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by apcragg 2mo ago
Those would be OCXOs. TXCOs are just temperature compensated.
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by apcragg 1y ago
Funny timing that they are announcing their first product days after Matt Levine highlighted their lack of a public product or direction in the Money Stuff newsletter.
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by apcragg 2y ago
AAL578 flew by Tom's River (Bay Shore area, where the photos were taken) around 20:43 on December 8th which is right when the photos were taking, on a heading that would result in an observing on the ground looking at the port side of
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by apcragg 2y ago
6 and 7. If you squint and lean on a bit of confirmation bias, photo 9 looks like a commercial airliner with the Alaska Airlines livery.
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by apcragg 2y ago
The photos I've seen posted look very obviously like commercial airliners and helicopters with their navigation lights on. You can even make out the American Airlines livery on the tail! https://www.app.com/story/n
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by apcragg 3y ago
They almost certainly had flight spares but with two weeks until your launch window, there is zero chance you are deintegrating multiple systems, swapping in the spare, reintegrating, and re running your acceptance test campaigns. And that
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Canonical's Snap API Is Down(status.snapcraft.io)
4 points by apcragg 4y ago|1 comments
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Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released(devblogs.microsoft.com)
24 points by apcragg 4y ago|6 comments
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by apcragg 4y ago
Marc Reisner's book Cadillac Desert talked about this as far back as 1986.
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by apcragg 4y ago
Absolutely! I enjoy my daily routine and all of the nuances associated with it (whether that's just the result of addiction is a different conversation). I was just suggesting that the parent comment doesn't need to use coffee for
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by apcragg 4y ago
It sounds like you'd be better served by caffeine pills then. No need to bother with a delivery mechanism you don't enjoy when there are easier solutions out there!
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by apcragg 4y ago
The UC Health system serves the general public through direct services and their research and teaching functions.
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by apcragg 4y ago
Efficient doesn't really mean anything without an thorough understanding of the local energy grid. Distributed solar mixed with wind and some gas peakers? Sure, probably better from a GhG perspective to use restive heat, even if it isn
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by apcragg 4y ago
That's very much not true about heaters. The most common systems in the US are gas, heat pumps, and oil. Resistive heat is nearly always an emergency backup in places that get meaningfully cold for any amount of time.
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by apcragg 4y ago
"sure, my house's foundation is made of cardboard, but have you considered that the empire state building could also be destroyed in a large enough earthquake?"
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by apcragg 4y ago
Pistachios and Almonds use 4x less acreage than Alfalfa, hay, clover, etc. These feed and grazing crops use almost exactly equal acre-feet of water per acre as pistachios and almonds. It's a convenient direction to finger point at if y
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by apcragg 4y ago
For sure! Even Buy-and-dry schemes seem to be struggling with political backlash and those landowners are being fairly compensated in voluntary transactions. It's not going to be pretty when the junior water rights holders are cut off
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by apcragg 4y ago
There is plenty of water in the south west, we just use most of it to grow animal feed in the desert. Even worst, much of that water is subsidized by the US Government which allows farmers to grow that animal feed in the high plains where i
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Confluence Exact Match Search Is Still Broken, 13 Years Later(jira.atlassian.com)
20 points by apcragg 4y ago|3 comments
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by apcragg 4y ago
I'm also not convinced that they're even out of Far-field. That looks like a roughly 5m dish, which at 10GHz is still in the radiating near field at 1km. I wouldn't be surprised if the main lobe is entirely incident on receiv
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by apcragg 5y ago
Less that its so common, more that a small percent of people cause all of that pollution. They usually convince themselves they are being environmentally friendly because "I just use the wood I already have from my land!!" And the
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by apcragg 5y ago
The stoves just put off a lot of particulate pollution. Stoves don't completely combust the wood or do so at the wrong temperature which results in much more pollution than burning an equivalent energy amount gas.
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by apcragg 5y ago
As someone who suffers through winter smog caused by people in my county heating their homes with wood, please please please use a modern efficient heating source instead of this neopasotral quackery.
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by apcragg 5y ago
Both of those lines have no citation so while I wouldn't doubt it, that page seems unreliable.
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by apcragg 5y ago
The USSF hosts Hack-a-sat at DEFCON! See here for details! https://www.hackasat.com/
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by apcragg 5y ago
That doesn't sound like a scam? Frustrating if you're shopping, but not a scam.
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by apcragg 5y ago
The author blames this on management pressure and deadline acceleration but it seems to me that they made an incredibly obvious and negligent mistake and is trying to pass the buck.
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by apcragg 5y ago
I bet this is the first use of large scale desalination. It already takes huge amounts of power to pump the water over the mountains to L.A. so reducing that load could make the desalination power requirements more palatable.
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by apcragg 5y ago
Not to mention that we'd need to pump those millions of acre-feet uphill into the various agricultural regions. Some are lower lying but if California is serious about its GHG targets, it won't be building the massive power statio
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by apcragg 5y ago
Yeah and on top of that many of them had their loan interest federally subsidized to build out their private infrastructure. The original 160 acre limit per farm of the 1902 Reclamation Act at least made sense in this context. Despite that,

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