nealabq

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by nealabq 5y ago
You don't start by choosing an architecture. You start by understanding the problem and the pieces in the solution space. You then figure out how those pieces can work together to solve the problem. After that you can see the system as
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by nealabq 5y ago
How to use a lot of water: a) Water the lawn (in the summer) b) Take a long shower
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by nealabq 5y ago
An acre-foot is about 325K gallons, and an irrigated farm uses 1 or 2 acre-feet per acre per year. So the "inefficient" fab you work at uses less than 2 acre-feet/day, or maybe 700 per year. About what a 500-acre farm uses. A
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by nealabq 5y ago
Me and my children have found that nearsightedness gets worse pretty quickly if we read a lot of paper-printed material. But reading from a computer screen seems much less harmful. We also have reading glasses that are about 2 diopters weak
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by nealabq 5y ago
In six months we'll have a clearer idea of where US inflation is heading. Particularly wage inflation. The velocity of money is down, so there's money waiting to be unleashed, stuck by uncertainty. Which asset will benefit? Bonds
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by nealabq 5y ago
Years ago I read an article about Ray Kurzweil where the journalist referred to "a Ray processor". A mishearing of "Array processor" I suppose.
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by nealabq 5y ago
Plants also love humidity. It seems likely that global warming leads to more water vapor in the air.
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by nealabq 5y ago
I assume plant life is constrained by different things in different locations: - lack of water - too hot - too cold - not enough light (ground level of the rain forest?) - lack of soil nutrients (rain forest?) - too much salt I'll add
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by nealabq 5y ago
I think what you mean is it's a good idea to borrow at the current low interest rates and put the money into an inflating asset. Aka leverage. A good idea if money is losing value (inflation) faster than the cost of money (interest rat
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by nealabq 5y ago
For now they're calling it 2014 UN271. It's got a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_UN271 I suppose it'll get named soon.
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by nealabq 5y ago
I've eaten fried crickets, and the taste reminded me of the smell of the cricket enclosure in a pet store. They're not too bad, but not really good either. A little like crunchy mushroom. I'd think you could flavor them thru
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by nealabq 5y ago
On Jan 19. At 03:14:07 UTC.
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by nealabq 5y ago
The phrase "tall poppy" was used recently in another posted article: https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-dem... It's an interesting cultural rule that's incompatible with t
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by nealabq 5y ago
I was instantly hooked on Usenet when I got access in 1982. It was sometimes useful and always interesting. I had to be careful to limit my time reading it so I could get my work done. It felt futuristic, here to stay. Bitcoin feels like a
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by nealabq 5y ago
The CO2 on the Venusian surface is a supercritical fluid. Not sure if that's any help - it's still compressible and so still acts like a gas more than a liquid.
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by nealabq 5y ago
https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc... (3 May 2021) outlines which states have broadband restrictions. Key quotes: - 18 states have restrictive legislation in place that make establishing
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by nealabq 6y ago
A Nickel (USA 5-cent coin) weighs almost exactly 5g, which is useful to know. So 200 nickels is a kg. 16 Psyche's mass is 2.72x10^19 kg. Let's say 10^19 kgs of that is nickel. With that you could mint 2x10^21 US-nickels, equivalen
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by nealabq 6y ago
I would add the smells of rain, wet wool, sweat and breath, and sawdust. Fragrance is so evocative and complex, but it'll be a while before we can call it up in our browser. I remember a Disney World hang-glider ride where they puffed
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by nealabq 6y ago
This is very sad to hear. Roy talked about the cancer in January: https://roy.marples.name/blog/posts/cancer/
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by nealabq 6y ago
Relevant: http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html Postel picked up the role of number coordinator because it needed to be done.
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by nealabq 6y ago
My grandfather bought a mansion in SF (Dolores St) for $8K in 1934 (approx). You can optimize for a 1929-style crash (hold cash), and you can even plan for hyperinflation (anything but cash), so the trick is to figure out which way to go.
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by nealabq 6y ago
And about 35% own stocks, bonds or mutual funds outside of retirement accounts. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/25/few-in-u-s-...
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by nealabq 6y ago
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports (10-Feb-2021) that the Consumer Price Index (all items index) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
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by nealabq 6y ago
In the "Jump to object" box on the bottom-right you can type m13 to find, for example, Messier object 13. Set the zoom-level to about 12 first. m51 is worth a visit. Messier objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by nealabq 6y ago
If only he'd realized that he could declare bankruptcy, he might not have been so overwhelmed. I think it wrecks your credit for about 7 years (?), but it's not the end of the world. This is so sad.
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by nealabq 6y ago
Russell's teapot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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by nealabq 6y ago
This is great. It's appeared before in HN, and I'm glad to see it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22328516
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by nealabq 6y ago
I don't see this as "team blue" vs "team red" any more. It used to be, back when team-red was confident it could control the populist tiger it was riding. But now it's team-status-quo vs team-revolution, and ju
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by nealabq 6y ago
This Guardian article from August 2020 describes and defends her actions: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/florida-rebe... TLDR: she felt the Florida Governor was pushing to re-open school
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by nealabq 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/01/boeing-737-...

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