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by rplst8 3y ago
The US customary units have a lot advantages. For example: In Fahrenheit, 0 is really cold while 100 is really hot. In Celsius, 0 is kind of cold while 100 is damaging to life. With feet and inches, you can easily divide a foot by 2, 3, 4,
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by rplst8 4y ago
Isn't this how all binning works? If some part of the chip doesn't work, cache, core, fpu, they cut the traces and sell it at a cheaper price point.
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by rplst8 4y ago
Sometimes real progress is made only by finding the proper place to "push" on an otherwise stubborn problem that won't budge.
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by rplst8 4y ago
I agree 100%. To add to this, I can't tell you how many engineers I run into who possess amazing programming skills, but can not convey their thoughts and designs meaningfully in written or spoken word. Taking a few more humanities cla
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by rplst8 4y ago
What you should learn in college is how to teach yourself to always be learning. Or at least to be aware of the trap doors that await when you try to solve a problem in the real world. Learning the Big O Notation performance of algorithms t
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by rplst8 4y ago
If the candidates that are put up in the general aren't what people want, why did they win the primary?
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by rplst8 4y ago
You do realize that by having more parties, you split the vote further and run an increased risk of no one having a majority. Would you rather see politicians be elected with only a plurality of the votes?
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by rplst8 4y ago
Plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects, marsupials, fish, bacteria, algae, fungus, etc.
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by rplst8 4y ago
Key word... Mammal.
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by rplst8 4y ago
The thing that keeps me in reference is remembering that middle C is like ~250 Hz
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by rplst8 4y ago
> On the other hand, it's not considered honorable to win by mistake. Winning by catching a 3% is luck - but just screwing up isn't cool. It's poker there is no honor in poker. Bluffing is part of the game.
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by rplst8 4y ago
Because in poker if you don't play the way people think you should play, they get snooty. Especially "pros".
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by rplst8 4y ago
>Science exists in a perpetual state of being supported or challenged by evidence One problem with that. Some sciences, particularly soft or social sciences cross broadly into culture and "ways of life". There are certain thin
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by rplst8 4y ago
Diesel engines, like all internal combustion engines are limited by the Carnot Theorem. The maximum theoretical efficiency for diesel is in the low 80% range. No actual diesel engines can muster up much higher than 60%.
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by rplst8 4y ago
Here's a nice logo to use ... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Pennsylv...
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by rplst8 4y ago
I wonder if us D800 owners will ever get a fix for the awful right side focus issues that plagued that camera.
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by rplst8 4y ago
It's not just Spotify that has this problem. All major, successful web applications have huge usability issues. Software becomes successful not because of how it looks, but because of how it helps humans in their daily lives. The curr
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by rplst8 4y ago
X-trans is still a mosaic and the underlying tech is mostly the same (color filter array with monochrome "buckets"). Instead of a 2x2 pattern, it uses a 6x6 pattern. Goes something like: GRBGBR BGGRGG RGGBGG Instead of: RG GB
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by rplst8 4y ago
Sigma had their Foveon sensor in APS sized version several years ago but they're currently working on the 35mm version. https://www.dpreview.com/news/1885231343/sigma-releases-upda...
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by rplst8 5y ago
> Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares Yeah, at least then people might learn the lessons of war that society should already know.
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by rplst8 5y ago
And, folks often forget, the fact that the states exist and have control of their elections is part of what helps with the incorruptibility of the system.
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by rplst8 5y ago
Interesting you had to use a throwaway for that comment. Pittsburgh has changed a lot in the last 20 years. The grouping of western MD counties in the Pittsburgh media market is purely one of geography.
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by rplst8 5y ago
I don't know... maybe because the rural areas grow their food? Furthermore, I'm not sure your conjecture is even correct. Subsistence farming supported people for centuries before our megalopolises existed.
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by rplst8 5y ago
DC has about 700,000 residents and a population density on par with Chicago.
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by rplst8 5y ago
Isn't Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin's "statehood" because of their former membership in the Hanseatic League?
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by rplst8 5y ago
If I could roughly generalize the sentiment: Are you just going to stand there and lie through your teeth?! Have you ever seen such an amazing sunset!?
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by rplst8 5y ago
I learned it as all prepositions and articles, unless they start the title.
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by rplst8 5y ago
I found this out years ago, and adopted the British style. It makes way more sense and reads better. I'll also put in my two cents here about spaces after a period. I always use two spaces after a sentence and one after an abbreviati
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by rplst8 5y ago
Yes, there needs to be support for ICE vehicles in certain areas for quite some time to come. Until EV technology can support those that rely on gasoline or diesel powered cars in remote places. Once the fossil fuel infrastructure starts t
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by rplst8 5y ago
We're not even recycling "recyclables" at very impressive rates. Our local waste management program here in Maryland has a Facebook page that talks about how there are a very very limited number and types of plastics that ar

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