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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
If the Boring Company's cost estimates are anywhere near realistic a 1500 mile tunnel isn't too far off the cost range of other big infrastructure projects. (Yes I realize this taken with a heaping spoonful of "what if",
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
The way radio contesting requires you to collaborate with your competitors is fascinating to me. Both stations my struggle to pull their competitor out of the noise because you both get points or a new multiple for doing so. Then there is n
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
Gentalman Racer is generally open to anyone with tons of money to blow(Ken Block founded DC shoes along with being a successful athlete before moving into motorsports). DHH is a sports car racer, including driving at Le Mans a few times. &q
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
Fuji's JPEG colors are great, and if you're willing to spend the time to get it right in the camera they are sufficient for personal work. Especially if your personal interests are being out shooting instead of sitting behind a co
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
The idea that a dude with an AR will take on a platoon of MRAPs is comical. The founding fathers were talking about the ability to raise a well regulated militia when there was no standing army, not kids shooting a schools.
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
> always wonder when they put it back together if it still worked Kolari's whole business model involves disassembling cameras to change the filters on the sensors, so I suspect they know what they are doing.
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
From the 2nd paragraph of the link I posted: One of the major differences between AWS Graviton2 instance types and other instance types is their vCPU to physical processor core mapping. Every vCPU on a Graviton2 processor is a physical
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by wwkeyboard 4y ago
Amazon is pretty clear that Gravatron is an actual core, while the others are hyper-threads[1]. It makes sense that at higher vcpu counts you're likely to run into contention with neighbors, or even yourself. [1] https://doc
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by wwkeyboard 5y ago
It starts with an introduction to electric dirt bikes before getting into the fatal financial shenanigans.
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Who Killed Alta? The Tragedy of the Best Electric Motorcycle(youtube.com)
2 points by wwkeyboard 5y ago|1 comments
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by wwkeyboard 5y ago
If you're feeling this pain your colleagues are as well. Small improvements in this area are yeoman's work that's often appreciated by peers, if not management. When I've been in a rut making baby steps in tooling has he
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by wwkeyboard 5y ago
They claim to have 30,000,000 users but we've only seen a handful of reports about this, why such a small percentage? Wouldn't someone with a full list of passwords want to exfiltrate as much data as possible before it became obvi
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by wwkeyboard 5y ago
pertinent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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Will eFuels save combustion engine? (interview about Prometheus Fuels)(youtube.com)
1 points by wwkeyboard 5y ago|0 comments
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by wwkeyboard 6y ago
I thought SA was removed because we discovered ways around it. Specifically differential GPS(tl;dr is that if you have a known point on the ground you can take a measurement there and get the SA offset, this is widely used to compensate for
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US Congress approves bill granting warrantless private drone take-downs(dpreview.com)
1 points by wwkeyboard 8y ago|0 comments
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by wwkeyboard 8y ago
If travel is your worry a more protective backpack or hard shell case might serve you well. Every "rugged" laptop I've seen is under-specd and over priced.
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by wwkeyboard 8y ago
I have a Bioenno Power battery for portable ham radio usage and have had zero problems with it. The capacity is smaller than a CPAP would need but they have plenty of big options.
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
Anyone interested in the psychology of why nearly-but-not-quite humanoid machines are creepy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley is a good place to start reading.
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
If you are in anyway maker-inclined there are a bunch of QRP kits that are not expensive. You won't be immediately spending all evening rag chewing with the old farts on your local repeater, but to take a bag of semiconductors and turn
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
Thirded, I used hamstudy to pass all of the tests and after a few years on the air I finally know enough to understand the ARRL manuals. I'm reading the extra manual and it's pretty incredible, they walk you through the theory of
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
Never underestimate a philosopher's ability to produce thousands of words from nothing more than staring into their own navel.
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UIUC graduate student employees go on strike(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by wwkeyboard 9y ago|0 comments
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
Recently I've tried something similar, using paper notes as a temporary store and every few days rewriting into my wiki and agenda. The process is similar to a GTD inbox that gets processed regularly. Lots of the TODO items can be hand
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
If you want to see a lot of HF signals, field day is this weekend: http://www.arrl.org/field-day
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
Would you count the G.I. Bill? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
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by wwkeyboard 9y ago
> if you and about 20 hotshot engineers could clone the product in a year, then it's not innovation I think this statement runs against the argument these OP is trying to make. It's the massive number of failures that occur on
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by wwkeyboard 10y ago
> jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain For the section of the US between the Hudson river and the SF bay this has been the case for ~20 years. What most 30 year old laid off workers MAY do is very different from w
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by wwkeyboard 10y ago
I think this could be solved by having the [dupe] tag link back to the original. I've seen a few posts marked as dupe and it's sometimes difficult to trace down the original.
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by wwkeyboard 10y ago
And every time there is a test form filled with "aoeuaoeuaoeu" someone says "hey hey I know who did that!" Although I'w surprised how quickly I can type 'qwerty' with this keyboard.

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