ChrisIsTaken

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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Energy loss through an insulator is exactly linear to temperature. The problem is that people who would have otherwise tolerated 50F temperatures without heating by putting on a sweater are pulling their old oil column heater out of the sto
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Multiple clever integral tricks...
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
My LDL dropped by three quarters once I switched to a keto(ish) diet a decade ago and stayed down. My HDL remained stable, almost like the body manufactures it for cell walls or something...
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Not an AI problem. This happens when small businesses outsource their adsense campaign to one of the many completely incompetent fly by night SEO shops, or to their grandson who's "good at computers". Half of Google's in
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Tl;Dr. "The lower strata of society are being forced into precarious employment and debt slavery. (What's new?) Here's how to use a global surveillance apparatus to enable more debt slavery."
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
The Sydney Opera House is like this too, it's a 12 story double helix excavated from sandstone. I'm sure it was fascinating to design, but it's an absolute nightmare to park in.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Multilevel parking is about $10-15k per space. An asphalt lot is $1.5k. You also don't pay land tax and stormwater drainage levies on an undeveloped parking lot.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
It was created by Landmark, then offloaded in 2008 to NBCUniversal who still own it under Comcast.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
I stopped buying much there around ~2010. The sheer amount of Chinese counterfeit garbage and lack of proper categorization makes it impossible to browse the site. The clothing category in particular is just 100,000 dumpsters full of unlabe
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken. Amazon was a much better choice.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
No, they put you into a bubble and show you what you've already clicked just like youtube and google display ads. I only get new music when I manually load a playlist.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
How about suggest songs based on what I've liked but haven't heard? Brain dead filter bubble repeatedly playing what I've already played is why I don't subscribe to this garbage service.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Few tens of thousands of dollars. You're looking at 4 hours insolation in winter in subsaharan regions. Also assume cloud cover drops panel output to 50% for consecutive days. You're gonna need 25kW of panels and 30kWh+ of battery
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Yeah, most people are recharging 20-30 miles of daily driving not the whole battery. As long as the car pulls its 10-15 kWh overnight before it leaves the garage in the morning EV owners aren't going to care when charging happens. With
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Not sure how anyone missed the $2.3B Lordstown, Ohio battery factory deal finalised with LG last March. But I guess there was a lot going on in the world... GM is very very far behind, but they are now deadly serious about owning a majority
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Like every other "fremium" product on the market that isn't taking Softbank money, RH will eventually increase fees once it takes market share. This is just the promo period.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Due to the much younger population, most of Africa, India, and Pakistan has had MMR, and it's been found that the mumps vaccine provides significant immunity. In the west most over 35 had measles only, or MR combination without mumps.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Australia has had real time transfers on our reserve bank's "New Payments Platform" since 2018. Transfers are finalized in a few hundred milliseconds. And we're actually half a decade behind most of Asia and Europe.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
There is an actual wafer shortage and arrogant automotive suppliers thought they could order on short notice. Turns out silicon valley customers like Apple and Nvidia order a year or more ahead and prepay for capacity instead of phoning at
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Shower charging. The bolt fast charges at 50kW up to about 40%, then gradually drops to 35kW at 55% charge state. After that the charge rate drops off horrifically, to less than 10kW above 80%. It's a compliance car designed for city d
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Unsolicited life advice: People in middle age that choose to travel solo are open minded, a bit lonely, and are completely dissatisfied with all of the "normal" social bullshit.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Large parts of Windows 10 are still Win32 not UWP. They can't even remove decades old legacy code from their own products, so good luck everyone else.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
TSMC's capacity problems have been directly caused by still ongoing covid shutdowns at ASML.
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Intel has a very impressive balance sheet for a failing company, it has almost no debt and is generating double-digit billions in free cash flow from almost state of the art fabs. They are still number three on process technology, and numbe
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
I'd reckon per unit area, Intel's cost on 14nm wafers are going to run to less than 25% of TSMC's ask price at 7nm. Do keep in mind that a fair amount of a desktop chip is pad space, IO hasn't shrunk since 22nm nodes, DU
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
Apple did poach a few of Intel's better architects and killed Intel's smartphone ambitions. But the damage occured two decades before that. Intel is dying because they should have entered the foundry business in the early 90'
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by ChrisIsTaken 6y ago
"Higher yield nodes" are full, that's why Intel is outsourcing to TSMC. Intel has already sold every 14nm, 22nm, 32nm and 45nm wafer it can make. They have zero capacity, which is an amazing problem for a "dying" co