timonoko

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1741.
by timonoko 11y ago
Well. In my vast experience 1 square meter of evaporator produces about 1 liter per day. On the other hand 1 square meter of solar panel makes 200 watts and you need 20 watts/liter/hour on the osmosis machine. So the panel is 10*2
1742.
by timonoko 11y ago
I was also contemplating windshield wiper motor and solar panel. My tests showed I needed at least 30 watt panel, which was too cumbersome in a kayak. So my collapsible windmill equals 24*30 = 720 Watt hours of solar energy. I had 10 liter
1743.
by timonoko 11y ago
Wind blows 24 hours, 3 times more water and more cheaply too: https://youtu.be/9xYXWISWv5I?t=6m28s
1744.
by timonoko 11y ago
Where is the vacuum tube version? I have always wondered if is possible to make complex vacuum tube logic circuitry just by hand in one big container and suck the air out. In this case in a glass container because you want those glowing cl
1745.
by timonoko 11y ago
It is weird they always mention Linus Torvald's car in American interviews. We frequently learn it is a German brand, one preferred by European taxi drivers and drug pushers and with somekind of personalized license plate. Did he have
1746.
by timonoko 11y ago
These were just glorified card sorting machines. Data and code was on them cards -- 4K was just temporary registers, which was plenty. And cores did not lose their data too easily. Manual bootstrapping was needed mostly because of programmi
1747.
by timonoko 11y ago
You could buy 16-word ROM, which copied bootstrap to core automagigally. But we had no money for such luxuries, and we had to program it manually from front panel switches almost everyday.
1748.
by timonoko 11y ago
"Lintukoto" (Home of the birds) was a warm place where earth raises to meet the sky. It was southwest from Finland and up. And of course "Tuonela" (Home of the dead) was northeast and down.
1749.
by timonoko 11y ago
In the army in 1978 I was programming 8080-based tester for russian vacuum tube anti-aircraft computer. They wanted me to give some lessons for other guys in the shop. I suggested we employ some 100 conscripts to make a working CPU-simulato
1750.
by timonoko 11y ago
Why do they move large amount of salt water when they could move only the sweet water? When the plant is 100 meter down, the water pressure is already the required 10 atmospheres, and when it is offshore at an ocean current the saltifying
1751.
by timonoko 11y ago
Confirmed. If you just lie in a tent couple months during cold season you lose weight significantly. Reasons are plenty, but one is quite obvious: going to toilet is such a drag.
1752.
by timonoko 11y ago
Is it my impression only that Taxis in Paris are so shitty that anything is über, even ones with rusty Lada and 15 minutes of training?
1753.
by timonoko 11y ago
I am 46% sure the HBO makes those torrents themselves. This is how I became Netflix-subscriber, watching BreakingBad-torrents. Finnish TV, like most government-run TVs would never run any such programs promoting drugs and senseless violence
1754.
by timonoko 11y ago
Problem is not the writing, but pronunciation. The word "battery" is the worst in my experience. Everybody understands my pronunciation (Spain, Norway, Singapore) except all of the english-speaking world. But Google Talk to the re
1755.
by timonoko 11y ago
Best "Suicide Prevention" is to establish mechanisms for self-determined pain-free death. These mechanisms should allow one to trigger the dying process years before the actual event. One could decide for example I want to die 3 y
1756.
by timonoko 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeView
1757.
by timonoko 11y ago
It is really horrible when local civil servants start to invent translations for English words, which did not mean anything computer-related to begin with. Like Spool and Cache and Cookie. Why cant browser's Cookie be just Cookie, it i
1758.
by timonoko 11y ago
Utter cluelessness is so funny. MSDOS was going to be like Unix with subdirs and redirection and shit. But goddammerung, it had to be like CP/M too, and CP/M used "/" as an option switch, so MSDOS directories were
1759.
by timonoko 11y ago
It would be so sweet if the "(" and ")" were defined as push/pop from a secondary stack. So "(+ 1 2)" would always be equal to "1 2 +". : ABS (IF (< DUP 0)) (THEN (- 0 SWAP)) ;
1760.
by timonoko 12y ago
I wrote total Artificial Intellicence. Very short but evolved by itself in super recursive selfmodifying way. I totally understood how it worked, but I knew already I do not when I wake up. So I tried to construct simple images to give me s
1761.
by timonoko 15y ago
I realized one time that I could always use "setxkbd us -variant intl" instead of "setxkbd fin" and buy standard US-keyboard when & if I have a choice. Letters "ÄÖ" which is the only reason one uses FIN-keyboard are very conveniently lo
1762.
by timonoko 15y ago
Of course in the future those bricks need not to be of any particular shape. An army of autonomous robots study pile of rocks and central computer decides which way those should be assembled to make solid interlocking structures and airtigh
1763.
by timonoko 15y ago
I have seen something like this, written by some fool... No wait, it was me myself in 1981: http://koti.welho.com/tnoko/curricu/nofun.txt
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by timonoko 15y ago
Children Finland do not go to school all-year-round. They used to have world-record 3 months summer vacation. Also special 1-week skiing holiday in winter. In addition to regular christmasses and passovers.