Sinergy2

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by Sinergy2 7y ago
Can you give an example of an LED bulb installation with 50%+ luminous efficacy? Perhaps you are thinking of the raw lumens/watt coming out of lab-grade LED material without considering other system draws (cooling, power conversion)?
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
The GPL variants, for example, require you to allow others to plagiarize your work.
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
Automotive night vision is expensive and unusual.
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
Summary: The FAA's B4UFLY app only tells you whether you can _fly_ a drone somewhere. It doesn't tell you whether you can _take off, operate, and land_ from there because that is up to the property owner (whether private or govern
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
May I suggest more than one magnet per train to differentiate them. Simplest way: number of magnets corresponds to train ID. Small space between magnets (calculated from Hall sensor refresh rate and max train speed). Count number of Hall se
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
GP's point is that we give humans the benefit of the doubt. You have reinforced that notion. >> the degree to which something can experience suffering is proportionate to the sophistication of its ability to think. But we do not
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
>> a dead attorney is the only real "good attorney." You believe there should be no attorneys?
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
I can give the automotive electronics perspective here. Suppose that resistor costs 2c, including the actual part cost, PCB space, pick-and-place machine time (inc. more frequent spool replacement). Further suppose you expect to sell one mi
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by Sinergy2 7y ago
Reproduction is definitely a net increase in raw entropy. That's what is meant by "dissipating energy", I imagine.
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
Title taken from NPR coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/11/592802471...
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Fishing Boats 'Going Dark' Raise Suspicion of Illegal Catches(usa.oceana.org)
2 points by Sinergy2 9y ago|1 comments
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
It's called the Just World Hypothesis and has indeed been studied for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
Are you sure? You can still declare a short field on a 8b micro.
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
It's obvious when applicants do this. There's no plausible deniability unless younger applicants start doing the same thing out of solidarity someday.
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
>> not that long ago computing resources were a limited commodity. They are still limited in non-phone embedded contexts these days, leading to the ironic situation that the radar in your car that can override your brakes is running a
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy Interestingly, whataboutism is specifically about cases of hypocrisy. The point is that the presence of that hypocrisy is irrelevant. "It represents a case of tu quoque
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
*entirely different
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
Please describe how it is possible to pick such a number. For example, I can readily imagine how to pick a random 32b float, but that it is an entirely problem with a nonzero probability.
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by Sinergy2 9y ago
Suppose that patents had prevented 90% of useful inventions and overall progress over the last century. That is, imagine that for every 10 inventions you can list from the 1900s, 9 had been prevented. Do you agree that would have been a neg
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by Sinergy2 10y ago
I don't comprehend the thinking behind not listening to voicemails. Why have a voicemail box, then? You're just making anybody who does leave a voicemail think you're ignoring them on purpose. Is it people who didn't pur
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by Sinergy2 10y ago
Analogous to shining a flashlight in a driver's eyes or pointing a laser at an airplane cockpit. The law handles it.
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by Sinergy2 10y ago
>> I do actually believe the fact that this violent nutjob who had been interviewed by the FBI three times was able to get a gun is so obviously messed up that it’s foolish to suggest otherwise. Interviewed because he went to the sam
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by Sinergy2 10y ago
Five nines isn't enough, as evidenced by the articles lambasting Tesla for a single accident in many millions of aggregate miles. If you assume one decision per second--which is conservative--Tesla is already on the order of 10^9 decis