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by ooterness 1y ago
Who could have predicted that drones flying outside during the day might have to deal with direct sunlight?
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by ooterness 1y ago
If you've ever wanted to try this, I highly recommend "Dig This" in Las Vegas. They'll teach you the basics and then put you in a an excavator or bulldozer, with an open course full of big heavy things to move around. It
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by ooterness 1y ago
Geiger counter with built-in taser. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by ooterness 1y ago
> Wind turbines are noisy up close... Citation needed. I toured a wind farm a few months ago, and they were barely audible at ground level.
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by ooterness 1y ago
Relevant video from USCSB, from a propane explosion in 2007 that killed four people. https://youtu.be/JzdnUZReoLM?feature=shared
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by ooterness 1y ago
Easy solution: Reorient the monitor in portrait mode. /s
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by ooterness 1y ago
Page not found :(
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by ooterness 1y ago
Like all other forms of carbon, diamonds will combust in the presence of oxygen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfa-cKDzYSg
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by ooterness 1y ago
The opposite extreme: physics-based rendering that models the entire optical chain of a film camera, including the emulsion layers. https://youtu.be/YE9rEQAGpLw?feature=shared
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by ooterness 1y ago
When you say "hand track", you're not kidding. I was expecting something with motors controlled by a person, but this is literally picking up the dish and pointing it by muscle power. Back of envelope, a 1 meter parabolic ant
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by ooterness 1y ago
The first few roundabouts I encountered were terrible. One was next to a school, yet it was too small to be navigated by the school bus. One had stop signs instead of yield at every entrance. As a result, I hated them until years later, whe
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by ooterness 1y ago
The bill used an incredibly over-broad definition of "harmful material". Then it makes the bookstore and its employees liable if a child ever accesses allegedly harmful material. (Even if it's sold to someone else, and the ch
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by ooterness 1y ago
To make more money: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...
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by ooterness 1y ago
American telecom companies have been caught making up fees that don't correspond to any government-imposed tax. Sometimes they do control that portion of the bill.
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by ooterness 1y ago
You're probably thinking of chip-scale atomic clocks (CSAC). There's at least two companies that make them [1][2]. [1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co... [2] https:&#x2
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by ooterness 1y ago
Look at moneybags over here paying $30 for a watch. /s
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by ooterness 2y ago
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
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by ooterness 2y ago
No. Removing space debris is more like snatching bullets from mid-air than picking up trash.
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by ooterness 2y ago
They are welcome to bring up such arguments at a trial, where they can be contested fairly before judge, jury, and the general public. Jury trials are another important constitutional right that's being infringed. Until the facts are r
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by ooterness 2y ago
> Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been detaining and trying to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States. The administration is targeting students and academics who spoke o
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by ooterness 2y ago
They did. They are legally required to use those systems, which also make it easy to archive the official government records that are also legally required. Every government employee has annual training emphasizing these legal requirements.
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by ooterness 2y ago
This is entirely wrong. OFDM is necessary for WiFi etc. in order to maximize spectral efficiency (i.e., bps per Hz for a given unit of radio spectrum) and mitigate multipath. The main purpose of the GPS spreading codes is to prevent self-in
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by ooterness 2y ago
https://archive.is/tGsD3
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by ooterness 2y ago
Absolutely not. The GPS and Galileo spacecraft are all pointed at Earth. This demo is a special receiver that can piece together glimpses when that signal happens to slip past the edge of the Earth and reach the moon.
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by ooterness 2y ago
If you "share with partners" in exchange for money, that sounds a lot like selling.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Why does the Windows filesystem allow filenames with invalid strings? It seems obvious that attempts to create files with such filenames ought to be blocked.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Money now is more valuable than money later. It's an enormous subsidy that shouldn't exist; don't quibble over semantics.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Relevant comedy sketch? "Secret agent squad, but they're all just the hacking guy." https://youtu.be/cL7lhbtWwbY?feature=shared
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by ooterness 2y ago
Please use correct units. Kilowatts (kW) measure energy per time. Fast chargers (i.e., level 2, level 3) are rated in kilowatts. Kilowatt-hours (kWh) measure total energy. If you charge at 7 kW for two hours, then that's 14 kWh in tota
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by ooterness 2y ago
As a wise man once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

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