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by peter303 6y ago
Highest frequencies like used in airport scanners
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by peter303 6y ago
How does OpenStreetMap compare to this?
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by peter303 6y ago
Funny, I have been going in the opposite direction of learning more astrophysics as a retirement hobby. So many university seminars and professional conferences are online now, I practically drown in them. Plus there is so much data online
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by peter303 6y ago
I saw an analysis about 7 years ago (Boulder startup week) that adequate spatial resolution, fps refresh and tracker response would require about 100 teraops of local processing power in the display device. At that time it was just one perc
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by peter303 6y ago
Age 35-40 was the best period of my life. I had a thriving career, strong health and great social and recreational life.
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by peter303 6y ago
I have a window behind my computer. Every once in a while I glance outside and refocus my eyes. It import not to have the sun shine in this window at the times you do this. That causes eyestrain too.
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by peter303 6y ago
New article this week documents it https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-explains-...
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by peter303 6y ago
China too. When I lived in China I felt like I was in the Jetsons- 200 mph trains, gleaming airports more skyscrapers in Shanghai tahn in the Ten top US cities combined. Plus new mission to the Moon every year. In American I feel like the F
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by peter303 6y ago
Government subsidies stimulated the virtuous circle. Remember dry fossil fuel well costs are fully deductible too. Eventually both could be phased oit.
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by peter303 6y ago
Do they still have the Compaq offices in Houston?
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by peter303 6y ago
Misprint. One '9' missing in price?
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by peter303 6y ago
Scientific fad. 25 years ago everyone was finding meteorite impacts at the 5+ major extinctions. Now its hypercarbon at least four of them.
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by peter303 6y ago
Sounds like they are responsible for about a tenth of the recovery since the March recession.
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by peter303 6y ago
Ah, beta testing new M1 software
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Does it contain a "fire starter" like one famous vendor?
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Maxwell wrote his equations using components. Heavyside create modern vector notation.
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by peter303 6y ago
In pre-modern times rhetoric served a similar purpose. You had to devise a persuasive speech on any topic at the drop of a hat. You had to clear develop your arguments evidence. It was one of seven subjects in liberal higher education.
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by peter303 6y ago
Tesla was 2nd to last (Lincoln) service quality in the months Consumer Report study.
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by peter303 6y ago
Yes, I have entered someone elses old Honda Civic with my key. Some of them look pretty much alike at first glance.
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by peter303 6y ago
The Gates Foundation has been capital-sharing with Indian manufacturers to get more vaccine into 3rd world.
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by peter303 6y ago
40 years between 1930s and 1970s were anomalous period when industrialists shared a larger fraction of their profits with workers. Partially due to stronger unions then. The service economy became a larger fraction of the economy. They were
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by peter303 6y ago
LISP and its variants was the introductory programming language at MIT from the 1970s to the 2000s. Partly because they had the LISP/A.I. royalty on their faculty in this era. Students complained they wanted something more modern to ge
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by peter303 6y ago
Also across the European continent in the 19th century. My favorite anecdote is the story of Michael Faraday's unusual education. Being from a blue-collar fundamentalist Christian family he just got an elementary education in reading a
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by peter303 6y ago
IT STILL IS! I have been attending museum lectures and college department lectures for decades. I prefer recent research results than something pedagogical. 2020 has changed how this done with many of them going online (or in suspension). T
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by peter303 6y ago
I have had them for 30 years. They last on average three years. Three areas of failure: (1) The black plastic hooks to the watch bands fracture. Superglue doesnt seem to last. (2) The watch band tears. I duct-tape it sometimes. But that is
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by peter303 6y ago
Same issue with other 1980s custom hardware like mini-super scientific computers. It would take 3+ years for a new hardware generation. Intel or Motorola would have at least three generations in that span and nearly catch up for a fraction
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by peter303 6y ago
HIPAA makes this a crime. The employee and Amazon would be subject to fines and perhaps prosecution.
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You will get old
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by peter303 6y ago
Vaccine technology has been developing rapidly for a couple of decades. Biologists could leverage developments earlier conrona viruses like SARS-1 and MERS. Those were controlled before vaccines were deployed. The tough nut are retroviruses
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by peter303 6y ago
FDA requires two months of safety data. Everyone got second dose by Nov 1. Pfizer is about a week faster.

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