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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
I’m sure I’m missing something here but isn’t this common knowledge in sailing and climbing? Specifically tying a knot with opposite chirality to one existing on a line can cause both knots to capsize and roll out. One would not take it as
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Given they’re near Hangzhou they can source a lot of stock for 1/4-1/40th the price as the US. I would guess $1.5k-$2k for the hot mess they show at 6:06 and $8k for the polished setup plus $0-$850,000 in billable hours to some PL
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
[2019] (In 2025, using Tailscale simplifies a lot of the configuration and reachability parts. This guide omits a lot of the hurdles one will run into with NAT traversal and the macOS section is a little dated.)
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
> Cash is also—I regret to say—disgusting. Not true! For a while I was manufacturing cash and did some research on the hygiene component. Surprisingly, I learned tap to pay was the most hygienic iff one didn’t use a common terminal for t
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Well it was radar. The first Raytheon microwaves were really pushing for 3GHz not 2.4GHz. If you like to play Connections, the reason for that is the first mass produced magnetrons were made by gun manufacturers like Colt and Smith & We
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
> Most crypto coins (not Monero) are pseudonymous. It's worth reading the OSPEAD report from the Monero Community: https://www.getmonero.org/2025/04/05/ospead-optimal-ring-sig... > Monero users wit
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
How’s your 13 mini holding up? I have a recently refurbished one (6 months old) and I can’t make it to 2pm without recharging. Additional my mail search and photo search broke with Apple Intelligence/iOS18 integration. Debating jumping
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Years later we put a newer version of this chip with a secure element into Bitcoin bills.[1] Hand waiving a lot of the details, each note basically becomes a hardware wallet with some additional features to prevent double spending. [1] htt
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
I would wager the benefits of this model come mostly from the 2 sigma boost one gets from one on one instruction and not from any sort of optimal skill tree progression a master would impart on a student in a pedagogical environment enginee
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
See also Daniel Rozin’s Wooden Mirror [1999] https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/artwork/daniel-rozin-...
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Love this. Have a friend that regularly sends $30 balloons a few times around the world. They routinely end up over interesting areas like hot spots in the Middle East or North Korea. Would be great to issue commands to a light weight camer
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
I think both of those concerns were addressed by the Dvorak of piano keyboards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard Has the symmetry of GP while large jumps are accomplished by shifting up a row or two. I
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
This was the study with a population size of 16?
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
That actually sounds pretty reasonable and feels almost standard at this point? To pick one out of a dozen possible examples: I regularly read 500 word news articles from 8mb web pages with autoplaying videos, analytics beacons, and JS slud
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Missed opportunity to talk about the locals creative responses to this. One cafe in Tokyo is asking customers to leave negative reviews on Google and Trip Advisor to prevent over exposure (it mostly works but made me curious enough to visit
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
For longer threads I find frequent prompting for sectional summaries along the lines of spaced repetition helpful. Recently was evaluating some investment property for a friend that had valuable timber, historic notability, distressed found
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Heh. I remember similarly spending a few hours inside LambdaMOO. Successfully managed to clone myself, put myself in my clone’s pocket, and then put my clone in my own pocket and kind of broke room reversal. It was only later I discovered t
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
> Minor antigens come into play when crossmatching for infants I’m reminded of that American high schooler in Uganda running an orphanage and ran into this exact issue when doing a transfusion on a malnourished infant. [1] She was skille
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
GEO model relevance is the only thing that matters: https://a16z.com/geo-over-seo/
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
If you want to git gud? Find some popular piece of electronics with a fatal design flaw that’s trivially fixed with some basic rework that you can flip for $25-$1200. Do this a hundred times. Branch out. This changes year to year but could
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Fun. I am reminded of the long forgotten Zachtronics semiconductor game “KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People” [1] [1] https://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peop...
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
This is one of those things I would recommend trying yourself for the full experience. I visited an exhibition on woodworking at the Japan House on high street and they were selling kits similar to this [1][2]. It was a very fun, soothing,
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
What a perfect opportunity to link one of my favorite podcast episodes https://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-biohazard-dang... Why danger symbols can’t last forever.
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
In agreement. I think maybe the best way to get this data set is to subsidize a few dozen electronics recycling centers for every unique microCT scan they send you. Lease them the tomography equipment. They increase their bottom line, you g
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
I live in a big suburb outside downtown Denver with the alley situation you describe but we have a thriving community with monthly or bi-monthly events. Previously lived in the Bay Area for 15 years. Factors that help: -Every house is withi
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
That’s a fair point about personal agency, but it sidesteps the meat of the parent's comment: modern systems are engineered to obscure accountability. Many "personal" deaths - addiction, poor health, lack of care - aren'
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Very quick napkin math calculation in the US: Annual U.S. deaths (approx.): ‘’’ • Cigarettes: 480,000 • Alcohol: 140,000 • Drug overdoses: 110,000 • Poor diet/obesity-related (heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc.): ~650,000 Total:
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
“Faction” and “fashion” are etymological doublets. We wear trends as much to establish which tribe we are apart of as to impress potential mates. The trend of Orcas wearing hats feels very much the same: https://archive.is/2
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 with 128gb unified memory and the AMD Ryzen AI Max amu would be my first non-M4 laptop pick. Surprised how under-reported this device is.
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
There is but it’s a linguistic multiplex issue from the period where they were using British English. The German of the period referred to both the two door and four door variants as limousines. Hand waiving some nuance, American English di

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