mNovak

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by mNovak 6y ago
I believe the argument for new storage concepts is that renewables will drive a need for large amounts of new energy storage capacity, batteries are expensive, and that not everyone is situated near a suitable geography for pumped hydro.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I assume the weight would be at least partially some of the dirt they dug out of the hole. Cost is the name of the game.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I always thought it'd be interesting to do the gravity storage inside the column of a wind turbine. After all you've already built a tall steel tower. Individually it's tiny storage, but in aggregate it's not meaningless
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by mNovak 6y ago
Brief reminder that the predominate means of energy storage is literally pumping water up a mountain to flood a valley. On the surface, it's equally zany sounding, but of course the massive storage potential there is the big selling po
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by mNovak 6y ago
Yeah I agree. I anticipate some amount of people still discover music on the radio (even pop mega hits you have to hear the first time somewhere), then go seek it out on spotify. I haven't much been in a car, thus haven't heard th
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by mNovak 6y ago
Depends, there's plenty of cases in some cities where the tow trucks aren't called, they just prowl around for any minor infraction. I remember Columbus OH being particularly bad about this--things that in a normal world might war
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by mNovak 6y ago
I think the argument concerns how commonplace bribery is. This exists, but is relatively small in scope. And no, I don't agree with the "universal bribery is democratic" argument, because the end goal is to arrive at 0 briber
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by mNovak 6y ago
In the same category of the "Unhooking fee" a tow truck will charge--you can pick up your car from impound for $200, or you can pay the tow driver $200 on the spot and save the hassle. Though obviously lesser significance than the
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by mNovak 6y ago
For a vulnerability of that scope, I assume selling it to a short-seller to publish in bad faith would be more valuable than selling on the actual black market anyway. Hell, the impression I get is that unless you're fairly well connec
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by mNovak 6y ago
Yes I think the focus is on RFICs where these take up a lot of die area. Potentially that's really important for more exotic processes like InP, GaN, or even diamond, where wafer space comes at a huge premium.
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by mNovak 6y ago
The article indicates a 50% reduction in area for a given inductance (last figure). These are planar spiral type inductors found on RFICs, which they're saying take up potentially 50% of the die area. So overall pretty impactful if you
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by mNovak 6y ago
Seems insufficient that the conclusion is just to check the received board against the schematic and BOM.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Interesting to note however that in the actual competition [1], the AIs didn't seem to find benefit from vastly exceeding the performance limits of humans, with regard to G-forces. Maybe these limits come through in the design of the j
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by mNovak 6y ago
Reliable comms is far from guaranteed in a war, and if there's a gen. 4 fighter dogfight involved, it presumably a median sophisticated adversary capable of EW. Also opening up the ol' remote desktop port on an F16 is a major cybe
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by mNovak 6y ago
I agree war will become a numbers game even moreso than it already is, by taking out the 'incalculable' losses of human life on both sides of an engagement. But modern combat systems are definitely not cheap!
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by mNovak 6y ago
I believe they mention it having perfect state info. Really the human vs AI match is an effective publicity stunt, the real competition was among 8 different AI, so a more fair matchup.
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by mNovak 6y ago
There's decently large amounts of money to be had with SBIRs, but they are a moving target--you end up stitching together many different smaller projects to slowly ping pong your way to the end goal. Of course they're also very sl
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by mNovak 6y ago
However I've found ONI nukes my modest computer much more rapidly than Factorio. That was disappointing, coming from massive sprawling Factorio bases.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I'm reading this as hot water having more effective heat transfer deep into the container, potentially via some type of self-mixing due to turbulence from the sharp temperature gradient? This would seem very easy to measure, with and w
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by mNovak 6y ago
Just because you start solo doesn't mean you're going to be solo forever; you just start hiring marginally sooner. So I guess my question is, all else being the same, is the extra $500k-1M (my guess) that a team would be able to r
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by mNovak 6y ago
Seems like an awfully large oversight to reuse the encryption key between subsequent calls. I wonder if this works when leaving voicemail in the second call? Since the approach requires a long call for a long decryption, dialing straight to
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by mNovak 6y ago
But the real game changer would be if the managers stayed remote, evaporating the 'facetime' detriment typically faced by remote workers.
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by mNovak 6y ago
For many regional and regulatory burdened fields (e.g. ISPs), be the "Stripe Atlas" making it easier for others to compete.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Seconding this.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Isn't this what all those "market intelligence" firms sell? Point is only established companies want to pay for it.
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by mNovak 6y ago
MRIs draw a boatload of power to keep liquid helium liquid, even when "off".. just account for a pretty big generator in that truck, and make very sure you don't get stranded without heavy power overnight. [1] https:/&#
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by mNovak 6y ago
Personal opinion--I like the pre-cooked templates, and would love to see more of common trivial SaaS products. Things like timekeeping or inventory management for instance. That would make it feel easier to justify, since it essentially rep
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by mNovak 6y ago
>> The threshold above which people no longer regress into poverty is 9,309 BDT (504 USD PPP) Am I understanding PPP correctly--this is a value equivalent to what $500 buys in the US? That's surprising because the paper states t
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by mNovak 6y ago
Clearly dead trees have some carbon storage capacity, otherwise there would be no fossil fuels in the first place.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Google maps does this, for me at least. If I look at a restaurant in the app, it'll give a little XX% match score based on their algorithmic impression of my taste.

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