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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Quanta magazine does a really, really good job with long form science journalism. Highly recommend checking them out.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Teslarati is a notoriously horrible blog. It's been banned from a lot of Tesla subreddits if that tells you anything.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Mercurial (aka hg) was also gaining popularity at the same time as git. The interface was a lot nicer and more sane than git, but it had some serious performance limitations that hampered it. Both were definitely way better than SVN/CV
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Did the USB C port ever work that way? Extra electronics are needed to support being able to flip the high speed connects like that. Maybe the laptop never had that?
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
A rough estimate from Jonathan McDowell (well known for tracking lots of space objects and launches) is that the debris landed north east of the Turks and Caicos islands. https://nitter.net/planet4589/status/172587
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Aircraft windows have multiple, separate panes. Presumably only the outer pane dislodged and the inner ones remained in place.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
I find it hard to take any mention of "preference" at face value in these sort of conversation. People arguing for suburbs never, ever, ever acknowledge that the only reason that costs are cheaper outside of cities is because huge
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
That chargie device is interesting! The latest versions of Android and iOS have finally built in battery management that does basically the same thing (they will not rapid charge over night, and will sometimes limit charge below 100%). I&#x
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
The intent isn't to destroy marine life. The intent is to prevent things from sticking to and growing on the bottom of ships.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
There are quite a few milkweed species, such as Sullivant's milkweed, that aren't nearly as aggressive for what it's worth. Definitely an option to plant these other sorts.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
There are a number of milkweed species that vary in the conditions they like. Some like moist and rich soil, some wet and swampy areas, some like sandy and dry soil. Look for a local extension service or guide on what species are native nea
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Who knows? IBM Research just released info on their updated compute in memory chip [0]. Intriguing, but it doesn't provide a ton of insight in to whether or not it will be commercially viable any time soon. 0: https://resear
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
This sounds similar to some of the work that google has done, such as PaLM-E: https://blog.research.google/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimo... Very exciting times in robotics!
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Even for PV, most payback periods are under 10 years at this point. In sunnier areas payback periods can be just a few years.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
The satellites may not currently be the bottleneck for certain areas, but they definitely don't support anything resembling a densely or even sparsely populated area. Typical calculations (using only publicly available info as a caveat
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
In my experience they aren't too bad. I typically use an exacto knife and just scrape around the bottom of the port for a while until I stop pulling lint out.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
> plus, if your beef is grass fed for its whole life like ours, it's carbon neutral, as all the carbon that goes into the animal came from the atmosphere This totally ignores the land use issue. Cattle absolutely decimate natural ar
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Where have you seen Apple mention this ability? In the presentation they specifically called out being able to charge airpods via iphone _with_ a cable, not wireless charging between airpods and iphone. I am surprised apple hasn't incl
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Exactly correct! Also, you could definitely do well to reduce your roof albedo by switching to white/reflective roofs. This point has been made endlessly over the last 30-40 years. No one actually does it. People are actually installin
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
This is not true, as subsidizing cars makes suburban and exurban locations cheaper. Significant land use change in this way absolutely contributes to high atmospheric CO2 as well as widespread environmental destruction.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Below 10%. The most efficient plants are food crops we've genetically modified. I believe corn absorbs around 10%. However, plants also reflect a lot of energy, unlike black/asphalt roofs that most people in the US install.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Maybe massively subsidizing cars that need insane amounts of resource extraction isn't the best solution here, and there are other ways to deal with this. Personally I'd prefer if we didn't pave over the whole world with road
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
This is one reason I heavily push for roof top solar, even if it is a bit more expensive than utility scale. In many areas air conditioning is pretty much a given at this point. A typical solar panel absorbs ~20% of the sun's energy bl
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Are you thinking of Tesla? Musk has stated in the past that they are explicitly not patenting things or providing IP details freely to prevent other nations from using said IP.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
People are doing exactly that with batteries these days though. Go look at youtube channels where people are building a cabin, traveling in a van/RV, etc. I'm seeing lots of videos with a portable "5 gallon container" si
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
You hit the nail on the head. SMIC can get a bit further with DUV, but they are certainly going to get eaten up with multi patterning. The additional cost and complexity from this will be significant.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
The current generation of mass manufactured high temperature superconducting tape is based on YBCO, which is a crystalline material (presumably what is meant here when saying ceramic). So the argument that superconductors need to be metalli
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
High performance gas turbine blades (e.g. in the F-22 engine and apparently some electricity turbines) are single crystal now as well. It's definitely a huge challenge to do manufacture, but possible.
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
The area OP is talking about is referred to as the Red River Gorge, it spans a handful counties (powell, wolfe, menifee, and lee county) which are in various states of development. Definitely an interesting place to travel around. You can g
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by reportingsjr 3y ago
Not true in most of the US, you do need to get engineered drawings, permits, etc which can be challenging for the average person.

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