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by sephamorr 4y ago
"Identity theft" as a term has always struck me as a terrible description of what is happening. A bank falsely reporting to a credit agency that I am a debtor (when a criminal hands over some exclusively public information about m
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by sephamorr 4y ago
This is nothing special - at current bitcoin prices, I don't see how a miner could be profitable with electricity above $100/MWh. They're shutting down (for peak hours) because it's not economic to keep running. The regu
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by sephamorr 4y ago
There is a fundamental physics limit at play here: the diffraction limit is linear with the aperture diameter and gives an upper bound on the resolution of a telescope. Having a longer exposure doesn't help - that's for resolving
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by sephamorr 4y ago
Ironically, the Apple Studio Display has a A13 processor inside it for camera and other processing. Misses your $500 price point by a long way though!
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by sephamorr 4y ago
Maybe by next decade, all the MacBook "pro" models will support more than one external display.
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by sephamorr 4y ago
The true irony is when we take the fossil-fueled crops and turn them back to energy with efficiency that barely breaks even, depending on your assumptions.
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by sephamorr 4y ago
There's some confusion here - GP was arguing against time-of-use rates. I wanted to highlight the irrationality of that argument. Rather I should have written "Another way to think about [your proposal against TOU] is..."
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by sephamorr 4y ago
Another way to think about this is that people who are cost conscious cannot adjust their schedules to save money. They're forced to pay rates rates that aren't just daily average rates, they're averages weighted based on whe
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by sephamorr 4y ago
You have to be careful what you ask for - I certainly like pretty pictures myself, but one of the reasons that Juno is so successful as a scientific mission is because it was kept to the barebones and managed scope so aggressively. With Jun
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by sephamorr 4y ago
I used to feel similarly about audio but have figured out the right settings for acceleration (1.2-1.4x) and silence trimming in pocketcasts to increase the informational content and keep it interesting - it works for me now. (that and find
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I've had good experiences using Freetaxusa for several years. This year, however, I discovered that they don't support ISO exercise-and-hold behavior. They advertise support for form 6251 but don't allow you to enter anything
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by sephamorr 5y ago
It's actually not crazy on Ingenuity: vacuum really isn't an issue for most chips, the epoxy packages are totally okay from 0-1atm. The temperatures are also kept benign - One of the advantages of being in a near vacuum of the Mar
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I wonder if we need something like the services NREL performs for solar cells - a standardized test suite that labs/companies can bring their research cells to be tested.
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Yes, but less so. Much of the chemical energy and ignition potential is removed by discharging the battery, but many of the remaining components (electrolyte as an example) are still flammable.
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I think the biggest contributor is shrinking the size of the engineering effort. The cost scaling curve for large infrastructure projects is often not beneficial - the idea is that a (50%) smaller reactor requires substantially smaller cont
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I just moved into a house where the contractor thought you could daisy chain ethernet like a standard phone line. The ports at the end of the chain did work amazingly, but unsurprisingly, the ones in the middle with tens of feet of untermin
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Sure, the NRC is not approving new reactor designs, and this is a real problem. One of the quoted articles cites the cost decline in South Korean nuclear as the example that regulations matter. Missing is the context that nuclear power in S
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I haven't, personally, though there is always a chance that I have had low rates of failures that I haven't noticed. Said personal domain is a .hk domain though, and I have had an issue where US defense-contractor type domains sil
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I use a personal Gmail account and my custom domain hosted on zoho (for free) . Each user on the custom/zoho redirects all the mail to Gmail. Gmail is configured to default use the zoho smtp server as the outbound. This has worked grea
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by sephamorr 5y ago
The major issue is the energy storage, not the power plant itself. The penalty of the battery mass scales far worse than a tank holding very energy dense rocket propellant.
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by sephamorr 5y ago
DPRK certainly has strategic ICBM's that currently threaten the West Coast. Hwasong-14/KN20 tested in 2017 could do it, and more recent developments are adding payload (so you can mirv) and a bit more range to hit the rest of the
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by sephamorr 5y ago
My father used to fly with the RAF - he told me that old pilots who were about to lose their licenses due to age/health used to 'go out with a bang' flying under a bridge rather than quietly aging out of their license. IIRC,
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Diffusion is definitely not sufficient--natural convection is usually sufficient to do this on earth, but gravity is a requirement for most natural air convection. Interestingly, a surprisingly large percentage of a spacecraft's power
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I dealt with USB-C hell when I was setting up my new office. BYO (choose your own) laptops meant that the USB-C ports on each employee's laptop had different capabilities (alt mode for DP 2-lanes? 4-lanes? HDMI? etc...) and the same fo
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Software. My 2012 MBP can do MST fine in Boot Camp, but the feature isn't implemented in the macOS drivers.
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Where do you see that vaccinations increased after FDA approval (Aug 23)? I'm looking at the NYTimes vaccine dashboard and don't see any meaningful spike after that date. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20
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by sephamorr 5y ago
I think poster is referring to this: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Generally, capsules that burn up in the atmosphere rather than landing are useful for boosting, but if you have to have a heat shield on the bottom of your spacecraft (and the docking port generally on the top), you can't have thruster
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Isn't this a bit dated? I certainly agree that the shared memory semantics are a critical distinction, but in addition to the 256Kb per SM shared memory, NVIDIA Volta GPUs have 128kB L1$ per SM, and a unified 6MB L2$. I don't thin
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by sephamorr 5y ago
Attribution of weather events is a nontrivial task due to the complexity of weather systems. This is one of the groups that does: https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/ Tldr, climate change is making many (but not all) of

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