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by martyvis 4y ago
+1. Totally agree. Nowhere in the article does anyone seem "surprised". If you are going to project a response on the scientists it would probably be relief or concern.
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by martyvis 4y ago
And it looks like the programming environment is running on that hobbyist OS kernel, Linux, that will come to nothing ;-) https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html
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by martyvis 4y ago
So at full rated output power, 5.5kW, it can supply that for 12 minutes (60*1.1/5.5), right? That doesn't seem to be much capacity. Running at say 1kW output you aren't even going to run for an hour. EDIT: The article must be
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by martyvis 4y ago
Sadly I think this announce came around the time they relationship that gave you access to O'Reilly library was torn up. I suspect a lot of people won't be renewing ACM membership just on economic grounds
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by martyvis 4y ago
In everyday use in this part of the world you never hear the word near-sighted. In Australia and I think a lot of other British English countries, short-sighted is the plain English term for myopic. (But the thing is most of us know that th
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by martyvis 4y ago
Sorry, but in Australian English, those with myopia are always referred to as being short-sighted. The metaphor, having lack of foresight, is also referred to by the same expression.
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by martyvis 4y ago
And I just found this very recent biopic on Doug. Just watched 10 minutes so far, but it looks to be really well produced, with interview snippets with Alan Kay, Vint Cerf amongst others. https://youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY
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by martyvis 4y ago
I think you are out by a factor of 12, it's around 26 feet. Or maybe you are thinking of a column of mercury in a vacuum which is about 26 inches.
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by martyvis 4y ago
I'm in the process of researching to replace my swimming pool pump. My current one nominally runs at 2850rpm and has a nominal power consumption of 1650W, but I think I measured it at around 1100W. I imagine the maximum load is when st
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by martyvis 4y ago
I imagine the "deep" aspect is that it seems to be well below surface waves that seem to reek havoc on other projects. That depth is still pretty difficult to service as install without pretty sophisticated planning I would think.
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by martyvis 4y ago
It's interesting how we detect patterns in words. I wanted to have some fake plant names. This generator creates perfectly plausible names. https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/magical-plant-names.ph...
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by martyvis 4y ago
Or to better visualise it, it is a 10x10x10 centimetre (cm) cube. (Or just a bit less than a 4x4x4 inch cube for the unmetrical )
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by martyvis 4y ago
Cheap pianos don't age well - quality ones do. I sold some shares (stock)in 1993 for around $8000. I bought the best PC I could get with about $3500 (a 488DX66 with 8MB RAM...). I bought my wife a 30 year old Yamaha U3 upright piano fo
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by martyvis 4y ago
Imagine your data gets on a server in the cloud and it dies (gets replicated/replaced/decommissioned ...) What's special about satellites (and how much caching are they gonna do) and why are you worried about data you have ch
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by martyvis 4y ago
Wait. How is the the corn in a corn tortilla not flour? If the corn (which might be maize) is milled then it has become flour. Maybe instead of flour you meant wheat.
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by martyvis 4y ago
If it is an organic compound it is probably going to breakdown in years or decades. (Crude oil spills AFAIK only have a relatively short term impact). Most plastics seem to take centuries before they are back to something that is less notic
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by martyvis 4y ago
"The Type 1 suffered from water leaking into the pilot and engine compartment, but due to the nature of the weapon, solving these issues was a low priority." Funny that.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Maxwell may have won the tape print ad war, but TDK definitely buried this TV ad in my brain in the 80's. (I think the singer is Aussie, so I wonder if this was also a global commercial). https://youtu.be/W_cH8Wi0Ggo
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by martyvis 4y ago
Wow. I just submitted the same video (well the original at ESA) -great minds think alike!
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by martyvis 4y ago
I was browsing the Wikipedia article on Sagittarius A* after the amazing black hole image published yesterday and saw this video of a 20 year time-lapse that is astonishing.
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Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (2018)(eso.org)
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by martyvis 4y ago
Yeah it has always sounded a bit weird. I guess "space" is considered the world we can experience by conventional means and specifically we can survive in it with minimal support, that is we can breathe. Outer space is anything ou
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by martyvis 4y ago
You need to watch this interview with Tim Dodd (the space YouTuber) and you'll realise in the first 15 minutes he really is an engineer https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw
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by martyvis 4y ago
My concern is he losing his focus. I know I get distracted from the work I am supposed to be doing (sometimes my paid job but even more so at home). I really should be finishing some home renovation work but there is that mail box I need to
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The reluctant explorer – interview with creator of Pixelmap NFT(thisamericanlife.org)
1 points by martyvis 4y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 4y ago
Don't forget that Starlink satellites have a design life of 5 to 7 years, so some of the earlier ones will be getting close to half of this already. All satellites launched in recent years will have a well-documented plan for their ope
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by martyvis 4y ago
Actually it's 100mw per square metre, so maybe that small speaker was only a couple of milliwatts
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by martyvis 5y ago
Why is it trivial? Did you follow the link from GitHub to the main https//frame.work website? There are close to zero other offerings of a modular mobile computing platform that function as a laptop and single board computer.
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by martyvis 5y ago
In Australia there is always a Deputy Prime Minister available to fulfill the role of the PM in their absence because of illness, travel or leave. That said in the case of a coalition government, such as we have now, they are from the minor
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by martyvis 5y ago
I was only commenting to my wife on how things are so much different here in Australia. Thankfully we have nothing of the threat model here (which primarily is the almost unfettered access to high powered firearms they have in the USA). Our

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