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by slwvx 6mo ago
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustic_heat_engine The company cited in the article is [Bluehart]( https://blueheartenergy.com/our-technology ) One disadvantage that Bluehart lists of
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by slwvx 6mo ago
> According to her tests, her prototype successfully removed 95.52 percent of microplastics from the water and recycled 87.15 percent of the ferrofluid. Does the remaining 13% of the ferrofluid end up in the filtered water or in the disc
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by slwvx 6mo ago
> The Rich Don't Play by the Rules. So Why Should I? Many (most?) people who would phrase that question are themselves already among the rich. There's always someone richer to blame; and if you're the richest person in
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by slwvx 6mo ago
I'm very glad that Ars allows me to subscribe so that I don't have to see the ads. Some sites don't allow the option to pay for their service but force the free-but-ad-filled option on everyone
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by slwvx 6mo ago
I detest click-bait titles.
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by slwvx 6mo ago
I think the idea of an easy-to-service tractor (or other equipment) is much more appealing and important than that it have zero electronics. The article does not focus at all on the "zero electronics" angle, rather on the service
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by slwvx 6mo ago
I've seen more packages that do interval arithmetic than those which keep track of significant digits. For example: https://github.com/JuliaIntervals/IntervalArithmetic.jl
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by slwvx 6mo ago
Or spend 20 minutes to rewrite your Matlab as a Julia program, then get the dramatic speedup that Julia provides over Matlab and Python... I abandoned Matlab for Julia 12+ years ago and find it such a better tool. It provides the hackabili
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by slwvx 6mo ago
web iCloud doesn't load for me
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by slwvx 6mo ago
I own land and water shares in the Great Basin and can confirm that this is real. On a more positive note, one random person in the area unexpectedly confirmed that they thought global warming was indeed real.
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by slwvx 7mo ago
> Wealth always tempts us to be discontent. We’re cursed with that insatiable desire for more. We’re prone to envy. There is a reason we talk about keeping up with the Joneses. I think this is one argument for a more progressive income t
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by slwvx 7mo ago
The paper says at the end: > Our implementation is available at: https://github.com/jumerckx/Metapractice/tree/taco . Unfortunately that URL doesn't work for me; maybe it should point to https:/&
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by slwvx 7mo ago
From https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1802 we read the following about "equality saturation" which was a new term to me: > ... We present a new approach for structuring the optimization phase of a compiler. In o
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by slwvx 7mo ago
no
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by slwvx 7mo ago
Moore's law has been ending for roughly 50 years :-)
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by slwvx 7mo ago
Now build it into a podcast player. I.e. to skip ads in podcasts.
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by slwvx 8mo ago
I'd first like to see links to research about how much plastic is in coffee in general, and how it impacts health.
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by slwvx 8mo ago
I respect this. For me, such apologies are not easy
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by slwvx 8mo ago
Is there agreement Gaussian integers? This disagreement seems above the head of non mathematicians, including those (like me) with familiarity with complex numbers
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by slwvx 8mo ago
I assume this is a sort of poem about the programming language Julia... ;-)
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by slwvx 8mo ago
Can exercise make the face look younger? Or the body? Is exercise the best makeup? ;-)
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by slwvx 8mo ago
Ubiquiti could likely do more to keep their equipment out of Russia, but I also guess that Hunterbrook is doing this to manipulate some stock or for other selfish purposes.
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by slwvx 8mo ago
> Contrast Xenophon with Mary Beard, who studied at Cambridge and now teaches at Cambridge. She holds the same opinions as everyone else at Cambridge. She’s remarked before that, “I actually can’t understand what it would be to be a woma
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by slwvx 9mo ago
"What ho" as in British English seems like a descendant of this usage https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77151/what-ho-of...
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by slwvx 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/bQ5E0 I've never thought SFO was beautiful, but maybe it's good enough to be ignorable. Maybe an airport should aim to be not noticed
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by slwvx 9mo ago
I was not aware of (or had forgotten) the term "Wright's law" [1], but that indeed is what I was thinking of. It looks like some may use the term "learning curve" to refer to the same idea (efficiency gains that fol
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Good luck with the upgrades! This looks like a useful tool. I noticed two things immediately about the UI: the complete absence of rounded rects [1] (which seem to be everywhere, except HN), and the embeded windows (e.g. for Executive order
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by slwvx 9mo ago
It is interesting! Is the data not as easy to parse prior to 1975? Or why did you stop there? What else would you like to do with this? Are there other filters you would like to add? Do you like the UI?
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Quantum computation and information, by Nielsen and Chung
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by slwvx 9mo ago
My impression is that solar (and maybe wind?) energy have benefited from learning-by-doing [1][2] that has resulted in lower costs and/or improved performance each year. It seems reasonable to me that a similar process will apply to

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