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by sigstoat 4y ago
> or very obviously derivable from principles-first, common sense engineering do you actually drive in the US? there's no shortage of stretches of perfectly straight road where the speed limit drops for no apparent reason.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
it was a joke, but you could probably do thermal energy harvesting of the heat lost from somebody's head and power one. they'd just have to wear a silly hat all the time.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
least useful possible link for the material abstract/purchasing link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D2EE0... university press release: https://www.cam.ac.uk&
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by sigstoat 4y ago
previously on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093535
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i’d check the list of hardware supported by sigrok and see if any of it is cheap enough, then you could use a PC for the display which would be much more convenient. something like the labjack u3 would probably suffice with a bit of signal
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i’ve got coworkers who ought to be checking their email but i’m pretty sure they never have. they just make you tell them everything in meetings.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> If Abbot being compromised can lead to this then that smells like a monopoly. where "Abbot" means "one facility". what are you going to do, break up the one facility?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> people posting on the internet do invest much thought most of the time. i would like to sign up for the internet you're on. where can i send my money?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Why would we need computer vision to track the position of the sun? jpl horizons can tell anyone with a web browser where in the sky the sun will appear at any point in the next... hmm. ~477 years, it seems. so there's got to be s
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Also surprised this is a native app, would have expected a web application. who is going to pay for a database access tool that requires you punch an incoming hole in your firewall?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> > doesn't betting against a stock have infinite loses? > Not with options. you maybe meant to say "not when you buy options": > 2. Sell a Call. This gives someone the right to buy the stock at a certain price (a
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I know next nothing about option trading, but doesn't betting against a stock have infinite loses? the entire point of everything under discussion here is that "betting against a stock" can take multiple forms. if you&#x
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> An example of this transactional behavior is calling out Saudi Arabia for lack of free speech while owning twitter which is interesting because he didn't have much problem with SA when they held 4.x percent of Tesla a few years ba
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by sigstoat 4y ago
please don't put words in my mouth. i said nothing about being friends with anyone. and you've fundamentally misinterpreted what i said. you don't need to be friends with someone for them to be in your network.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I don't really keep in touch with many coworkers due to time. My friends tend to come from outside of work and they're not software devs. 'friend' is a much higher bar than 'somebody in your network'. plen
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> this effectively means every country needs to manufacture everything. depending on your exact goals, it could be worthwhile to bring a little bit of every node on the graph onshore. you retain critical experience, and have at least som
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Also doesn't really help that pretty much any documentation for Xlib is dozens of years old. it hasn't changed in dozens of years! what do you expect? somebody sitting around refreshing graphical design for docs on a library
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages! do you think the necessary scripts for those languages was only displayable once GUI web browsers were developed? they're all delivered to browsers t
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by sigstoat 5y ago
what conceivable use could you have for xlib? you’re going to have ten thousand hard problems related to just CSS. do yourself a favor and at least use a high level cross platform gui library.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Yeah, in that light, these social conservatives do seem pretty bad. as always, the out group is awful.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
clearly (given all the other responses), there are a bunch of different conflicting requirements which lead to different protocols. as for your bluetooth issues, PC bluetooth is a mess. some of bluetooth's messiness comes from having t
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> His blood showed levels of cannabis. However, if you've ever had to pee in cup you also know that cannabis shows up in blood/urine far after you've smoked or consumed. yes, metabolites show up for a long time in urine, m
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> you don't take 65 and 66, you take 329 and 182. you take all of them and run it through an appropriate extractor. it is very easy for ADC error to have structure and bias.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
how do you feel about schools imposing uniforms on students?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i don't know anything about mikrotik's hardware development practices and don't want to besmirch them, but some places basically just fab reference designs, or smoosh a couple of reference designs together, and have a product
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by sigstoat 5y ago
you don't need to build large commercial nuclear plants if you just want material for weapons. that kind of thing can be built on a military base where nobody hears about it, and nobody gets to file environmental impact lawsuits.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> how modern reactors are so safe and if everything is done correctly then there is no problem nobody is making that claim, because it is clear that people make errors. this isn't some wild revelation to engineers that they've
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Is it any better for them to leave school in the dark? yes, it is. you're already awake and unlikely to fall asleep at that point. waking up for school is hard enough without the sun being up.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
to the folks asking why you'd use FDB, i'd highlight the main points as: > Interactive linearizable transactions (highest consistency level possible) over arbitrary key ranges (none of this single partition transactions nonsens
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> If you don't want to help such people, don't lurk in channels designed for helping people. and where do i go to not get these questions from senior engineers?

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