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by ddeck 3mo ago
The timeline lists "Sled tracks seen to broken bond ice, EMS called" at 16:44. He was pulled from the water at 18:57. The article text further clarifies: Parents discovered sled tracks from home onto broken pond ice through which
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by ddeck 3mo ago
Broadcom is publicly listed with a public float of about 98% (i.e. 98% of it's shares are listed publicly). You're right that most shares are held by institutions (~80%), but that typically reflects the fact that most share owners
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by ddeck 4mo ago
Intranasal Human NSC-Derived EVs Therapy Can Restrain Inflammatory Microglial Transcriptome, and NLRP3 and cGAS-STING Signalling, in Aged Hippocampus https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev..
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by ddeck 10mo ago
>Nintendo is a small privately-held company Nintendo is a TSE-listed public company with a market cap of about USD 110 billion.
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by ddeck 1y ago
Just to add another data point, the co-CEO indicated on a podcast 18-months ago that the sensor package cost was <=$100k for the then current generation: "But saying, you know, picking an upper bound, $100,000 worth of equipment on
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by ddeck 1y ago
And GO in Tokyo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(Japan)
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by ddeck 1y ago
You're right, but it's not quite so black and white. They are certainly continuing to build out coal capacity, but they are building solar/hydro/nuclear/wind generation at a greater rate, such that the proportion of
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by ddeck 1y ago
Firefox via "Google Safe Browsing" also: >Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards. >Advisory
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by ddeck 1y ago
I think you meant capacitors. Resistors would just dissipate the energy as heat. edit: Thanks for the correction. They do indeed use resistors and just dump the energy as heat. Unfortunate. Hopefully this will change as supercaps continue t
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by ddeck 1y ago
Not sure about the US, but the Japanese didn't stop focusing on hybrid development. More than half of all sales in Japan are hybrids, whereas electric is only a few percent [1]. Honda even recently announced that they're scaling b
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by ddeck 1y ago
Chinese EVs are certainly strongly tariffed. The below Reuters article highlights how BYD are apparently shifting to plug-in hybrid sales to avoid the 27% tariff the EU imposes on its pure battery electric vehicles (plug-in hybrids attract
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by ddeck 1y ago
Just a reminder to ensure that you have brownout detection enabled on the CPU/MCU (assuming it's available) and are checking for it in your firmware. Supply drops can be very brief.
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by ddeck 1y ago
>I’m trying to find the directive to force student social media profiles to be public but can’t find anything yet. It's on all the US embassy sites, although it says "are requested": Effective immediately, all individuals
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by ddeck 1y ago
True in many places, but in Hong Kong, the cost of an A&E visit or hospital admission for the author (presumably on a student visa) at that time was about USD15/day.
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by ddeck 1y ago
It is, but they fill them with silicone when they remove it. The brackets I was referring to are about 70cm wide, so no chance of leaving them there.
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by ddeck 1y ago
I find the single apartment scaffolding to be the most amazing. These guys turn up at the door of your 30th floor apartment with a bunch of bamboo poles and nylon strips and a couple of hours lated the entire side of the apartment is scafol
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by ddeck 1y ago
It's certainly possible. Tracing the MCUs IO lines to LEDs/buttons/relays etc on a PCB is usually pretty straightforward. I have just finished doing this and writing replacement firmware for the Aqara E1 series of Zigbee swit
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by ddeck 1y ago
And Never Let Me Go , which was also made into a movie I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
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by ddeck 2y ago
Aqara is a bit of a mixed bag. A lot of their switches are not Zigbee certified and don't conform to the standard. Specifically, they won't bind directly with devices from other manufacturers. This might not matter if you're
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by ddeck 2y ago
I mean, it's not like it would be out of character. Calling such accusations propaganda is a bit much. China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report https://www.france24.com/en/live-news&#x2
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by ddeck 2y ago
NASA released a very impressive 30-minute video of similar solar activity a few years based on images from their Solar Dynamics Observatory: NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K) https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by ddeck 3y ago
>Forbes really hates Bhargava, for no apparent reason. It's not Forbes, it's just a random contributor writing clickbaity articles for the $. Forbes is trash and is closer to Medium in the way it is structured than to a typical
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by ddeck 3y ago
Surprisingly only 24% of Hong Kong is developed "built-up" area. The rest is mostly forested. This also means that despite the density being broadly equivalent to Singapore on that list, it is actually much more densely populated
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by ddeck 3y ago
Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't work - for my issues at least. I have this (and conntimeout) set to 15 seconds, but it makes no difference. I tried those based on another user reporting the same issue here: https://fo
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by ddeck 3y ago
It is indeed great for this, but you need to make sure your network is stable. I use it on my desktop and laptop to mount Google drives. The problem on the laptop is that the OS sees the drive as local, and Rclone doesn't timeout on ne
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by ddeck 3y ago
Correct. Gogoro currently do more than 400,000 battery swaps / day, primarily in Taiwan, but are expanding into other Asian countries. https://www.gogoro.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogoro
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by ddeck 3y ago
You certainly aren't the only one to notice: Even tech giant Google's internet image search believes the Stone 01 is a Land Rover Defender, such is the closeness of the two SUVs. China’s Land Rover Defender copycat revealed [1]
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by ddeck 3y ago
Right you are, which brings us back to the ~1.7% number (actually 1.6% if you include the STS-135 mission, which Wikipedia doesn't for unknown reasons). So a 1 in ~60 chance of dying on any given flight...have to agree that that is far
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by ddeck 3y ago
It was significantly worse than that. There were 2 failures over a total of 135 flights, with 14 fatalities. So that's about 103 fatalities per 1000 flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
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by ddeck 3y ago
Not sure about location data, but I'd be more concerned that they list "contents of messages and email" among the data that they sell: "We may share your personal information by allowing certain third parties (such as o

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