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by petsfed 3y ago
I think this distinction really confuses the issue because the actual physiological changes that can make quitting cold turkey actually fatal for certain drugs at certain intensities can appear to be on a continuum if you're not lookin
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by petsfed 3y ago
I know of plenty of people who have to fall asleep with the TV on, and if they turn off the TV before attempting to sleep, its massively disruptive to their sleep patterns. I doubt anyone would argue that that's indicative of a physic
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by petsfed 3y ago
>The "iPhones are expensive" propaganda is underinformed. Apple computers on the other hand are way more expensive than the equivalent hardware in the PC ecosystem, however they also hold their value quite well for resale where
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think this understates the complexity of getting the time slots right, since you have to factor in drift from the firmware, drift from the hardware (which varies based on temperature), and also the propagation time of the radio signals. E
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by petsfed 3y ago
Eh, the case law here is less clear, principally because automated surveillance at this scale has never been possible before. But its also unclear because this is a tricky zone for the (mentioned elsewhere) "State Actor Doctrine".
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by petsfed 3y ago
As an undergrad I helped with research on quasars, where reasonable precision was solar mass orders of magnitude and tens of parsecs, and the periodic table was Hydrogen, Helium, and "metals". Then I switched to condensed matter p
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by petsfed 3y ago
Based on what I'm hearing, it sounds like they weren't able to produce a macroscopic ingot of the stuff, so it seems likely to me that the superconducting part is up at the end there. However, without further explanation, I&#x27
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by petsfed 3y ago
I got into superconductors shortly after the Fukushima disaster, and it was the poster child for superconductors in transmission lines. One of the perks back then was that you could put these reactors that are sensitive to earthquakes and t
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its not a dirty secret, but just like the rules on chemicals under the organic certification, if you can show that there's no way to do what you want to do with lead-free, you can get an exemption. I suspect that "significantly lo
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by petsfed 3y ago
The profit part of it really came down to "well, just punishing them is leaving money on the table!" Now, it might be the case that the people profiting from the string and long punishments are so cynical and greedy that they st
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's also the aspect that a lot of the really good packages for dealing with e.g. text or the OS don't translate well to the constraints of embedded systems. So I could go to all the trouble to have a cascading compilation all
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean to say, at the point where the I2C library user has to seriously think about patching their kernel, the strengths of the RPi as an out-of-the-box embedded computer are pretty much negated. If you have to do actual embedded engineerin
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, yes and no. But it also gets into "who is it for?" and while you can do things better, eventually you reach a point where its easier to just do it the right way.
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by petsfed 3y ago
That may have been true when my sister gave birth in 1992, but the data is clear, the teenage birth rate has dropped by a factor of 4-6x in the last 35 years. https://opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-health/reproductive-health-an
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, some of this devolves down to the nature of the tools. Eagle was garbage, we all knew it, but it was free and relatively easy to get started on, so everybody in the OSHW movement used it. What we should've done was commit to Ki
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by petsfed 3y ago
Eh, if you're doing anything in the background on an RPi, timing intensive operations like I2C or SPI get really buggy. Years ago, I had to add a retry function to basic, 3-byte I2C transactions on an RPi, because even something as s
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by petsfed 3y ago
Speaking as the brother to a teen mother, I am saying you're wrong, and the data backs me up. Speaking as a person who was quite poor in his twenties and early thirties, I'm saying you're wrong, and the data backs me up. Teen
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by petsfed 3y ago
Ok, I'll clarify: Your claim is that "hook up culture" is causing all these kids to grow up single-parent households. This flies in the face of all kinds of studies that show that, starting with millenials, kids are waiting l
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by petsfed 3y ago
The birth rate (especially the teenage birth rate) has been dropping for the last 20 years. But sure, it's hookup culture that's causing single parent households, and not an evolution of how people of child-rearing age think about
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by petsfed 3y ago
It turns out that a lot of what makes a relationship work is also what causes the children of 2-parent families to do better. Namely, if you remove the stress of scrambling just to make ends meet, and remove food and housing and healthcare
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by petsfed 3y ago
The Bay Area has a really interesting synergy of situations that all contribute to really terrible public schools. A big one is that even in the best school districts, the salaries do not match the cost of living, so teachers cannot afford
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, wood dust is no joke. Because of its size, you can end up with micro wounds all throughout the respitory system, and those in turn act as something like a nucleation site for infections and cancer. If you're doing a lot of sand
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by petsfed 3y ago
> The Whites were a coalition of warlords that were quite happy to carry out pogroms, massacres, exterminations of jews, and other enemies of the counter-revolution. I was more expressing that the day-to-day practices of war communism ma
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by petsfed 3y ago
I have joked often that the fact that still-colonial Britain and Stalin's Russia were the good guys tells you an awful lot about just how bad the Nazis really were A lot of the non-European support for Hitler really did come down to
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by petsfed 3y ago
The number of actual Nazis, Italian Fascists, and Japanese fascists that ascended to power after WWII by leveraging the US's and UK's fear of communists is quite staggering. A quick review of the far-right regimes the US and UK su
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by petsfed 3y ago
The application is so misunderstood that I called them billing codes, when these are in fact diagnosis codes. They exist primarily to simplify records transfer when you go to a new clinic/hospital/doctor/whatever, and sec
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by petsfed 3y ago
Thanks to e.g. Google Sheets, excel itself doesn't dominate the market like it used to. Beyond that, I've had a litany of jobs where I had zero reason to ever use a spreadsheet, one of which was one where I actually sold Microsoft
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've spent a lot time around people doing statistics for environmental science, especially regulatory compliance around accidentally killing birds and bats. The unfortunate reality for the statisticians is that every tech thinks they&#
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its made worse by the fact that pure-teaching positions at public institutions are frequently filled by adjuncts, so there's next to no benefits or job security, and the pay is often atrocious. It's really screwy that a great many
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's currently months of effort, in part because of the labor constraints. Its not worth paying a guy with a tow truck to go looking for a car that might not even be there. ALPRs exist to lower that cost of labor, potentially to t

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