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yetihehe
4y ago
Liquid nitrogen is a byproduct? I thought it is normal commercial product. It can be produced with liquid oxygen, but don't they use LN to recover energy used to freeze air? Not reusing LN and just dumping it would be like wasting 80%
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yetihehe
4y ago
Short answer: It gets pushed out in other places. Long answer: When you try to do destructive interference, you do it only in specific places, you have valleys and peaks somewhere else. Energy from valleys (detructive interference) just enl
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yetihehe
4y ago
Or that high res image of jupiter https://www.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/dn3wej/new...
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yetihehe
4y ago
Problem with traditional drilling is that your drill has to contact with hot rocks. With gyrotron, it doesn't have to. If you pump lot's of water down to your electronics, it can be used to cool electronics, then gyrotron, then be
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yetihehe
4y ago
If they put enough high pressure chilled air or water to cool that gas, it may change into lots of ash before it condenses on the tube.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Simple extrapolation is not always effective. "This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted… “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”" [0]. [0] https://w
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yetihehe
4y ago
I have idea for drastic increase in efficiency of low temperature differential (50*C) stirling engines, which would make liquid air storage a viable alternative to grid scale batteries, super cheap solar-thermal panels could outcompete PV p
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yetihehe
4y ago
I've seen this happen but without that "without reading" part. I've had a coworker, who about a 1-2 weeks after starting working in erlang (without prior exposure) on our big codebase was already able to contribute some
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yetihehe
4y ago
I managed to sleep and snore while watching some music videos on my phone in bed. I could swear that I didn't sleep, but my gf had other opinion. It's also common for me to do midday nap and still hear everything that goes around
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yetihehe
4y ago
> If someone is to be ostracized, to be banned so to speak from whatever activity that is, they deserve to know why. Shadowbanning could go away if people were actually ostracized, which means expelling from community. Currently if you b
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yetihehe
4y ago
Yeah, we can argue all we want, but it is only implemented as a result of users able to use free resource to mess with others by creating new account when they know that they are banned. Possible solutions: 1. Don't ban users 2. Ban us
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yetihehe
4y ago
> but it certainly messes with the idea that a system is meant to either obey or refuse the command given by the user, and do so honestly. If some users don't want to act honestly, rest of society should not honour their malice. Hon
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yetihehe
4y ago
I think that this documentary is about McDonell Douglas, not MacDonald.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Ghost robotics have this: https://www.engadget.com/robot-dog-gun-ghost-robotics-sword-...
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yetihehe
4y ago
Or self-improvement. You can code some throwaway experiments to improve your skills which means you could apply for a raise.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Not even cameras, three microphones and a plate would be enough. But spending several million dollars for "measurement of micrometeoroids density at L2" is too much, they just relied that they have valid models.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Dark matter is just weight of documentation about movements of every particle.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Small customized souvenirs for local tourist attractions or shops. Ask in nearby townhalls if they would like some souvenirs for visiting important guests, some commemorative stuff for various contests. Ask local hardware shop owners if the
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yetihehe
4y ago
> Works differently in different places and with different places I guess. Exactly this. It also depends on social skills of the one requesting turning down. Maybe most of the times I skipped even trying to ask because I thought situatio
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yetihehe
4y ago
Yeah, but your protocol is typically met with "Request denied, fuck off nerd" response. I said typically because I've had some sporadic success with kindly requesting lowering the volume, but it was sporadic. People who wou
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yetihehe
4y ago
> how many legal adults are so incredibly immature Yeah, some of us are like that. I think I've finally matured at about 30-34, now I'm 38 but still learning.
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yetihehe
4y ago
Yeah, sometimes it pulls through, which means it still needs someone with taste and empathy to filter results.
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yetihehe
4y ago
If you give dollars at random, wealth will be randomised (will have ALL values from 0 to 100).
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yetihehe
4y ago
> Pro cyclists can reach up to 400 Watt in short bursts I heard pro cyclists can reach up to 2kW. I managed to make 500W on a rowing machine for 5 minutes, but I'm a couch potato. I believe 400W is a normal rate for cyclists. When y
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4y ago
> Any application requiring a simple, low cost, robust connection between physically disparate devices At $195 it's definitely not low cost.
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yetihehe
4y ago
"Information wants to be free (freely copied)", even when it's information about you. Freely copied means stored in many places. GDPR is in essence reverse-DRM. Normal DRM prevents you from copying and storing some company&#x
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yetihehe
4y ago
No, they are only enabled/disabled to run simultaneously. To create phased array, you would need to control phase (delay in time) of each drive separately. It could be probably done with this setup, but I don't see a good reason t
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yetihehe
4y ago
Now try with "We received the following letter from GPT-3, in which it agrees with these allegations." Your prompt was like having a student write a letter "What is your favourite book and why $X".
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yetihehe
4y ago
It does make some comments by other people look like they are not really conscious. But yeah, after some playing with Eliza years ago I would not be afraid of AI yet, it's comments were just "No, I disagree" like specified in
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yetihehe
4y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant with my comment.
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