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by robocat 10mo ago
Rubbish: from first principles it is obvious that direction can be calculated. You are correct for phones, which have omnidirectional antennas that can't calculate direction (also built up areas with multipath would make direction find
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by robocat 10mo ago
How did you split the power from the two outlets into your one house supply?
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by robocat 10mo ago
Incorrect. The inside of a fairy ring dies off as it uses up nutrients. The leading edge of the circle remains alive so that is why the fruiting bodies (mushrooms) are there. The fungus produces nitrogen which leads to the growth of a green
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by robocat 10mo ago
Beware - the review contains spoilers. Why would a review include the ending of the movie?
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by robocat 10mo ago
Interesting graphs of US oil and gas production: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66564
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by robocat 10mo ago
I live in one - New Zealand is a modern western society. Making marriage the norm would not fix any of the issues I see in my own society, and marriage causes other problems. Many people I know (including solo mums) that I know would love t
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by robocat 10mo ago
My point is that if you want to understand human interactions, you need to participate in them. Rationally analysing human interactions via writing and psychology will screw up your leaning. Children just learn by doing and are only guided
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by robocat 10mo ago
What's your point? Aspirin comes with heavy health warnings (and social warnings that have been strongly influenced by the paracetamol/acetominiphin industry). Heroin lacks the health warnings, and is recommended within the social
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by robocat 10mo ago
> try reading something in the language you are least comfortable with I did this with Spanish and it was terrible for learning grammar because things tended to be transliterated from English however I found it good for learning vocab. I
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by robocat 10mo ago
Asking ChatGPT for that sort of advice seems like a horrific idea. Trying to learn interactions by written means can only lead to some very alien ideas. Plus your questions will contain your mistakes, and what you take from any answers woul
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by robocat 10mo ago
Customer support would be a nightmare - who's responsible? Communication? Refunds? Scams? Dodgy middle men? RyanAir would get all the negatives from an unhappy customer and restricted ways to fix it. Any issues at all and it wouldn&#x2
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by robocat 10mo ago
Is Microsoft trying to help NPU chip makers? When is Wintel going to finally happen? Microsoft has roughly $102 billion in cash (+ short-term investments). Intel’s market value is approximately $176 billion. I've never really understoo
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by robocat 10mo ago
> greatest mistakes humanity has ever made Humanity has a lot more variation than the our standard modern marriage.
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by robocat 10mo ago
Marriage is surely the #1 patriarchy control scheme? I feel terrible asking whether her accusation against Instagram is true... The comments below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354298 discuss how she might be mista
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by robocat 10mo ago
> The top spots are reserved for Sociopaths How many people think the first step is to become a sociopath? And then try to act like they think a sociopath acts? Few people are ruthlessly cunning in the right way. Even worse, do people
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by robocat 10mo ago
Also I implemented a simple PID controller that could automatically compensate against some types of internal clock drift. Worked really well for the project. Avoiding time jumps was really worthwhile.
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by robocat 10mo ago
Perhaps if tip speed is X and radar installation is perpendicular to wind turbine, then an enemy can approach at speed X in the turbine's radar shadow. There would still be multiple pulses with timing differences but if there's a
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by robocat 10mo ago
For a low precision environment to avoid sudden jumps I used SetSystemTimeAdjustment on Windows (now SetSystemTimeAdjustmentPrecise) to smoothly steer the system clock to match the GPS supplied time signal. On Linux I think the adjtimex() s
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by robocat 10mo ago
Really interesting observations of competitive zero-sum people enjoying the failures of others, compared against cooperative people that support one another.
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by robocat 10mo ago
They will turn out to be the equivalent of an Edsel in a few decades time. Especially if they are over budget and/or crappy
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by robocat 10mo ago
> everything in OneDrive Because they want to charge a monthly fee for the profit and share price. Apple and Android are doing the same thing (using photos backup as the first step to charging monthly).
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by robocat 10mo ago
The negative publicity obviously motivated him. Who does he care about impressing these days?
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by robocat 10mo ago
@bbox FYI: I noticed a bug on iPhone SE running 26.2 with tabs set to "bottom" in settings. Scroll so that 10 is near bottom of screen. Pick 10, then scroll up a bit. The bottom 10 element then gets lost and you can't see it.
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by robocat 10mo ago
I always thought it was parents being competitive - especially for unobvious social status signals. We notice competitive behaviours at our jobs - we expect to see it, and in many work situations competition is admissible. It is harder to n
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by robocat 11mo ago
I think I'd want electrical isolation. WiFi gives really good isolation. Wired Ethernet can be pretty good ("Most Ethernet transformers are specified for 1500Volts RMS isolation") and I'd presume optical cabling is bette
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by robocat 11mo ago
Our spending mostly depends on our income. Deciding certain spending is bad doesn't really help.
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by robocat 11mo ago
He used brake cleaner containing Tetrachloroethylene to clean rusty steel then adding welding heat in presence of oxygen made phosgene which is bad for lungs
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by robocat 11mo ago
> Why not just tax wealth at steeply progressive rates? You likely live in a wealthy country - your wealth should be taken from you and given to a poorer country. You don't deserve a car when there's people who don't have
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by robocat 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/07p7k
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by robocat 11mo ago
Corporates provide insurance and some liability protection and usually have contractual agreements. For individuals, The threat of criminal convictions only works in very limited circumstances, and is limited to people within the same juris

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