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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
This brings to mind two stories: Exhalation by Ted Chiang (short story), and the Three Body Problem (specifically the human computer) by Cixin Liu (novel length). Exhalation really gets me thinking about what it means to be sentient &amp
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
> A millisecond latency will cause a significant out of phase shift to the AC signal too. Ooh, good point. But then, we have I think micro- or even nano-second clock sync over public internet now. Or use (reliable) GPS timestamps codifie
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Have you seen consent-o-matic? https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I was wondering if a solar flare could cause something like this. But if it had been that on this occasion, the astronomers would've been warning about it for at least 8 minutes. :-)
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Thanks for the reply. In the 50Mhz-modulated-50Hz scenario, however, the modulated 50Hz signal doesn't change under load; it has zero inertia (or infinite inertia maybe) because it's electronically generated. Any individual statio
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I've always wondered why we can't just have a "master" power station transmit a 50Hz signal modulated at, say, 50MHz. Then all the other station simply sync to that, including small scale such as domestic PV etc. Then de
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I'm not sure that intent should be at all relevant. If you're not capable of routinely keeping the vehicle within the speed limits, then perhaps you shouldn't be driving it? If you're caught once, then a fine and a slap
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
> a person who loves crypto technologically and agrees with the more cipherpunk roots of bitcoin Yep, that'd be me too. What gets my blood pressure rising is the sheer amount of coins & tokens available now all of which, bar per
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
> At least with some precious metal, it has a floor value as a function of its practical uses and abundance. I don't really give this argument much credence any more. If the value of, say, gold or diamonds were to drop their practi
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
xkcd what-if has a great picture of what a typical orbital flight is really like: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ tl;dr: Our atmosphere is surprisingly thin.
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
This reminds me of the 4D maze. Let's see if it's still around... yep: https://www.urticator.net/maze/ I tried using it, like the author, to visualize and investigate 4D data. But my stone-age brain, regretta
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
This didn't quite work for me - dpkg complained about "no path found matching..." for every library. I replaced the "$path" in the dpkg command with "${path##*/}" to just match the library name. Furth
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
..."Mercedes says its hydrometallurgical process is less intensive in terms of energy consumption and material waste.""... so how much (clean) water does it consume e.g. per car-battery reprocessed? Not to take away from this
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
I always thought that the "rule" referred to is that "all rules have exceptions" (R1). i.e. there's a rule (in this case "only men with big beards can tame a unix system" (R2)) which, however, has an excep
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by tenthirtyam 2y ago
I remember an anecdote I heard when I was in high school. A teacher recounted how they had been listening to a radio talk show, and on the talk show, the presenter was interviewing an elderly lady about why she eschewed TV and preferred to
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
"Nightfall" by Asimov is a great short story related to solar eclipses. https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall....
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
I'd have nerves about qemu being snooped by a malicious/corporate/internet-cafe/friend's/etc host OS. Why not just use a bootable usb disc? Doesn't solve all the problems and probably introduces others. Bu
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
I see some comments on a problem here - the charger will have to deliver appx 1MW. Well, maybe there could be charging stations powered by diesel generators... /s
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
Useful XKCD here regarding weird units: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ TLDR; "If you took all the gas you burned on a trip and stretched it out into a thin tube along your route, 0.1 square millimeters would be the
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
Good idea in principle. I suspect it might lead to unintended consequences: there is suddenly an advantage to being a disabled single parent with many children.
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
I suppose one choice would be to separate any current open-source development company with support services into two independent parts. One part will continue developing the software, funded exclusively by donations. The other part will off
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by tenthirtyam 3y ago
Ummm, seems to me that 0.42 acres of trees would sequester a lot more that 22kg of CO2 per year. Let me guesstimate from my typical annual hedge clipping - we have a (appx) 1.5m wide hedge that is (appx) 120m long equal to (appx.) 180m^2=0.
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
Would an easier answer be that (in simple two-body Earth-Sun orbit) the Earth is sitting in the Sun's gravitational field. Apart from tiny negligible wobbles due to the Sun orbiting the earth-sun centre-of-mass, this gravitational fiel
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
Polite suggestion: if you can drive in 10 mins you could probably cycle in 20-30 mins depending on details. Although not, I suppose, if 8 of those 10 mins are on high speed autobahn :) When I lived in Rome I cycled everywhere. I was the 2nd
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
How about building a pole which is recursively split into smaller and smaller poles in a fractal structure, with thousands of little sheets of this material attached at the ends of the smallest poles, generating electricity from the wind? O
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
Could it be the Thames-freezing-over event was part of the "little ice age"? i.e. a blip in an otherwise (at the time) more stable climate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
And interestingly, from personal experience, Spaniards are not a generally overweight population despite eating a late dinner plus a typical breakfast, lunch and even merienda (afternoon snack). What gives?
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
> How is "debt" defined if we're defining money as debt? When you obtain a loan from the bank, you are conveniently paying back in the form of fiat currency, which you have earned through your labour. But if you fail to me
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
If you find this interesting, then read the book or watch the film "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux. The whole story is about a fridge such as this operating in the heat of Africa.
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by tenthirtyam 4y ago
This was the best blog I ever noticed on this topic,an Australian using exhaust air from their miners to pre-heat incoming air to their heat pump. TL;DR - it's worth it. https://blog.haschek.at/2021/how-i-heat-my-h

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