tomatotomato37

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by tomatotomato37 9mo ago
I'm curious what the thermal management system on this looks like. On one hand, vacuum being in essence a perfect insulator works in favor of keeping the silicon hot for the very long time it takes to pull a boule while requiring very
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by tomatotomato37 10mo ago
Those upsides could have also been accomplished by pointing the CIA at Venezuela to do the same thing they've been doing across South America for the past fifty years.
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by tomatotomato37 10mo ago
The only vaguely valid dual use technology I can see coming out of this is improving space-rated processing enough that deep space probes sent out to Uranus or whatever can run with more processing power than a Ti-82 and thus can actually
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by tomatotomato37 10mo ago
Nah, they are pretty similar in difficulty for interception - the first US ASAT program used essentially the same Nike Zeus missiles used for ABM duty during the late 50s
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
Worst part about it was all the people fretting on about ridiculous threats like the chatbot turning into skynet sucked the oxygen out of the room for the more realistic corporate threats
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
Most ICE vehicles with automatic transmissions (aka 90% of them) either explicitly open the clutch or do torque converter things when off throttle, the result being that the vehicle starts freewheeling. Air resistance and friction and what
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
I find it hard to believe continuous consumption of potable municipal water is cheaper than running chillers or exchangers cooled by a river/ocean, especially considering powerplants and the like have been doing the latter for decades
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
Arguably if India had the intel and military means/technology to quash Pakistan's nuclear program without a full-on invasion at the time they would have. I'm sure several other countries would have too, but the ability just w
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
5 minutes breaks the point from where charging time is something that has to be planned around to an inconvenience equivalent to hitting a red light after leaving a traditional gas station
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
I use "Third Wave Water" but there are other brands out there
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
Yes, water quality matters a lot in coffee enthusiast land. They actually make little mineral packets that you add to a gallon of distilled water to get a "perfect" brewing water - I know since I actually use them for my espresso
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
I've heard in some lighter procedures (think bone setting or dental work) just an amnesic drug is given as apparently not biologically encoding/remembering a traumatic event seems to produce just as good an outlook as blocking the
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
I always assumed "bring your whole self to work" was just a nice way to lead into "you don't need work/life balance because your work is your life"
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
. "[Photography] is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, an art that excites the most astute minds -- and one that can be practiced by any imbecile." I like this quote.
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
If anyone was hoping for a more technical explanation, I find these pages do a good job explaining the inner workings behind the format https://docs.krita.org/en/general_concepts/colors/bit_depth.... https:&
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by tomatotomato37 1y ago
Unfortunately that pretty much just leaves solar panels, as wind/hydro/concentrated solar/geothermal all rely on a spinning mass moving at a mostly consistent speed, though at least hydro can black start itself relatively eas
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
That only works if you have US/Russia level nuclear infrastructure. Second-tier nuclear states are still vulnerable to the two superpowers just by sheer number advantage, be it warheads, delivery systems, or just the land area to hide
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Wow, some of the complexes in those pictures look a lot like the cities I create when I'm playing Workers & Resources; if I didn't know any better I would have thought they were taken in the former Soviet bloc. I wonder how th
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
I also want to add in the context of human sprinters & F1 drivers, their reaction time is measured via leg actuation, which for a creature evolved to be an object-throwing endurance hunter is going to have worse neural & muscular la
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
...actually wait, you unintentionally brought up an interesting point, how exactly did Netflix get data on how people are consuming their media in the privacy of their own home. That's not something you'd get good data off a simpl
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Considering how much more aggressive you can get with stainless steel during cooking and cleaning versus plastic/nonstick I'd say you still did good
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
That's as much as a photograph as someone manually creating a scene in blender and running it through the Pixar Render farm or whatever to get an ultra realistic scene - as the sibling comment stated what you have is a render Similarly
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
WSJ is left-wing in the sense a bunch of corporate types looked at the Occupy Wall Street movement and thought "Huh, it seems certain aspects of their ideology hinder their ability to organize labor effectively... I wonder what would h
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
That sounds similar to issues I've been having recently with my Firefox uMatrix setup, which only seems to resolve when I blanket-allow everything (which kinda defeats the whole point of having it)
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Porsche is also based in the EU so starting with a design that meets EU specs and then adjusting export models as needed is probably their procedure anyway
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
I've always wanted to ask for those who worked as a cashier or waiter in those restaurants with the ipad style payment platforms if they actually receive the tips on those things. It always seemed like such a generic default option tha
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
My guess would be the difference in perception comes from the fact sport cars tend to be smaller and sit lower, which makes pedestrians and motorist feel safer and less intimidated around them. In addition their general rarity means most pe
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Given the state of post-collapse Soviet bookkeeping I also wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine actually does still have some warheads kept in secret. The problem though is those may not be enough against a country which spent the last hal
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Really the only flaw is trying to mirror a conventional car headlight design; if they went with something a bit quirky like an LED grid covering the entire front or something it would become something totally unique.
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by tomatotomato37 2y ago
Germany's war preparations starting to divert resources away from civilian enterprises during the time probably didn't help either. Those zeppelins were massive investments in terms of material and industry after all

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