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by wumms 7y ago
Couldn't the Maine Penny just have been transported in an animals stomach?
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by wumms 7y ago
I'm with you on the domain topic; reading the extreme example I'd add repeatability of the performance (on a different problem of the same domain) as an equally important factor to distinguish the developer from the inventor.
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by wumms 7y ago
For a 5-year life span 1M hours MTBF (114 years) mean the probability of an error for a single drive is about 4.3% (1-e^-(5/114)). That equals 0.86% Annual Failure Rate (AFR). Backblaze regularly provides their real-world-usage drive s
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by wumms 7y ago
Would that be competition for IBM TrueNorth [0] (if made from some kind of rewriteable material to be able to reprogram it)? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNorth
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by wumms 7y ago
From the Introduction -link above: "In a nutshell, Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services. You can write applications — in the form of Opera Uni
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by wumms 7y ago
Since Skinner recommended gorillas: https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggc ... I had to check [0]: at least mountain gorillas can survive temperatures below freezing. [0] https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/mou
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by wumms 7y ago
Or: Capillary water transport system inspired by trees
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by wumms 7y ago
I'd call it a pleonasm [0]: "In particular, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetition—it can be used to reinforce an idea, contention, or question, rendering writing clearer and easier to understand.&quo
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by wumms 7y ago
Check eligibility for recall by MBP's serial: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
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Historic Trans-Atlantic Contact Made on 144 MHz from Cape Verde to Guadeloupe(ei7gl.blogspot.com)
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by wumms 7y ago
I'd estimate a driving range with the electricity consumption of an average 4-person household (4000 kWh/year in Germany) of at least 20k km (@ 20 kWh/100 km). So that would roughly double the household use. Add another 4000
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by wumms 7y ago
> This works though typical clothing like a shirt and a jacket (though not thicker clothing such as a winter coat).
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by wumms 7y ago
> This works though typical clothing like a shirt and a jacket (though not thicker clothing such as a winter coat). Will wearing a winter jacket (e.g. in airports) still be legal in a couple of years?
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by wumms 7y ago
> And if your dishwater [sic] doesn’t show up for work, everyone else in the kitchen has to pitch in to make sure that there are enough clean dishes, slowing everything down. This is either not a typo or a really extraordinary dishwasher
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by wumms 7y ago
A quick estimation about the environmental impacts (with data for Germany only) shows peat is at least 5-20 times worse in terms of surface destruction - I have no idea how to compare the ecological impact of removing a biotope vs. moving a
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by wumms 7y ago
Peat == Torf
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by wumms 7y ago
Nit-pick: 0s (no hole) are heavier than 1s (hole). http://www.punctum.com/interest/punch/index.en.html
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by wumms 7y ago
"In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wo
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by wumms 7y ago
000V-527.jpg and 000R-527.jpg are included. Is there a third file?
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by wumms 7y ago
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D69E07DD344D26ED13396141F6EA77A1DFC2348C&dn=codex-atlanticus.it
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by wumms 7y ago
Memory paints with a golden brush.
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by wumms 7y ago
Now they are leveraging a lot.
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by wumms 8y ago
Just keep the old one in the attic. Old Braun vs new razor is like nice laser printer vs. ink jet. I bought a cheap Li-Rechargeable (Philips OneBlade). They charge you half the price of the whole razor for a single blade (15€) which sometim
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by wumms 8y ago
From the blog post: "Here’s how it works: Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We’ll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you’ll receive your badge directly on you
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by wumms 8y ago
https://outline.com/dr8wpv (I could not get past engadget's/ Oath's wall of option management)
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by wumms 8y ago
Yes, replace the 1s base with 1/100th of a second for humans (this cat is still faster: [0]). My video professor told us 20 years ago, that for a fly in the cinema it's like watching a slide show. [0] https://www.youtub
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by wumms 8y ago
"Doesn't care" now seems to be considered Apatheism. Said to be coined around 2003: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/489221/word-for-...
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by wumms 8y ago
The changes in sensing time while growing old are said to work in the other direction, so he might be on to something. :) Also, the moisture level in the soil might have changed. Or the funeral homes got better at selling varnished coffins
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by wumms 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that instantly delete all moved files which are older than 30 days since mv keeps the mtime?
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by wumms 8y ago
This reads like technology for a noiseless receiver. It is not a usable radio yet ("this circuit could enable sensing of radio frequency radiation with quantum resolution" [0]). [0] non-paywalled pre-print version of the paper: h

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