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by sliken 7y ago
To minimize battery needs, anything that requires power. Charging power tools, drying clothes, pumping water, washing clothes, cooking food, running the fridge, running the AC, vacuum etc. You can save a surprising amount of money by just
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by sliken 7y ago
Not the OP, but it crashed with ubuntu 19.10 with a GTX1070 with the default ubuntu nvidia binary blob: i nvidia-driver-390 - NVIDIA driver metapackage Maybe the code is incompatible with libglew2.1? When I run: $ ./ecosim Segmentatio
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by sliken 7y ago
Doesn't work on ubuntu 19.10 either. gcc -c main.c gcc -g3 logger.o quadtree.o graphics.o utils.o agents.o input.o main.o -o ecosim -lGL -lm -lglfw -lGLEW $ ./ecosim Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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by sliken 7y ago
Know of any good ones? I as all set to buy the nest protect. But turns out they are stupid and require cloud connectivity for any interoperation all all. No public API, no SDK, and basically useless. Sad, the nest protect has a microphon
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by sliken 7y ago
It's nice to know. Was it a neighbor, who just hasn't told you yet? Was it a malicious theft... by someone you know? How often do such thieves go by? Which car do they use? What's the risk? Should you pay for a pakmail&#x2F
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by sliken 7y ago
I don't really agree. I've had my car broken into twice, none since I pointed two cameras with bright red rings of LEDs at my car. I find it quite useful to know when a package is left at my door. My control system for lights can
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by sliken 7y ago
Heh, well I just wanted an idea on scale. It doesn't take millions of years, but less than 100. Certainly it wouldn't likely be 100% every 30 years, but 3.3% every year. As far as geo-engineering significant climate change this
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by sliken 7y ago
Indeed, if you control over DNS you have to advertise your own DNS server than blocking outgoing DNS requests for everything except you nameserver (UDP and TCP). Sadly DNS over HTTPS takes this control away from you.
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by sliken 7y ago
Yes, but forests capture carbon quickly until the average age of the trees starts increasing. So zero to 50 years is good, but after that things really slow down. The amount of wood becomes relatively constant. So slowly, very slowly leav
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by sliken 7y ago
I saw a quote recently saying something like claiming they have a surgeon making claims about an amazing new surgical procedure because they have an idea and a scalpel working. No proof that it works, doesn't have terrible side effects
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by sliken 7y ago
Sure, that works, and will continue to work. Forests on the other hand help when new, but reach a steady state. However the problem is that at least for the near future burning oil, making plastic, and similar other carbon intensive proces
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by sliken 7y ago
Heh, hard to imagine what a dog can smell. My wife started bringing treats from a particular restaurant. So when she would come home from that particular restaurant our normally polite dog would run and check her bag. We thought it was th
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by sliken 7y ago
Ubiquiti ER-X-US 5-Port is $52 or so at newegg. I have the 6P, but that's more expensive. Quite happy with it though. They make it easy to download the text config, and of course you can keep that in git.
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by sliken 7y ago
I'd recommend installing your own router. Mine is from Ubiquiti and they start at $50 ish. Dedicate a network/port/vlan to untrusted devices, don't allow any incoming or outgoing to that network except for anything you
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by sliken 7y ago
That seems rather low. "According to CDC, this year's flu season has led to at least 12 million medical visits and 250,000 hospitalizations. In addition, CDC found that the percentage of outpatient visits for influenza-like illnes
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by sliken 7y ago
You are making some pretty big assumptions. Maybe the first gen planes will create a market for fast travel, and then the 2nd gen will double the altitude and skip most of the atmospheric drag.
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by sliken 7y ago
Normal homes these days have quite a bit of competition for wifi. Hell even today's watches these days have wifi. Add a kindle, a few security cameras, a few laptops/tablets, a few phones, etc. Then add some crappy/noisy L
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by sliken 7y ago
So ignore performance, leather, safety, nav, 15" screen, and related improvements? Doesn't seem fair, the model 3 is a crazy more capable car, but ok. Maybe at least the hybrid ($28,430)? Or at least add some of the safety stuf
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by sliken 7y ago
Ok, today we have shells like bash that can help you navigate around a file system, find files, run files, search files, view files etc. Common tools are grep, less, cat, "|", awk, sed, perl, tr, wc, find, etc. The <cr> is
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by sliken 7y ago
Well 1 watt across 1 Mhz for 1 second isn't a particularly power signal. But 1 watt across 1 hz for 1 ns is a significantly more power signal that will propagate much better. In fact it's about 1e+15 times easier to detect. Hrm,
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by sliken 7y ago
Seems unlikely. Assuming a civilization could send a force to take over earth from many light years away, what could they possibly find of use? Any element is easier to get elsewhere (without such a big gravity well) and no monkey descenda
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by sliken 7y ago
Depends what you call a signal. Imagine the earth was just a bit more focused on science, united, and thought a bit longer term (on the order of 100k years). Living sustainable, but curious and motivated to explore. Imagine an earth where
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by sliken 7y ago
Around $24k, good luck finding one of those on the lot. At toyota.com the Camry pictured is $35,555. Over 200k miles How much will you spend on brake pads? Brake Discs? Gas? How about the scheduled 40 Oil changes? How about things outsi
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by sliken 7y ago
Should Cloudflare is likely better than any random ISP. But maybe someone that puts a priority on privacy could run their own DoH. Like maybe the EFF.
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by sliken 7y ago
Maybe EFF should offer members DoH. They could make some strong privacy guarantees and provide an incentive for more people to join the EFF. After all if you are using a free service, you are the product.
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by sliken 7y ago
USA is having an unusual "double-barreled" flu this year where two different variants are common. One of which is A/H1N1 appeared as a second wave late in the flu season. Not sure what coronavirus will do, but clearly diseas
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by sliken 7y ago
Drive a Tesla, I bet you'll find things you like that are way more important than minor cosmetic issues, which seems unlikely. Sure when making cars at 5k a week or more, there's some mistakes. A friend had a piece of trim misali
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by sliken 7y ago
Yes, true. But generally electrics are much cheaper to own. Assume 12k miles a year and figure the cost to own for 10 years. Might be higher than the corolla or civic, but similar or better than the accord or camry. Generally it will be
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by sliken 7y ago
Retina displays, at least at their intended meaning depends on the distance the display is meant to be viewed. So a phone you might well read at 2 feet needs quite a bit more PPI than a car display.
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by sliken 7y ago
Touch screens in Subarus, BMWs, Lexus, and Fords (the ones I've personally tried) are laughably bad. Like 10 year old phones, of even older tables like the Nokia 770 tablet (2004 ish). The Tesla was the first UI I tried that felt as g

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