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by russdill 3y ago
Lithium is still part of the cost of producing batteries and their production still requires a large number of lithium mining operations. Having a ton of lithium mines around isn't exactly what's destroying the planet, but having
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by russdill 3y ago
It's made of sodium and iron, which together make up about 8% of the earth's crust, so yes, they chemistry is made of really common materials. By contrast lithium makes up about 0.002%.
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by russdill 3y ago
The thing that really depresses me is that many humans will become "AI friends". It's really hard to know exactly what to say in all social situations. Imagine if you could have a little AI whisper in your ear something witty
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by russdill 3y ago
Why must the observations of other occultations be done before and not immediately after?
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by russdill 3y ago
In the US, it's common for a woman to wear both the engagement ring and wedding ring after the wedding, they are often sold as a set. Although one tip I'd give to anyone getting married, get a pair of $18 rings for travel and what
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by russdill 3y ago
A lot of the x86 code I look at is rather old.
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by russdill 3y ago
I'm picturing various vendors completely switching out speaker packages without changing any DMI strings because they simply don't care
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by russdill 3y ago
I've also seen: call 1f 1: <next instruction> So commonly I hadn't considered that people thought getting the EIP on x86 was an obstacle.
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by russdill 3y ago
There's a big difference between http and https
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by russdill 3y ago
I don't think simply washing rice appreciably reduces arsenic levels. It's just to get rude rid of the loose rice flour that grinds off during shipping/handling
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by russdill 3y ago
They have a lot of openly hostile policies towards LGBT family members. Their photo policy is especially onerous.
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by russdill 3y ago
Induction tops can be all those things, but right now to UI tends too be rather annoying.
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by russdill 3y ago
I've been on a team trying to argue that exact thing. If you aren't going to handle the case where the var is neither true nor false, at least by explicitly documenting the fail-safe case, you're just cargo culting. You get a
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by russdill 3y ago
lol, had no idea what peephole optimizations were, but reading about them instantly brought back memories of reverse engineering byte code obfuscation as some 99% of the generated byte code is useless moving around of data that could be com
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by russdill 3y ago
As a native English speaker, I love videos that point out all the details I never think about but must be maddening for non-native speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYmA5V5Cyg
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by russdill 3y ago
You should see what we've done with land mammals.
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by russdill 3y ago
Anyone who's ever had seasonal allergies will quickly and fully understand the implications. And allergens are absolutely enormous. Heck, there's a species of plankton that float through the air, with on average 1 million cells pe
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by russdill 3y ago
I argued with a PA because they were convinced that the most likely reason for a high white blood cell count in my sample was that it was contaminated post collection. It was a very frustrating discussion that seemed to have gone around in
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by russdill 3y ago
The device they are using to measure the horse's blood pressure is the stuff of nightmares.
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by russdill 3y ago
Just to be pedantic, they are driven by a pwm. But the frequency is orders of magnitude higher than 60Hz
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by russdill 3y ago
(side lol, reply from the same person on reddit and yc on the same day on very different topics)
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by russdill 3y ago
I'm be most concerned about people that deal directly with the fuel and infrastructure.
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by russdill 3y ago
There's a number of difficult engineering tradeoffs. Engines that can run on diesel typically need to be heavier.
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by russdill 3y ago
That reliably solves every conceivable situation where these vehicles might block or impede emergency responders.
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by russdill 3y ago
Having an ability for a remote driver to quickly take over the vehicle via some kind of telepresence solution is one way to cover a percentage of the situations where these vehicles block emergency responders. But how to quickly initiate th
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by russdill 3y ago
One of my favorites was seeing my toy chest from when I was a kid in Wrath of Khan "Little Tikes kid’s Apollo Space Capsule Toy Chest." - https://third-wave-design.com/2018/11/30/houston-we-dont-hav.
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by russdill 3y ago
"This is only a scenario of the future, by no means an outright prediction of what is to come. We can be reasonably confident of the continuation of certain trends. Much of the long boom's technology is already in motion and almos
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by russdill 3y ago
Was there period documentation? Or a just so story about short swords?
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by russdill 3y ago
Yes, there's a ton of build up but very little tying up at the end of the story.
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by russdill 3y ago
If they are non computable, it would indicate that the universe cannot be modeled by mathematics.

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