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by yummypaint 1y ago
Vaguely projecting forward the relationship between total cumulative funding and experimentally achieved q value, it's not unreasonable to think that this money could have brought us to commercially viable fusion power if spent judicio
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by yummypaint 1y ago
This could be useful for undergrads getting their feet wet with LaTeX and the world of publishing. However, I'm very skeptical that the options are broad enough to conform to the exacting style guidelines typical of PhD theses. Usually
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by yummypaint 1y ago
This isn't exactly what you want, but you could get the same kind of breaker interlock used for traditional generators and use that for the solar inverter. The downside is that you can't blend grid and battery power at the same ti
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by yummypaint 1y ago
It doesn't matter whether it's possible for a highly motivated and educated person to distinguish the lemons. This will usually be true. The important thing is the experience of real consumers participating in the market as it act
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I work with some undergrads and see this delegation increasing year over year. Unfortunately it's also happening at the expense of reading books, using library search tools to find proper sources, and information gathering in general.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Spreadsheets occupy a weird position in many organizations. They are "functional" programs, but most people who make them have no concept of how "functional programming" compares to other paradigms, nor do they need to.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I haven't done any math to check if this is actually possible but it sure sounds like it spins the tires near 100 mph on a few occasions
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Garbage software still makes lots of money. Sometimes more than good software, and certainly more than the best software. Just look at the windows vs Linux ecosystem for a simple task like screen recording with decent compression. Open sour
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by yummypaint 1y ago
It's essential to understand that tolerance is not a moral precept, it's more like a peace treaty. It's a practical social contract that allows everyone to live in peace while exercising their rights. Treaties only protect pa
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by yummypaint 1y ago
You do have the option to change your bank when they consistently do dumb stuff you don't approve of. Shopping around will probably get you a better savings rate anyway.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
You could do this on an FPGA dev board with the right connectors. Might be a nice project for someone with the time
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by yummypaint 1y ago
This is very cool, it reminds me of an ulam spiral. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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by yummypaint 1y ago
It's pretty wild that software is the only "engineering" discipline without any concept of professional ethics or loyalty to human safety that superceeds the whims of the employer. Why do people think that is? Have there been
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by yummypaint 1y ago
A simple example that highlights the strength of this method: a 137Cs point source is at the origin. A detector consisting of a right cylinder at arbitrary distance and orientation is nearby. What is the solid angle? There may exist an anal
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Most problems (including analytically intractible ones) can be modeled with a relatively simple monte-carlo simulation. Most simple monte-carlo simulations can be fully implemented in a spreadsheet. Using timing coincidences in particle phy
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Just excorcised windows from the last non-linux system in the house. Noticeable improvement for gaming and media handling. Outside a few niches, almost everything is better on Linux now. It should be the default and would be better for most
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Im surprised they didn't mention the beam energy in the snippet, and unfortunately I can't get the full paper at the moment. I think Teflon is known to be particularly susceptible to radiation damage from gamma rays, which makes s
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by yummypaint 1y ago
It's even more complicated when HOA rules are included, and those can be impossible to find on the open internet. Many neighborhoods effectively ban RVs anywhere except inside a garage, so even having a full house may not be enough.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Kids often get extra benefit from the process of salvaging and reusing parts. Getting free or extremely cheap stuff to take apart might be a good thing to look into. ewaste recyclers or landfills with an ewaste area can be awesome
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by yummypaint 1y ago
With a decent general education as a prerequisite, most adults are able to do most jobs well. That is the best way for most people to hedge against things being disrupted. It's impossible to know what the future will hold for one'
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Have you personally reviewed a non-zero number of papers? What is this statement based on? For a thread ostensibly about science, the comments are disappointingly lacking in evidence and heavy on vibes. Maybe people could learn about what p
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Compare with gnumeric, that's the only spreadsheet I can recommend. I have files with hundreds of plots, non-trivial fits, and logic. 100% of everything works always and it's much faster. I have a direct comparison because the exa
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I would go further and say that MS products have completely backwards priorities that lead to an overinflated feature count. What good is fancy formatting in excel if it chokes and crashes once the file hits about 20 MB? Yet despite all thi
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I'm surprised the links work for you at all. 90+% of citations for non trivial information (i.e. not in a text book but definitely in the literature) I've gotten from LLMs have been very convincing hallucinations. The year and jo
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Using an LLM to directly generate code makes writing code feel like reviewing code, and thereby kills the joy in solving problems with software. I don't think people trying to learn are doing themselves any favors either. I work with g
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I think this post confuses net metering with feed-in laws. With net metering, if a customer generates more energy than they consume, the utility does not cut them a check at the end of the month, it only offsets their use, possibly with lim
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Non-Event Feedback Loops (2011)(blog.alpineinstitute.com)
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by yummypaint 1y ago
The tradeoff is that searching for answers develops people's ability to do research in general. It's an essential skill to be able to skim though material quickly and decide if it's relevant or not. it's in the same way
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Making a big hollow object that can withstand crushing is much cheaper than something that can contain high pressure. Achieving the same pressure difference on the surface wouldn't be possible with concrete alone.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
I wonder what the plan is to deal with biofouling, it's a notoriously challenging thing to deal with on surface ships with barnacles etc clogging intakes. Maybe it's less of a problem on the sea floor?

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