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by xenadu02 3y ago
I'm not saying the iMac was the sole driver of USB adoption nor even the majority of it... but it definitely had an impact far larger than the Mac's tiny marketshare at the time would otherwise indicate. A big enough impact to hel
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by xenadu02 3y ago
But people aren't replacing their batteries every 8 years. Modern solar panels are usually rated to 90%+ production at 20 years. Mine are rated for 92%. It turns out all the sturm und drang about having to replace solar panels and &quo
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by xenadu02 3y ago
FWIW this person has been driving that car for 5 months now without any issues. Supposedly Tesla's engineering department looked at the details and said the cracks are not a problem. I'm not a licensed engineer that specializes in
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Answer: No. If another field exists its effects are so vanishingly minuscule and force carriers so rare we can ignore it because there are no observational consequences. Remember we discovered an extremely weak field that has no obvious obs
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You can attempt to rewrite history all you like but as someone who lived it there was a clear shift in the market pre-iMac and post-iMac. Less than a year after the iMac shipped there was at least an order of magnitude more USB devices th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
UPS official policy says they won't deliver without collecting the payment (though they can't verify the payment is valid) but in reality sometimes drivers do it anyway. UPS doesn't really have a procedure in their system for
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Almost none of what you've claimed is true. There was a large gap between discovery of HIV in human populations, including people getting AIDS and dying of trivial infections due to their immune systems being wiped out. Once people sta
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by xenadu02 3y ago
There's another power when using the same underlying runtime environment as well: no bridging overhead. If your specific problem set involves a lot of boundary crossing bridging overhead can easily dominate all else. Long ago I integra
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> We appear to be in fairly solid agreement on why a receiving device uses more battery. Has nothing to do with one being more battery per byte sent/received. Has everything to do with whiffing on many more receives than you do on s
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The Apple Pencil is designed for extremely low latency and high accuracy to make it feel as close to writing on paper as possible. The API offered to developers presents predicted digitizer points and retroactively updates them in subsequen
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by xenadu02 3y ago
What you are proposing only works if you have a device that only receives replies. That is not always the case. Think of it this way: the postal carrier arrives at your house at whatever schedule the post office decides. You don't have
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Yeah that makes sense. I just thought it was really neat that the US pulled off such a massive project to standardize gauge over a single weekend - similar to Sweden switching from LHD to RHD on a single day. It's a huge coordination,
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That's fair... I'm just saying you shouldn't compare 20hz-20khz vs 20hz-80khz then decide cats can hear "three times" as much as humans. Two octaves is more than zero but a lot less than 3x.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The US South had 5ft gauge during the civil war. There was a massive post-war effort to standardize the gauge that took place over a 36 hour period. All the southern railroads not already on standard gauge did so all at once from May 31-Jun
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You can't just say "other forms of energy". That's a massive hand-wave. The electromagnetic field can be detected and manipulated experimentally. It also has reasonable theories of explanation and mathematics to describe
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by xenadu02 3y ago
There is a hierarchy of bugs involved here. Memory safety is a much more serious class of problem. Obstinately refusing to improve the status quo because it doesn't solve all problems is just plain bad engineering. Doubly so in this ca
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by xenadu02 3y ago
True but hearing is logarithmic in both volume and frequency domains. Double the power does not equate to anything near double the loudness. Similarly each doubling of frequency is only one octave higher. Hearing up to 80khz doesn't me
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Correction: WordStar, a DOS word processor that used control sequences and was text mode.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I almost addressed this point in my original post... you need a diffusion system that runs the brine out into the ocean and mixes it with seawater to a certain concentration... as long as it isn't super concentrated or at a very differ
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That was all after the fact. For its initial release and even much of OSR 2 the only updates you got came with a new computer via the OEM updates of which OSR 2 was the big one. If you were lucky you might see a Service Pack on CD though th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Unless the installer was ripping you off those were not comparable units. I've seen the manufacturer MSRP sheets and the cost difference between heat pump and non-heat pump for the same unit is small. Nowhere near enough to account for
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by xenadu02 3y ago
There is zero reason not to get a dual heat system. A heat pump vs pure cooling A/C is mostly just a reversing valve. There is almost no difference between the two which makes sense: A/Cs are just heat pumps setup to move heat ou
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No, fresh water just enters the water cycle. It will eventually evaporate or end up in a river and back into the ocean where it will be reunited with the salt. The overall salt concentration of the ocean would not be changed unless we seque
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Another one: Soccer (football) style kicking for field goals in American Football. Pete Gogolak introduced it to the AFL in the 60s and by 1980 the traditional kicking style had disappeared entirely.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Note that NLC is a GUI interface to control dummynet and PF (packet filter). It sets up rules to inject packet relay and drop a certain percentage of packets based on the profile. You can use dnctl and pfctl on macOS to do similar things an
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I've worked with software engineers who didn't see the value in DCVSes like git but now that they use it they wouldn't dare go back to non-distributed systems. I would bet most lawyers fall into this camp. They have a process
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I believe other manufacturers do use other sensors besides radar... but that's still a relatively pedantic question about the efficacy of a single safety feature. It still isn't an apt comparison to the reportedly sloppy design of
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Well "move fast, break things" is fine in certain contexts... SpaceX could be said to have done that. Their first few launches exploded. But they put in the engineering discipline, extensively tested all new/innovative proces
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I hardly think that is fair. Tesla hasn't re-invented the wheel on life-critical safety systems. They use off the shelf airbags and brakes. Their software on the steering, braking, etc control loops are more or less standard for embedd
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That means double the casing which takes up space and adds weight. I never claimed it was impossible. I'm only pointing out there are far more severe design constraints than a lot of people even understand, yet they confidently proclai

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