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by quercusa 6y ago
Statement from his family: https://twitter.com/AstroMCollins/status/1387438495040348168
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by quercusa 6y ago
It's a British-ism, and not that uncommon.
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by quercusa 6y ago
> everything that reduces the need for HVAC This is the answer! Even more important than insulation is air sealing, so you keep the conditioned air inside. I've learned an enormous amount about building efficiency from https:/
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by quercusa 6y ago
I knew about residential ones but it looks like there are commercial ERVs as well: https://www.york.com/commercial-equipment/air-systems/energy...
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by quercusa 6y ago
> Get CO2 down to 450 ppm And buildings will be much more pleasant. It's possible that people would be smarter, too (as opposed to being shut up in a badly ventilated conference room for an hour or two). There are costs, as heat or&
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How the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records(twitter.com)
148 points by quercusa 6y ago|41 comments
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by quercusa 6y ago
I worked on a 9000/319 that drove an HP 64000 Logic Development System with pluggable in-circuit emulator boards. We were working on the 6809 at the time and the ICE was an amazing tool for the time. That Sony monitor mentioned in the
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by quercusa 6y ago
This is a great line: >With great foresight, NASA equipped the astronauts with some of the best cameras ever made — specially modified Hasselblads, with Zeiss lenses, and 70mm Kodak Ektachrome film.
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by quercusa 6y ago
By middle school I knew I'd never be an astronaut but I would have really liked to go to Space Camp.
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by quercusa 6y ago
In case you've never seen it, check out the Eames's Powers of Ten .
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by quercusa 6y ago
Were the regulators merely incompetent or were they compromised?
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by quercusa 6y ago
Do you object to CMM as a model or just the CMMI/9001 industry?
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by quercusa 6y ago
> It's something of an open secret that administrators turn a blind eye to suspicious admission results, as enrolment and tuition money are a strong incentive. Money talks. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores tend
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by quercusa 6y ago
It was eye-opening for me to see how much culture affects the perception and even the understanding of the concept of cheating. People from some non-Western cultures, honestly AFAICT, cannot understand why they should not 'help out&#x
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by quercusa 6y ago
And apparently not suffering under the HN load!
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by quercusa 6y ago
Wide eaves help as well to keep summer sun off windows and to provide a place for a porch. A gentle rain on a tin roof is a sure ticket to sleep; a strong one not so much. I'd never thought about ceiling height - that makes a lot of se
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by quercusa 6y ago
> In short, Huawei is looking to integrate China’s “social credit,” surveillance, and censorship regimes into the internet’s architecture. Gee, no thanks.
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by quercusa 6y ago
From the article: “I think this is a very low risk issue, even if causally linked to the vaccine: 6 cases with about 7 million doses (lower than the risk of clots with oral contraceptives) is not something to panic about,” Dr. Amesh Adal
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by quercusa 6y ago
Law professor James Duane reminds you: "Don't Talk to the Police" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by quercusa 6y ago
Sturgeon's Law suggests we should be surprised if this were not the case.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I think I need to order one of the posters of this.
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by quercusa 6y ago
This is definitely slicker but Heavens Above has a very nice 'live sky' view as well as an overhead view.
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by quercusa 6y ago
US Social Security cards used to say "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" but I guess it's just too hard to pass up a good primary key.
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by quercusa 6y ago
"Most ... may..." would seem to be a non-falsifiable statement.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Still compared to Theranos!
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by quercusa 6y ago
It's always amazed me that a working writing system was developed by someone who could not himself read!
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Giant Magellan Telescope project casts sixth mirror(space.com)
2 points by quercusa 6y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 6y ago
If this sort of thing interests you, check out Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Ariel Sabar. Interesting story and a great read - just when you think you understand it, a new layer appears.
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by quercusa 6y ago
The GA one was apparently named after the IL one, so it's pronounced the same way.
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by quercusa 6y ago
There's also Cairo, not to be confused with Illinois or Egypt, as well as Albany (not to be confused with NY).

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