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by techdragon 3y ago
Typically yes... Alternative mechanisms include using solar panels to increase drag, and some companies are experimenting with devices that interact with the earths magnetic field to produce electromagnetic drag… But reserving fuel for “dec
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by techdragon 3y ago
Touching stuff... It could be middle age tainting my perspective... but sometimes I feel this sort of... not visceral , but very close and undeniable ... experience with death is easier for people who are young. Death isn't real for
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by techdragon 3y ago
As a long term DataDog customer… no it’s beyond that. DataDog have an extractive pricing model. It’s undergone a number of changes over the years that separated out features previously under the host price into their own products with separ
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by techdragon 3y ago
The issue I’ve had with the BBB is that they always seemed to be a premium cost item. Why am I paying more for something that gives me less compute than a most of the RPi boards. I have one and when I got it it cost me something over $150 A
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by techdragon 3y ago
It would be very funny if Magic Mushrooms became schedule 2 before cannabis does … feels very emblematic of how much social/class warfare is co-opted into by vested interests and the whole racism by proxy elements of the war on drugs…
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by techdragon 3y ago
This is Crack-Babies 2: Fentanyl Boogaloo “Six individuals born after pregnancies complicated by multiple drug exposures, including fentanyl shared physical and facial features suggestive of a novel syndrome. “ So in other words, it could b
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by techdragon 3y ago
My very biased advice is leverage your public work, and just go freelance. You have to develop some other skills like networking if you want to avoid the meat market freelancing job sites… oh and don’t do websites unless there’s something o
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by techdragon 3y ago
I just want to call out the how nice it is to have a global view of all the keyboard shortcuts like this. Including for applications you might not have open. It makes it a million times easier to fix up situations where two applications wan
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by techdragon 3y ago
Yeah, since lead accumulates in the body, I can imagine that a lifetime of exposure from significant sources like water pipes and all the other ways Roman’s were using lead, will just slowly add up until it reaches these sorts of levels, on
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by techdragon 3y ago
You’ve got a solid point about how I was oversimplifying, but it’s not an “inaccurate picture” it’s just not providing as much detail as is needed to accurately predict real world effects… which unless you’re actually working with radiation
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by techdragon 3y ago
I did not… it seemed wildly high to me too. But I checked and got second sources that matched close. So I rounded down from 5670mg/kg to a more easily to do mental math with 5500mg/kg. It turns out the amount of lead required to k
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by techdragon 3y ago
Having an expert (or other more specialised software) optimise an otherwise satisfactory 3d model is going to be vastly more simple a process than what can be a painstaking process of getting the “original vision” for a shape into a digital
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by techdragon 3y ago
While it’s similar to the kinds of biological damage that radiation can cause, because the radiation induced damage in DNA does work similarly, the energy from a radiation “hit” breaks bonds in the DNA molecule and causes knock on effects j
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by techdragon 3y ago
For certain niche applications… this is actually a very good thing. Case in point. Radiation hardness, the ability of a chip to resist the long term effects of radiation damage is highly related to the cross sectional area of the wires. The
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by techdragon 3y ago
I had this “should be 30 minutes” but is really “never”… after getting an AirPod replacement in August this year. In my case it was actually a pretty easy to fix once I knew what it was. You have to do a little fiddling to check this since
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by techdragon 3y ago
This fuzziness is slowly getting worse in my opinion. I notice it seems like Google had gotten more and more willing to assume unrelated words/concepts are sufficiently interchangeable that it can happily return both in a search query
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by techdragon 3y ago
I really wish these chips weren’t so IO constrained. I routinely check on the state of things for building a tiny NAS for some hardware redundancy reasons and despite significant improvements in CPU and GPU a power across the ARM ecosystem…
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by techdragon 3y ago
But Amazon don’t make this obvious or as easy as writing a review. This is an incentive mismatch at work that just happens to work in favour of Amazon and their shitty sellers… cough enshitification cough If they actually wanted to mana
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by techdragon 3y ago
Except outside America where it’s metric… also as someone who’s gone hunting for commercial space before, it’s kinda only 97% true that it’s always per year… there’s an irritating countercurrent of people that try and trick you into thinkin
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by techdragon 3y ago
Started writing a comment then noticed how much of the article is just quotes, so I’ll summarise instead of directly quoting and recommend reading it for additional context. These kids are exactly the sort of overachievers and desperate to
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by techdragon 3y ago
It’s completely impossible to get users to pay for it, the users that would pay can’t possibly justify our investment in this amazing technology… /sarcasm
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by techdragon 3y ago
Its probably not the only component... but a fun fact is that the Earth's rotation is affected by the average equatorial ocean temperatures, (anyone seen the ocean temperature charts this year... something something ships and sulfur di
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by techdragon 3y ago
As mentioned in a reply to a sibling comment. GPS time is (to a human relevant usable level of accuracy) TAI minus 19 seconds. The issue is that you can't really "run TAI" on something, most firmware isn't designed to ke
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by techdragon 3y ago
I mean look... we can start getting really fun with it and get into the metrology of it all, but I'm having some fun and trying to spread the good word here. Early programmers totally fucked up using UTC instead of TAI which as a monot
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by techdragon 3y ago
It is indeed “International Atomic Time” in English, for what it’s worth I chose to use the French version of the acronym because using the English text requires more explanation why the acronym for “International Atomic Time” is not IAT bu
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by techdragon 3y ago
Not really disagreeing just expanding on the conversation… I’m pretty happy with computers storing time as a “weird number that we add another number to to get the human time”… because we are already usually storing it as second/millis
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by techdragon 3y ago
GPS never had leap seconds. Your hell is imaginary. It is a myth and a lie perpetrated by those that never looked beyond the convenient lie to children that is UTC and tried to understand the true nature of timekeeping. GPS Time signal = TA
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by techdragon 3y ago
You have been lied to… your true enemies are the ones that continue to build monotonic systems on top of non monotonic time scales… Join us in the Temps Atomic International! TAI is the one true timescale. Computers should be using TAI and
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by techdragon 3y ago
Love clicking a GitHub icon to go read the source code and learn more… and being taken to a google cloud storage bucket where there’s four files, a readme pdf that’s basically just links to several different google sheets documenting data t
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by techdragon 3y ago
It did try to handle it, by coming to a complete stop as fast as possible and avoiding further movement. I definitely think it should be smart enough to not stop “on top of an obstacle” under the car… but as far as everything before it stop

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