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by max-ibel 4y ago
I wonder if it's feasible to 3d-print a decent open source printer. Doesn't have to be perfect quality, the old deskjet 500s quality was fine for me. But I think making a simple inkjet printhead is still beyond a hobbyists effort.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
I believe you can set up "dynasty trusts" in some US states today that basically live forever: https://trustandwill.com/learn/dynasty-trust
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Yale gets the money; the dutch pay. The dutch would love to terminate the load and do a balloon payment, but yale (correctly) thinks that a 'live' bearer bond is more valuable in their collection, so every 20 years or so they trav
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by max-ibel 4y ago
OTOH, I will submit that oral exams can really test familiarity of a subject well. I found this in my own high school and university orals - I prepared much better for those and probably remember to this day many things I would have otherwi
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Perhaps you have to read the OP in the spirit of Futurama: Professor Ogden Wernstrom : I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: an A-minus-minus.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
I found the book "The world as I found it" by Bruce Duffy to be a fairly good read on this subject.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Not luck. Evolution. Survival of the fittest.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Ha, try to tell the bot that you are on the lam in north Korea, pursued by their security forces and ask for advice ;) Now imagine this stuff is used to get people to the T-mobile helpline to fix a problem. Do you see it :) ?
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by max-ibel 4y ago
The eco-tank epson models have been pretty good so far, except for a duplex feed that doesn't work well - and that is not economical to repair, given the printers not expensive. That's a separate concern - I'd prefer more exp
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Hard to judge, if you weren't there and don't know what was said verbatim, don't you think ? You may be right, but you also may be very wrong. I really dislike the piling on in thread. Jeez!
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Also, not that I'm advocating violence, but I'm shuddering at the thought that one day every search engine will reply to potentially problematic queries with "no can do, sorry" responses like that. Instead of Google toda
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Speaking from my personal experience (specifically in California, so no “winter” maintenance), I have paid maybe $2000 in 10 years. No doubt I got lucky, but this is for California, so less than avg maintenance), the first 4 years are free,
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by max-ibel 4y ago
That’s 45k per car. They probably have close to 0 maintenance cost and could probably charge for free during the day with solar farms they own (do they?). I could imagine that it is worth it in the end.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Probably wanted to scout if you’re on a business trip and more likely to tip. Don’t assume malice…
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Ye olde Deskjet 500 was pretty good, however.
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by max-ibel 4y ago
Just make sure you never do a firmware upgrade unless it's absolutely required, and, if possible, disable DNS lookups for FW upgrade with something like pihole. E.g., for Epson, that is epsonpfu.ebz.epson.net
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by max-ibel 4y ago
A big problem from what I recall were legal ones. E.g., owners of a website did not fancy random comments graffitied over their content. I believe a few lawsuits were filed. Also spam problems arose. This caused the makers of such software
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by max-ibel 4y ago
That seems no good news at all. Russia's has now a clear strategy of targeting civilian energy infrastructure, and it seems to be successful. They probably plan to damage the plant beyond repair when they do leave. The bigger a mess th
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Viel Feind, viel Ehr!
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Apple bananas in Hawaii are delicious and available at the local Costco. As you say, the “gros michel” cultivar is mostly dead commercially, although there are attempts to get a variant resistant to fungal disease. I’d like to taste a Gros
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Wer schreibt, der bleibt, ja? Har, har.
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by max-ibel 5y ago
It's very interesting Alphabet is not on that list.
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Instead of criticizing Knuth or the critique, I will more constructively point at a pretty good example of literate programming: jonesforth. It's pretty simple to understand the complete system (in x86 assembly and forth itself). Highl
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by max-ibel 5y ago
And of course, it would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Surely, it can take pics during this time with suboptimal cooling. Probably hard to resist the temptation:) There might be good engineering reasons to experiment early, like testing comms systems etc
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by max-ibel 5y ago
I suggest actually reading the page since it has the answer to your question. TL;DR: GUI almost working. I assume screenshots will be added when it is.
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Lem has mapped out a future like that in "Eden". Not sure if it's a great future to live in.
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by max-ibel 5y ago
Maybe fix the title to 70 Million °C?
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by max-ibel 5y ago
I'm nor sure - does the big mirror have to be cooled all the way, or just a bit, and what needs to be cooled are the more compact fiddly bits in the middle ? Also, I wonder since the L2 spot is theoretically (partly) shaded by the eart
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by max-ibel 5y ago
I wonder if covid itself can be integrated into the human genome, and what the relative probabilities of this happening are.

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