martinpw

16 ms·

181.
by martinpw 5y ago
But water is still flowing into the lakes, so would it not eventually reach an equilibrium where water flows past the dam at the same rate it enters the lake?
182.
by martinpw 5y ago
There are charts of Colorado river lake water level trends over time - here are the ones for Lake Powell (Glen Canyon dam) and Lake Mead (Hoover dam). It is astonishing how fast they are dropping. http://powell.uslakes.info/
183.
by martinpw 5y ago
I bought a $2 bottle of Shiraz from Aldi and thought it was pretty bad. Then I had someone do a blind taste test on me with that bottle against a much more expensive Shiraz that I knew I liked. I picked the Aldi bottle as my preference.
184.
by martinpw 5y ago
You are just agreeing with the OP here. The point is that prison is useful for some things, eg protecting others, changing behavior etc. But if there is no free will, then it makes no sense to say prison is for vengeance. These discussions
185.
by martinpw 5y ago
> Under this perfect assumption you end up having a problem with the red shift caused by the expansion of the universe (which I didn't account for above) that lengthens the wavelength of the light you want to see, requiring an even
186.
by martinpw 5y ago
> you would need a lens with a diameter of about 4e10 meters. Probably a mirror rather than a lens. And actually all you need is two mirrors separated by 4e10 meters, not a single mirror of that diameter: https://en.wikipedia
187.
by martinpw 5y ago
Is it an option to put all the setup and configuration into a script? So the Dockerfile becomes effectively just: RUN ./setup.sh I have seen that in some cases as a way to reduce layer count while avoiding complex hard to read R
188.
by martinpw 5y ago
Average age of a car in the US is 12.1 years: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/cars-on-american-roads-keep-... Average time a new vehicle is kept is 8.4 years: https://www.iseecars.com/how-long
189.
by martinpw 5y ago
Looks like The Ants is quite expensive ($200+). I see a couple of other books on ants by him, would you recommend either of these? Journey to the Ants https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780674485266 Tales from the Ant Worl
190.
by martinpw 5y ago
Book by the same author here https://www.amazon.com/Least-Us-Tales-America-Fentanyl/dp/16... It's a devastating read.
191.
by martinpw 5y ago
I think a significant amount may also be pull from FAANG companies which are now getting a lot more into 3d content creation. I don't have so much visibility on the games side, but at least in film and VFX I am seeing a lot of former c
192.
by martinpw 5y ago
Total internal reflection gets harder at higher energies since the angle of incidence has to be smaller, meaning a the effective area of the mirrors gets smaller. Once you get up to gamma ray energies, mirrors are not really feasible, and s
193.
by martinpw 5y ago
"Arabian Sands" is an fascinating book describing travels though the empty quarter in Saudi Arabia and interactions with the Bedouin at a time when their way of life was about to start changing fast (1940s): https://en.
194.
by martinpw 5y ago
Maybe browsing from work? Some companies have policies against installing third party browser extensions.
195.
by martinpw 5y ago
Good point. World population increased 50% since 1990 and they are comparing raw numbers. So really it is a ~35% increase in the rate and a doubling in absolute numbers.
196.
by martinpw 5y ago
> Usually when I buy bread in the bread isle i discard all that have added sugars. But it's been getting hard recently. Even companies that try to market their bread as healthy still add sugar but then try to imply that it is a &quo
197.
by martinpw 5y ago
> Plants are already flammable… Admittedly not the most readable construct, but the ">" in the OP's sentence is saying that the plants become more flammable. To the OP, I had not heard that before, would be interested
198.
by martinpw 5y ago
Happens enough times in LA to have a page that tracks it: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/eh/water_qu...
199.
by martinpw 5y ago
Maybe it was deliberate word play, but 'their' here refers to the prisoners, not the books, in case anyone else misinterpreted this headline to imply they were actually editing the books.
200.
by martinpw 5y ago
Which does not contradict anything I said. AMD having 20-30% market share in data centers sounds plausible.
201.
by martinpw 5y ago
How about reading more carefully before being so patronizing. I just said Intel likely has less than 90% market share now. I never said AMD has 90%. Sheesh.
202.
by martinpw 5y ago
That chart shows the installed base at the end of each quarter, not sales in each quarter - see note below the chart. So current Intel sales are likely significantly less than 90% of the server market.
203.
by martinpw 5y ago
If it was truly half the time you would be right. But in reality it is less than half the time, so you can still come out ahead on average across multiple trades. The example quote you give does happen of course but you tend to remember tho
204.
by martinpw 5y ago
> For those who think David Reich is a scientist What does this mean? I didn't know who David Reich is, but I take your comment to imply there is something controversial about him? A quick search doesn't indicate anything thoug
205.
by martinpw 5y ago
Amazon revenue for last 4 quarters is: ~$440bn (96 + 126 + 108 + 113) so only just over $100bn away. At current growth rates, it seems like they may get there next year?
206.
by martinpw 5y ago
I remember trying to buy beer in a grocery store in Arizona as a visitor using my passport as ID. The cashier called out the manager to decide if they could serve me. The manager said no.
207.
by martinpw 5y ago
The link in the article to the original Nature paper is broken. Anyone have a valid link?
208.
by martinpw 5y ago
Your link refers specifically to salmon for the 5:1 ratio. Overall the article says it takes 20 million tons of wild fish to feed 51.7 million tons of farmed fish. Which is still a significant amount.
209.
by martinpw 5y ago
One thing to note - the headline of the article itself is incorrect. It says "GM Will Suck Lithium From the Salton Sea" In fact the lithium is being extracted from brine thousands of feet below the Salton Sea, as is stated in the
210.
by martinpw 5y ago
> The single most important number as it pertains to Saudi Arabia, is barrels of oil produced per capita Wouldn't the important number be the barrels of oil exported per capita rather than produced? Which actually makes things eve

More ›