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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Paper lacks many properties sought after in plastic packaging. We end up coating the paper if we try to make it exhibit those properties, and the coatings frequently involve some kind of polymer. If it wasn't for the microplastics prob
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> That means you need to end...selling stuff in containers entirely. If we energy-cost-accounted for all externalities, then I wonder how returning the containers to the factory to automatically sanitize and re-use compares to recycling.
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Oof, the power of an innocent question to suddenly make me feel my age...
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> My dad wanted to encourage me but didn't know how, so he got me a C++ book from the library but it just made no sense and I couldn't get anywhere. Such a nostalgia trigger. My parents were not in IT, but had parent-friends
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
The discontinued closed source LifeBalance published by Llamagraphics took a stab towards that. DateBk6 published by Pimlico Software also was moving in this direction. A PIM application ecosystem with a storage and RPC system like Newton s
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
You are correct. Unless you pay for everything in cash or through a company front, it is extremely difficult to stay off the identity grid. Changing countries raises the bar, changing to a non-OECD nation raises it further, but you give up
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Has anyone ever found a study/research of how (in detail) Shockley hired technical staff? In an industry famed for unicorns and associated prescient hiring, Shockley still has a distinguished track record for picking some pretty respec
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
I'm not sure of the kind of plastic, it usually feels like some kind of HDPE. I and others have had inconsistent results with SharkBite fittings for long-duration uses, for example see [1]. I suspect their O-ring is a potential weak li
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Make sure if you get a mini-split that you do the following around keeping the condensate drain mechanism going. I have yet to see a mini-split product manual/installation guide that gives detailed information on these operational issu
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
I've always wanted a home ERP. Starting from the digitized survey, to ground-penetrating radar survey digitized results to show exact septic layout and the bedrock profile along that layout, to exact DGPS locations of every brush and t
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
There are a few areas of regulated speech even in government-involved First Amendment scenarios [1]. It is true that private entities can kick out individuals for utterances found disagreeable. But what if those private entities are practic
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
The three standard deviations (or three-sigma) rule of thumb / guide relies upon a normal distribution to yield the 99.7%/0.3% probability tails. Humans are terrible at gut-feel statistics and probability due to a number of cognit
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Correct, they were physically depleted to far below minimum levels after H1N1 (and other crises), but SARS was their last warning before COVID-19. General political leadership across parties and jurisdictions [1] routinely treat it as a dea
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> The value gained by practicing on US soil to execute such a mission likely outweighs tipping their hand. There is tremendous operational value in carrying out the logistics and process of such a test. The lessons learned can be appli
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
I sure hope the IA gets funded enough some day to get the kind of metrology gear [1] it would take to scan in the physical artifacts like these typewriters. We don't have nanoscale metrology yet, but it would be nice to start at least
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Sure looks like the same technology, thanks for finding that. Even if they did improve the density, talk about stuffing these into phones as they imply is premature. I don't want Florida Man cracking open these "to get muh diamond
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
While I think there is an "S" curve, I see we have quite a lot more to learn, much longer than a few hundred years' worth. I'd say more on the order of hundreds of millennia more at a minimum, because the scales I see po
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> Paraphrasing: "You can remote jailbreak Android - do we really want to trust every vehicle in the country to use it for their control systems?" FSB, GRU, Mossad, MI6, NSA, CIA, GCHQ, DGSE, CSIS, ASD, CSE, BND, NIS, PSIA, GC
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
What? I won't even set foot in a plane whose pilot hasn't posted their VATSIM [1] Twitch [2] or recordings [3]. How else would I know they can actually fly!? /s I have a horrible ear for radio communications, so until I fig
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
There is a one-star review on Amazon [1] from 2018 talking about losing data, has that been addressed? Another two-star review also from 2018 [2] talking about exported notes only being raster pictures instead of PDF (even more ideal is tim
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
So we only have about 500 megayears to both attain a K2 scale civilization and find a way to use that power to protect our cradle world (or work around the extinction of life as we know it). Got it. No pressure.
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
That's neat and I'm going to keep an eye on it. The -15° F ambient differential somewhat limits its usefulness, and I'd like to see an induction-powered heater as an option instead of conduction-based heating. I'm guessi
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Adding to PassiveHaus and Passive House (separate standard from the original PassivHaus) standards, look into NetZero, and Perfect Wall (especially Lstiburek's institutional Perfect Wall).
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Not meant as a snark, a constant reminder I keep telling myself every day, that there is way more in IT than I'll ever have time to learn. All I have to do if I ever think I'm beginning to get my arms around it all is look to some
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> That said, I would hate to have IBM be the highest level contractor for anything that really mattered to me. My experience is with highly-skilled staff who are very comfortable with using the IBM troubleshooting facilities of the produ
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
And in case someone reading is wondering, "how do I count the number of buffers": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/350526/how-do-i-count-th... I recommend using the desktop feature also mentioned ther
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
It is possible to form Reg D 506 (d) or (b) syndicates with up to 35 non-accredited investors for example, but risks and costs pretty much steer most offerings towards only accredited investors. The costs of sustaining the deal flow and ass
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
> If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America (edit: renounce citizenship) and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. I might be guessing wrong here, but I'm going out on a limb and
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
Yep. US political and MIC leadership are trying to finagle Americans into a Cold War II with Russia and China, when all that is needed is business and economic disengagement if the regimes are really all that odious. The US itself lives in
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by yourapostasy 6y ago
With enough party protection and money, you can live an insulated, coddled life in China, and your spouse and children will be well taken care of. The risk is the long-term (3-7+ year range) uncertainty in when you lose political protection

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