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by livueta 3y ago
One of my least favorite antipatterns in my area is a crosswalk with a bunch of signs around it that flash constantly, regardless of pedestrian presence or input. They flash in a slightly different pattern if you push the button. Alert fati
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by livueta 3y ago
> In the first Patlabor movie E. Hoba, the author of the Labor virus, graduated from MIT, and one or two mentions were made of efforts by people at MIT to eradicate the virus. Reminds me of the time I wrote RMS an email telling him he sh
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by livueta 3y ago
That's assuming someone stops. A while ago I was driving down a road like you describe in the rural pnw and stopped for a person attempting to flag down traffic. They'd gotten their vehicle locked behind a DNR gate and their phone
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by livueta 3y ago
Yes: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/09/28/places-c... https://web.archive.org/web/20230928151239/https://www.econo...
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by livueta 3y ago
Not addressing the parent's specific claim, but there was recent discussion of a disturbingly high proportion of studies in one field being fake/flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37572394 > "For
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by livueta 3y ago
Agree. There's an example in democratization of music production tech: the market has become broader and deeper in direct proportion to the declining relevance of expensive hardware. In the context of Japanese culture, consider how man
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by livueta 3y ago
You're right that there are areas like torrenting where big tech can't really go for fear of legal consequences, but there's also the cat-and-mouse game played by IP holders against, say, torrent trackers, which leads me to t
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by livueta 3y ago
Yeah, I have a bunch of fully loaded R720XDs and with 12 3.5" SATA drives they sit at about 120-140W, both according to the lights-out console and wall wart meters.
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by livueta 3y ago
This Economist article on the same topic seems to agree with you: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/09/the-dwindl... / https://archive.is/ZU0ws > But projects like C
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by livueta 3y ago
The point isn't that it specifically needs to be escort carriers, but something analogous in role, where you get a valuable capability at a low cost and production time. Slow/cheap missile platforms might be that modern analogue.
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by livueta 3y ago
Macheneries of Empire is another one I feel would only work as anime, not just animated. A lot of things in that, like the description of Kujen's (literal) shadow as like a canvas of fluttering moths' wings (and a lot of other fas
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Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling(economist.com)
474 points by livueta 3y ago|377 comments
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by livueta 3y ago
It's not just to save money - it also increases the number you can crank out in a big hurry. In WWII, escort carriers were small, slow, lightly armored and yet came in absolutely clutch because some slow air cover that needs extensive
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by livueta 3y ago
I've also used Meshtastic a bunch for backcountry stuff, and coming from vhf/uhf radios, I gotta say I fucking love nonsynchronous comms in that setting. Being able to set my phone down and go filter water or whatever, then come b
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by livueta 3y ago
I think time has demonstrated that some form of (possibly itself centralized to some degree) incentive system can be important for a healthy decentralized ecosystem, but it doesn't necessarily have to be directly monetary: private trac
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by livueta 3y ago
Unsure about impacts, but a surprising result I remember reading about a while ago is that certain military helmets can actually increase blast wave overpressure vs. a bare head: https://www.researchgate.net/publication&#x2F
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by livueta 3y ago
But if you _do_ need a whole bunch of SATA disks, it's hard to beat a bunch of R720XDs. I have a small fleet of them and they're actually not that noisy or power-hungry if you 1) disable cpus 2) undervolt remaining cpus 3) write y
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by livueta 3y ago
https://archive.vn/DAjWT
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Britain's scariest libel firm(economist.com)
74 points by livueta 3y ago|42 comments
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by livueta 3y ago
They claim to be able to track FRS ptt radios, which implies a sensitivity to .5w transmissions, and iirc a phone will put out max .2w (on 4g). Lower, yes, but not massively so, so if it really does work on FRS I wouldn't be shocked if
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by livueta 3y ago
modern DoA algs like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC_(algorithm) can use a small phase coherent array of antennas to estimate DoA by, in grossly simplified terms, measuring minute phase differences across the arr
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by livueta 3y ago
IC cards in Japan, like Pasmo and Suica, kind of work like this: originally intended for transit passes but also accepted at lots of retailers, usually for smaller purchases. You buy a card and load it with cash at a machine, no KYC require
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by livueta 3y ago
One cool usecase is https://meshtastic.org/ - been discussed fairly extensively on this site, have a search for it.
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by livueta 3y ago
Dark Souls 2 turned "Knight" into "K***ht". In a medieval fantasy setting.
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by livueta 3y ago
Ooh, cool: mind if I ask how well the chainsaw works? Taken down any trees large enough to require proper notch/hinge cuts? A lot of the battery-electric chainsaws I've looked at in the past looked like glorified pruning saws, but
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by livueta 3y ago
That's a very real problem, but one would hope that package managers would be a lot more widely adopted in that counterfactual world. Maybe that's a naive hope.
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by livueta 3y ago
Seconding ODDTAXI. I've shown it to a few people who aren't usually into anime and they all really enjoyed it. I read an interview with the director where he said he considered Satoshi Kon to be one of his primary influences, whic
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by livueta 3y ago
Oshii is just way too good at that sort of scene. A similar one from Patlabor 2 also always gives me chills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmlwhaEEgE
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by livueta 3y ago
DNMs "tap into the real world" and do shockingly well. I'd agree that it doesn't come for free and requires creative and well-implemented solutions that may not neatly translate to existing business models like uber.
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by livueta 3y ago
Oh yeah, no doubt about that. I've observed the same picking back up after injuries, and some version of this whole thing is ultimately what's backing the concept of cutting. Definitely not trying to say that mass equals power or

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