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Everyday I firmly believe the Casio FX82* is the most usable design for any calculator, ever I've seen it on desks from nuclear physics R&D labs all the way to automotive mechanics' Calculators like the TI-84 are jam packed wi
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I'd argue governments should only enact bans on reconditioned batteries as an absolute last resort Bans run counter to the idea of a sustainable, circular lifecycle for batteries
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I love EEVBlog but I wish he'd stop making videos on topics outside his area of expertise for views He's excellent at electronic engineering but he's not a physicist
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Ahem we have other journalists we hold hostage Edit: this is a joke about our National Security Laws and frivolous use of Gag Orders. Plus the AFP raiding journalists on a whim
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Australian here We are a subimperial power. The metaphorical "empire" here being the "rules based" world order the US has established since WWII We are the most powerful nation in Oceania but ultimately cannot confront t
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Only ~1,000km north, bullsharks have been filmed swimming in groups of ~150 near the Story Bridge in the Brisbane River To any tourists visiting Aus, please only ever swim where locals swim and only between the flags if on the coast
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On a long enough time scale I'd wager low quality/unoptimised content suffers from data decay much faster than concise, correct content This may be part of the reason Google presenting irrelevant SEO drivel all the more infuriatin
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Clean! I submitted the first formula that popped into my head from uni years ago: the Generalised Linear Model definition from one of the later stats courses This project vaguely reminds me of Gradshteyn and Ryzhik ( https://en.wi
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There are almost 1,000 Nobel Laureates over the last century There is only one physicist who moreorless created half of our contemporary understanding of physics
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Travelling salesman is a largely solved problem, but I'd say this problem is larger. As soon as humans and the real world are involved, seemingly contradictory criteria need to be met. Algorithms like A* search may not be able to captu
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My late father was well versed in this writing style - even though he never held a government role Journalists and particularly paper editors (he was deputy editor in chief of a famous magazine owned by the now defunct Federal Publishing) i
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Samsung's already sidestepped the 90W regulation for the EU by shipping 8K displays this year by dimming the display in factory settings (you can turn this setting off) There's also nothing physically stopping engineers from desig
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Yes, burn in still exists for new flagship OLED panels But you're very unlikely to experience it compared to past technologies, even if you are displaying a static image for extremely long periods
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If space is not an issue used Optiplexes or ThinkCentres are extremely useful for similar use cases $30-150 AUD The only concern I have is power consumption being orders of magnitude higher than modern SoCs
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The best deep dive on the implementation of carbon credits, in my view, was this recent documentary produced by ABC's Four Corners So many competing interests. It's an insanely complex issue https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Lots of people in this thread are discounting the importance of Pax Americana Every country's stability, for better or for worse is at least significantly affected by US Politics and their foreign policies In Australia it's been t
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I think that's more to do with their reporting standards It's very easy as an ABC journalist to rehash Reuters and AP without fear of incorrectly publishing something That's why you'll often see domestic Australian stori
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Sibelius I'm not a composer but I imagine .sib and PDFs I thought midi was more intended for live messaging between different instruments/controllers
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> It's fine to use it for keyboard Isn't that its intended use? I don't understand how you could use it for other categories of instruments unless you mean syncing their clocks? A midi guitar seems fairly non-sensical to m
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This happens all the time in industries close to the "asymptote of perfection" for whatever product or service they're producing. Think of products like ICEs, industrial processes or mature/standardised commodities At wh
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I remember reading about HAMR a few years ago Why does memory and other hardware tech always seem to magically come to fruition? At least compared to software Is it because they're more conservative in their announcements? More certain
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I really hope CUDA doesn't end up being the PostScript of ML
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It's not really that high of a power rating though 48V is ubiquitous through POE et al And with 5A the gauge of the wire is important but it's not going to be running hot to the touch I doubt you'll see it go much higher thou
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We installed a three phase load shedding device for a school in January It was just a Pi and relays Tens of thousands of dollars
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I use Optiplexes and ThinkCentres
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> As we can always go vertically if needed. I don't think you understand how difficult non-planar transistors are to engineer at scale
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>The incentives just aren't designed to plan for decline. I wonder how managed printing service companies deal with this I brokered a five year deal earlier this year, and all vendors put a 7% yoy decrease in print volume I wonder w
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Wouldn't the onus be on the controller manufacturers to ensure compatibility?
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I swam with a 32 year old male California Sea Lion I cannot understate their size. The males are terrifyingly large. I'm not surprised by these findings though, sexual dimorphism is pretty extreme in California Sea Lions, especially co
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The Bhagavad Gita is a conversation between a warrior called Arjuna and Krishna Krishna affirms the need for Arjuna to take part in an on-going epic war I haven't read it myself but I take it more as a more cultural and less philosophi

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