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by petsfed 1y ago
The actual electrical engineering involved there is the sort of thing that an early-career engineer could bang out in an afternoon. Maybe a day or so for the PCB designer. The more time consuming part might be managing the regulatory compli
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by petsfed 1y ago
The whole argument in your linked article rubs me the wrong way. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that the two ways "because science" or "because God" might stop my curiosity is because 1) I'm looking
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by petsfed 1y ago
I suspect that people conflate "buying a house as an investment" with "investors bought a house", which is leading to the incorrect idea that hedge funds or private equity are somehow cornering the market. I think the re
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by petsfed 1y ago
I think "innocent" and "guileless" also bracket the sense you're going for, but they don't quite fit either. Like, he doesn't see the malice in other people, but its not because he's innocent/nai
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by petsfed 1y ago
Its definitely not stable, because the nuclear-armed countries' only arguments against nuclear proliferation are "trust us, you don't want this" and (said quietly) "if everybody has these, we'd lose a lot of po
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by petsfed 1y ago
It's not over atomic energy . It's that it's no coincidence that all 5 members of the UN security council have nuclear weapons. The threat of their use gets things done, and that fades the more countries have nuclear weapons
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by petsfed 1y ago
Is Logitech not a major company, backed by decades of experience building these things? Its not MadCatz, that's for sure. I mean, logitech is the undisputed king of low-to-mid-range joysticks, and has held that title more or less since
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by petsfed 1y ago
>The porthole design was poor, the carbon fiber had tons of defects, the controller , everything was cobbled together, yet it held up until it didn't. Emphasis mine. Everybody hammers on the controller like using a gaming controlle
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by petsfed 1y ago
The scenario to address is people who are forced to move (via e.g. layoffs, company relocations, industry collapse, etc) who are also suddenly saddled with a mortgage far higher than they can realistically payback while still moving on to
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by petsfed 1y ago
You understand that you just said "they're the monsters for using human shields, but not us for shooting through the human shields", right? Make no mistake, its 100% a war crime to use civilians as human shields. But that d
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by petsfed 1y ago
Some quick googling suggests that 80% of California's land area is rural, compared to 39% of Germany's. Considering they're very nearly the same size, that's considerable. And also understandable, considering that German
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by petsfed 1y ago
So, do you live in a country that is notoriously designed almost exclusively for personal automobiles? Whose cities' growth was informed as much by lobbying from the automotive industry as by a desire to use personal automobiles? Do yo
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by petsfed 1y ago
>Have you ever been around homeless people? Yes. At many stages of the descent from "I'm just crashing on your couch until I save up enough for another deposit" to "I'm sleeping in my car until I can find a job&q
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by petsfed 1y ago
Not the parent, but weather resistant bus shelters take up a lot of space. So you're essentially trading sidewalk space for bus access.
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by petsfed 1y ago
You're not wrong that such things make a city less walkable, but there's also a strong argument that just punishing people, instead of, you know, addressing the underlying problem doesn't solve the problem either. It just s
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by petsfed 1y ago
I suspect its because when conditions are right to actually see color in deep-sky objects, its confounding that it doesn't look the same as the pictures. Especially if seeing the colors with your own eyes feels like a transcendent expe
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by petsfed 1y ago
I'll respond to this on its face, because its important: The "socialist" part of the moniker was 2 things. First, it was misdirection. Hitler believed that Bolshevisim, and left-wing revolutions in general, were Jewish plots.
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by petsfed 1y ago
Thing is, NVIDIA ships waaaay more than GPUs. Or, perhaps more accurately, NVIDIA ships chips . Other manufacturers install those chips. Sitting in my office right now, I have 5 computers, and between them I'd estimate I have 15 NVIDI
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by petsfed 1y ago
There's also an opportunity for essentially an Oppenheimer-type NPC to explore it, but then at the end of 2 miles of ladder-brigade, it just falls disappointingly on the ground, and you have a battalion of thoroughly demoralized peasan
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by petsfed 1y ago
Obviously it's octopoxen Like the inspiring concept, I think part of the joy of DnD is that it's often an invitation to discussions about irrelevant minutae. Provided the rules-lawyering doesn't take up all the oxygen in th
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by petsfed 1y ago
Back when I was "playing" (in the dismissive sense) at being physicist and physics teacher, what I found was that the secret to actually understanding something was being free to fiddle with the parameters of the thing to try to d
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by petsfed 1y ago
> Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encoura
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by petsfed 1y ago
No, because you need ultra-cold or ultra-low density (or both, as with 21 cm hydrogen) gas. If your mean free path divided by your mean molecular velocity is significantly less than the relaxation time, then the the atom/molecule gets
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by petsfed 1y ago
I submit that if the concept of quantum transitions is alien to whatever recipient of that probe (if ever), then any attempts to communicate are hopeless anyway. That is, if the recipient's physical reality is so different from our own
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by petsfed 1y ago
I've never liked the definition of forbidden transitions as "transitions not predicted under the broader approximation", because its rare that anybody actually lays out why a given approximation is used, and therefore why t
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by petsfed 1y ago
No more probable than any other value, whole or otherwise. In particular, its (per wikipedia) 21.106cm. Its funny how our brains find nice whole numbers unsettling in the natural world. I was always sort of weirded out by the distance light
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by petsfed 1y ago
When I use it in an IT (or honestly, any non-physics or non-physics) context, I typically mean "how many different ways can we do it with the same effective outcome?". To whit, "contract entropy": how many different ways
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by petsfed 1y ago
The tricky bit about the NOAA affiliated survey was that the debrief was mandatory. The underlying justification for the whole study was that they were finding a higher rate of "I experienced harassment" in the debrief vs. in anon
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by petsfed 1y ago
I think I was ambiguous on who raped (or attempted to rape) her, but the point still stands. While its certainly possible, it seemed like such a non sequitor to have her fall immediately for her savior, after a rape whose sole point was to
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by petsfed 1y ago
That mandatory debriefing was part of the reason why the data was better. That's what I'm saying. If the relevant Antarctic authorities were performing an end-of-season debrief with each and every employee, following the paradigm

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