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by fffobar 4y ago
BTW, a highly disturbed sleep like he is describing is a common sign of burnout/depression/anxiety disorder. Do not ignore it! There are drugs and therapy, it is worth it. It is double worth it if you have the money to stay unempl
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by fffobar 4y ago
Is this neural-network generated? The bio makes me think that it is, in fact, written by a machine: > Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legibly written, not by a machine, b
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by fffobar 4y ago
Where is that market meltdown? The FTSE 100 is down a whopping 1% today, and down 3% over the last 5 days. Looks absolutely normal to me.
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by fffobar 4y ago
Oh I'm sure it's cleared enough around the various pipes and cables that lie on the bottom. But it's still a far cry from the entire bottom of the sea being safe.
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by fffobar 4y ago
The Baltic Sea is very very shallow, with average depth of just 55 meters. It's not particularly difficult to do, sadly :( "Fun" fact, mostly unrelated: the Baltic sea floor is full of unexploded munitions from WW2, and some
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by fffobar 4y ago
Imagine if it was arabic (to keep the LNG prices up, which everyone in Europe is now buying from the middle east like crazy). That would surely stir some things up.
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by fffobar 4y ago
It was in "maintenance", as claimed by the Russian end operators. Germany has successfully pressured Canada to send a replacement turbine to Russia (violating sanctions), after which the Russians said that the turbine isn't a
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Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day(reuters.com)
125 points by fffobar 4y ago|313 comments
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by fffobar 4y ago
What does a sound card actually do, besides ADC and DAC?
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by fffobar 4y ago
And the future of the planned 6-th generation unmanned combat aircraft ...
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by fffobar 4y ago
Fair point. I guess the difference is the lack of strategic alliances throughout the history with anyone in the area. There were tactical alliances, even with Iran somewhat recently (Operation Opera), but nothing long lasting and "soli
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by fffobar 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel
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by fffobar 4y ago
The most fascinating fact about the state of Israel is that it is in an on-again-off-again state of war for something like the last 4000 years. I cannot fathom how is it possible for neither sides to win, especially the broadly speaking Ara
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by fffobar 4y ago
> Extracting deeply useful information This right there is the difficult part - what do you mean exactly? I cannot come up with anything better than search, as in like Google search. And they did it for books already, it's seriously
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by fffobar 4y ago
Meh. Energy cost has been plummeting ever since the steam engine came about. I cannot stress this enough, it has plummeted several orders of magnitude (versus for example gold). I prefer to use my ruler to stretch out the line on a log plot
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by fffobar 4y ago
There has been a lot of progress in cameras for smartphones, for very good reasons. And I mean a lot, see the physical design of a modern smartphone lens for example. I would guess that laptop cameras got hit with extra protection because t
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by fffobar 4y ago
> Luckily, the Dotbot clearly identifies itself in the User-Agent header, and they have a working support email, so after a five month communication in a ticket I discovered the reason. I laughed at the "five month", then rea
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by fffobar 4y ago
Defeatist attitude is completely expected if you're burned out/depressed. My suggestion is to treat the latter (lots of good advice in the thread) to get rid of the former, not the other way around. The other way around simply doe
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by fffobar 4y ago
Find a US based ETF with the asset and use the SEC :) (Matt Levine wrote many times about how securities laws can become somewhat global somewhat arbitrarily)
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by fffobar 4y ago
With the successes of F-22/F-35, PAC/Patriot and HIMARS/M270 (each is an obvious top of the shelf product in its category) - is Lockheed now going after Boeing's professional flight simulator supremacy?
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by fffobar 4y ago
I am trying to learn about radio (and the electric and magnetic fields in general), and I'm following the Great Scott Gadgets' "Software Defined Radio with HackRF" video series. I'm also thinking about getting an am
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by fffobar 4y ago
I wonder if this could have a military purpose as well, as in whether this could be used in a combat area. Any of the other types of electrical power generation systems are very "centralized", as in there is only a few points wher
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by fffobar 4y ago
Yeah, but that's the minority on a global scale.
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by fffobar 4y ago
Most of the code ran in large datacenters isn't classic HPC. It's cloud workloads serving live traffic or running database backends or some analytical pipelines/queries running over the stored data. Deep ML is about the only
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by fffobar 4y ago
Isn't the problem that the fuse for a fusion bomb is a fission bomb, and a fission bomb very violently disperses lots of radioactive material? What am I not getting?
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by fffobar 4y ago
"I told you so", perhaps wrapped in a corpspeak package if the recipient is resonant to those frequencies, adds a lot of value in terms of me not having to handle the fallout. Yes, I know some people want to do an awesome job, be
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by fffobar 4y ago
1. Quietly buy all the $10k - $50k range stuff 2. Spin up another NFT hysteria 3. You know what happens here Not Financial Advice ™
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by fffobar 4y ago
Not sure if a P/E of 18.38 is so so attractive, it looks neither cheap nor expensive for something that will at best keep up with the (nominal) GDP growth. Why is it so cheap though in terms of absolute value, is the percentage of reve
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by fffobar 4y ago
What if it was caused by both? I'm in your shoes, and pondering this very question.
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by fffobar 4y ago
Exactly.

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