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by rapjr9 4y ago
Like switching from fossil fuels to green energy, we need to change the way we build things. Fossil fuels were the quick easy way to get energy, but at a climate and pollution cost that degrade life. Buildings that only last 20-50-100 yea
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Don't forget that a PhD makes it more difficult to get some kinds of jobs. An intermediate or low level developer job may pay more, but if you have a PhD the interviewers are going to question why you are applying for a low level job
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by rapjr9 4y ago
The article does not mention organ damage or nerve damage as theories. The virus may not linger but while it is there it may damage things that cause long term problems.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
We are not consuming too much energy, energy is infinite, it is all around us, the Sun provides more than we could ever use. More energy means better living for everyone. We want, need, and will require more energy. We are just using the
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by rapjr9 4y ago
If you have a use for the heat generated (like heating a home or business) then running a miner means getting free heat, even if the cryptocoin generated does not pay for the electricity. Current cryptominers are generally too noisy for ho
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Tanith Lee, "Wolfland" - "Little Red Riding Hood gets turned on its head. The wolf is frightening, but it's not the villian in this tale." https://www.amazon.com/Red-Blood-Tales-Sisters-Grimmer/
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It has the appearance of companies trying to cause a recession instead of waiting for one to occur. Coinbase admits it can't predict the future but are being precautionary in case there is a recession? If their plan is to take a wors
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You can be social remotely, even in groups, just start a chat or a Zoom. Google used to have video places which were always open and connected and anyone that joined them could interact with anyone else there. That could be a meeting, but
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Seems like anyone relying on a few critical special parts should just leave some space on the PCB around the part so that you can just replace the pads for one part with those for another and then route and jumper the pins to match the func
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"More than 1 in 5 adult Covid survivors in the U.S. may develop long Covid, a C.D.C. study suggests." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/health/long-covid-infecti... "Long Covid risk falls
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I worked for 20 years at Dartmouth College as a "Senior Programmer" in the CS department, later reclassified as a "Senior Research Programmer". I came into the job with a BA in Physics and 15 years of industry experienc
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I was referring to "hidden knowledge", see Wikipedia's entry on "esotericism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism#Esotericis...
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Since they say it can be adjusted for any range of forces I wonder if it could be used as a gravity sensor. Or as a seismometer to detect earth movements, nearby vehicles, even people walking. With a few of them it would be possible to lo
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I worked as a software engineer for 20 years in a computer science department and there are several reasons it is often necessary to work on weekends: * Paper deadlines. If everyone planned well there would be no need to work on weekends,
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Seems like the author is neglecting the possibility of human intervention. The priests and priestesses may have found a way to collect ethylene gas from the stream and released it intentionally at the right time. A trade secret so to spea
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Preserving knowledge has always been a challenge because people die. Books, stories, and songs were early attempts at a solution. The Internet Archive is another attempt. It seems likely it is impossible to preserve all useful knowledge
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I think some people would argue that the blackmail is used to protect us, at least when applied outside the USA, and we can trust those with access to the gathered intelligence because they are the "good guys". We don't know
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There seems to be an assumption here that the enemy will always have a platform-centric approach to war. What if both sides have an anti-platform-centric approach? Do they shoot at each others portable MANPAD's? A hybrid approach se
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by rapjr9 4y ago
There have been several wearable sensors that measure UV exposure: https://www.wearshade.com/articles/comparison-of-wearable-uv... https://www.amazon.com/SunSprite-Wearable-Light-Tracker/dp/B.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Does it handle ASIO for multitrack audio recording and playback? Would it let me plug multiple Black Magic Design video I/O cards into a linux machine and use them simultaneously? Does it do AES50, MADI, AVB, Soundgrid, and Dante?
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by rapjr9 4y ago
>creating art, loving, preparing, doing I think I answered this already. You might add to the list.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I think that games are a waste of time. All of them. They take time away from doing useful things, like creating art, loving, preparing, doing. I can see them as a form of meditation, a way of escape, a teaching, a change of perspective,
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I worked on integrating a Nordic Bluetooth chip into a smartwatch, it was a nightmare. Some of the problems I encountered: * the SDK kept changing, not just in minor ways but drastically. My suspicion was that this was so customers would
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by rapjr9 4y ago
So no reason that driverless cars can't be misused lots of other ways, by everyone. Sending bombs, civilians spying on government and police, anyone spying on anyone, stalking, sale of illicit items, and more I'm sure. The real
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by rapjr9 4y ago
This seems very similar to computer security and privacy concerns. Everyone says "someone should do something about this!" yet very few people, businesses, or governments do anything. After decades of lax security the US gets in
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by rapjr9 4y ago
A digital pen would be great also, if it didn't need special paper and worked well. The idea is to replace pen and paper with a device which is essentially an infinite supply of pen+paper. Having to buy special paper is limiting. I&
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Probably a hundred or more, and double that if you include anything with a microcontroller in it like car, music keyboard, monitors, music effects processors. 10's of old laptops dedicated to specific tasks (weather station, media pla
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There have been some horrible incidents in the US: https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/rememberin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_rail_accidents
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I'd like to see a $30 pen tablet, similar to the Boogie board but better designed and with the ability to export documents. Then I could put one every place I have scraps of paper for notes or notebooks and be able to collect everythi
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I'd like to see a $30 pen tablet, similar to the Boogie board but better designed and with the ability to export documents. Then I could put one every place I have scraps of paper for notes or notebooks and be able to collect everythi

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