neltnerb

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by neltnerb 6y ago
This is really impressive documentation, though I comment only that this reminds me of many objects I have constructed inside a room without thinking about how to remove it =) Luckily yours does not appear to be concrete...
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by neltnerb 6y ago
It's kind of off topic so this'll be my last comment about it but I accept your point that backwards compatibility means running old software on a new OS. I was incorrect. It has been a very, very long time since I've run int
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I have no doubt that there will be a Chinese developed processor, I don't see why it would be open or why it would preclude risc-v from being used as well. I have no doubt that both would ultimately be cheap and commercially appealing.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I just can't help but point out how much more hardware Linux supports out of the box than Windows... is this actually your real life experience or are you just saying this because it's the common wisdom? Excepting the absolute ble
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Isn't the only reason it couldn't be improved the threat of other companies with patents? I thought that was usually the underlying culprit for missing capability. I wonder what the best ISA we could create would be in a universe
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by neltnerb 6y ago
There are likely some generational differences here... I definitely read even the nutritional information on the cereal boxes but it was because there was nothing whatsoever else to do during breakfast. If I had a smart phone I'd find
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I mostly run into this with people terrified of pressing the wrong thing and breaking the computer. Might be a little like how the first thing you do when you're learning to, say, kayak is to flip the boat so that you're confident
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Awesome. They seem like a good choice, only a little lower capacity than alkaline and seem to hold capacity well. Much better than those old NiCd batteries. The main downside is that the NiMH chemistry is 1.2V instead of 1.5V like alkaline.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
They are worse, lithium batteries tend to explode or catch fire. Cool description, I've never noticed these tendrils you describe.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I would not assume that it had the same optics when they are describing the CCD. That is all. It is just a darn weird thing to say when they could have just used a more standard analogy for contextualizing resolution.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
"their resolution is so high that you could see a golf ball from about 15 miles away." Okay, that's just a nerd swipe. What's the field of view! Oh journalism...
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by neltnerb 6y ago
So I am largely complaining about how confusing it is. Intentionally so. (a) no, most plastics won't get broken down to precursors with enzymes. a few it will work with, like that company recovering resins from carbon fiber. or PLA eve
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I think the point of the NPR piece is that the recycling symbols started intentionally and have continued to be for marketing. I don't think it's viable to recycle paper products meaningfully, but they're also made from farme
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Except by burning it as fuel, yes, that's basically what I'm saying. I don't think this would be news to a material scientist trained since the 90s, but marketing is strong.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
7 is actually a catch-all for anything that's not 1-6 that are actually defined. Often 7 is used for PLA because it's common that way but it's not wrong if it's used for other polymers. Your plastic bags are probably not
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by neltnerb 6y ago
It is entirely possible technically to decompose PLA. It is "poly-lactic acid" and is a fairly straightforward polymer to decompose down to lactic acid which naturally degrades. It is legitimate to describe it as "compostable
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I agree. I honestly applaud the stores for paying that much attention, I'd say in Boston/Cambridge I think about 20% of stores understand that their containers require special disposal to handle and couldn't just get mixed in
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I think I'll have to just agree to disagree with you on that one, I think that glass will eventually be used even if it's not the right time today. I think it is worth the investment to separate it out since it is comparatively lo
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Plastic separation is tricky, they tend to have similar physical properties so you end up relying on small density differences or optical properties or computer vision which is obviously not so great. I think most places it's still mor
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I have called up the waste disposal departments now in three different cities I've lived in (Somerville, Boulder, Oakland) and in none of the cases did the people working there have a clue about how recycling works. They just didn&#x27
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by neltnerb 6y ago
It is really more recyclable. It is still not infinitely recyclable so personally I'd prefer paper, glass, cloth, etc.
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Metal and plastic are super easy to separate by density or by electrical conductivity. Batteries are considered hazardous waste and have to be disposed of separately, similarly for old electronics or CFL bulbs that contain mercury. But comm
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by neltnerb 6y ago
It makes consumers feel better about using single-use containers. It was really not very long ago that my university cafeteria had real plates and silverware and just washed it. Now it's all faux-compostable plastic and polystyrene for
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by neltnerb 6y ago
The main value would be keeping it out of the landfill, in my opinion. At least glass melts back down pretty clean, I just think given how easy it is to use either existing glass or fresh sand interchangeably it's worth a little extra
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by neltnerb 6y ago
No, plastic degrades each time it is recycled. They knew that, every materials scientist knew that, and it is just not possible to fully reclaim recycled plastic. What really pisses me off is the use of the recycling number as marketing. Wh
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, this works... once. Maybe twice. At some point no one will insure you and you are seriously on your own because the fire department just won't come. But I suppose it is technologically feasible to design a less likely to burn hom
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Converting wooded areas to homes means that the required controlled burn ares aren't there anymore either, they are trying to protect land that didn't used to be protected because now it's houses. Pretty obvious in retrospect
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by neltnerb 6y ago
Speak of the devil... that's some amazing timing. Edit: Version 1.13.10? That's the latest I see on the play store, I have it installed, but it does not have the ability to go to the next message while swiping while a message is o
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I had tons of issues with mailman added headers causing entire HTML messages to be interpreted as plain text, rendering their encoding tags visible. I think they fixed this. I was still a bit surprised that this was an issue 1+ years into t
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I agree, I've been with them for years and haven't been able to fully transition yet. I did try finally copying over old emails via their IMAP bridge but it had bugs even after all this time and now a bunch of my old emails have p

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