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by jws 5y ago
The USDA says Arizona cotton farmers make 1,138lbs/acre/year (sorry world, not converting units this time). There are 165,500 acres growing cotton in Arizona, so the 500 we stop to get water for Intel is negligible. So we are talk
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by jws 5y ago
It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here… Completely unbased in facts, I know nothing factual, but… as a hypothesis… The government whose laws govern a media sharing service could certainly say "All content generated in th
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by jws 5y ago
Speak for yourself! Back in the day my dorm fridge was an ammonia absorption unit. No compressor. Absolutely silent. Loved it. Perfect when living in 80 square feet.
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by jws 5y ago
Propane can be used as a refrigerant. It is cheap and performs reasonably well. The obvious downside is flammability. In the US the total charge for a propane fridge or AC is limited to 150 grams of propane. That is a rather small window un
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by jws 5y ago
LEDs work both ways. I wrote a tutorial on doing this with an Arduino sometime in the early 2000s. I've forgotten most of it, so this is going to be vague… • Instead of driving your LED from one live pin to ground or power, put it betw
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by jws 5y ago
Roadrunners lack a keel on their breastbone and have relatively small pectoral muscles. They can fly a little, but my 4 minutes of internet research say it is unlikely that bird can fly over that wall.
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by jws 5y ago
For anyone caring just enough to wonder what scene referred and display referred are talking about… scene referred does its filtering and mapping work on the pixel values in a linear space, presumably linear to "photons observed&
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by jws 5y ago
I’ve sold a car to carvana and I have to say it was the easiest it could possibly have been. Fill in a web form, get a number (higher than the other guys), set a meeting and their person comes out, does paper work and trades you a check fo
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by jws 5y ago
In 18 months of use, I’ve done all except three charges on my regular old 120v outlet in the garage. I just plug in at night when I go under 60% charge, usually every few days. I ordered the adapter, outlet, and new wire to move an unused e
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by jws 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but… generally in the US you need “standing” to file a suit. That is, you have to show that somehow you have a material interest in the issue to be decided. I couldn’t force a suit saying the FCC was required to do an environm
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by jws 5y ago
Just west of it is Ocotillo Wells. You can rent a quad bike and tour around it for an afternoon. There is a fossil reef (oyster shells), an odd rock formation called the pumpkin patch, some mud with mysterious subterranean gas that bubbles
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> But why are you calling it a hack fix? My first question would relate to "dezincification". A chemical process where the zinc leaves brass and leaves a copper sponge behind. Does the coolant cause dezincification? Is zinc t
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The ESP32 modules with FCC certification appear to all have RF shields over sections of the board with the antenna outside. It's possible the space saved by omitting an RF shield will foreclose any certification. Okay for prototyping i
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Tiny houses have a large cost per square foot. One of the early forces in tiny houses remarked that his house was simultaneously the smallest in his city and the most expensive per square foot. Part of it is the cube square law's littl
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by jws 5y ago
The thing about taxes, is that we all get to decide how they are spent… And we did. We defined a set of criterion for social goods to which a person can donate their income without it affecting their income tax.
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The only reasonable way to structure the payment is on the gross value. If Apple tried to define it on some net or retained value then Apple would be auditing the developers of 337030 paid apps each pulling their own shenanigans to hide the
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by jws 5y ago
Where is the "all the gestures" instruction manual from Apple? They would be in the users' wastebaskets with all the other paper shipped with the product. There were interactive onboarding tutorials during install or upgrad
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My strategy for end of day meals when driving long distances is to look for a non-chain brew pub in a smaller town. You are going to find a business that is the passion of the owner and that sets a certain minimum threshold for food quality
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by jws 5y ago
You can also go out the Chicago River and down the Mississippi. There is a path called "The Great Loop" which takes you around the entire eastern United States. (well, most people skip New England and Mississippi (the state), but
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by jws 5y ago
Of the 415 pages in the spec, 8 of them are devoted to arc mitigation in the "USB PD High-Voltage Design Considerations" section. Lots of discussion about detecting unplug and limiting slew rates. In practice that will cost pennie
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by jws 5y ago
Thumping is a quick and dirty check for a grossly under pressure tire. This video shows the sound difference… https://youtu.be/6yboxSUt26s You can use a hammer, a bat, a pry bar, anything with some mass and some reach so yo
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There is also a thermal benefit. Using the high efficiency cores puts a lower load on the cooling system. So even if the computer is plugged in and the performance cores are idle it may be best not to use them and let the cooling system gai
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by jws 5y ago
The article doesn't address a significant issue, when the FBI executed their warrants and shut down the private vault company, what should they have done with any stored boxes not named in the warrant? Left them in an unguarded buildin
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GitHub and Wordpress are both using a list like shown above, neither includes "system-ui". It seems to still be shunned. I'm looking forward to CSS defined names that just say "make me look like the system".
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by jws 5y ago
They will probably define a list of acceptable fonts and let the browser choose. See this article… https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-system-... body { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkM
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by jws 5y ago
These reefs died from dynamite and cyanide.
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You can ride the coattails of people smarter than you?
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That is the test in the first two bullet points. If the AirTags don’t listen then you’d have to add a “I am responsible for that AirTag” broadcast message from the responsible device. But I kind of suspect they do listen, if only for a shor
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Nearly zero knowledge of the airtags protocol, but something like this would allow tracking a stalking tag without giving a trackable identifier. • An AirTag which is seeing an owning device might only be reporting its presence to that devi
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by jws 5y ago
The recommendation is to wait one to three days after applying glyphosate to plant grass, herbs, or fruit. It mostly depends on what else is in the herbicide. You might wait a week for the previous plants to really die before cutting them o

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