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by while_true_ 2y ago
Russia, #2? Not buying that, not after Russia's poor performance in Ukraine and the large losses they took in personnel and equipment.
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by while_true_ 2y ago
Used 2023's are not eligible for any tax credit. New EUV's are eligible for $7500 tax credit. Used EV's must be at least two years old to qualify for the $4,000 tax credit. There are no new 2023 EUV's available in my loc
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by while_true_ 2y ago
Hertz's loss is my gain: bought a 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV in excellent condition with only 9k miles on it from the Hertz used car lot. Car was priced $8500 below MSRP. That's roughly 30% depreciation, more than the average first year
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Already happened. BYD floated the idea of building cars in Mexico for import into the US, which would be duty free under USMCA. Trump said he'd slap a 100% tariff on Chinese built in Mexico cars if he's elected.
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Can't rely on hydro power in California. In 2021, for example, a serious drought caused water levels to drop so low behind reservoirs they could no longer be used for pumped storage. Batteries are the best solution, quick to charge, h
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Assuming a rat weight of 200g and my weight of 80 kg, the rat got an mRNA dose 400 times greater than what I got. I'm sure if I got 400 Covid shots at once I would have some sort of impairment too.
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by while_true_ 3y ago
I've always been a little bit skeptical of Consumer Reports. There is selection bias in their stats: reliability reports of cars, refigerators, etc. are not from the entire public at large, only from subscribers. The income, gender an
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Isn't this finding to be expected? I thought all planets were formed by accretion.
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by while_true_ 3y ago
You mention austerity but not tax increases? First order of business is repeal of the Trump tax cuts, those are definitely unsustainable and a major contributor to current budget deficits.
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by while_true_ 3y ago
+1 for Windows RDP. One thing Windows RDP excels at is working over low bandwidth connections. My remote desktop is in a rural area with very poor internet service -- uploads under 1 Mb/sec. With Win RDP I set the "Experience&qu
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Article says, "The Raspberry Pi 4 is the ultimate microprocessor." No, not really. There are many alternative SBCs available that either outperform the Raspberry or will meet specific use cases better than the general purpose Pi
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by while_true_ 3y ago
Same here, engineer with no formal CS training. A long time ago I would write macros with Visual Basic. When it came time to jump to a more robust language that is also cross-platform, Python was the obvious choice. It's readable, eas
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by while_true_ 3y ago
I started with Raspberry Pi years ago but now prefer FriendlyELEC NanoPi and OrangePi, both running Armbian. Armbian has some performance tweaks that RPi doesn't have, especially the use of zram to minimize system writes to SD cards, w
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by while_true_ 3y ago
TL;DW summary -- Greenhouse Effect traps infrared (heat) at lower altitudes, so there's less outgoing radiation available for the upper layers of the atmosphere. Thus the surface gets hotter but the upper atmosphere cools.
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by while_true_ 4y ago
ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 v1.1 is excellent. It's got multipurpose GPIO pins that can be used for input, output, ADC, touchscreen, etc., and it's got wi-fi and BLE. Easily programmed with the Arduino IDE. It's an MCU, not a single
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by while_true_ 4y ago
My uninformed impression is that while Raspberry Pi's have all but disappeared from the marketplace, Orange Pi has grown with more models and availability.
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by while_true_ 4y ago
Exactly. My assumption is Pipe() is faster for short and simple data because I assume it doesn't do the serialization conversion that Pickle does.
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by while_true_ 4y ago
I found it curious the author mentioned using the Multiprocessing with pickle() but not Pipe(). Pickle() streams entire objects, while Pipe() can be used to send data between processes. Maybe the latter is faster, especially if the data a
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by while_true_ 4y ago
Despite the usefulness of amateur radio in severe emergencies, NIMBYs and many local governments in the U.S. will do anything they can to deny a building permit for a backyard radio tower because they are "ugly eyesores."
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by while_true_ 4y ago
The author's lengthy and detailed defense of natural gas omits one major drawback: public safety. Natural gas pipelines blow up, injure and kill people, consistently, not just every year, but every _month_. In 2022 there have been 47
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by while_true_ 4y ago
So the linked article is the work of a crank, but it does raise a fair question: is the density of small distant galaxy smudges on the Webb image consistent with Big Bang theory?
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by while_true_ 4y ago
Since the Aug. 2020 blackout the state has added 2 GW of battery storage for solar and wind, as well as delayed closure of a natural gas plant. There's another 2 GW of battery storage planned for this year. If California had the extr
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by while_true_ 4y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned Groups.io