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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I grew up with metric and I 100% agree that metric is missing a foot sized unit of measurement. Also the meter, mm, and km are cool, but the cm is just the wrong size. Too small.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
100% political and nothing to do with the trillions of dollars required to transition what was at the time half the world's industrial base. And for what? The imperial system is defined exactly in metric already as 254mm == 1 inch and
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
... we have better things to spend trillions of dollars on than change a metric based system with another? Honestly, HN will moan about how much work and how dangerous the stupidest clock or UTC change is but keep proposing to change every
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Potato pizza is relatively rare, but definitely pizza.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Id rather be spied on by foreigners who couldn't do anything about my eccentricities even if they cared. When you're own government's security services are spying on you, they own you.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
If you ask an Italian, neither is NYC's
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
"Repeat after me and breathe deeply:" Speaking of annoying quirks.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
When you have their volumes of cash its impossible to launder it. They don't burry their cash because it makes sense to do so. They do it because it would be impossible to buy that much gold. Or much of anything, really. I wouldn'
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
The extra information could be stored in the non-audible spectrum of the vinyl. But the reconstruction would be complicated and it would wear out fast. There were some ultrasonics technologies that were aborted when Phillips introduced the
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Too long didn't see the whole thing. Does the video only consider sampling and reconstruction from the samples, or does he talk about quantization noise? That I can perfectly reconstruct a band limited signal from samples taken above t
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
i think clockwise starting from the on your right hand naturally wants to drift rightward. Counterclockwise cancels the drift? Have you tried switching hands and starting from the bottom?
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
There's tons of tasks that are done with live circuits. Lots of singers I've been told. I've also heard that there are a lot of electrocuted singers. I was never sure if that's a myth though
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
That's a fascinating question. I guess the answer is both. Fast info gives you extra time since you don't suffer the latency to send the shock troops.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Im ok with noncompetes. However , if my would be ex-employer wants to block me from joining a competitor then he has to pay me 150% of the salary that the competitor would have paid me for the duration of the non compete while I twiddle my
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I dont know about residential buildings, but working on live circuits is a thing, and there are techniques to do it safish-ly. Namely dont touch two wires and dont be ground. Linesmen do it quite a lot. Linesmen is also one of the most dang
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
TL/DR well that saves me a click
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Love it. Instead of upper/lower (romans didnt have lowercase?) I would define a latin word, say "dividum" and write it as CCCXIV DIVIDUM C Which for short would be: CCCXIVDVDC Where DVD is a nonsensical or at least redundant
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Ya the Mongolian was weird. I too would pick Mongolian if the Baltics were not there. Something about being in the Soviet orbit.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
...for Tesla cars. Which are an insignificant part of the world car production. Do this exercise, pick a workman's work vehicle that has a hybrid version. Make note the mpg difference between the hybrid and regular model. I do mean a w
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
When you consider the limited availability of batteries, electric vehicles don't make sense compared to hybrid ones. Neither make sense compared to halving our speed limits.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
The 56k modem was so cool
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Heavy metal isnt too hard, just pick one of the Baltic countries or Finnish.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
A priest once advised me to just take people on their word; the cognitive load to second guessing them is not worth it.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
But he still uses it because its by far the best camera
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Im content with a Euclidean construction and a proof that its irrational. An infinite series definition. Actually evaluating the digits is for... technicians. (Besides, just choose an irrational number base and sqrt 2 is = 1)
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Cheerfulness from a non sentient speaker is much much worse. It infuriates me. Recently I had to call a government agency that had one of these bots and... the bot threatened to hang up if I didn't take it seriously by trying to use it
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
When I was a kid I wondered how we knew space was a vacuum. We have a good (excellent) idea of the density of the core. We also have an excellent idea of how density changes with pressure. Add in that the core must be magnetic and a fairly
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
That's awesome! Thanks.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Once they stopped knifing every fellow who figured out it's irrational, the Greeks had it to 100% ;)
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Ya, but the Mapuche (as fierce warriors as they were) were unconquered largely because no one cared about Patagonia enough to live there. Kinda hard to conquer an area larger than France with a few thousand men.

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