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by rpaddock 3y ago
Did anyone else start getting lots of BBB spam coupon messages in the last few weeks? I'm getting several a day. No BBB even close to my area to use such coupons, if they are by chance real.
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I just thought it would be cool to see how long people might last in such a room. It was not in my budget. So far at least. Here is the Worlds Quiets Room, as of 2018: https://www.soundacousticsolutions.com/blog/2018&#
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The former Westinghouse Electric Sharon Transformer Plant is a 58-acre facility located in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. They built substation transformers there. To test them the rolled them into a sound proof room, on a rail car, to liste
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by rpaddock 3y ago
The reMarkable tablet was a great product, until they started uploading all of the contents in the name of syncing to the cloud. I liked to use it with PDF templates. Download a PDF template and now it uploads the content in the name of &#
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by rpaddock 3y ago
Watch them here: Space 1999 (Complete Series 1) by Gerry Anderson https://archive.org/details/Space1999.Series1
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by rpaddock 3y ago
While possible it is unlikely. It would take a considerable amount of time to accumulate that amount of energy needed from these sources. These systems are generally used for transmitters that transmit for a couple of seconds at most and
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The rather obscure semi. company E-Peas has been making similar harvesting chips for a while: https://e-peas.com/product/aem13920-dual-source-energy-harve... The Nexperia chips are also worth looking at, in that they t
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" doesn’t damp and further load the system it’s being taken from." Don't all of these Harvesting systems load a system? For example one of the transmitters somewhere. Yes it is microwatts and no transmitter will notice a si
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"Many organisms are sensitive to electrical charge..." Flowers generate electrostatic fields as a kind of 'gas gauge' for available nectar, see: Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees by Dominic C
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"...disabled the search function in windows ... Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?" If you do embedded system development it is best to turn Windows Search off. Windows Search will write index files to device
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Thank you, fixed it.
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How do you register for an Apple commercial developer account when black listed?
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I used BlueJenes briefly on a paid account, it was better implemented than Zoom. The issue I ran into was people didn't want to install the BlueJeans client because they already had Zoom.
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The 1981 movie LOOKER predicted this day, it also did the scans first: "Trivia The first ever film to create 3D shading with a computer that produced the first ever CGI human character was the model Cindy (Susan Dey). This movie achiev
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In World-War-One J.H. Rogers demonstrated and patented a method for communication with submarines via special antennas. Anyone have anymore information on these types of systems?: "James H. ROGERS Underground & Underwater Radio (
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From the article: "Instagram, like many social networks, is designed to get you to consume as much content as possible in a single sitting. " The recently permanently disabled my account for violating their ToS. I've not post
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Below is part of my license that I've been using in my products for years. Because no one has ever commented on it, I'm reasonably certain that no one has ever actually read it before clicking the 'Agree' box. ... Genera
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At least three of their Annual Reports indicates they knew of the risk of attack. Has there been any Ransomware Attacks that don't involve Windows machines? "Risks Associated with Cyber Attacks Even though TSMC has established a c
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by rpaddock 3y ago
Posted a nice rant about NXP and the system here crashed. It was the Kinetis MKL27. Bottom line is avoid NXP due to broken parts, poor documentation, no errata's, poor support and poor delivery (still getting quotes into 2025).
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That is a very good sign that you should avoid NXP. I wish that I had. Designing in their parts are the worse mistake of my career.
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I remember him more for his CMOS Cookbook. A search will easily find it.
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Here is Don's web site. I always liked his insights to Postscript and his view on Hydrogen. https://www.tinaja.com
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Federal Rule #26 is always Interesting on disclosure. "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 was amended in 1993 to require the disclosure of related case materials without awaiting a discovery request. In the 2000 case Kleiner v. Bu
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The popular file archiver 7-Zip has already moved in at "seven.zip".
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I'm guessing that those that hang out on Hacker News don't come across too many issues of Midwifery Today? This article first appeared in 'Midwifery Today' Issue 80, Winter 2006: "Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound
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The 1981 cult classic movie Looker becomes real. Do we have the understanding of neuro anatomy today to make a Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.) device? We certainly have the technology. https://www.
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Obscure Factoid: It is illegal to display -0 on a scale in Canada. Ran into that long ago when designing electronics for a scale.
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Rigorously division by zero is "undefined" in mathematics.
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A very recent study has linked Fried Foods to anxiety and depression. Fundamentally we are what we absorb from all sources and affects our whole being. "High fried food consumption impacts anxiety and depression due to lipid metabolism
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A simple intervention, if they are open to suggestions and in this state perhaps not, to try is taking the amino acid supplement S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine (SAMe). It is found in many Health Food Stores. This stuff is not a Happy Pill as many

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