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by rapjr9 3y ago
Off topic, but why are there no remote control chain saws? Seems silly to stand next to an engine driven chain that could fly off at any time.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
These units use electric resistance heating, they do not heat using heat pumps. Mini splits require some gas handling equipment like a pressure gauge that most people will not have. I'm talking about something plug-n-play that anyone
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Seems like sex-espionage might go a long way to explaining the strange behaviors of many members of Congress, such as voting against the express interests of their constituents. You'd think they would be closely monitored for this, bu
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by rapjr9 3y ago
The NY Times has an article about why sales of F150 Lightning EV Pickups have declined: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/business/fords-f150-light... Reading that I was struck by how often they defer t
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by rapjr9 3y ago
In colder climates maybe it makes sense to use mirrors to increase output since the panels are already cooled by the environment?
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by rapjr9 3y ago
"supercharge the gas-to-electric transition by making it as cheap and easy as possible for their residents to switch." If you really want to make it super easy to switch, design new heat pumps that people can install themselves wi
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by rapjr9 3y ago
So could you use a balloon to get to 100,000 feet and then use a solar powered ionic lifter to get to space? There are more ways to get to space than using rockets. The "tyranny of the rocket equation" only applies to rockets.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Is there anything useful (besides Bitcoin) that can be done with precomputation? Perhaps training an LLM? So if you are going to be training an LLM why not heat a town with it? The world has an enormous need for computation and probably
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by rapjr9 3y ago
As people get older polyphasic sleep often becomes their norm, they sleep when they are tired, and are awake when they are not, especially if they no longer have a job. If you have to interact with people (sign for packages for example) it
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Most of the LED candles on eBay just have a one shot timer. If you're looking for the "6 hours every day" candles, here's an example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254879583371
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by rapjr9 3y ago
The best LED candle/flame simulations are the ones that use many LED's such as: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08789LJPS https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RBPLRPV There
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by rapjr9 3y ago
So does this affect the Coast Guard?
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by rapjr9 3y ago
I asked my local waste disposal company why they don't buy a plasma gasification system and they told me that the plants require so much trash as fuel that to keep them fed they'd have to haul trash from three states. It wasn&#x2
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Why not cut to the chase and create cars only for billionaires? That seems to be the direction the business world is heading. If they lose customers they raise prices and cut quantity to maintain profits. Eventually they'll be selli
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Methanol is extremely flammable, it's vapor is heavier than air at lower temperatures, it can float on water, and the flame is invisible, so leaks could create big problems. But industry already has a lot of experience handling methan
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by rapjr9 3y ago
There can be only one! The obvious endgame here is one person owns the world.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Bluetooth is indeed very complex, the complete spec runs into thousands of pages. The Nordic SDK has more than 100,000 lines of code in it, and the proprietary stack (which they don't give you source code for) is probably another 100,
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Especially most banks and government sites. Why doesn't Social Security and the IRS have Yubi key 2FA?
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by rapjr9 3y ago
You can find a video of the whole book, page by page on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dune-bible-viewing-alejandro-jod... Unfortunately most video players don't let you expand the picture to la
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by rapjr9 3y ago
So practically no one studied coronaviruses until 2003 because they thought it was too difficult. And some scientists still think there are only four coronaviruses, even though there are thousands of variants of covid and many coronavirus
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by rapjr9 3y ago
I feel that the decline of malls is tied to the obesity epidemic and poor health in the USA. People don't have the energy to go to the mall and walk for hours while carrying purchases any more.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
The 2023 data seems ambiguous, some states still have climbing crash rates, some have declining crash rates. If the cause was a reaction to lockdowns shouldn't it have tapered off by now? If the cause was the virus itself affecting b
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Many music conferences for new music products (including both software and hardware) are open for those bootstrapping a hardware business. You can set up a booth and demo your product to create interest for when the hardware is released an
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by rapjr9 3y ago
You can't download an entire work, you can only view HTML pages of chapters. You can indeed read the texts online but the site seems designed to prevent downloading an entire text, try Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive first
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Others have explored this space also: https://braiins.com/blog/guide-home-hvac-heating-bitcoin-min... https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/03/heatbit-space-h... https:/&#
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by rapjr9 3y ago
If verified this sounds fantastic for police use. The police could spray it first thing in every encounter, reducing the aggression of both the male police and the other nearby males. I wonder if it has any effect on women. Maybe it shou
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by rapjr9 3y ago
This is how I understand the collusion argument made in the article: The Ivy's could collude on managing their endowments. Having a large pile of money to invest is a form of power, you may have some limitations on how you invest the
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by rapjr9 3y ago
60% to 70% of students cheat?! And it probably continues into adulthood. No wonder the world is such a mess, everyone is uneducated and cheating. I wonder if there has been any research on the effect of this in the adult population.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
If anyone feels like breadboarding a 6800 microcomputer here's some schematics for a very simple one: http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonEnterprises/Consulting/... It's pretty tedious to program it sin
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by rapjr9 3y ago
One answer from a university research perspective is that the system motivates grad students to work on easier problems so they can get their Ph.D. in a reasonable amount of time. Spending 30 years solving a problem is not an option. More

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