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by usrusr 1y ago
What if you use the technology in places where you actually want to maximize heat conductivity? I'm thinking of the separation walls in counterflow heat exchangers (only useful at the end where the incoming stream is closer to its end
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We've seen effectively zero interest rates for longer than many can remember. If there's no investment it's not because of lack of capital but because of lack of optimism. When generationally rich do invest in something outsi
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by usrusr 1y ago
This part is still misleading: "The ICE test train used was a Velaro Novo test car from Siemens Mobility" The test train used is a set from the late 20th century. So old that its regular brethren are already scheduled for retireme
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by usrusr 1y ago
Had any of those pre-recording entertainers been even remotely close to making a living off it? Outside of apex apex courts? I guess busking has existed in many societies, but that's hardly making a living, and certainly not middle cla
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by usrusr 1y ago
In the ad-fundeed years, we got used to not feeling tied to the opinion bias of one or two publishers. Even if effectively we are tied, not really routine-checking more than one of two news sources, it would feel like a huge loss loving our
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by usrusr 1y ago
Just about everybody I know uses both. The pattern I see is that groups associated with some entity like a company or a club are on signal, because at some point (before Musk took over as chief billionaire villain) it became a thing to not
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by usrusr 1y ago
There are many phones that won't be bought when businesses can substitute some of their workforce with LLM. That market is not about B2C at all.
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by usrusr 1y ago
You don't even need AI for the death of shared media culture. Just look at the end of broadcast and the rise of subscription services: movies like Star Wars or Back To The Future could only reach their status as cultural icons through
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by usrusr 1y ago
But winamp theming rested not only on the code allowing arbitrary bitmaps, it also rested on a user interface requiring zero discoverability. At some point people just knew where to click. In hindsight it appears almost surprising that th
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by usrusr 1y ago
My only surprise is that they haven't already converted. It's not just about military aspects of an invasion, it's also about ease of deportation and ethnic substitution that would have to be expected afterwards in case of a
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by usrusr 1y ago
Yeah, and that model is just wrong unless wear from axle weight is the dominant lifetime limiter. There are many other lifetime limiters (like tree roots pushing up from below), and when road engineers plug in bicycle axle weight into their
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by usrusr 1y ago
> The cost of bike lanes isn't too bad. Unlike a car road it doesn't require a lot of maintenance. Tell that to cyclists used to navigating mandatory bike infrastructure full of terribly broken up surface. If car lanes were th
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> It seems like when the cars are going slower -- and there are fewer of them -- there are fewer crashes Yes, because the throughput of that fast, high density road is so much bigger. Subjectively it feels like it has something like 2x t
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by usrusr 1y ago
On the videos the ship is drifting backwards, from wind and/or currents (are currents the East River dominated by tides?). I don't think that they ever intended to clear the bridge. The fundamental they missed was keeping their ma
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by usrusr 1y ago
Skilled. Not pedigree-filtered and trained and certified into a scarcity that may or may not actually be natural. Chances are most doctors or lawyers or software engineers would perform rather sub-par picking and putting in a warehouse.
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by usrusr 1y ago
It's not about throughput per unit, it's about throughput per unit of cost . If five cheap robots outperform a single skilled worker, robots win. But depending on jurisdiction, those five robots might still lose to a dozen or so
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by usrusr 1y ago
Organized volleys would give the advancing infantry convenient time slots to hunker down behind their shields and reduce the effectiveness of arrows even further. A less dense but continuous stochastical distribution would be objectively mo
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Surprisingly close to a standing army, when looked at from a certain angle. Only that it's not taxes going to the central authority and then getting paid to warriors, but warriors getting assigned an area to tax, and keep their cut as
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by usrusr 1y ago
So basically, what he's saying is that the depictions in Hägar the Horrible of fighters charging on with arrow-studded shields aren't all that unrealistic. File under unexpected.
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by usrusr 1y ago
And replace cable pain with ISM congestion pain? Living in a somewhat densely populated area I find myself switch off Wi-Fi on my smartphone because paid LTE is so much more reliable quite often.
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by usrusr 1y ago
The real change is that BT LE isn't just about low energy. That might have actually been the original intention, but in practice it is so good beyond that core area of competence that it has also displaced classic Bluetooth in fields l
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by usrusr 1y ago
Would that be faster though? You still have to stop the entire train just to get one unit in or out. And if it's more units, chances are that parallelization hits a capacity bottleneck because of the inherent cost trade-off between hav
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by usrusr 1y ago
Problem is those railroad cars usually don't share origin and destination. And spending a day or two on the switchyard for every couple of hours of actual travel isn't what customers want. The beaty of platooning is that trucks ca
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by usrusr 1y ago
What fraction of the total cost of operating a datacenter do you suppose goes into ARM licensing? That's how much more efficient than RISC-V an ARM would have to be in order to make it the preferred CPU in a "we don't need x8
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by usrusr 1y ago
So basically they are doing the simple "BEV can be cheap if you don't try to size the battery for long distance driving" but leave out lots of other things that don't meaningfully contribute to the lower price, as a dist
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Founder(s) sold to Bendinggspoons who specialize in the kind of takeover where the buyer stops all development and tries to keep the money inflow from a service running with minimal maintenance crew. Evernote is the most famous example I th
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Only in moderation. When employees start forming cells inside the org things quickly become toxic.
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Not only the extremes, also the speed: good employers can turn into bad employers (has the opposite ever happened? I'd love to learn of an example!), but big companies at least have some inertia while it happens. There's probably
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by usrusr 1y ago
There's more to loyalty than imagining it as a credits account. The baseline is absence of disloyalty, which does not mean "stay aboard despite lower pay or benefits" but simply not cheating the organization you are (or were)
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Customers are whoever is paying. Non-paying users are not customers, they are the resource to be sold.

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