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571.
by tlb 4y ago
While it's true that you can't replace one cell, you also don't need to because the pack is designed to lose individual cells without significantly impacting the range. It's not like they're not all in series or som
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by tlb 4y ago
"We weren't built for it" isn't really an argument. There are so many counterexamples of things we weren't built for but are popular. It lets you make a bet on the future being better. Wouldn't a guy who froze
573.
by tlb 4y ago
Yes, people who can't pay will keep renewing the free trial indefinitely. Since you weren't going to get any money out of them anyway, there's no loss. More people using your sw costs you nothing, and has various benefits, in
574.
by tlb 4y ago
You might consider offering more free or cheap versions, like a student edition (cheap with no proof required) and a free trial. Wolfram, for instance, does both. Not many real companies will cheat, and it's better to have users who ca
575.
by tlb 4y ago
This company is building such a system, to shift home rooftop solar power into the winter. (To shift from day to night, batteries are more efficient.) https://www.homepowersolutions.de/en/product/
576.
by tlb 4y ago
Better to have no explanation than a bogus one, which is what it would have to be for things that haven't been invented yet. Sci-fi should focus on the social implications of hypothetical technologies.
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by tlb 4y ago
I'm disappointed by the slow progress in cryo-suspension. It seems like it should be possible, and would be very useful on earth too. You could just hop however many years into the future. It'd have fascinating social implications
578.
by tlb 4y ago
It kept the speaker on at first so you could hear if a human answered the phone, or got some network message like "all circuits are busy". It muted once it had a confirmed modem on the other end.
579.
by tlb 4y ago
Some theories are easily testable. For instance, ask it to write some code to efficiently solve traveling salesman problems, and then test the code on some sample problems. You can score the quality of solutions and time taken, and manually
580.
by tlb 4y ago
You can't know that. Currently, 8 billion humans generate a few scientific breakthroughs per year. You'd have to run several billion ChatGPTs for a year with zero breakthroughs to have any confidence in such a claim.
581.
by tlb 4y ago
Indeed, but that system will report nothing unusual when there's a leak directly from the tank, or in the pipe between tank and flow sensor (which I think is usually near the engine, downstream of a fuel pump) or if the tank wasn'
582.
by tlb 4y ago
Garmin G1000 units (popular in small planes) show this, as a circle around the current position, including fuel reserve. However, it depends on an accurate fuel level, which is mostly dead-reckoned from integrating fuel consumption. Measuri
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by tlb 4y ago
Most of the buildings on the page are multistory. A door on the ground floor isn't a big deal, but above that they require fire escape stairs, which are big and ugly and create a section with poor views out the windows.
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by tlb 4y ago
Thanks, I changed the URL to that from the (broken) https://abby.how/posts/parsing-layout.html
585.
by tlb 4y ago
I recommend using an existing implementation rather than reinventing it. https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/auth-email or https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/passwordless/aut
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by tlb 4y ago
A theory: the tradespeople that young people mostly meet aren’t the elite within the trade. If they meet a welder, it’ll be the guy putting a trailer hitch on dad’s minivan, not the guy welding skyscraper girders. The second kind is more in
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by tlb 4y ago
Between `auto` and `decltype(auto)` it mostly does what I want, although the 2nd syntax is frightful. The main case it doesn't handle is for (auto i = 0; i < foo.size(); i++) where obviously I want i to match the return type
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by tlb 4y ago
I might add kebab-case to my current language project. From all the code I've written, I only found a handful of - operators not surrounded by spaces, so that ambiguity wouldn't bite me often. Also, I wish the unary negation opera
589.
by tlb 4y ago
Arc, TIG, and MIG welding is fairly low voltage, like 15 - 30 volts. To start the arc there's a brief high-voltage high-frequency burst, but it's current limited. So it's pretty safe as far as electrocution goes.
590.
by tlb 4y ago
I manually edited the URL back to apple, which (on a Mac) opens the Maps app. Interestingly, the change comes from from Apple. `curl -v https://maps.apple.com/?q=Gary+Glitter ` gives a redirect to maps.google.com. Presumably
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Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (2018)(nature.com)
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by tlb 4y ago
Any reinforcement learning system meets your first definition. RL systems don’t typically use separate practice sessions, though you could create one that did. But the need for deliberate practice maybe be just a biological brain thing. Ins
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by tlb 4y ago
There are quite a few things that are probably true, but you can't say publicly without attracting a lot of unwanted angry attention. If your line of thinking approaches any of these topics, it makes it difficult to think through the i
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by tlb 4y ago
Maybe the problem is the way we average grades to get a GPA. If your course scores were 3.98, 3.99, 3.99, 2.10, the linear average of ~3.5 doesn't capture the obviously high ability. Perhaps taking the average like: 4.01 - exp(avg(
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by tlb 4y ago
Oxygen production is also useful for sample return missions. The biggest flaw with the rovers is that they’re terribly slow, so they can only explore a small range around a landing site. If they could cover even 100km/day, which seems
596.
by tlb 4y ago
What observation could have led them to update their estimate to 5 light years diameter? We can measure star distances on that scale using parallax from the earth’s orbit, but the people in the story were walking and couldn’t have gone far
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by tlb 4y ago
Yes, but you have to compare the complete state of each computer for this to work, including every bit of memory & cache. You can't have much RAM if you're planning to compare them in a few milliseconds. If you try to do thi
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by tlb 4y ago
That's an index of how many countries don't require a visa. But you might someday care much more about how hard your embassy will work to rescue you if you get kidnapped or falsely arrested in a less rule-of-law-oriented country.
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by tlb 4y ago
Yes, although our instinct to raise boys and girls differently is itself genetically programmed. Which is why all human societies do it, as well as all primates. So the origin of the difference is genetic, even if some of its influence is m
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by tlb 4y ago
It'd be a one-line-of-code change to make the downvote button do nothing. I assume they've tried it and rainbows and unicorns did not suddenly appear.

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