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by rapjr9 2y ago
Perhaps two sheets of material, one that acts as a high resolution two dimensional microphone array, the other that acts as a high resolution two dimensional speaker array with the microphone array a fixed distance from the speaker array.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
They have another lever they can pull besides lowering prices, raise the wages of their employees so the employees can afford their products. Competing for a larger piece of a smaller pie seems less important than increasing the size of th
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I worked at Dartmouth College in the CS dept and grad students there were paid and treated as employees (they got health insurance, not sure if they got any other benefits) out of grant funds. It wasn't a lot of money though (the scho
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by rapjr9 2y ago
>rolfing, alexander technique, or feldonkrais Wikipedia says these are considered alternative medicine and there is no proof they affect health (and probably no proof they don't either). Trying more dynamic types of motion seems li
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Perhaps a simple explanation comes from looking at this from the eye of the producer and seller of such objects. They produce plates in 20 different patterns for example, and find some sell out, some sell half, some don't sell at all.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
To rule out an electrostatic or electromagnetic interaction with the vacuum test chamber (some stainless steels are magnetic, some are not, but all are conductors that current can be induced in) you could put a strain gauge on the test cham
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Maybe, but that's what she told me. She was wearing treated clothes and footwear. Maybe she was gardening or something and had her head closer to the ground.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I've heard of some experimental attempts to apply permethrin to the necks of deer using bait stations where the deer have to put their head+shoulders into a narrow treated area to get to the food. Doesn't seem to have seen commer
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by rapjr9 2y ago
In the US we have Damminix: https://ticktubes.com/ Same thing, it is indeed permethrin on cotton balls in cardboard tubes. I've used them for several years. They help but they aren't a complete solution. Anothe
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I haven't been able to find out, it isn't offered by any of the licensed pesticide services in my area yet.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
A neighbor caught a tick borne disease (not Lyme) even though she took precautions. The tick came off a tree onto her head and she didn't notice it there. So consider all attack angles. Watch out for West Nile also!
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by rapjr9 2y ago
There was a fungus that you could apply to your yard which killed ticks. It was called Met52, made by Novozymes. They appear to have sold the rights to it to Lallemand: https://www.lallemandplantcare.com/en/usa/p
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by rapjr9 2y ago
There is a new way to treat your property: https://lymeshield.com/ It uses the original Lyme vaccine (which worked but which was withdrawn because nobody was buying it) to treat mice. You put out a bait station and the mic
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by rapjr9 2y ago
How do you cut production? To build electronics today you have to buy all the parts up front for fear they will disappear or be replaced with new versions if you try to buy more later. Does this just mean they won't assemble half the
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by rapjr9 2y ago
You can't assume your first home won't be your last home because you have no idea what the future will bring. Will you stay at the same job for the rest of your life? Will new houses be affordable and financeable? Will the area
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I think this first happened when Miami Vice came out on DVD. They couldn't afford the licensing rights for the music (from Peter Gabriel, etc.) so they just replaced the music with something else, to the detriment of the show. Now, m
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Window unit heat pumps are basically not available (Carrier doesn't appear to offer any either after a brief search). There are a lot of people who would replace an air conditioner with a heat pump who can't afford a full house h
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by rapjr9 2y ago
You might explore clock hardware used in the film and music industries. Ranges from $200 temperature controlled audio clocks to very expensive video black generators. Some links to get started: https://www.sweetwater.com/c
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This sounds like it would benefit from modifications to linkers to make decomposition easier. The benefits of code reuse might make it worthwhile, although the security implications of code reuse without having any idea of what's in t
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by rapjr9 2y ago
There's speech recognition (pretty good these days, but probably still not as good as it could be), and gunshot detection (which doesn't work so well). There has been a fair amount of work in emotion detection from speech over th
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by rapjr9 3y ago
A lot of people here seem to be missing that Buhler is a _current_ research scientist at NASA, leading the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy. Here's a 2022 paper he is an author on: https://ntrs.nasa.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
It was a very limited implementation of wireless USB. You could only plug in two USB devices and only particular devices worked, if I remember correctly. My suspicion is that the reason it went off the market was because it used UWB and t
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Lynch has said that his interest in making movies came out of painting, which was the first art form he had an interest in. He had an epiphany where he saw making movies as making moving paintings. Some of the most surreal scenes in his m
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Vermont is considering installing Tesla Powerwalls for every home in the state to create distributed storage of power which they can then control to optimize the grid. Theoretically those Powerwalls could be fed with DC instead of AC and u
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Seems possible Iran bought some nukes from Russia. Russia wanted drones and missiles, Iran may have set the price for them to be a few nukes or help in getting nukes onto missiles.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Many causes listed here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8235102/ "...medicines used to treat other diseases, as well as foods and other ingested materials, can result in unwanted tinnitus.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Once your data is inside the hospital it can still be widely shared, though subject to regulation. I was part of two research efforts called SHARPS and THaW that studied trust, privacy, and security in medical systems: https://s
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Does anyone have a feeling for just how much extra energy this represents? Is this like the equivalent of an average month of sunlight warming the ocean? A 0.5C degree increase across the entire surface of the ocean seems like a huge amou
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Maybe auto insurers have realized that as EV's take over and batteries improve the costs will come down and the efficiencies of EV's will reduce both the cost of cars and the cost of repairs, hence the insurers will have a smaller
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by rapjr9 3y ago
I agree, and prevention can't be a one time thing. In the 1930's if you were against using coal to produce electricity you would have been labeled crazy. Seems like what is needed is constant re-assessment to determine if new ha

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