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by jws 9y ago
One out of three: This device will show you what power deliver modes are available, request the most it can get, and make that available on terminals. https://www.tindie.com/products/ReclaimerLabs/usb-c-explorer...
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by jws 9y ago
I’m on my third set of lead acid batteries. I got 8 years out of the last ones and 7 from the first. This is on the long end of lead acid battery life. Capacity was down at the end for both, but I limped along. These are my last lead acid b
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by jws 9y ago
It might have been cheaper, but my conduit is full and won't handle the extra size. I trenched and buried that in the rock years before I learned to always oversize any conduit, especially ones that I have to trench and bury.
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by jws 9y ago
AC powerlines start suffering unacceptable dielectric losses above 750kV. DC power lines can go to about twice that. I don't want anything near 750kV anywhere near me. DC power lines are also better underground or undersea, they don&#x
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by jws 9y ago
What I've learned powering an offgrid cabin… Modern inverters and efficient walwarts (thank you EU) will be more efficient than 12v DC because of the power lost to the cables for anything but trivial loads. The problem is some squared
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by jws 9y ago
For the requirements, these are written by an office in the military with say a dozen people in it. They will each serve in there for two to ten years then move to someplace completely different. None of them will be experts in radio design
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by jws 9y ago
I don't find any DB-19 connectors on Aliexpress or Alibaba. eBay has them for either ~$20 or ~$5.
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by jws 9y ago
This is an interesting metric. Although self driving test cars are rare, the whole point of their existence is to drive so they probably clock more hours than a normal car. About 5400 pedestrians are killed each year in the US. US drivers g
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by jws 9y ago
Google’s search of Amazon products is frequently better than Amazon’s. For instance, I was looking for a specific long obsolete model of compact digital camera. Google easily finds to used ones for sale on Amazon. From within Amazon I never
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by jws 9y ago
In days of old it was pretty easy to ban a site from your Google search results. It looks like they have removed that function. I wonder why? I know I liked having certain low value (to me) sites not clutter up my results. A little article
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by jws 9y ago
Frequently this is a reference to a suit between a Fox affiliate station and a pair of their reporters who were terminated amid editorial conflicts and whistleblower actions. It is a complicated suit with a number of claims. There are enoug
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by jws 9y ago
Accurate. Too accurate. You end up with your strings in perfect 4ths instead of equal tempered fourths. That’s just under 2 cents off, but if you tuned all adjacent pairs it adds up. Be careful not to train your ears to hear the difference.
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by jws 9y ago
In the United States, dishwashers are typically hooked to the hot water line. It is common that our water is heated with natural gas, which is significantly cheaper than the electric heater in the dish washer. As dishwashers reduced their w
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by jws 9y ago
Let's see, mass of chaff in line of beam times one minus reflectivity of chaff at laser frequency times heat of vaporization plus heat of melting plus a bit more for raising the temperature of the chaff… I'm pretty sure any laser
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by jws 9y ago
There isn’t enough time between labor being performed and it being paid for inflation to have much effect. Long term capital investments have plenty of time for inflation to pile up and distort the naive calculation of “gain”.
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by jws 9y ago
Linear is conservative in this case. One would expect the growth rate to shrink as the mountain grows.
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by jws 9y ago
Near field studio monitors are good for making great audio in a small volume. With a well designed room they can work for larger areas. I use $2k of monitors to get really good reproduction in a volume of about 1 cubic meter. Outside that i
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by jws 9y ago
The USPS is in a pinch for vehicles. Their LLVs (the boxy mail truck, Long Life Vehicle) are at end of service life and being extended with costly maintenance. They need to hit alternative fuel targets with the replacements, electric looks
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by jws 9y ago
I use them in cups when I drive or watch media. I don't have to tip up the cup and block my field of view. I'm a fan of the plastic disposables. I used to use permanent straws, but I got tired of having to wonder what was in my bi
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by jws 9y ago
As I recall from my childhood, they get mushy if you dawdle too long with your drink. They also are more prone to collapse if drinking a milkshake and you deform a spot on the side mid-suck.
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by jws 9y ago
A specific medical claim will trigger FDA requirements to prove efficacy in the US. Thats why you see lots of products not making claims, for instance — “High in antioxidants!”, some people will interpret that to mean improved health outc
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by jws 9y ago
…drivers/cones WILL wear out over time… Maybe, but it is a version 1.0 device in a new market for Apple. It will be functionally obsolete by the time it wears out. I mean this in the kindest sort of way. Consider a version 1 iPad. I
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by jws 9y ago
There was a time when the European countries developed transoceanic sailing capabilities and began an age of discovery spreading outward to other lands. I wonder if they considered that finding and exploiting resources from new lands would
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by jws 9y ago
Strange headline for an animal without a brain. It does have a central nervous system, and responds to light from the eyes on the end of each of its arms — numbering anywhere from 5 to 40.
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by jws 9y ago
I've got a counting dog. For much of her life there were 4 people living in the house. Intermittently through the day she would walk around the house until she counted 4 people, then settle down. It didn't really matter which 4 pe
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by jws 9y ago
Each person’s 5kg of gold also comes with a bonus of about 1/6 of a cubic kilometer of seawater. Hopefully yours is near a beach so you don’t have to haul it too far.
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by jws 9y ago
I think right now the car is in a low Earth orbit. There will be a second ignition of the top stage later to shift it to the Mars orbit. The timeline ends with… Mission continues on an experimental long coast and third stage two burn to ta
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by jws 9y ago
I don't believe so, the YouTuber standupmaths has an episode on a a three sided coin (die) which is equally likely to land on its edge as either face. They blackboard two theories on what ratio the coin should have, test them both exte
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by jws 9y ago
Exciting fact: Similar jams happen in hot steel rolling mills too. The YouTube videos are just prettier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVZ1DY0r4y4 In general the rolling mills call it a "cobble" when a whole or
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by jws 9y ago
I think the slightly different meaning is that it is the set of conspirators not including the conspirator you have named previously. So if I conspire with Alice and Bob in a peer based nonhierarchical fashion to make our names famous in cr

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