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by pengaru 2y ago
not enough reading
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by pengaru 2y ago
It strikes me as obviously inappropriate to be using the same batteries appropriate for EVs for stationary storage. There must be better packaging/chemistry when you don't need the power density and vibration tolerance that an EV
423.
by pengaru 2y ago
You picked up a wild animal and it fought for its survival. That's not evidence of being mean but alive and interested in staying that way. I had a similar experience with a common squirrel that found its way into a friend's kitch
424.
by pengaru 2y ago
I've commuted by skateboard through SoMa for the last year. The error bars on the crime rate numbers must be enormous based on the amount of crime I observe on the regular.
425.
by pengaru 2y ago
Is that real-time dithering the demo authors implemented though? It seems like a static image they could use any graphics program to produce...
426.
by pengaru 2y ago
Elevated rates of leukemia and other cancers don't prevent cities from existing or even thriving...
427.
by pengaru 2y ago
> I don't see what you could accomplish this way that a nuke couldn't The nuke poisons the land, a metallic asteroid just makes a conventional mess you cleanup and rebuild under your own flag...
428.
by pengaru 2y ago
The vacuum of space seems like an ideal environment for producing high purity metals.
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by pengaru 2y ago
Once upon a time XFree86 and Xorg updated the pointer directly in a SIGIO handler. But that's ancient history at this point, and nowadays I wouldn't expect Wayland and Xorg to have a hugely different situation in this area. IIRC
430.
by pengaru 2y ago
> you don't realize how awful the ones in big box stores are until someone makes you a proper one Every time I find myself stocking another kitchen I'm reminded how 99% of what's sold in American stores now is trash, esp.
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by pengaru 2y ago
It boggles the mind how much people believe gyroscopic forces are what keep bicycles and motorcycles upright. It's even taught in text books. It only really enters the picture during wheelies, if you've got the front wheel spinni
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by pengaru 2y ago
What matters is that the most conveniently accessible food isn't the damn dear worst thing you should be regularly eating large quantities of. Our food environment is the opposite of that. The stress only exacerbates the impulsive&#x2F
433.
by pengaru 2y ago
Wow, they even used the accurate term "crackers", I feel so old.
434.
by pengaru 2y ago
live forever
435.
by pengaru 2y ago
Nobody gets out alive, get over it.
436.
by pengaru 2y ago
The use case for Alphabet is to control more of the interactive bandwidth so they can steer the influence on behalf of the highest bidder / inject increasingly subtle conversational advertising. You can bet your ass that in the fullnes
437.
by pengaru 2y ago
iirc the talk I learned this from said there's simply not many cancer variants that don't need abundant glucose to grow tumors. That the whole defect stems from hijacking the energy side to fuel uncontrolled growth, and it needs
438.
by pengaru 2y ago
AIUI cancer cells are also metabolically inflexible; they like glucose, not ketones.
439.
by pengaru 2y ago
One of the most famous survivors spent hours in the frigid waters without dying because he had hurriedly gotten drunk while the titanic was sinking.
440.
by pengaru 2y ago
I tried porkbun after comments like yours when one of my domains needed renewal, but had to transfer out after one year when their payment gateway refused to work and was very poorly handling the situation while my domain risked expiration.
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by pengaru 2y ago
> The interesting part here is... the Waymo has no reason to. There is no driver. All cameras and sensors are outside. It's just for not freaking out the passenger :) We have very different thresholds for what's interesting. Th
442.
by pengaru 2y ago
> Given that it is a critical time for Tesla deliveries, particularly of its flagship model, the timing is suspect That PoS is tesla's flagship model? TIL
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by pengaru 2y ago
> Interesting random fact: when it rains, waymo turns on the windshield wipers The jaguar i-pace does this independent of the waymo use case.
444.
by pengaru 2y ago
The Dodo bird could probably be considered a dinosaur, not entirely wrong...
445.
by pengaru 2y ago
Minemite
446.
by pengaru 2y ago
When housing prices crash in Detroit and SF, which market do you buy in? Exactly. Grouping SF with Detroit is utterly ridiculous.
447.
by pengaru 2y ago
Depends on how many are still hodling BTC which last I checked was at $94k USD.
448.
by pengaru 2y ago
There's a mountain of grpc-centric python code at $dayjob and it's been miserable to live with. Maybe it's less awful in c/c++, or at least confers some decent performance there. In python it's hot garbage.
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by pengaru 2y ago
> It can be good advice with additional conditions. For example I now eat whenever I feel hungry but only for the half of the time that I'm alive. For the other half I just don't eat at all. The only exception I make is for tea
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by pengaru 2y ago
> A good way to start is to eat only when feeling hungry LOL, that's what everyone riding the "western diet" blood sugar roller coaster is already doing. If the diet doesn't reflect the environment our biological need

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