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by tsomctl 12y ago
3 Mile Island was not a catastrophe, although it could have been. The reason for this is arguably the high standard of engineering. The safety systems worked to contain almost everything. Chernobyl was an outdated design when it was built,
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by tsomctl 12y ago
Fiber optic wire has a very high voltage wire to power the amplifiers. (Interestingly, it's only one. The ocean water provides the return path.)
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by tsomctl 12y ago
For everyone that hasn't read the article by Neal Stephenson on under ocean fiber optic, here it is: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html If you haven't read it, I strongly re
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by tsomctl 12y ago
An excellent book for anyone interested in anything that has a frequency. The whole field is based on a simple but brilliant idea: using convolution and an impulse response to model anything linear. I encourage you to at least read the firs
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by tsomctl 12y ago
Looks like it took a huge amount of engineering to build. The extensible conveyor belt going into the truck took some effort to design and build. The software wouldn't have been terribly difficult to implement, but is still impressive
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by tsomctl 12y ago
To make coffee, you need water just below boiling. Commercial brewers are set at about 200 degrees. To make a proper pot of tea, you need boiling water.
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by tsomctl 12y ago
According to Wikipedia, Andreeson Horowitz is $4 billion. So how can they afford $266 billion?
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by tsomctl 12y ago
Awesome. I've been dying to try A/UX for years. My only mac that could run A/UX died a few years ago. Getting ridiculously old computers and operating systems running is a fun hobby.
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by tsomctl 12y ago
There are other ones which are just a simple amplifier, not a whole base station. There's one antennae on the outside, another smaller one on the inside, and whatever signal it picks up one one antennae, it retransmits on the other wit
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by tsomctl 12y ago
Interesting. Presumably there will still be just piston rings in the normal place, although I would like to see more on how they are going to lubricate it. You don't want the gas spring chamber to fill up with oil. My guess for how the
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by tsomctl 13y ago
but users will be happy to hear he has a plan to make it work better on mobile devices. iPhone 4s user here. This scares me. Unlike almost every other site, Hacker News currently works great in mobile Safari.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
that an unsuspecting driver could bump the ignition key and cause the car to cut off engine power and deactivate its air bags. I didn't know that turning off the ignition would deactivate the air bags. I've welded on vehicles be
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Given that this site is dedicated to programmers, I'd expect you to realize that a new version of a program isn't a complete rewrite.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Internet is essential in areas without safe drinking water, where it can be used to educate people.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
It's more like they don't teach general diagnosing/understanding why things don't work. I consider the skills needed to debug a computer program, to diagnose a hardware problem, to fix a car, and to fix commercial coffee
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Someone that works in a factory machining stuff, but doesn't have the skills/intelligence to do more complicated work. His job is becoming obsolete with the popularity of CNC.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Because in the process of creating the oil algae uses carbon dioxide. The net cycle is 0.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Who the fuck was interviewing him? There's much more to academic success that just grades. Like becoming a professor.
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by tsomctl 13y ago
Note that the ebook is only 40 pages long, and the above article is 1/4 of it.
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San Francisco's Secret DC Grid(m.spectrum.ieee.org)
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by tsomctl 13y ago
I know how to run a lathe and vertical mill, but would love to learn more about any of the topics you mentioned. It sounds more involved than what you'd find in a normal maintenance shop. Any suggestions to learn more about this? I did
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by tsomctl 13y ago
I love Linux. The year was 2005, I was 14. I had dialup, and I wanted to try out this Linux thing. I bought a 20 disc set of cds for Debian, and installed it on my computer. I had to install it several times before I figured out to press th