samjohnson

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by samjohnson 6mo ago
It was the same kind of logic question. You missed a key word in your quote. I think it said “If you study hard enough you _can_ pass the exam”. It was there to make it clear that studying hard is not a guarantee for passing the test, and t
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by samjohnson 2y ago
I’ve tried leaving kindle but keep coming back because of how well it syncs side-loaded (via email) epub reading progress between the physical reader and the kindle app on my iPhone. I recently got a Boox Palma, which I love, but the Androi
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by samjohnson 4y ago
This is interesting, but it’s not obvious to me what “the capacity for an individual to attend to others in the group” means in this context. It would be interesting to learn how that capacity was observed and measured. Has anyone seen the
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by samjohnson 6y ago
> Then I realized that a 5V supply will always be 5V in normal operation and ohms law means the current varies. This is a great observation. I've often thought that teaching Ohms law as I=V/R would lead to less confusion. Simil
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by samjohnson 9y ago
Are you missing that the quote is from a sentence listing example complaints and not actual affects of daylight saving?
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by samjohnson 9y ago
A Watt is an SI unit defined as 1 joule/second, and is used for measure rate of energy usage/generation. So this system generates up to 100 joules/second, and can output up to 150 joules/second (until the stored energy i
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by samjohnson 10y ago
There's still significant savings at 5% usage: 100W * 5% * 24 Hours = 120Wh 1W * 24 Hours + 5W * 5% * 24 Hours = 30Wh So it does depend on the duty cycle - As long as the 5W lightbulb with a 1W computer is used less than ~19 hours a da
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by samjohnson 10y ago
Why is the world's energy production a constant value from 2010 to 2040? Surely we produce more energy today than we did 30 years ago. Is this just a chart scale issue?
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by samjohnson 14y ago
You might be interested in Cinder. It's a mature C++ library with multiplatform support: http://libcinder.org/
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by samjohnson 14y ago
You almost can with http://gmvault.org/