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by wnissen 2y ago
And things get dramatically worse on 4o if you add a second superfluous jug: To measure exactly 6 liters of water using a 16-liter jug, a 12-liter jug, and a 6-liter jug, follow these steps: Step-by-Step Solution: Fill th
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by wnissen 2y ago
No, on iOS Sonos requires actual location services, and precise must be turned on. Pairing a basic Bluetooth device does not require that. I went to Sonos tech support, escalated, and they confirmed you can't just bluetooth pair to act
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by wnissen 2y ago
The MacBook came out in 2006, it had 512MB. I suppose it could have contained an array of 2^30 bits, though that's unlikely to occur. The point is that most machines weren't going to run into this at the time it was published. I&#
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by wnissen 2y ago
Yep. What I tell my kid is, "The purpose of homework isn't to get correct answers, any more than the purpose of weightlifting is higher weights."
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by wnissen 2y ago
Yes, it’s a good thing overall. The cynic in me says if they waited another 15 years they could have announced a profit for all investors!
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by wnissen 2y ago
I know the reason why the NWS website is so crummy is because they deliberately don’t want to compete with commercial sites. But I have really wanted an app that presents the same data. The NWS website is mobile unfriendly. Thanks for shari
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by wnissen 2y ago
Absolutely agree. Never been in a big truffle region (unless Oregon counts), but have had generously covered white and black truffle dishes from a Michelin ** restaurant. The real thing is very tasty, but the oil is better. Certainly not wo
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by wnissen 2y ago
Oh, you are right, apologies. You can get a pretty nice 27" 4K IPS monitor for less than $250, but not from Apple. Would probably depend on whether your eyes are good enough to tell the difference between 163 ppi and Apple's pract
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by wnissen 2y ago
There's no advantage whatsoever unless you like the look of a display with a huge "chin" and hate cables with a firey passion. Using list prices, the iMac costs $300 less than a studio display with the same screen. You get a
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by wnissen 2y ago
I agree, where is the LetsEncrypt for signing? Something you could download and get running in literally a minute.
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by wnissen 2y ago
Wouldn't that make the maintenance burden worse? Now PyPI has to host a keyserver, with its own attack service. And presumably 99.7% of the keys would be only for PyPI, so folks would have no incentive to secure them. The two modes tha
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by wnissen 2y ago
Oh, no, are you serious? I thought esports was fun, maybe a little silly. It's the gambling? That's the big lift? Argh.
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by wnissen 2y ago
I thought it was interesting that the climate caused them to decompose, when orange peel is one of the most common forms of garbage I see on higher elevation (6000 ft. / 2000 m) trails. It's dry enough that the peel effectively ne
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by wnissen 2y ago
Are you able to square the levels of CO2 on planes, which are 1000-1800 ppm, so over 2-3x atmospheric air, with the 12-15 ACH? I don't understand how those two things can be true.
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by wnissen 2y ago
I was really turning this over in my head. "Okay, the French are generally humane but they completely lose their minds when it comes to certain forms of non-Frenchness, typically those associated with colonialism. And terrorism is a bi
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by wnissen 2y ago
Water is a lubricant as well. And yet it is not a good lubricant for all applications. WD-40 is absolutely spectacular for certain things, but if what you want is a lubricant there are much better options. For instance, there is a silicone
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by wnissen 2y ago
Given that the other risk he cited, of ice damaging the heat shield tiles, is exactly what led to the loss of Columbia, I'd say he has an excellent grasp of the risks.
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by wnissen 2y ago
Oh, so glad to hear this. I thought I was going nuts.
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by wnissen 2y ago
Yes, they set about on an academic exercise and found themselves with a surprise bestseller. They spent the rest of their days churning out subsequent editions. It was kind of the Harry Potter of its day.
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by wnissen 2y ago
Anyone with the slightest bit of interest in the tales should read the recent English translation of the first edition. https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-original... or https://archiv
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by wnissen 2y ago
And a follow-follow-up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/0... Unfortunately for Weingarten, the only living two time Pulitzer winner for feature writing leaned into his ignoranc
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by wnissen 2y ago
I have installed that unit but I wouldn't characterize it as for the "least bit handy". It involves removing all the panels from the screen, center console, and shifter, and fishing some wiring behind the climate controls. De
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by wnissen 2y ago
Even a short novel is 50,000 words, that's 100 hours at a brisk pace of 500 words per hour. The NaNoWriMo folks famously challenge writers to do that in a month. So I don't doubt that some people can do it (10x writers?) but even
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by wnissen 3y ago
Yes, this is a really neat project. I found the halftoning to be not that obvious at all, definitely noticeable compared to, say a typical magazine advertisement but not, say, Lichtenstein-esque. Happy to see folks using the Affinity suite;
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by wnissen 3y ago
For a road trip it's slow, for overnight it's plenty fast. A big battery is 100 kWh. Assuming one only uses the middle, from 20 to 80%, that's 60 kWh, which would charge in 8 hours and 20 minutes at that rate. The vast majori
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by wnissen 3y ago
Yes, I consider myself lucky to have seen it as well, though not at Carnegie Hall. A lot of very funny stuff but also some spectacular fiddling. If you ask me the best fiddlers are the ones who mostly play classical repertoire. I do think W
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by wnissen 3y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, I think the number at IBM was $1800 per patent, per author back in 2000, which would be ~$3300 today. It wasn't "buy a boat" type of money but it was more than "nice meal", for sure.
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by wnissen 3y ago
Yes, it would take not just a real historian, but someone who had done research, to answer this question. Having been up and down a few of those, it certainly seems more than just plausible to me, even taking into account the numerous recor
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by wnissen 3y ago
It would really help me to use the same methodology but compare it to people smoking like they did in the 1980s.
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by wnissen 3y ago
I have wondered if you could use simulation based on actual driver behavior to quantify the impact when a single truck moves from the slow lane to the second lane from right. You get a huge number of cars that, themselves, should be the slo

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