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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Thanks for this. You and speerer have given me the idea to get clear plastic near-hemispheres to glue onto my keycaps. KB illumination will still show, and the key target area will be less than half its current value. Much obliged!
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
As I've aged, I've developed kinetic tremor. In typing, this shows up as missing my intended target key. The error most commonly presents as hitting two keys at once because my ability to hit only within a defined x,y envelope at
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
I'm so pleased by this article! I'm a materials junkie. My wine glasses are made of ZrO2 stabilized by Y2O3. My daily work is to convert carbon-bearing gases into diamond through plasma chemistry. I've long considered making
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Speaking only to spectrum allocation for amateur radio, that service is a critical resource in emergencies, like Hurricane Helene. The small amateur radio spectrum allocations cover long-wave emissions that can communicate around the planet
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Manufacturers' discount coupons are a fairly common thing in the US. But if the patient is on any kind of government medical assistance program (Medicare & Medicaid being the two big ones), they're not eligible. My bit of anec
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Definitely, do this. When you do, take the underground Western Wall tour. The stonework just beggars the imagination. https://thekotel.org/en/tours/western-wall-tunnels/2/?srslti...
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Nope. One ring to rule them all.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Rapidly growing new file category on Pirate Bay?
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Not necessarily. I visit our local medical vampire every 3 months to drain a pint due to high levels of ferritin (hemochromatosis issues). I asked what they do with the blood. They destroy it by ashing it. The tech said they do this with an
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
An olfactory Streisand Effect!
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
From this very cool paper: " In an ironic twist, this effectively realizes Richard Feynman’s analogy of the seemingly impossible task of ‘figuring out a pocket watch by smashing two together and observing the flying debris’. "
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
I don't have code running on them, but I do have hardware designs aboard Pioneer 10 & 11. These were the first rocks we humans tossed high & fast enough from the Sun that they're never coming back. I'm a little proud
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
No. It all depends on cheap computation, reliable/free satellite location systems, and other stuff that weren't things in the (60s, 70s, 80s - pick your own starting point for "all along").
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Pretty sure it's emulations all the way down.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Worse yet (for an equivalent vehicle mass), that's 22,500x (150^2) the energy needed.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
These were detonations, not batteries gone wild. A few grams of common explosives like PETN could have been dabbed to look like a small component in a pager. An exploding bridge wire (EBW) detonator can be blown by a charge pumped array of
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Can you share a link to that procedure? I have floaters bad enough to make me consider drastic steps.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
I'm a materials science/engineering critter. I'm working on a new method of making single-crystal diamond slabs up to 300mm diameter.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Godspeed, Jake. Thank you.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
To add to mschuster's great details below: remove all jewelry, watches, etc. when working with sources (even low voltage ones) that can provide very high current. In this instance, think of 12v lead-acid batteries that can deliver hund
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Lawsuits may crater CrowdStrike. I'll be surprised if they carry adequate insurance against this large a screwup.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Perhaps you could circumvent the regulatory inconvenience by getting your "battery" in the form of a Ford F150 Lightning pickup truck. It can power your home during grid outages, and of course can be charged from solar and/or
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
The paper notes a (to me) amazing thing. The object of the researchers' Bayesian analysis is the number of holes likely to have been made in a metal ring, of which only a fragment remains. They think either 354 or 355 holes, on a 77.1m
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
The on-site audience might have access to milestones the rest of us don't see, hence the "for no apparent reason" cheers. I'm delighted by the cheers. They're doing amazing things, and I'm pleased by their pass
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Probably. The effect seems to depend on light interacting with textural surfaces of the PMMM material. If those surfaces are surrounded with a fluid having the same refractive index, the surfaces will disappear as far as first-order optical
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
https://archive.ph/czrqx
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
Me too. We installed additional solar two years ago, and it's taken our net grid draw to zero, with our house providing excess power to the grid every month. We only pay the $10/month grid connect fee. Too bad. I'd hoped neve
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
A few years ago, I calculated that there are approximately one Mole (6e23) of stars in the visible universe. That was a fun result.
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by ridgeguy 2y ago
We live in a water supply area with water one order of magnitude harder than anywhere else in our county. I'm putting an RO unit in our kitchen to serve drinking and dishwasher needs. Our dishwasher needs descaling after a couple of mo
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by ridgeguy 3y ago
There are paths that don't need oxygen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_organism

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