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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Who's going to be the first to make a slingshot from this? :)
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Well not just energy capacity [J/kg = m^2/s^2 = 1/3600 W hr/kg], but power capacity [W/kg = J/(kg s) = m^2/s^3] too.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
UHMWPE already can do that.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
In ye olden days, you could run your home automation on MisterHouse on any old computer and use a parasitically-powered DB9 serial RS-232 wireless adapter to control X10 devices. http://misterhouse.sf.net
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
"I see a speck of dust on the tire. Minus $100."
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Fendi entered the chat. "We object! We don't use barbaric clubs anymore, we use proper pistols to dispatch baby animals in order to steal their hides to make Predator human trophy garmets from them. Please browse our winter coll
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
I look at it as a value-investing opportunity. Non-investors and vacillating ones can scoff as I laugh all the way to said bank.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Either way, I don't know what you mean. What is this "Fight Club" of which you speak? Is it an agro baseball bat? It's probably some Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia Brad Pitt signed, right? --- looselipsinkships loose lip sin
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Please don't feed the trolls or the bears.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
It's a common antipattern to design away settings, and practical usability, with artistic purity. OTOH, providing an endless jumble of uncommon settings is overwhelming to almost everyone. 1. Make things work in the common-most use-cas
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
So it's "ETH escrow" where the trusted third-party conducting the atomic swap of assets is the blockchain in the form of executing a contract?
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
4% net is a terrible money laundering rate. Better to keep it and mix it slow than take the first marshmallow immediately and lose way more.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Idempotence and infrastructure-level rollback seem essential, especially in complicated transactions that require multiple external side-effects.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
The ledger is a central authority but with decentralized distribution. Central authorities can tell users what they can and can't do with their money, count their money, monitor, violate privacy, and impose sanctions, taxes, or trade r
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Assuming it's a lone wolf and not a criminal gang (suits on Wall St. or sex traffickers in Bulgaria). Also, that's what patsies and false credentials are for. It's easier to buy new identities in other countries where money t
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
File sharing over BT is insecure, obsolete, and not widely-supported. It's better to deal with reality that BLE-capable apps and cloud apps are universal replacements.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Do you mean AirDrop or BT File Sharing? Edit: In general without Apple, BT File Sharing has never interop'd. It's better to use a third-party app that uses BLE or a cloud or chat app with file sharing.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
In '99/00, I remember a cartoon on a slide because the lecturer was involved in the BT spec. It took a while, but he was right that it would be ubiquitous. I do have issues with BT compatibility between some devices with stutterin
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
I still have mine (v. 1). I called support once about it. It can get into a mode where it needs to be rebooted. Overall, they work fine. Be sure to download the app and install the latest firmware update. Also, using the audio cable and cha
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
There are infinitely many different kinds of reading as well. Skimming vs. careful understanding vs. visualization vs. holding a book to avoid conversation. Steven King vs. Chaucer vs. Gibbon vs. so on. Parents and the local educational sys
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
There is a perfect storm of contributing factors to expository writing: writer blandness and TL;DR, infinitely more sources of information, and reader limited time and attention. If you want to be read take some responsibility with style a
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
> Gleason went solo into the clairvoyant business. This reminds me of the pickup artist scene and digital persuasion behavioral engineering: trying to sell some "revolutionary", "secret" form of human manipulation. Th
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Regardless of where one stands on warez, it's often the de-facto only source for obscure titles. There are/were fairly-complete warez torrents of MAME sets. The ones up to the early 2000's were of reasonable size, but after t
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
I think we cannot avoid another Dark Ages and deurbanization without reputable authorities, information, and criticism of popular dis/misinformation. Deplatforming creates martyrs and conspiracy theories, as does the lack of communicat
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! Caused by glacial erosion, the "freezing" of sediment deposition by ice coverage, or both? Are there any estimates on glacial thickness or "heat map" of thicknesses across Pannotia?
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Hey TX from ATX.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Okay, so I'm not hallucinating it. This just in - it's up for me at this instant.
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Haha. That's hilarious because a little redditfu shows there's an outage. Edit: That's for AWS, not Alexa. I wish they had a dashboard for Amazon proper's major service components. I'm not sure how real or phony suc
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by errcorrectcode 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/sgocin/sorry_so... Edit: Also there's currently a peak of user feedback at the following link, so it could be an outage https://downdetector.c
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Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?
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