately, wrong. Or at best, incomplete. And they say the best way to get the correct answer on the internet is to post an incorrect one. In fact, the fact that this (11-year-old) paper was published to HN last night ha
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
What you’re suggesting is any crash can be attributed to the US method of scheduling takeoff and landing (since that’s the risk issue you’re responding to). That’s not true. If a plane’s engine explodes in midair, it has nothing to do with
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
Thinking about it for a minute, I’m not sure why we need fluoropolymers for waterproof technical fabrics. Unless I’m very much mistaken, PDMS rubber, polypropylene, polyethylene, and other materials provide similar levels of water resistanc
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
What a coincidence, I just watched SANS ICS’s promo for their new HyperEncabulator last night. Finally, an Encabulator for the modern cybersecurity environment. https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
You can definitely break a plastic fitting with too much tape. The tape and the plastic are deformable, and I’ve had taped PVC fittings effectively extruded by repeated installation with fresh tape (every time you install it, you need a lit
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
The color isn’t necessarily related to the tape density. I always use Merco Threadmaster M66 (I think this, or the M77, is the McMaster default for high-density tape), which comes in all colors. I’ve had cheap tape come prepackaged with pro
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
In case anyone from the US reads this, BSPP and BSPT fittings are rare and incredibly frustrating here, as our NPT (National Pipe Taper) threads are different and the selection of BSP(P/T) fittings is extremely poor in comparison. Also
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
You're totally missing the joke. Read the article and check back.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I used this tactic to break up with WSJ. However, I think they technically reserve the right to try to collect fees if you don't cancel through their system. Another time, I had a service continue to try to bill me monthly for 2 years.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
As discussed in the video, the SpinLaunch has the advantage that the acceleration to launch velocity is done in vacuum without reaction mass, so they can use a relatively heavy vehicle. The heavy vehicle obviates the issue you discuss, sinc
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
The “article” is a transcript of sections of the video. Removing the culture war bit about Galileo being cancelled, we have: “It’s not a philosophical question whether we live in an environment where objects are floating around that are rep
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
Prediction markets (i.e., cash-settled futures) for interest rates, FX rates, volatility, financial index values, etc., on the other hand, don’t require W2-Gs and are even tax advantaged.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
The caption for the image in the article expands on the theory a bit. The idea is that as the ice melts, less weight is on the poles, which causes them to rise up. It’s proposed that the overall effect is to make the Earth more round/s
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I remember reading a feature/native advertisement about Lenovo's ThinkPad focus groups a while back (I think on Ars or The Verge) that had a similar conclusion. People would go crazy over a red or white ThinkPad in focus groups, b
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I imagine they take a round trip, there and back, once a day.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
The ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties), Zilis has also been a public-facing Musk supporter. She defends Musk on Twitter and sure, fine, that’s a reasonable thing for you to do for your emplo
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
Incorrect. It's chickling peas, not chickpeas, that cause illness. Chickpeas are fine to eat, as evidenced by the billion+ people who are eating them every day, particularly in the subcontinent.
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
This is "saying the quiet part out loud" in academia. For engineering undergrad, your in-state university (ABET accredited) will usually be your best cost/benefit option (unless you're going to MIT, Stanford, or, for CS
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
Or even "trace platinum dissolved in liquid gallium". The solubility at "room temp" (40 ˚C is quite hot for a room) is only about ~50 ppm. It's kind of like calling sea water "room-temperature liquid sodium chl
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I absolutely agree that Central Market far surpasses Whole Foods. I wanted to add that a major benefit of Central Market is their incredible bulk bin selection. I’m certain that it must be a loss leader, and I haven’t seen one so extensive
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I'm reminded of Feynman's bit about the Challenger O-rings. They were not designed to be eroded, so the fact that they survived the erosion was indicative of a design flaw, rather than a safety margin. Similarly, while the design
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
I think the ultimate answer (for all kinds of waste heat recovery, or "heat economizer" technology) is that waste heat streams simply don't contain enough energy to invest in recovering (otherwise, we'd probably deploy O
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
To be honest, it doesn’t matter how much it costs if you can get to a point where you can deliver the American contract without going bankrupt. At that point, airlines should offer carbon neutral first class by default and optional carbon n
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by jkqwzsoo 4y ago
Umm, not quite. H = 1 C = 12 (6 protons, 6 neutrons) O = 16 (8 protons, 8 neutrons) H2O = 18 O2 = 32 CO2 = 44 Also, the connection between atmosphere retention and gravity isn't quite so direct. If you positioned a molecule of H2O (or

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