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by scrlk 2y ago
If only there was an audiobook - listen to it at 2x speed. :^)
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by scrlk 2y ago
It's worth reading Feynman's Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle , published as part of the Rogers Commission Report. https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm > "For a succe
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Sorry, wrong number(roads.org.uk)
109 points by scrlk 2y ago|41 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
Thioacetone? > "Recently we found ourselves with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations. During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complain
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by scrlk 2y ago
MEV bots sandwich attacking traders = okay MEV bots sandwich attacking other MEV bots = fraud This doesn't sit right with me.
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by scrlk 2y ago
10.1% capacity factor in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#Generat...
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by scrlk 2y ago
In 1944, the USD was pegged to gold at $35/troy oz. The current spot price of gold is $2300/troy oz. 1 troy oz of gold in 1944 = 1 troy oz of gold in 2024. This gives the price of the Manhattan Project as $131 billion in 2024 doll
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by scrlk 2y ago
He's still influential behind the scenes - there was a recent article published about it: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-still-pulling-str... ( https://archive.ph/VmtON ) > Current and for
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by scrlk 2y ago
Compared to other engineering disciplines, it seems like software is one that is most susceptible to veer towards complexity. Is it the ease of iteration? The relative youth of software engineering?
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Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof(newscientist.com)
3 points by scrlk 3y ago|4 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://archive.is/mNZas
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by scrlk 3y ago
> I've started to preface all python searches with 'site:python.org' You might find DevDocs to be useful: https://devdocs.io/
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by scrlk 3y ago
Intel was never in the HBM market - you might be thinking of their 3D XPoint/Optane memory developed in collaboration with Micron and discontinued in 2022.
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://sqlbolt.com/ is a good place to start.
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Global glut turns solar panels into garden fencing option(ft.com)
5 points by scrlk 3y ago|7 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://archive.ph/AAIKe
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by scrlk 3y ago
IMO the IBM Model M keyboard popularised the incorrect position of the Control key; its predecessor (Model F) had the Control key in the correct place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard#/media/Fil
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by scrlk 3y ago
I'm surprised that the FIA + FOM haven't clocked on to this, the 2026 power unit regulations could have been a good chance to bring back V10s combined with synthetic fuel. A comparison of the current V6 turbo hybrid against V8&#x2
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by scrlk 3y ago
FTX claims are being sold for 96 cents on the dollar, so there's high expectation that creditors will be paid in full.
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison(cnbc.com)
8 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
And before his work on information theory, his master's thesis showed that Boolean algebra could be used to design digital circuits and invented logic gates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Rel
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by scrlk 3y ago
> "The Thames, used for centuries as a convenient dumping ground for sewage..." Still continues to this day. > "Thames Water has pumped at least 72bn litres of sewage into the River Thames since 2020..." > &quot
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by scrlk 3y ago
M1/M2 MBAs are limited to one external display. The M3 MacBook Air relaxes this restriction by allowing two external displays.
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by scrlk 3y ago
> The former is particularly easy, because we've had the technology to build multiple housing units on a given parcel of land by stacking the units on top of each other for at least two centuries. The UK is still scarred from the la
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by scrlk 3y ago
Was it this article? https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ > "It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took adv
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by scrlk 3y ago
Not reading, but during my degree, I found the series of control systems lectures from Brian Douglas to be useful: https://engineeringmedia.com/ He also has a free "The Fundamentals of Control Theory" book (I have
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by scrlk 3y ago
> But the bigger issue is that utilities are not incentivized to look for cheaper, more efficient solutions like reconductoring because they profit off capital spending. I have no knowledge of how the regulatory funding mechanism works f
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by scrlk 3y ago
* User is running a demanding application (e.g. game). * CPU clock speed increases (turbo boost), as long as the CPU isn't hitting: 1) Tj_MAX (max temp before thermal throttling kicks in); 2) the power and current limits specified by t
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by scrlk 3y ago
> Are they "defective" or merely not capable of running the out of spec settings used by many motherboards? I'd wager good money on the latter. Why would Intel validate their CPUs against power and current limits that are
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by scrlk 3y ago
> "Intel's default maximum TDP for the 13900K is 253 watts, though it can easily consume 300 watts or more when given a higher power limit. In our testing, manually setting the power limit to 275–300 watts and the amperage limi

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