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Dow Passes 40k for the first time(cnbc.com)
10 points by ortusdux 2y ago|4 comments
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Elon Musk ordered to testify again in US SEC probe of Twitter takeover(reuters.com)
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by ortusdux 2y ago
The negative space makes the cycle. The green arrows represent items going to a central location to be recycled, while the white arrows represent them going back out into the world.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I've always been fond of Taiwan's recycling symbol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recycle_symbol_Taiwan.s...
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by ortusdux 2y ago
One less obvious CME prep suggestion that I have heard is to prepare for extensive forest fires. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18291443/
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by ortusdux 2y ago
"Weighing more than 1,000 pounds, the drone was the first remotely piloted electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft of its size approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for public demonstration, Connor says."
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How Engineers Created a Flying 'Star Wars' X-Wing(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by ortusdux 2y ago|1 comments
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by ortusdux 2y ago
This is too dense! Can anyone link to a more readable article??
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I still think that this would explain Musk's dalliance with tunnel boring machines.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I agree. I've noticed that people tend to think they are average in comparison to someone else in their family with a slightly stronger expression of a trait. "You think I'm frugal! You should meet my mother! She always
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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause(arstechnica.com)
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Great link! It looks like the caps he used were ~ 3 J/cm³, so 1/65th the density of the ones in the article.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I wonder what the comparison is in J/kg? I could see lithium & capacitor hybrid systems being viable in EVs. The cybertruck's battery housing is full of plenty of deadspace, and if these caps have 1/10th the energy den
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Microsoft announces $3.3B investment in Wisconsin Datacenter(news.microsoft.com)
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Marques' review - "Google Pixel 8A Impressions: Just Get The 8!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3szaVzQx0o
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Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics(nature.com)
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by ortusdux 2y ago
Is there a consumer advocacy group or the like that could please formalize and oversee a "Dumb" certification? I would love to buy a certified Dumb TV.
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by ortusdux 2y ago
As I understand it, one of the best things you can do is not bag up your leaves in the fall. Many insects lay their eggs on leaves, with the goal of having them winter over and hatch in the spring. There is an industry around blowing, rak
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by ortusdux 2y ago
I like Session Buddy for Chrome. It saves all of your tabs & windows as dated collections. You can also manually save and label sets. When researching, I will often have 100+ tabs open sorted into different windows, and it's nic
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by ortusdux 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248924
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by ortusdux 2y ago
A good writeup - https://b612.ai/thor-nsc/ and the underlying research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01056
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Tracklet-Less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery(github.com)
1 points by ortusdux 2y ago|1 comments
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My favorite example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24680...
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by ortusdux 2y ago
A rural friend of mine just had CenturyLink buy his local broadband provider and end his service after 15 years. The infrastructure is in place and working, but the lines will go dead this month. The CS reps he spoke with were all obvious
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by ortusdux 3y ago
My issue with ultra processing is that it makes it easier to swap ingredients for cost cutting reasons. I think corn syrup in soda is the most famous example, and that substitution has had plenty of unintended consequences.
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4. Companies saw the backlash and didn't want the negative PR associated with being the first example everyone would point to.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk
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Framework 180 watt USB-C Power Adapter [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ortusdux 3y ago|0 comments
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My fingerprint reader is on the back of my device.
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Awesome, thanks for the link! "Left: The Brennan model, carrying Brennan's daughter on an aerial wire. From a certain lugubrious quality in her facial expression, one has to conclude that the young lady was not entirely happy with

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