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by mrob 2y ago
I just remembered there are East Asian flutes that use vibrating membranes to modify the sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizi_(instrument) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegeum These are unco
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by mrob 2y ago
Although "Helmholtz resonator" is often used to describe a broader range of resonators than Helmholtz's original design, I think it's dubious to call fipple flutes "Helmholtz resonators". The fipple mechanism s
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by mrob 2y ago
Recovering lithium from batteries is not cost effective compared with mining new lithium. However, battery recycling is possible and still worth doing, because it recovers more valuable metals such as cobalt or copper.
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by mrob 2y ago
That's why suicide vests should be standard issue equipment for all soldiers. The suicide vests should be equipped with heart rate sensors to automatically turn them into land mines if the wearer dies without triggering them (with a sh
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by mrob 2y ago
The only people who could do anything about it probably have age-related hearing loss and don't see it as a problem. Same reason nobody does anything about extremely loud motorcyclists.
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by mrob 2y ago
They could pretend to surrender (ethically speaking, surrender can never be a valid contract because it's always performed under threat of violence, so feigned surrender is always a valid military tactic), pretend to integrate into soc
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by mrob 2y ago
A 3 decibel increase represents a doubling in sound energy. Sound energy is proportional to the square of sound pressure, so you need a 6 decibel increase for a doubling in pressure.
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by mrob 2y ago
Perhaps the inside of the tube could be coated with a thin layer of gold using evaporative deposition before the grid/plate/filament/etc is added, like on spacesuit visors for IR reflection.
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by mrob 2y ago
It's common to distinguish between "psychedelics", which primarily function via serotonin receptors, and "dissociatives", which primarily function via NMDA receptors.
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by mrob 2y ago
And, importantly, it's always mixed with oxygen when used that way.
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by mrob 2y ago
Asphyxiation with inert gases causes hypoxia very quickly. It's not like holding your breath. Lungs don't actively pump oxygen; gases just diffuse along their partial pressure gradients. Air has higher partial pressure of oxygen t
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by mrob 2y ago
The "IDTV" buffering sounds like it increases latency, so unlikely.
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by mrob 2y ago
While I can appreciate the advantages of CRTs (I didn't switch to LCD until 120Hz LCDs were released), I don't see how CRTs have "turn on, watch" simplicity. CRTs needed careful calibration to look their best, and even w
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by mrob 2y ago
uBlock Origin already supports Javascript blocking (both globally and per domain) if you enable advanced mode. Redundant extensions are just extra attack surface.
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by mrob 2y ago
"Corn" traditionally just meant grain. "Corn" meaning maize is an abbreviation of "Indian corn", i.e. the grain used by Native Americans.
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by mrob 2y ago
It doesn't seem ridiculous if you're seen as an easy target. Crime isn't randomly distributed.
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by mrob 2y ago
He's called Jumpman in the operator's manual, but I'm not aware of any official material intended for the general public that uses that name.
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by mrob 2y ago
I've worked in the produce section of a supermarket. We had a refrigerated stock room that was used for everything except bananas. I don't know what temperature it was kept at, but I believe it was somewhat warmer than the usual 5
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by mrob 2y ago
All their examples of cucumber chilling damage are for cucumbers that were chilled and then warmed back to room temperature and held there for several days. This is an unusual thing to do; most people just leave them refrigerated until they
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by mrob 2y ago
>every software/firmware using custom Risc-V instructions is tivoized I disagree. Tivoization means using hardware restrictions unrelated to the core functionality of the hardware to make it difficult to run modified code. The origi
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by mrob 2y ago
It's a collection of arguments for the impossibility of super-human intelligence, rewritten to refer to size instead. If one is absurd, so is the other.
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by mrob 2y ago
But they have higher average wind speeds, and headwinds can slow you down as much as hills.
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by mrob 2y ago
Pure natural rubber has poor ozone resistance. It will need stabilizing additives, and at least one of these (6PPD) has been found to have toxicity problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_cracking https:/&#
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by mrob 2y ago
Silicone rubber has high gas permeability. This makes it good for contact lenses, but bad for food packaging.
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by mrob 2y ago
It's surprisingly common in older music. I assume it's because recording studios used to run SD CRTs and everybody working there had already lost their high-frequency hearing. A 15.68kHz (mid way between PAL and NTSC horizontal re
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by mrob 2y ago
It's rare, but fluoroquinolone antibiotics can do it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9830651/
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by mrob 2y ago
I disagree that they work well. A quick search of the CVE database will find many vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by rewriting in a memory safe language. Ideally, it should be done. However, rewriting those large projects wou
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by mrob 2y ago
No, but I could at least benefit from reduced latency by disabling vsync. The higher the frame rate the less obvious the tearing this causes. And monitor manufacturers are more likely to produce a 1000Hz monitor if there are already games t
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by mrob 2y ago
Old machines felt faster because the delays better matched our intuitive mental model of what should be difficult. Displaying a single letter when you type should be instant because that's conceptually a very simple task. Switching bet
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by mrob 2y ago
I'd rather have 1000FPS. 1000FPS is enough for motion quality that's good enough to be mistaken for real motion, and unlike realistic image quality, all it needs is one skilled programmer. Chasing realistic image quality is so exp

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