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by robotbikes 6y ago
I don't think the FCC will move that fast to do something this drastic but I could be wrong. This whole move will likely anger a lot of people and feel authoritarian because they aren't use to the government censoring the media th
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by robotbikes 6y ago
This is a study that consists of surveys of working people to determine personal factors that contribute to a likelihood of being infected with COVID-19. One interesting data point suggested that taller people were more likely to be infecte
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Aerosol transmission suggested by Covid-19 study finding height increases risk(medrxiv.org)
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I found their library to be very handy when my step-son forgot a book he needed for a high-school English class at his Dads. We tried to navigate Amazon to buy it but his account wasn't able to make purchase and then I found it availab
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I think that statement "ultimately a machine" is hinged upon a philosophical view that existence is simply the result of various material interactions, chemistry, physics and what have you that is pretty common in our culture but
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by robotbikes 6y ago
AppImage seems like the best replacement then. I've loathed Snap since it first appeared on my horizon and I installed LibreOffice with it and that snap image showed up in my mounted drives forever. I was a big fan of Canonical/Ub
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I've bought a couple of System76 laptops used on eBay and they did have some hardware issues but they were still under warranty and while I had to ship the laptops out they were both fixed promptly and continue to work to this day. Its
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I mean essentially unless a mask is one of the medically or industrially certified N95 and their ilk (which people are still discouraged from using due to shortages) I'd say it is hard to really quantify that one type of mask is better
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by robotbikes 6y ago
My daughter was super excited to find a game website that had just cloned a lot of games from the play store because it worked in the browser and I had adblock on so it was like magic to her, not having to watch an ad every 30 seconds. Like
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I've had good luck with System76 & PopOS, they put in the extra effort to make sure Linux just works on the hardware they sell and will respond to any tech support issues. Recently switched back to running Debian desktop on a older
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by robotbikes 6y ago
Ok, that makes sense if you average over a year considering night time etc. Yeah, car mounted solar isn't a great idea unless we were in a mars rover type of situation which is not how we use cars.
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I think most biofuel is currently more expensive because it is diverting high input monoculture crops that are typically grown for feed like say corn ethanol or soybean oil. I believe ethanol from sugar cane in Brazil was cheap but only bec
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I think you meant to say 100-200 watts a square meter average output as a 300 watt solar panel isn't much larger than a square meter. Either way, you are right that it is unlikely that solar charging via a car roof will be anything asi
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I've found DigiKam to be the most fully featured of the photo managers I've used. It even does facial recognition on your local box w/o sharing your data like most of the cloud hosted options. I'm not in love with the UI
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by robotbikes 6y ago
Yeah I think I did some back of the napkin calculations that this would be feasible if we put solar panels on every roof. One challenge is that installation is still pretty expensive from a labor point of view because roofs are all unique t
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by robotbikes 6y ago
I have done that at times, when nothing is particularly compelling but I have a lot of potential things I could work on. I would come up with a list of 20 things and include possibly some fun activities that aren't necessarily producti
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by robotbikes 6y ago
Cool concept but I think you need to be clearer about the rules, maybe provide a demo video or something. It took me a while to realize that it was just a phonetic/weird spelling of the word. I had to flip the card to come to that real
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by robotbikes 6y ago
He also went all in on a video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring in it and writing the sound track. It was kind of cool as I remember but I never finished it. Just another part of that era of Bowie.
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by robotbikes 6y ago
In fact when Cecilia Payne proposed that the Sun and other stars were composed of Hydrogen and Helium in her Doctoral thesis in 1925 the conclusion was rejected by her advisor because of the conventional wisdom of the time that the earth a
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by robotbikes 6y ago
This article is very focused on the UK but its still possible to try and avoid supporting Amazon if you are willing to pay for shipping or use alternative outlets like EBay although many of those selling on that platform still use Amazon fo
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by robotbikes 6y ago
Spoiler alert: they didn't succeed (from Wikipedia) On May 29, 2014, two-way communication with the spacecraft was reestablished by the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, an unofficial group[7] with support from the Skycorp company.[8][9][10] On J
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by robotbikes 6y ago
This looks interesting and seems to have some known people on the board of directors such as Stephen Wolfram but I couldn't find pricing or much details as to how it functions. Permanent data storage is a big promise and a non-profit m
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by robotbikes 7y ago
I really enjoyed "What the Dormouse Said" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said it was about how the 60s counter culture interacted with the personal computer industry being formed, so a lot
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by robotbikes 7y ago
So based upon the timeframe it seems likely that he bought them independently versus manufacturing them at Tesla, but its at least a contribution to the crisis. I'd be impressed if Tesla was able to manufacture medically sound ventilat
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by robotbikes 7y ago
You mean 2.2 million right ? I mean the reason why is that most humans have compassion and don't want their parents and grandparents to die. I think that having empathy and wanting to prevent death of other humans is an admirable trait
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by robotbikes 7y ago
The idea of mandated tracking of movement and contact tracking via cell phone is a little too dystopian for my tastes. I suppose this sort of thing is already happening with the various corporate social networks and ad-tracking but it is st
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by robotbikes 7y ago
In Ohio they had the head of the state association of hospitals float the idea at a press conference. He seemed to talking about the possibility taking floors of existing hotels and using them for non COVID19 patients that didn't requi
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by robotbikes 7y ago
As someone who was born and raised in America, the idea of a making a vaccine exclusive to the U.S. is morally repugnant, disgusting and outrageous. I hope that this doesn't come to be in this way. Any vaccine developed for COVID-19 sh
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by robotbikes 7y ago
Well one concerning statistic is the 20% of cases that require hospitalization. Not sure what that is for the standard flu but I suspect its not that high. If the hospitals are full like what happened in Italy and China and people who need
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by robotbikes 7y ago
On the other hand I have bought 2 used System76 laptops from eBay and they honored the existing original warranty and replaced the motherboard without ever asking me for my proof of purchase (its all tracked by serial #). So yeah I recommen

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