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by taneq 3mo ago
> Neutrons have a magnetic moment. Wait, what? Huh, I have some reading to do. Thanks! :D I thought neutron stars generally had a shell or crust of iron, which generates a magnetic field (as metals do) if the neutron star is spinning.
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by taneq 3mo ago
I’m reminded of the hierarchy of controls in machine safety. If you can’t eliminate the hazard, or substitute a less hazardous thing, then engineering out the hazard (like Rust did) is preferable to a procedural control (“git gud at enginee
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by taneq 3mo ago
Seems reasonable. After all, spicy ramen is probably also more dangerous when introduced directly to the bloodstream. ;)
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by taneq 3mo ago
In my old house we sprayed for spiders and ants, and a few weeks later there were cockroaches everywhere. I guess it was just a coincidence. >.>
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by taneq 3mo ago
What, like with guns? Never!
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by taneq 3mo ago
Yeah, the TLA (three-letter acronym) space is vastly overcrowded and most TLAs are overloaded. This goes double for TLAs (two-letter acronyms). :P
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by taneq 3mo ago
Maybe there’s more PCB designs on the internet than there are pelicans riding bikes? ;)
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by taneq 3mo ago
I have all Brother printers too, they seem to be the only brand that's not actively trying to screw their customers. My B&W laser at home is on its second drum and still soldiering on, we got an A4 colour laser multifunction for wo
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by taneq 3mo ago
Were A4 plotters that much of a thing? I'd thought plotters were usually larger format (A0-A2 sort of size) for engineering drawings etc. Also iirc they were insanely expensive compared with your standard microcomputer dot-matrix print
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by taneq 3mo ago
A colour laser A4 multifunction is only a few hundred bucks these days, five years ago I’d have agreed with you but it might be worth re-evaluating.
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by taneq 3mo ago
Are you counting the energy used for print head cleaning, and to manufacture all the wasted ink?
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by taneq 3mo ago
I think that’s a product of their time rather than the dot matrix tech itself. Paper feeding is hard . Tractor strips made it easier.
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by taneq 3mo ago
Yeah, if you’re buying the ink they would be happy, I’d think. The ideal razor-and-blades business model!
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by taneq 3mo ago
I don’t think the word applies to a blog post which its self-described as “ramblings”. The formula’s there to look scary and illustrate a point, nobody’s using it to integrate a Gaussian.
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by taneq 3mo ago
> However, when someone says “calculus” without modification […] there’s no ambiguity about which calculus they are referring to Might be differentiation and integration, might be dental plaque. ;)
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by taneq 3mo ago
Think of it like a relay with a normally closed contact.
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by taneq 3mo ago
It’s like the pop sci fact that if you took all your blood vessels and laid them end to end… you would die.
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by taneq 3mo ago
I think he genuinely broke his brain during the Model 3 ramp up. They were in production hell for something like a year, and he hasn’t been quite right ever since. Maybe that was just the point at which he got rich enough to stop caring wha
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by taneq 4mo ago
I get your point about strictly anthropomorphic robots. There's definite scope for improvement there - I think Boston Dynamics' recent videos on their design process for the hands for Atlas is fascinating, and the way the fingers
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by taneq 4mo ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bats-crash-into-each-other-a...
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by taneq 4mo ago
This reminds me of the old “bats use sonar and can fly super precisely without crashing into each other in pitch black” and then it turns out that they crash into each other all the time .
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by taneq 4mo ago
Thankyou for responding with your view, and I'm sorry that you got downvoted for it. I don't agree that "[people] should be able to do literally anything they want and Buyer Beware is a good way to structure society and comme
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by taneq 4mo ago
Do you really think 50% of voters thought this was what they were getting? I think most of them thought “dunno what is going on, but this guy seems confident and says it’ll be good if we vote for him”.
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by taneq 4mo ago
You mean there’s a slippery slope from “I don’t mean to insult you” to passively aggressively insulting them? ;)
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by taneq 4mo ago
Our hands are actually amazing, to a degree that’s hard to comprehend unless you’ve tried to build something equivalent. Our finger tips can discern features down to around 10 microns, detect a wide range of vibrations and single shocks, ma
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by taneq 4mo ago
Oh, and little touches like an ugly fence being replaced by a sweeping view of a beach or a mountain range.
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by taneq 4mo ago
You’re missing the consulting steps: 0: Figure out what to build. -1: Win contract. -2: Declare that you have the best model and it’s perfect for this client. :D
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by taneq 4mo ago
I’d say it’s more like “on groceries and a fancy dinner”. Humanoid robots sure do need RAM, both in data centres for training and in the robots themselves. :)
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by taneq 4mo ago
It’s already starting to be like that. If you get far enough out into the bush away from light pollution and watch the stars for a bit, you can see the grid of satellites orbiting. It’s kind of cool but also kind of depressing.
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by taneq 4mo ago
Oh man, my journey from idealistic “there is always an explanation” youth to “some days it do be like that, and we may never know why” in a nutshell.

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