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by thijson 1y ago
I wish we were able to preserve the ICON experience in an emulator. I bet even a browser has enough compute power to emulate a network of them.
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by thijson 1y ago
The Watcom compilers on it were pretty good. I started with Pascal, then moved to C, and finally Assembly. I do remember compiling being slow, Turbo C under DOS was much faster.
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by thijson 1y ago
Vertical also doesn't take up very much real estate.
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by thijson 1y ago
How does this compare to: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11431
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by thijson 1y ago
I saw a comment in another thread that the AMA recognizes the problem of a deficit in new MD's. According to the comment, congress provides funding for MD residents, and that is the real bottleneck.
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by thijson 1y ago
A lot of our preferences and strategies in the reproduction game were formed over many generations and are encoded in our DNA. Modern day inventions have definitely changed the rules, things like DNA tests, Apps, birth control, throwing a
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by thijson 1y ago
I heard that he was considering going to the recent Beijing meeting where Putin was, however he heard that Kim Jong Un would also be there, so he decided against it.
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by thijson 1y ago
I heard about people that would keep the voice mail of a departed loved one on their phone undeleted. They would replay it from time to time to get the feeling that they are still there. Also they would wear their clothes to feel their pr
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by thijson 1y ago
Ontario's live generating mix is here: https://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html As I post this, nuclear is the largest contributor. The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is the largest in North America: https:/&#x
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by thijson 1y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I remember in the 70's baseboard heaters were very common. They use a lot of electricity, but electricity was super cheap back then. It would be interesting to compare baseboard+extra
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by thijson 1y ago
Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive.
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by thijson 1y ago
The addiction to these platforms is real in the younger generation. I try to reduce their screen time, they resist it, they claim they need it to relax.
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by thijson 1y ago
I just took mine on a fairly long trip, around 370 miles. I used the hold charge feature once the battery reached 75%. It was fun to drive through a hilly region, the battery got me up the hill, then the engine plus regen charged it back
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by thijson 1y ago
Before I started watching CEE, I watched Abom79 https://www.youtube.com/@Abom79/videos He has a bunch of lathe video's too.
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by thijson 1y ago
People don't argue with a carpenter over what tools were used to build a piece of furniture. It feels like a religious debate.
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by thijson 1y ago
Japan had dolphin meat in their kids lunches. That didn't end well as the dolphin's are contaminated with high levels of mercury as well. I guess being right next to China, and most of their power comes from coal, and the wind g
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by thijson 1y ago
I remember my computer science professor talking about this, how critical safety can be in software. Another example he gave was the refueling machine at a nuclear power plant, it had fell off the tracks and broke the pipe that goes throug
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by thijson 1y ago
At a certain depth the temperature curve is 6 months delayed from the surface. So it's getting to its warmest during the winter, and coldest during the summer. At a deeper depth it's pretty constant year round.
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by thijson 1y ago
I remember reading about something similar in the USA, where the federal government encouraged the creation of very large presses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program A lot of USA investment in industry f
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by thijson 1y ago
We would be too without the tariffs.
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by thijson 1y ago
They can also destroy your home in pursuit of a suspect without having to then repair the damage made. https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/greenwood-village-h...
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by thijson 1y ago
There's something called a Kalman filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter It can combine several inaccurate sources and output a result that is more accurate than any one of them. I was at an Amazon Fr
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by thijson 1y ago
I've found this web site to be informative about what it would take to go fully renewable: https://www.withouthotair.com/ A lot of the calculations are back of the envelope, but I guess provide a ballpark estimate.
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by thijson 1y ago
I think I've seen that too. Plants convert solar energy to chemical energy with an efficiency of a few percent. Solar cells are around 20% efficient, and do it year round, even in the winter.
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by thijson 1y ago
I remember in the late 90's switching from yahoo to google because google's search results were better. I also set my homepage to google because the homepage was so fast to load, it wasn't all cluttered up like the yahoo hom
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by thijson 1y ago
They are the cheapest hybrid out there currently, at least here in the USA. I think the average American prefers a larger vehicle. I think a Diesel indirect injection REX would be awesome. It could burn vegetable oil, which is more viscou
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by thijson 1y ago
I've been driving one for a while. On the trips I've driven, even on the highway, the engine was able to keep up with the energy draw. I think it's around 60HP. If I'm on a long trip, I'll start the engine once I
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by thijson 1y ago
Brookfield is investing in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTd02-0BiOM
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by thijson 1y ago
I posted a youtube link to the Gattaca prologue in a similar post on here. It got flagged. Pretty sure it's virtually identical to the movie's premise.
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by thijson 1y ago
I remember the airplane tail had the number 386, or 486. It was difficult to get a seat, but it was based on first come first serve, so you just had to be diligent on the booking web site. Coming out of San Jose, the plane would enter this

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