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tpmx
3y ago
No, it's a Commodore 16384. (The max addressable memory with a C64 REU is 16 Megabytes.)
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3y ago
Uh, it already happened.
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3y ago
By testing the hearing of people after accidents with and without this system. I guess you could also do testing on people who buy vehicles with and without this system - before any accidents.
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3y ago
The Ven ( Hven ) island where he built his observatories is well worth visiting. There's not much left of the observatories, but it's a really beautiful island. I went there in the early 2000s. There are ferries from Landskron
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3y ago
Sweden gets loads of tourists from e.g. Germany/The Netherlands just looking for peace/quietness. Where do English people go for that? Scotland?
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3y ago
Huh, TIL: https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/mercedes-benz-... The PRE-SAFE® system makes use of the time prior to an impending accident on your behalf. A host of measures are able to reduce the loads gener
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3y ago
The population density of the UK (particularly England) feels staggering to this Swede. Some examples (people/km^2): England: 434 UK: 280 Germany: 239 France: 118 EU: 109 Califor
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3y ago
From the DOJ's complaint. Seems to me like it could become quite expensive. https://www.justice.gov/media/1311656/dl?inline THEREFORE, Complainant respectfully requests: ... Order SpaceX to hire applican
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3y ago
Meanwhile: https://www.nasa.gov/careers/working-with-nasa Other than extremely rare exceptions, you must be a U.S. citizen in order to work for NASA as a civil service employee.
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3y ago
What a delightfully weird product!
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tpmx
3y ago
This article has zero value (beyond what was known a year ago).
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3y ago
Why would you post that? I'm actually curious. The crews of two F-16s fired flares to catch the attention of the pilot of the civilian craft and escorted it out of the restricted airspace without further incident, North American Aeros
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3y ago
Agreed. This will probably end up being a net positive for the Terraform 'concept' and its relatives like e.g. Pulumi.
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3y ago
Keep it around - it wil be fun to have a look at in a decade or two and may even be worth something by then. (But do recycle the battery as it may pose a fire risk. My 2007 MBP's battery started swelling quite dramatically after about
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3y ago
That's certainly ... an approach to the travelling salesman problem.
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3y ago
Sure, but that doesn't help with making it easier to compete with Taiwan in this field on a global scale.
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3y ago
For reference: The annual median TSMC salary in Taiwan including bonus was 58k USD in 2021. ( https://old.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/sulof6/tsmc_employe... )
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3y ago
It seems like most of it is a rewrite of this 2010 article by this Tandy Trower guy who worked on Windows: https://www.technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-o...
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3y ago
https://www.vanmoof.com/blog/en/ride-the-future-e-shifter That thing seems a bit delicate/fragile for a bike.
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3y ago
Bi lateral, you say? SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute): Countries with an increase in stockpiled nuclear warheads from Jan 2022 to Jan 2023: China: +60 Russia: +12 Pakistan: +5 North Korea: +5 India: +4 https:/
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3y ago
> How do you know the next leader of Russia will also be rational? That's probably our largest worst-case risk.
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3y ago
I don't think Putin is insane. If he were we'd all be dead by now. Also: Suicidal people don't go to lengths to murder former threats to make a point, like he did today with the Wagner Group leadership.
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3y ago
I think a nuclear deterrence against insane countries like e.g. Russia is of critical importance. I'm am also concerned about the quality of the work on UK's four nuclear subs. 2012: "British submariner tried to pass secrets
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3y ago
I assume these mostly get used in relatively expensive product categories, like e.g. automotive, elevators, and whatnot. Digikey "tape & reel" pricing: BME680 @6k: $5.72/each BME280 @10k: $2.73/each I've played
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3y ago
Observation: It seems like americans don't really care that much about electricity/energy production. If this post had been been up 12 hours earlier there would have been hundreds of comments by now. /A yuropean staying up la
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3y ago
Yeah. Quite dramatic. Thanks, Vladimir Putin, for your continued efforts to make the world use less (Russian) fossil fuels.
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3y ago
In favor of more nuclear power plants in 2023 (2020 numbers in parentheses): Average US adults: 57% (43%) Republican/Republican-leaning: 67% (53%) Democrats/Democratic-leaning: 50% (37%)
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3y ago
You read my mind! I feel like they could have done a better job at faking a depth map though.
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3y ago
Has anyone modelled the most obvious content onto that largest hemispherical LED display in the world?
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3y ago
(These extremely slow updates thing has been going on for many years now. So many lifetimes wasted.)
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