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by ortusdux 2y ago
I wonder if the 12-inch form factor could be modified to support a 360 deg hinge? I enjoyed the Lenovo Yoga's tablet configuration.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
It looks like their event drove a lot of traffic towards frame.work - Cloudfare is giving me a 1hr 9min wait to access the site. https://i.imgur.com/twcxJjr.png
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I'd also recommend the Mike and Tom Eat Snacks podcast. It's a master class in being entertaining while filling time. https://matescast.com/
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by ortusdux 2y ago
DnD with the option to switch between 3rd and 1st person views would be amazing. Personally, I'd like an NFL game where you drop your players on the line, draw the routes on the field, and then switch to 1st person QB view for the snap
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Maybe I have seen too many court dramas, but a gas station near me painted their bollards this color, and it made me wonder if it might open them up to liability.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Covid & Flu A/B tests are in most drug stores these days and usually run about $5 more than covid only tests.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
My rough calcs estimate you would need about 400mg of salt per ml of water to get a 7°C boiling point increase, but the max solubility of salt in 100°C water is 384mg/ml, so you might just get there with a supersaturated solution. Can
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by ortusdux 2y ago
"periodic eggs were placed alternatively in boiling water (Th = 100 °C) for th = 2 min and water at Tc = 30 °C for tc = 2 min, for a total cooking time of 32 minutes, which corresponds to the repetition of the hot and cold cycles for a
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Thanks for the summary. Did they factor in any of the recently announced retaliatory tariffs?
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I could see it being a great option for getting bulk goods into space. Fuel, water, food, spools of wire or powders for additive manufacturing, structural components, etc. Depends on what is cost effective. The difficult part would be cat
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by ortusdux 2y ago
The USGS estimated 1.1×10^17 Newton-Meters of energy, which converts over to ~26Mt TNT. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404013939/http://neic.usgs....
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by ortusdux 2y ago
A comparable ocean impact would be the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which was about 3x more energetic.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Comparable in energy to a B-53 nuclear bomb, minus the radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb
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by ortusdux 2y ago
"The Concorde relied on an afterburner to achieve supersonic flight..." "The Concorde used its afterburners ... to get through the transonic region..." Am I missing something, or is there no difference between these sent
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by ortusdux 2y ago
"The Concorde used its afterburners during take off and to get through the transonic region," https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transonic
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by ortusdux 2y ago
The Concorde relied on an afterburner to achieve supersonic flight, so it burned a ton of fuel. It also could not go supersonic over land because its sonic booms were too loud. This mean that flights could only go over the ocean, and they
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Tom Scott visited the site to try out their treadmill crane system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9v3m7Slv8
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I knew a guy that would eat a banana per beer. He would portion the bananas out beforehand, so we could tell he was serious when he showed up to a stag-do with two bunches!
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by ortusdux 2y ago
IIRC, the grid fins are not strong enough to support the rocket, and reinforcing them would add too much weight to the vehicle. The plan is to catch the second stage the same way, and the starship in flight now is the first to have mockup p
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by ortusdux 2y ago
LG was pushing their transparent display at CES this year. This seems like the one of the few profitable applications for them. Hopefully they go transparent when they fail.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Are any major fiber routes hollow-core? HFC signals should be ~50% faster than traditional fiber optic cables, and that might be enough to throw off this data.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by ortusdux 2y ago
A chest freezer with a temp controller would be quite similar. You might need a fan and simple heat source as well. For about $200 I was able to buy and setup one for beer fermentation.
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TikTok plans to shut down US site unless Supreme Court strikes law forcing sale(cbsnews.com)
12 points by ortusdux 2y ago|3 comments
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by ortusdux 2y ago
One of my favorite theoretical energy storage methods is manmade island dams. The idea is to build a circular dyke in the ocean, and then use the encapsulated sea as pumped hydro storage. It would be paired with a windfarm, floating solar
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I don't know enough about the players to comment, but: "This work was supported by funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant no. NNF21OC0066330) to MNL, and from “SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI FARMACOLOGIA (SIF)” to MP. The funding ag
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone for some tickets/venues: "Delivery - Mobile - Free - Your phone's your ticket. Locate your tickets in your account - or in your app. When you go mobile, your tickets will not be emailed
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Amazon has started pushing their version, which I think is called Luna. I haven't tried it, but if they run an instance out of EU-South-2 in Spain, you might get better results.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I do wonder how google handles edge cases, passengers, busses, etc. I've been in rideshares where the driver is using 4 phones - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/business/apps-uber-lyft-d...
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by ortusdux 2y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traff...

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