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5y ago
You could use a booster pump + accumulator system to get constant pressure. Pretty cheap and easy to install. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Booster-Pump/s?k=Water+Booste...
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5y ago
Wow, 60 psi? Thats like 40 meters of head. So you must be using booster pumps to get the pressure. Never knew this. In India, 99.99% of all homes have gravity flow and static pressure, so except for very tall buildings, no one gets pressure
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5y ago
I agree with the pearl clutching part. Unless Tesla can state exactly how this fix is inferior to it's original design. Putting a brass nipple in a plastic pipe is a tried and tested process. The stated pressure is 2 psi, or max 5 ps
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5y ago
They don't have to do that. You can have a tiny OS specific program that takes care of the starting part and hide the terminal window and other stuff from the user and simply open a web page. Or, even a full web browser view embedded i
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Yeah, This I agree. Even WPF is too complicated, in spite of including XML based UI and binding paradigms. I am really surprised there are no projects that extract the essence of the HTML/JS/CSS UI system (declarative UI with on t
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I always thought that deploying web apps as desktop apps is a great thing to do. As in, not bunch it up into electron, but using shell scripting to start a local only web server and send a command to the OS to open a localhost page. The adv
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5y ago
OffTopic One look at that parser code makes me, a seasoned web and desktop app developer with cocky high minded "architectural" thinking, shrivel with insignificance and embarrassment. Mad respect to the process and people that ma
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5y ago
I saw a lot of Physics lectures from Walter Lewin. A lot of computer science lectures in the CS & EE category. Don't remember the names of lecturers, but almost all of the lectures have a very good flow.
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5y ago
Exactly. When you are a monopoly power, especially in our times and coming decades, there is a high probability that innovation will stagnate and the focus and management will shift to extracting cash from the company's customers. My c
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5y ago
A typical AC cycles its power input. Its not constantly On. One benifit of using this system could be to continuously remove heat from the house and then use an AC on top of it. There is always a consumption value to free beer.
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I think we are in an era where being a monopoly is a net negative for companies. That a monopoly like Intel has been toppled so fast, so easily and so efficiently is astounding. How long did its monopoly last? 2 decades? In the future, I wo
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I fondly remember learning about OCW for the first time, about 10ish years ago. As a fresh engineer in India, on the cusp of just moving to cheap broadband, at blazing speeds of 5 mbps, I was giddy with excitement of learning from the sam
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5y ago
There are a lot of jobs that require constant presence at the site of the actual work. Nurses, Doctors, Construction workers, etc. 4 day weeks will work very well for a minority of jobs. In every other case, it is downright impractical to i
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I am delighted every time the Python Standard Library is mentioned. Always has a nice surprise. The last time I was surprised was the itertools library.
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I wonder if anyone can reverse blur images in the PDF.
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Yup. There is a whole industry that is involved in copper recycling. Copper is expensive and even scrap dealers deal with copper separately. In India, even street pickers know the value of copper.
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Absolutely. DAM construction is essentially sequential. You can't build the top without completing the bottom. Manufacturing hot water tanks is trivial and highly parallelized. Thousands of manufacturers for parts, all of whom can cont
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5y ago
> they are popular in telengana because of oppression by muslims Yeah No. I am from Telangana. They are popular here because most of the land in not fertile enough and thus, there is poverty and general lack of development, compared to o
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Yup. The naxalites have been reduced to isolated pockets in backward areas of the country, which, for various reasons have remained backward. The reason for their existence is being strained for past few decades. It would not be far fetched
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Sure, those sort of procedural things will be sorted out. Overall, I see GST as a good thing. And, for many years, investors from other countries complained about complicated business environment in India and wanted to reduce red tape. Amal
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> The Indian government over the last 7 years have steadily weaponized social media to dehumanize opponents and carve away rights from a very large section of the dissidents. Would love to see examples. Really curious. Eager to learn. &g
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> Just because a government is elected through the process of voting, does not mean that it is accountable to the people Isn't that true everywhere? in every democracy? Why do you think there are three equally powerful branches of g
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5y ago
Did you even read what I said? If you remove user related data as an input to the search query, the results will be purely based on algorithm efficiency, rather than feeding on the biases of the users. Such feedback loops, of showing conten
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Of course. If you put out a video expressing your views on a political situation, and YT labels your video as "manipulative video", won't you have a problem?
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The most wealthiest and developed country in the world, the USA, could not educate its own citizens enough. And you think a country of half a billion gullible folk need to be educated. Do you know how much time that will take, and if at all
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There are a number of tools available to many who want to securely send data to one another. A bit of internet search is enough to learn. And those who plan to hurt India, would not use mass communication means in any case.
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> selling out public infrastructure to capitalists Not sure what you mean. If there are any specific scandals you can point out to, I'd be really happy to know more. Are you suggesting govt. should not contract out infrastructure p
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Because youtube has no mechanism to label content one way or other. It is not a massive distribution network. It is a content heavy site used for sharing videos. The actual sharing happens on other platforms.
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Why is GST imllementation "pathetic"? Could you elaborate?
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By removing user profile data as an input to the search query processing and result ranking.
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