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by foofoo55 2mo ago
s/better/less bad/
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by foofoo55 2mo ago
> I am not your QA department The article is a lovely cathartic rant against agile software development methodologies applied in the wrong place in the wrong way, whether or not the software(s) in question used such methods. On of the w
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by foofoo55 3mo ago
Have a look at these [1] polar diagrams for tall sailing ships. The radial distance from the center is the theoretical boat speed and the angle is the direction that the wind is hitting the boat, with zero on the nose and 180 from the ster
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by foofoo55 4mo ago
For a close second here's a 1985 issue of the TPUG Magazine [1], from the Toronto PET Users Group. I attended a few meetings of the Niagara Commodore Users Group and spent all of my paper-route and fruit-picking income on arcade games
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by foofoo55 7mo ago
> [distributes] AND [facilitates the download of] Grouping braces and capitalization mine. So distributing also required. However it's still overly broad, vague, and ambiguous.
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by foofoo55 8mo ago
Supply management does have its problems, but given the involvement of imperfect humans nothing will be without problems. Canadian pork, beef, and vegetable farmers that I personally know also complain that they can't enact supply man
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by foofoo55 8mo ago
A farm on the western side of Canada has been doing something similar for years: https://langleyadvancetimes.com/2025/08/09/record-breaking-u...
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Fraud allegations fly as Vancouver startup UpMeals descends into bankruptcy(ctvnews.ca)
2 points by foofoo55 9mo ago|0 comments
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by foofoo55 9mo ago
My experience supports nearly all of this. In 2022 I decided to keep my 2019 F-150 gasser instead of getting a Lightning because the Lightning was ridiculously expensive, even though Covid kept the value of my truck close to what I paid for
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by foofoo55 11mo ago
Our favorite is still PDF-XChange [1] which has been our daily driver for years. Only dislike is the difficulty in opening a document in a separate application window. It's either everything in one window or everything in its own win
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by foofoo55 1y ago
> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy > for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy. .24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one second, so a 100W human takes ~9 seconds for that output.
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by foofoo55 1y ago
Why are the Arxiv and Nature versions so different, even the text?
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by foofoo55 2y ago
They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.
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National security cited as B.C. drone engineer's devices seized(cbc.ca)
1 points by foofoo55 2y ago|0 comments
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by foofoo55 2y ago
$1400 a year in electricity at a high rate of $0.15/kWhr for all 8,760 hours in a year is about 1 kW in power savings. Reality check: A typical 3-phase 2hp industrial motor [1] is over 85% efficient and typical 10:1 reduction gearbox
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by foofoo55 2y ago
I often ponder what the generator algorithm might be when I am solving "insane" 13x17 Kakuro puzzles [1], because there always seems to be just enough logical paths to solve each puzzle. Well done! [1] - https://krazyd
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by foofoo55 2y ago
All the underlying claims by the author really need the sources referenced.
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by foofoo55 2y ago
I would suggest the same hardware solution, where the USB powers a device-side presentation of the raw data into a more universal mass storage device. This also allows file transfer to any device without requiring special software. I did
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by foofoo55 3y ago
As usual it's complicated, and it depends on which study you pick, and which model and parameters the researchers used. This study suggests that more anthropogenic sulfate aerosols in the air (usually from burning coal and other fossi
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by foofoo55 3y ago
Absolutely essential. Fumes from lead-free solder fluxes are nasty [1]. I find that bench-top "fume extractors", consisting of a fan and thin dust filter, are extremely noisy and essentially useless. I love my Hakko FA430-16.
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by foofoo55 4y ago
The F-22 service ceiling is 60,000 ft so it can get up there too. The U2, however, flies relatively slow (< 400 kn) at that altitude so is ideal for an up-close inspection. I would think that the U2 internal cameras were designed for a
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by foofoo55 4y ago
And here's Dick Proenneke's way of doing it, pre-Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss [edit: originally stated he was an Army engineer, but turns out he had various hands-on jobs, one being a Navy
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by foofoo55 4y ago
In a similar vein, I quite dislike Microsoft's personification of Windows in the messages such as "We couldn't log in ...", "Let's finish setting up ..." or "We are adding new features ..."
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by foofoo55 5y ago
Hmm. An engineered tree introduced to the ecosystem. What could possibly go wrong?
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by foofoo55 5y ago
The fluorescence is so weak that the ambient conditions need to be dark and the concrete needs to be hit with only a narrow band of the light spectrum. Then you need a tuned detector to pick up the weak fluorescence, after which the SNR is
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by foofoo55 5y ago
Most of the mapped flashing dots in NW WA & SW BC don't match actual lights, nor do most of the charted physical lights have a flashing dot.
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by foofoo55 5y ago
I find their public response unprofessional and immature. The Nuclear regulatory process is similar to other federal and international public-safety regulatory processes such as aviation, medical, and wireless: companies soon learn that it
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by foofoo55 5y ago
Stainless steel needs oxygen[1], otherwise it will eventually corrode with pitting and "crevice corrosion"[2]. I wonder what the ingredients are in stainless rebar, and what the oxygen environment is like. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by foofoo55 5y ago
One could also take the ferry to Vancouver Island, drive north to Port Hardy, take another ferry to Prince Rupert, then drive on a highway that isn't actually washed out. Or just fly. Airports are fine.
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by foofoo55 5y ago
Yes. Vancouver sits in a little triangle of land in the south-west (bottom-left?) corner of Canada, completely surrounded by mountains to the north and east. We heavily rely on the highway south through the state of Washington.

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