dtgriscom

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by dtgriscom 1mo ago
At what voltage? (I understand Brazil has districts with both 127V and 220V mains.) https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plug-voltage-by-co...
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by dtgriscom 1mo ago
I live near Boston, and every winter the city needs to deal with tons and tons of snow removed from the streets. The easiest solution is to dump it in Boston Harbor, but the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection banned that i
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by dtgriscom 2mo ago
Traffic apps only know about congestion if someone running the app goes down the congested road. Because of this, I've always suspected that the apps, from time to time, will route someone down a route they haven't gathered data o
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by dtgriscom 2mo ago
I agree: clickbait. She unpacked the toilet; I doubt it was anything like what you or I would think of as "cleaning a toilet."
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by dtgriscom 2mo ago
Lots of replies with good ideas here. The biggest question is that EMI resistance; do you really need to ignore brief closures? In the vast majority of situations, the answer is no.
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by dtgriscom 2mo ago
I think this is (in turn) wrong. Yes: having 500x the amount of O2 as CO2 means that a 10% drop in O2 will trigger 500x as many molecules diffusing in per second as the same drop in CO2. But, each molecule of CO2 will change the relative pe
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
Agreed. The writer is pretty loose with their comparisons: * What does it mean for "performance per dollar" to get faster? Higher, maybe; rise faster than it has in the past, maybe, but just "faster"? Nope. * The article
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
> I absolutely prefer anything with classic instruments (Jazz, Classical) in higher-quality formats High-dynamic-range material benefits from lots of bits.
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
I have about 2500 CDs in my garage, with all of them ripped to my laptop. I'll never lose access to them. (My only regret is that I can't look through the jewel case covers and booklets.)
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
Yes, but note that your cited article doesn't talk about "more granular" or "less granular"; it talks about "fine-grained" and "coarse-grained".
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
I hate the use of "granular" in a relative context. If water is not granular, and ice cubes are granular, what does it mean for some ice cubes to be more granular than other ice cubes? Are the cubes in question larger or small
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
"Denied Fast Index Entry" is a much more honest title than "Rejects SpaceX", which is just click-bait.
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
He said that it got a few resistor values wrong, but other than that it was correct. I assume it was actually a single-layer board. (Nobody's doing this with a mini-ITX motherboard.)
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by dtgriscom 3mo ago
A friend had the power supply die on his high-end turntable. He took a picture of each side of the supply's PCB, handed it to Claude, and it gave him back a schematic.
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
The day was somewhat stormy. I was in my kitchen in my north-suburban-Boston house, when I suddenly heard a BOOM. I thought it was a very large branch falling on my house, so I ran outside to check out the roof. Saw nothing, and only later
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
> eddies in the stream of energy flowing downhill "Ah... is he. Is he."
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
I have a Donegan DA-5 OptiVisor Headband Magnifier. They're nice, because the lenses are prism'd so that you can focus on something close without having to go cross-eyed.
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
We watched all of The Ascent of Man in middle school. The only thing I remember is that when the narrator, Jacob Bronowski, gestured with the back of his hand (fingers up), he always tucked his middle finger behind his ring and index finger
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
Cheap insurance.
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by dtgriscom 4mo ago
I saw the first Star Wars movie on the day it opened in Boston, in an enormous, packed theater. I will never forget the roar that went up when Han Solo came out of the sun to save Luke.
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by dtgriscom 5mo ago
Yeah; they had a wonderful earthiness to their language; both highly technical and highly vivid. Like this comment on hexanitroisowurtzitane: > Recall that this is the compound whose cocrystal with TNT is actually less dangerous than the
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by dtgriscom 5mo ago
> Edit: Google the in the pipeline blog. This and other have discussed this at length. Derek Lowe's blog is excellent, with 192 posts tagged "Alzheimer's Disease": https://www.science.org/topic/bl
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by dtgriscom 5mo ago
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...
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by dtgriscom 5mo ago
Isn't infrared, by definition, wavelengths beyond what people can see?
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by dtgriscom 5mo ago
That picture of the wafer with a rainbow of shapes is very misleading. It suggests that the various colors you see on the chip is the various colors the lasers can emit, which is wrong; it's just diffraction, and has nothing to do with
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by dtgriscom 7mo ago
Heated ones are rarer.
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by dtgriscom 7mo ago
Question: if a LiIon battery can't deliver as much energy when cold, where does the lost energy go? Is it just unavailable, and becomes available again when warmed up? Is discharge less efficient, so the energy is wasted? Or does charg
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by dtgriscom 7mo ago
The WNET film of "The Lathe of Heaven" was wonderful. It was low-budget, and at times looked it, but captured the book well. It was unavailable for quite a while because of a scene centering around the Beatles' "With A L
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by dtgriscom 7mo ago
Thanks, but watching an eighteen-hour seminar on a book so that I can enjoy that book doesn't seem worth it to me. (Note that "to me"; I'm quite open to being a literary lightweight. My experience of AP English in high s
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by dtgriscom 7mo ago
Although I love most of her fantasy works, I found 'The Dispossessed' to be too difficult for me. However, that's probably because her interests were broader than mine.

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