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by solstice 7y ago
Very cool, thank you! How's the noise after you switched the fans?
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by solstice 7y ago
Afaik, asics are unsuitable for most types of computation, except those they were designed to run (ie mining a specific type of crypto currency)
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by solstice 7y ago
Maybe it's to do with having to peel it back during the day? Should be quite an increase of mechanical complexity compared to just switching the lights on and off
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by solstice 7y ago
Interesting. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that it makes more sense to look for large IR sources (without accompanying visible light), instead of looking for radio signals. Correct?
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by solstice 7y ago
Magic the gathering decks (60-100 cards) also seem to trigger this as they also show up as dark blocks on x-ray
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by solstice 7y ago
Perfect to reduce vibration and other sounds for podcasting
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by solstice 7y ago
Pics please
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by solstice 7y ago
I remember being quite shocked when reading that part.
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by solstice 7y ago
That's an amazing story!
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by solstice 7y ago
Make a cane which changes in length every 3-5 minutes via a small internal piston.
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Using thermobaric bombs on wildfires: A Proposal (2018)(warontherocks.com)
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by solstice 7y ago
Great post. I had no idea that Galileo essentially caused his downfall through his own hubris
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by solstice 7y ago
That reputation has suffered anyway quite significantly in the recent past: BER (Berlin's hilariously failed "new" airport) VW et al. cheating on emissions tests...
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by solstice 7y ago
I'm not sure, but you might want to compare the median monthly electricity costs per household between Germany and California. I suspect that would give you a more accurate picture of the true electricity costs. My hunch stems from the
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by solstice 7y ago
Modern day version would be blablacar
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by solstice 7y ago
Thank you for making Orbital Index! Super interesting and well written!
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by solstice 7y ago
Prominent for what? He comes across very strange, writing things like this: "Global warming is a very serious issue, but most of the impacts are in the future. There is much we can do to address global warming, both in terms of adapta
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by solstice 7y ago
I mean, you could let the remaining coal miners dig it up but don't allow it to be burned. At the same time work hard to establish new ways of earning money in the communities.
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by solstice 7y ago
Yes, the only way Starship could look more retro futuristic would have been to use the ticket from Tintin: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/The_Adv...
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by solstice 7y ago
Thank you for the fascinating explanation and story
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by solstice 7y ago
Force them to use old-school floppy disks to store and transmit records (you know, for backwards compatibility). That should be a good incentive to minimize data hoarding. /s
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by solstice 7y ago
Notably, the classic story of fur-clad prehistoric humans digging pits to trap mammoths is quite unrealistic in colder climates (where wooly mammoths lived): digging large pits in frozen soil with nothing but bones, sticks and maybe shoulde
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by solstice 7y ago
Would be interesting to know whether other people whose names end in mr also have this problem
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by solstice 7y ago
Unwanted calls are an issue in France as well afaik. Not necessarily robocalls but the fact that there isn't a way to opt out from advertising calls (in contrast to Germany's Robinson-Liste) is very annoying.
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by solstice 7y ago
Enable dark mode on win 10 and have two explorer windows overlap so that only the title bars are visible (the way the os cascades windows). Where does one end and the other begin? So many misclicks...
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by solstice 7y ago
Blaming the software and then shrugging "well, we did everything we could" seems to become a pattern to deflect accountability. Worrying
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by solstice 7y ago
I sort of expect them to switch to facial recognition and do away with turnstiles altogether for most passengers to dramatically increase efficiency once the tech and databases are advanced enough. As in, the system recognises where you en
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by solstice 7y ago
Newpipe (very good alternative YouTube app on android) also supports independently changing speed/pitch. (The button to unlink both is a bit hidden: press the "1x" control when playing a video, then scroll down in the modal t
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by solstice 7y ago
Not to contradict your main point, but I seem to remember that I lost a Hotmail account to inactivity sometime after 2005. So maybe Hotmail isn't the best example
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"The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abando

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