GerryB

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by GerryB 2y ago
I was happily surprised to see multiple actual studies and references linked in the article, unexpected from a site like NBC news.
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by GerryB 2y ago
The different lines are at the same AC voltage, but have different phases (almost always three phases), so there's an instantaneous potential difference between them. The lines need to keep the conductors seperated to prevent potential
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by GerryB 2y ago
The solution is actually quite elegant: a long tagged key required to open the door which remains in the lock until it's closed again. https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/preventing-fan-cowl-door-loss...
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by GerryB 3y ago
One could argue that the most important criteria to optimize for is insuring that the mean expected value is exactly 0.5. That is a more practical criteria than trying to allow super low values like 2^-70 which are indeed expressible as flo
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by GerryB 3y ago
It's common to find this kind of asshole behavior in residential real estate agents. It can be understood when you realize they get a commision as a fraction of the sale price. This does NOT make their interests align with yours! Unint
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by GerryB 3y ago
Technology is a dramatic counterexample. 1999's ASCI Red 1-2 teraflop supercomputer cost $46,000,000 1999 dollars. A 2 teraflop 2022 iPhone 14 costs $800. Even if you nitpick the computation comparison, there's still a 5 order of
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by GerryB 14y ago
I see their offices in downtown Palo Alto every day. They have a HUGE, beautiful, almost art-gallery-like lounge for their employees at street level, which is entirely unused in practice. There is NEVER anyone inside. That room is so large