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by wiml 1y ago
Depends on what you consider "plumbing" I suppose. People can live in dense housing carrying containers of water into their living space for cooking and cleaning, and using chamberpots for most elimination. It has some obvious dow
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by wiml 1y ago
At small unattended airfields, you can sometimes turn on the field lights by transmitting on a particular frequency (as if you were calling the non-existent tower in quick succession). https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media&#x2
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by wiml 1y ago
Would a KVM switch do what you need? Or virtualizing the second machine's usb port in some way? Is there any kind of existing IPMI/ILO/etc functionality in the target machine that you could use? If not: You need something tha
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by wiml 1y ago
How did that go?
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by wiml 1y ago
The water loop is the cooling system. If you had a way to get rid of the heat from this new cooling system you could have just used it directly in the first place.
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by wiml 1y ago
Like OpenCores?
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by wiml 1y ago
No. Winch glider launches (which are not a new thing) use a ground-based winch to give the glider an initial impulse, and the glider uses that to gain altitude and then glide for a much longer distance. https://glidingschool.com&
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by wiml 1y ago
You'll notice the Romans used a lot of arches and very few concrete beams.
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by wiml 1y ago
You're new to the industry, aren't you?
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by wiml 1y ago
I think there might be cases, for some people or some tasks, where the difficulty of filling in a blank page is greater than the difficulty of fixing an entire page of errors. Even if you have to do all the same mental work, it feels like
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by wiml 1y ago
Reminds me of the hoops the Vera Rubin Telescope has to jump through to release imagery, submitting each image to the NSA for possible embargo: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub
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by wiml 1y ago
Really? Seems like building a manufacturing capability on Everest or Antarctica or a Saharan dune sea would be easier in every single way.
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by wiml 1y ago
I know a few people with Echos and I don't think I've ever observed them being used to order stuff. Music, answering trivia questions, timers/appointments, sure. This is anecdata of course but still. (I didn't count musi
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by wiml 1y ago
Isn't that kinda what people are doing when they commute in private cars?
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by wiml 1y ago
I've seen it before. Adopting Windows Server or IIS. Choosing Oracle for your RDBMS. That kind of thing. It has all the hallmarks of a decision based on a salesguy's pitch with no technical evaluation.
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by wiml 1y ago
I type them manually out of habit. There are a handful of other common non-ASCII marks I have muscle memory for as well. Compose-minus-minus-minus in X It's one of the long-press punctuation marks on Android Option-shift-minus on Mac
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by wiml 1y ago
We would need a demos that is capable, trained, and willing to select such a government body. Our problem in the US is that we're bad at hiring.
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by wiml 1y ago
Do you really not know any hopeless nerds? What are you doing on HN?
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by wiml 1y ago
I encountered the TeXbook at a young and impressionable age, and ever since I've used em- and en-dashes a bit more often than a style guide would suggest. Not to mention diareses, though those haven't been flagged as LLM stigmata
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by wiml 1y ago
I think my mental model of hydraulic brakes is too simple. Where is there a low pressure region in a brake line? When I stomp on the brakes, isn't the working part of the hydraulic system going to be at higher pressure?
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by wiml 1y ago
Should .. should I install gentoo?
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by wiml 1y ago
Does the opposite hold true as well? If I taunt a wasp nest after hitting the gym will I discover the fast route to mad gains?
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by wiml 1y ago
The old election system for one of the Italian city-states was fascinating along these lines - multiple rounds (like, a dozen) alternating between sortition/lot and voting. The benefit, I guess, being that the lottery rounds make strat
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by wiml 1y ago
The whole mindset of LLM boosterism is that thinking is obsolete anyway — all you need is pattern matching on existing data — so it's not surprising that they don't want to indulge in it excessively.
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by wiml 1y ago
Often people use optional or nullable types as a convenient approximation to an Either type.
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by wiml 1y ago
Reminds me of Conservapedia, which was a Wikipedia fork with everything that the US religious right disliked removed.
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by wiml 1y ago
You can buy phenol-free thermal paper.
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by wiml 1y ago
That's a notch filter, though. Attenuation outside of whatever stopband the microwave door was designed for won't be nearly as good.
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by wiml 1y ago
Is this the "vibe coding" I keep hearing about?
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by wiml 1y ago
I've been using opentaxsolve since... a while. Definitely a crusty Linux user's method, and it does cost me the price of a stamp each year, but I like it.

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