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by kragen 11mo ago
Eliminating license plates would be a good step. As I understand it, license plates were established as a compromise between privacy and accountability: they made it possible to track down evildoers without entirely eliminating anonymity i
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by kragen 11mo ago
I'd guess that it's a lot easier to maintain the whole build chamber at 500° than to maintain the hotend at 850°, but I haven't tried it. Felsic lavas (and magmas) which melt at those temperatures do not typically contain a l
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes, because on VMS (and presumably Genera) 20 versions of a file took 20× as much disk space as one version, so you wouldn't keep unlimited versions. In SCCS the lines that didn't change are only stored once, so 20 versions migh
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by kragen 11mo ago
"Well above the melting point" usually means 60° or less, which is more significant going from 195° to 245° than going from 650° than to 710°. These temperatures make it a significantly trickier engineering problem; ideally, your
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by kragen 11mo ago
This puts the koan in a completely different light. Thank you.
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by kragen 11mo ago
IIRC the Open Genera folks said the Alpha RISC code to interpret the Symbolics instruction set, which fit in the Alpha's cache, ran about as fast as you'd expect microcode to run. So in a sense we're all writing microcode no
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by kragen 11mo ago
I see, thanks! I wonder what the polishing mechanism is.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Are you saying you've been using "stone paper" for ten years? Or are you getting this polishing from the sizing agents and random contamination on real paper?
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by kragen 11mo ago
Paragraph 25 describes what this is all about: > Dr Garrett is chiefly accused of an online campaign of material which is (variously) criminal, illegal or offensive. The criminal matters alleged include cybercrime, hate crime, blackmail
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by kragen 11mo ago
That's interesting! I think of butyl rubber as being fairly expensive stuff compared to building materials—here on Earth, construction sand costs maybe 4¢ per kilogram, while polymers typically cost around 200¢ per kilogram. I'm
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by kragen 11mo ago
Limestone itself is not hard enough to wear down metal pen nibs, but "stone paper" does slightly polish them, presumably due to impurities in the limestone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbqxasFZwsI
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by kragen 11mo ago
That is completely unrelated.
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by kragen 11mo ago
What do you use, borax? That's been banned in the EU for superstitious reasons.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Felsic lavas can melt at 750° and even below, and prehistoric terra cotta ceramic is often fired at such low temperatures. That's still quite a bit cozier than nylon or PET, of course.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes, you could convert the basalt into glass. But basalt fibers have some real advantages over glass fibers, mentioned in the linked page: > Basalt Woven Textile has high corrosive and chemical resistance to the influence of a corrosiv
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by kragen 11mo ago
As I understand it, no, they do not source their energy from the sun. You have to bury the pipes below the frost line. In temperate climates, the frost line is the place where the earth is so well insulated from the surface by the thickne
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by kragen 11mo ago
I'm still struggling with it.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That is not "metabolic syndrome" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome : > Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high
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by kragen 11mo ago
The bags normally used for potato chips are laminated from typically about four layers, one of which is a vacuum coating of aluminum and another of which is polyethylene terephthalate which has been strained to work-harden it, and hermetica
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by kragen 11mo ago
If it turns out that xanthan gum causes metabolic syndrome, xanthan gum in meat substitutes will probably still cause metabolic syndrome, regardless of what you would prefer to allow. Nitrates in meat cause stomach cancer (another thing we
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by kragen 11mo ago
You could start a new project or contribute to an existing one. You could try out other people's projects and write about what you learned. You could write about what you learned from your own projects. You could give a talk that st
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by kragen 11mo ago
A cult is usually what it takes to turn impractical ideas into practical ones. This link is great, thanks!
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by kragen 11mo ago
He was already inspirational before that; check out Magic Ink. Because Apple won't let him share his work for that period, he isn't known for it; it's sort of like a gap in the geological record.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Exciting stuff, thanks for sharing!
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by kragen 11mo ago
Your proposed law would mostly be used against people who were publicizing the criminal record of the mayor's nominee for police chief or the ruling party's nominee for mayor.
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by kragen 11mo ago
They might be worse or better for health, but they will probably be cheaper. They do certainly qualify as UPFs, since we don't know which ingredients, if any, are responsible for the health problems.
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by kragen 11mo ago
There have been several cases of possible or confirmed endocrine disruptors in food packaging, such as phthalates and bisphenol-A. My personal opinion is that those probably will turn out to have been harmless, but concerns over them aren&#
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by kragen 1y ago
Ideas that scale don't scale until they do. The Macintosh didn't come out until people had been using WIMP GUIs for 10 years. People tried to build flying machines for centuries before the Wright Brothers figured out how to cont
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by kragen 1y ago
The evidence that UPFs are bad for health is much, much stronger than the evidence for any candidate mechanism. There are lots of candidate mechanisms. So I don't think anybody knows why they're bad. Surely the UPF classification
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by kragen 1y ago
Possibly relevant is hugi-compo round 3, the "Pong" compo: https://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/compoold.htm#compo3 I spent three days disassembling Guillermo Sais's 142-byte winner, which was challenging to

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