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by thijson 2y ago
Attended an elementary school in Canada in the 80's. There was a shop trailer that went from school to school. It had all the wood working tools like band saw, or drill press. My parents still have some of the items I made in it.
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Yes, the marine diesels run very slow, are two stroke, and approach 50% efficiency. Turbines have an advantage of weight though.
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One of the guys that founded the modern medical education system was a coke head: https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/cocaine-addict-who-cha... The Mayans used coca leaves to get more work out of their people. I gues
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I remember hearing about logic to help with deinterleaving the results of the butterfly network after the FFT is done.
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Our dog loves his crate. He will often go into it towards the end of the night, basically saying he's ready to go to sleep.
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Same here, our sixth grade teacher assigned it. I wrote a BASIC program on the TRS80 to try to find solutions. Printed each solution it found to the dot matrix printer.
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Sears HQ walkthrough near Chicago before its demolition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yX9D3h2F_0 Ironic that Sears back in the day got started with mail order. Seems like bad management is a cancer on a lot of organizat
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We put the redundant roosters in the woods, let nature do the killing for us. They didn't last one night.
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We had racoons, skunks, and foxes paying nightly visits. Occasionally one would find a way into the coop and there would be a massive kill off. We got a dog, and just the scent of the dog around the coop has been enough to eliminate the s
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https://tinyurl.com/mpvymy27
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That might work in southern latitudes where the seasonal change in solar irradiation isn't much different. In the North, like in Canada, there's just not enough solar in the winter. We really need a way to store excess solar fro
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I seem to recall there being some controversy with Nest at Google. There were high hopes for it in the beginning, but it seemed like it stagnated.
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In the Dune universe the AI's are banned.
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You need high chip volumes to justify the NRE cost of going to 2nm, or you're selling your chips with very high margins (ie. Nvidia). Just saw this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQvrLjlJN8 CEO of ASML, he s
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I was listening to MLK's speech the other day, and he said he wanted his children to be judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin. Seems like that's not what is happening today, racism (and sexism)
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I think Amazon hasn't managed to find a way to monetize Alexa. It was Bezos' pet project, and when he left it languished. Our main use for Alexa is to set timers, and alarms to wake up to, and the random trivia question.
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Where are the costs then? Is it the MRI that costs $1000?
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I can think of so many examples of protectionism in society. In Canada the dairy industry is a quota system, not just anyone can sell milk or eggs. The article suggests that there should be government bodies to regulate these industries i
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/30/2035225/women-inter...
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Your mention of blind reviews reminds me of a social experiment I read about several years ago. All of this is anecdotal though. The article was written by someone that administered a web site that paired candidates with employers. Emplo
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Part of the problem may be the US dollar being the reserve currency. This increases the value of the dollar relative to other currencies, and makes our cost of production higher. The dollar itself crowds out exports, similar how with Dutc
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I've stuck with windows due to better power management support. Native Linux hasn't supported my hardware very well. Also my kids occasionally want to play Roblox or other games on my computers. Apple products are too expensive f
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Even for a furnace or boiler, condensing the steam in the exhaust only makes it around 10% more efficient.
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I think batch processing of many requests is cheaper. As each layer of the model is loaded into cache, you can put through many prompts. Running it locally you don't have that benefit.
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I remember my professor saying how the fixed packet size in ATM (53 bytes) was a committee compromise. North America wanted 64 bytes, Europe wanted 32 bytes. The committee chose around the midway point.
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I remember going to the drive-in movie theater in the 80's. You had to tune your car radio to a specific frequency to hear the movie audio. If this device had existed back then, you wouldn't have needed to tune your car radio at
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I remember reading about the first cable that was laid across the Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable They didn't know much about transmission line theory, and even burned out the
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Xilinx uses a microblaze for their DDR memory controller calibration as well. Initially they didn't, and I guess the calibration wouldn't always work. Software allows much more complicated algorithms for calibration than hard co
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I agree, it doesn't really stop them from developing anything cutting edge, there's ways around the export controls, even if they are uneconomical. And the Chinese are no strangers to investing into uneconomical things for vanity
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I was surprised to see what looked like restaurants. It seemed like they served food to people walking by. They had a counter facing the road with a hole in it. I could imagine a fire inside the hole, with presumably a pot with food abov

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