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by wiml 5y ago
I would have expected any smelting/extraction to be on the "legal" side of the fence — usually, articles about cat theft suggest they're sold to unscrupulous but legal scrap dealers, who can mix the stolen converters in
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by wiml 5y ago
I'm with you; it does kind of sound like a drug-panic story. The article does suggest that bombé is made from conventional drugs and basically cut with converter residue, so perhaps the residue slightly modifies its chemistry. Or it
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by wiml 5y ago
To be fair, if you're using floating point at all you can get arbitrarily wrong answers. The nice thing about ieee754 conformance is that you can, with a lot of expertise, somewhat reason about the kinds of error you're getting.
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by wiml 5y ago
I suspect it's because music (at least in the US) has a "mandatory licensing regime" for music, which is why it's possible for broadcast radio stations to play a wide variety of music. I don't think there's a c
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by wiml 5y ago
Let me get this straight, recruiters can't distinguish a resume filled with obvious bullshit keyword stuffing, but they are going to remember everyone who's embarrassed them on the internet so they can blacklist them? I really q
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by wiml 5y ago
If you're driving steppers, especially on something like a mill, I'd think it'd make sense to use something like a Beagleboard with its PRUs, or an auxiliary hard-realtime microcontroller.
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by wiml 5y ago
By surface ships. Near shore they use a towed plough to bury the cable, away from shore they just unreel the cable and let it lie on the seafloor.
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by wiml 5y ago
The flybys provide course changes for very little fuel, including pretty significant velocity boosts. It's not uncommon for a probe to spend a while ping-ponging around the inner system just to get enough speed to reach the outer plane
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by wiml 5y ago
Or Considering harm for fun and profit ?
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by wiml 5y ago
You really need some nonlinear functions if you want to compute interesting things (and you can't build nonlinear functions out of purely linear parts).
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by wiml 5y ago
If you interpret Churchill's quip literally, no: it would mean that any new idea is automatically better .
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by wiml 5y ago
Nitrogen merely dissolves in water; CO2 forms carbonic acid, which (a) alters the flavor and (b) lets you cram more in at a lower pressure. Swapping it out would give you a fairly different drink.
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by wiml 5y ago
Looks like it's the AstroPi program: https://www.esa.int/Education/AstroPI
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by wiml 5y ago
If it is giant hogweed, the invasive plants people in the area usually appreciate it if you let them know. On the other hand, poison hemlock looks pretty similar, and although it is a non-native weed, it isn't noxious enough that the c
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by wiml 5y ago
Ahem, its full name should properly be RA/Luxor, since the distribution consists of a Ra system with a Luxor kernel.
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by wiml 5y ago
It's the same world, yours just has a shorter planning horizon.
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by wiml 5y ago
This must be some new meaning of the word "sociological" of which I was previously unaware.
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by wiml 5y ago
The Pi has a weird boot sequence because of the Broadcom chip. SBCs with uncomplicated boot loaders can get you to a shell prompt within one second of applying power; I imagine getting to a lightweight graphical environment in under 2 secon
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by wiml 5y ago
I also had that idea in my teens. Some time later it occurred to me that it's already mainstream, in a way: that's what inflation is doing, and that's why currencies are usually managed to have a low but nonzero rate of infla
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by wiml 5y ago
It sounds like banks are being credited with the carbon emissions of everything they loan money to? Should the US military be credited with the carbon emissions of everything they either defend or attack?
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by wiml 5y ago
My solution to this was to pull down some lists of swear words and then forbid every single digraph that appeared on the lists. It eliminated something like 25% of the randomly generated tokens, but the ones that passed this check were pr
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by wiml 5y ago
It doesn't matter who's okay with it. We have a choice between that, or an even less pleasant future. "Everything is awesome forever and we don't have to pay for it" is simply not one of the options.
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by wiml 5y ago
There are actual autonomous robot competitions. They don't tend to be as adrenaline-filled as the battlebots, they really don't make good TV, but they're fun. Some have quite low barriers to entry. If you want to dip your toe
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by wiml 5y ago
The linked device is a hardware mouse jiggler, not software. USB devices are easy to imitate, so such a jiggler could be programmed to look like, for example, last year's most popular wireless mouse.
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by wiml 5y ago
Lots of people self-host their email, it works fine. The worst problem I've encountered is graylisting delays. Sometimes Gmail will throw a fit, but that's true whether you're originating from @icloud.com or from @yourtinydom
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by wiml 5y ago
> banning encrypted comms over unregulated spectrums (done) Wow, they banned 2.4 GHz wifi? And all the other ISM bands?
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by wiml 5y ago
Where are incandescent bulbs illegal?
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by wiml 5y ago
I wonder how much more costly it is to produce solid salt bricks instead of brine? I like the idea of a New Las Vegas made out of salt.
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by wiml 5y ago
Antivirals are a relatively new development. Historically, your only options for most viral diseases have been supportive care (keep you comfortable or at least alive while your body fights off the infection), vaccination, and of course p
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by wiml 5y ago
Yes, exactly. There are/have been various small scale projects along those lines. Hydrogen and CO2 to methane, to longer-chain hydrocarbons that can be put into existing engines. As you say, the synthetic fuel is just an energy (and ca

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