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by klaff 5mo ago
It's an interesting question. If we lived in a universe in which we weren't in fear of losing access to basic necessities of food, shelter, and healthcare, but had to work to have anything beyond those, what would happen? I don&#x
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by klaff 5mo ago
As one example see million dollar donations to inaugurations.
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by klaff 5mo ago
Anymore I think the question shouldn't be about some kind of economic fairness (the time value of money thing being discussed) but the idea that wealth accumulation is a disease that afflicts society. I don't think anyone should h
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by klaff 6mo ago
I know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_Spreadsheet?wprov=sfla1 existed since '84 and was in use in disparate parts of the company (I hit the printer division in the summer of '88). IBM was still using m
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by klaff 7mo ago
How do you get $800k back? Where does that come from?
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Euphonics, the Science of Musical Instruments(euphonics.org)
3 points by klaff 7mo ago|1 comments
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by klaff 7mo ago
This is a lovely example of how to think about physical systems through an iterative approach of empirical testing and modeling of the physics. Kudos to the author, Prof. Jim Woodhouse.
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by klaff 7mo ago
what is TFA?
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by klaff 7mo ago
I'm used to approaching these problems from a slightly different angle. There are two simple cases that can be used to establish guide points. If you have a load that is purely inertial, the optimum gear ratio (to minimize I-squared-R
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by klaff 7mo ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/us-startup-pla...
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by klaff 8mo ago
>If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize. There were several lines in that post that were revealing of the author's attitude, but the "if this ... harmed you," qualifier, which of course means "I don&#
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by klaff 8mo ago
What evidence is there that ALL humans crave power over other humans?
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by klaff 8mo ago
Oh, it has to aluminium not aluminum, and probably aviation-grade aluminium.
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by klaff 8mo ago
If the choice is let's have [facebook|linkedin|bluesky] and someone has to suffer like this, or we don't have those things, than let's not have them.
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by klaff 8mo ago
I get why a firefighter may be asked to take risks to save lives. We should not ask these women to take these risks so that billionaires can become trillionaires.
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by klaff 8mo ago
No one should have to do this job. And if you can't make your social network function or AI thing function without it, then maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't have that social network or AI thing.
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by klaff 8mo ago
Now I'm scared at the idea of termites with thermite!
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by klaff 8mo ago
I like your sales guy. Might have punched them after a while but that's right up there with the time someone tried to tell me there was no iron in steel because it wasn't in the ingredients list. And this someone sold stamped stee
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by klaff 8mo ago
I'm curious. I think the whole thing (space-based compute) is infeasible and stupid for a bunch of reasons, but even a class-A amplifier has a theoretical limit of 50% efficiency, and I thought we used class-C amplifiers (with practica
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by klaff 8mo ago
>As a counter-example, you cannot expect an LGBT person to vote for a right-wing conservative who advocates against their own rights, even if that candidate makes the "right call" on every other issue. I can't think of a c
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by klaff 8mo ago
Hard to imagine it being profitable given the very low utilization of the production line and associated tooling.
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by klaff 9mo ago
As a hardware engineer I've been primarily using metric for over three decades, and like the machinist quoted in the article have had to deal with bullshit of converting back and forth. It's not just about inches and centimeters.
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by klaff 9mo ago
Copy/paste (from reference boards or examples in the datasheet) is pretty common when starting a new design but if you don't then figure out what each connection and external component are there for and adjust to your application
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by klaff 9mo ago
22 kHz is not a hard/fast limit. There are people who can hear a bit above 20 kHz. I learned this when working with motor drives (at 23 kHz) but also documented in this wiki reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by klaff 9mo ago
I've assumed or guessed that the noisy bulb had weak spots in the coiled coil filament that changed how they mechanically respond to the temperature cycling at 120 or 100 thermal cycles per second, thereby making them noisier at end of
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by klaff 9mo ago
LOL, the Home Depot flatbed I rented a week ago (the $19 deal although I went a little long and ended up paying $32 total) had just hauled a load of dirt or mulch. No one read me anything saying I couldn't use it for purposes other tha
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by klaff 9mo ago
They had to erase the one good thing (that I can recall) that Nixon was involved in.
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by klaff 9mo ago
Agree, but it's like knowing a limit imposed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You can't do better and if you get close enough you are done.
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by klaff 9mo ago
The xiphmont link is pretty good. Reminded me of the nearly-useless (and growing more so every day) fact that incandescent bulbs not only make some noise, but the noise increases when the bulb is near end of life. I know this from working i
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by klaff 9mo ago
I'm kinda shocked that there's no discussion of sinc interpolation and adapting it's theoretical need for infinite signals to some finite kernel length. For a sampled signal, if you know the sampling satisfied Nyquist (i.e.,

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