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by neltnerb 5y ago
If someone comes to Google, asking for the content of someone's email, is Google technically unable to provide that information for past emails? Because I am aware of no reason to think that Google stores my gmail with zero access. I
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Oh, no doubt. It's a difficult place to be, with no real margin for serious actual testing of what the price should be. It's too risky. But I do think that they're subject to the pressure to under-price what they produce beca
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Kind of limited since it's only evaluating websites, but https://tosdr.org/ attempts to implement this as a plugin. Edit: And amusingly it only gives protonmail.com a B.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
That your emails are supposedly stored encrypted, that if other services support it end-to-end email encryption supposedly can be enabled easily, and that supposedly you cannot be served targeted ads because they cannot read the contents of
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think that most small restaurants tend to undervalue their food and service. Part of it is people's expectations, but even beyond that I believe they are so worried about going out of business that they try to run on the thinnest mar
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by neltnerb 5y ago
"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
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by neltnerb 5y ago
There's a link to the original press release. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/rna-breakthrough-crops-grow-... And the actual article. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00982-9
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I'm honestly curious when that convention would have seeped into my brain; in checking, I only use periods for multi-sentence texts. And I've practically forgotten what it felt like to be in my 20s. Even my mother's text mess
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, pre-filtering out the big stuff makes finer and more expensive filters last longer. Interestingly, initially the captured particles actually make the filter capture finer particles in the future. The captured particles plug up the larg
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I guess that explains why McMaster's price for N95 masks never really changed, they were just unavailable. Although on Amazon it was pretty wild to watch -- I guess if they're not technically N95 masks they can take the price as h
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I certainly write plenty of code where I write to registers directly to configure hardware modules and don't think I'm using an OS in any way. I assume most of the security design and hardware permissions are handled at a higher l
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I do truly hope that this is a case where multiple starting points ultimately end going to the same place, largely. There are multiple entry points and what was a good entry point when we were young is not the best way anymore. For one thin
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sure, a bit, but by doing this they also ensure that elderly professors can get to class without transit. Not so much an issue in Berkeley, of course, but makes a ton of sense for schools where heavy snowfall is a thing. School get canceled
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Eh, sort of, but that'll be a whole other research effort. A lot of the maps exist already at least. But I think the way to encourage reducing waste and capturing waste to be in financial competition is that if capture costs $100/
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by neltnerb 5y ago
> Is it worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamble that my new lower paying job is less stressful? Worth it in what sense? You sound like you're trying to do a statistical and financially logical risk analysis. If you have bur
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Huh, my wireless mouse does all kinds of weird stuff. The oddest is that sometimes Linux decides that two mice are attached despite there being only one USB dongle plugged in, and the only solution is to turn off the mouse, unplug the wirel
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by neltnerb 5y ago
... have you ever tried to actually do this? On top of having to deal with, at minimum, going out and buying a new washer drier on my own dime until I win said court case, there's no guarantee you'd win (it's the app ToS, not
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I got a TV that wishes it were smart. I just refused to accept the ToS upon turning it on, never connected it to the wifi, and use an HDMI cable instead. To this day if I accidentally click the wrong input button it asks me to accept the To
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Thanks for the warning, I just bought a pair of these last week. I had planned to never in a million years pair it with a phone or connect it to wireless, and this just makes it obvious what the repercussions would have been. Paying ~$2k fo
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Any engine is limited to the carnot cycle; the themoelectric effect still requires a cool side and heat gets conducted along the two leads to equalize the temperature. That's where the power comes from, the temperature differential acr
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Huh, that seems almost guaranteed to end up with a bunch of properties that prices on are just entirely unavailable. But putting a disclaimer on it seems like it'd be good enough for both rule sets...
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by neltnerb 5y ago
As climate bands move, which areas become suitable change as well. I don't think it's obvious yet exactly where, if anywhere, makes sense since the place you move it to might be untenable ten years later at this rate. Of course su
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by neltnerb 5y ago
It is possible, I didn't look up numbers. Still, it's hard to imagine inserting a step being a practical solution. I expect a reasonable high density low pressure hydrogen storage solution to happen sooner at any scale, a solid fu
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I love that this project investigated some novel surface chemistry. I hate that the article ignores that the aluminum is made using a bunch of electricity . Just use that electricity to make hydrogen in the first place, hydrolysis is appro
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think that these demands should require the built-in app store to support an interoperable feed to other sources. I think that they do but not clearly enough. I doubt Google would interpret it that way, but that would be the fair way to d
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Mostly fuel energy density vs battery energy density. You can use some biofuels (limonene) as a near-direct substitute for jet fuel though. I think maybe you need to change a few o-rings but the vapor pressure, combustion point, etc are all
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sure, but I mean, I literally always thought this service was a joke. It never even occurred to me that this was a serious project, I thought it was like tacocopter for how silly it was (don't get me wrong, I love tacocopter). If Amazo
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I mean, the answer is that the LED bulbs have a lower environmental impact than CFLs or Incandescents. https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/study-environmental-ben... I think this is easy enough to find though...
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think they are talking about "economic" growth rates, which are independent of population growth rates. This actually makes me lean towards saying that the economist is right, money is arbitrary anyway so if the argument is actu
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I don't think this is generally true, there are lots of examples where you measure something with higher resolution than the tool's manufacturing precision (for instance, an STM) and similarly lots of examples where you use a lowe

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