threwrfaway

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by threwrfaway 4mo ago
To be clear, I know what it is. In fact, I'm probably one of the few in the site who could guesstimate how much energy it is without looking it up (covalent reactions, per mole are equally energetic to within a fairly narrow margin; th
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by threwrfaway 4mo ago
If it's near IR, bright and erratic, enough will get through and it will mess up with the auto gain.
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by threwrfaway 4mo ago
Start up idea: Ordinary glass (as in spectacles) frames that have a near IR LED on the bridge and on the side. PWM to be efficient, bright, but erratic clock of around 10Hz. Want a picture of me? Ask, or use film.
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by threwrfaway 4mo ago
"230 tons of TNT" I hate units of TNT. Ill do psi. Love the foot. The calorie is metric! But what on planet earth is "ton of TNT"? The energy that was dissipated (using 0.5 mv^2) was 1TJ, or the 280 000 kWh.
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by threwrfaway 4mo ago
The HP28s is amazing. The manual even has a program to convert an algebraic expression to rpn. In high school it was mind blowing. But I didn't do anything serious with programming. Normal languages seemed annoying, usr/rpl useles
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by threwrfaway 5mo ago
The avro was an excellent plane for the time. It would have been a good plane for the Cold War. It was a plane well suited for Canada's threat environment. The missiles that replaced it sucked. However, the Avro wasn't anything an
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by threwrfaway 5mo ago
Folks in the South don't consciously realize it, but they're setting the AC low to keep it running for its dehumidification. These are the same folks who sweaters is its 80F outside. They can handle heat. If ACs had the ability to