sigstoat

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by sigstoat 7y ago
> There is a reason why uploads are so limited for consumers. and that reason is that DOCSIS allocates more channels for down than up. and DOCSIS does that because that's what most consumers want.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> "just use zfs" is it's own can of worms. it's been fine for some of us for, what, nearly 10 years now?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Giving every programmer the ability to create a language of their own does not work out well. they've already got that ability. it just results in languages which can't interoperate. and it takes them a lot of effort to get a
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Seems like self-driving cars could be designed-and-programmed to drive over just specific parts of the road meant to handle their weight, while the gaps between those load-bearing parts can have solar panels. if you can drive that prec
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the field units are garbage. the big thing back at the station that's what will be used to provide data for the trial can be just fine if properly maintained.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
there's plenty of literature proving that individual drivers are worse when they're high. check ramaekers' publications. maybe you can hypothesize some weird situation where individual drivers are worse, but overall traffic i
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by sigstoat 7y ago
no shortage of toxicology literature proving it. check ramaekers' publications. he sticks high folks in real cars on closed tracks to see how they do.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Everyone has stock everyone _should_ have stock; what reasonable investment plan doesn't have stock? you might as well hyperventilate about everyone having drawers full of socks.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
boomers have been retiring since before 2008. probably the ones with the most equities first.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the camera portion of this is comparable in price to the cheapest IP camera you can get out of china, and probably works better. even with the solar, it's cheaper than a nice IP camera from Axis.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you don't get a cookie for installing less panel. you just get headaches on low-sun days. and your battery won't last as long, as it has to discharge deeper and more often.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Lab certification is $1000 a year or so, and then all the equipment has to be certified "medical grade" and so it is marked up 100x. having actually been involved in the operation of a CLIA lab, i can safely say the above is
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I think I'm on the same boat as you on this one; I tend to have a pretty libertarian view on free speech, but lately the bizarre rise of hyper-radical idiots on places like 8chan (and even YouTube to a lesser extent) has really ma
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by sigstoat 7y ago
it would make more sense to first get rid of the penny rule.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
FPGAs have been used in space regularly for years. they were using rad hardened ones last i knew. and the electronics are regularly reset, which causes them to reload from their *PROMs.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
a qty~1 project like this is dominated entirely by NRE. that's the only thing to optimize.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> > "You can choose to pay $20k upfront for Lambda tuition ... You'll never pay more than $30k ..." > Wait, you are charging 50% interest? Possibly over two years? that's not how interest works. on a variety of
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by sigstoat 7y ago
ignoring the issue of units, that's overly optimistic for batteries. the voltage drops as charge is depleted.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Is there any demonstrable harm caused by the banning of fruity flavor cigarettes? loss of freedom. you should have to demonstrate some value to the ban.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and you can donate to KiCad development via CERN: https://cernandsocietyfoundation.cern/projects/kicad-develop...
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the whole point of the above anecdote was that by answering the questions, you've expanded their scope. if they're going to arrest you, there's nothing you're going to say to talk them out of it. all you can do by talkin
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Many embedded applications are also not particularly form-factor constrained. just because the overall package is large doesn't mean the embedded designers are allocated a large portion of that. and the upstream suppliers are alwa
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by sigstoat 7y ago
if you have TB of L2ARC how big is the pool?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I don't like mega-corporations stealing away the "public land" of the RF spectrum. this isn't part of the electromagnetic spectrum. these are IP addresses. amateur radio folks are ideally suited to moving any IP ope
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by sigstoat 7y ago
they won't function as legitimate businesses. there's not significant money to be made growing legal crops or synthesizing simple, 100 year old compounds. their business is operating a supply chain that most nation states are busy
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i don't know what's in the "zeitgiest of the common internet user" but i'm pretty sure IPv4 isn't in there either. besides, https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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by sigstoat 7y ago
not sure what the other fellow meant, but when 3D printing first hit the scene, the hype was that we'd all be printing replacement parts for our broken appliances and what not. i'd bet my pants that there have been more Benchys pr
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> In that case, I'm unsure of how unionizing would help much, as publishers could simply invest in games from non-union shops, and happily abandon the studios that are unionized. and game development work is probably the most trivia
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you've grown so accustomed to modern conveniences that you don't realize that you're kept alive by things that not even a king could've afforded 100 years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and more generally than retailers: http://www.aei.org/publication/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017...

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