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by jackhack 7y ago
>>Software does not need to be this complicated. >>Design a damned airframe that's airworthy without needing stabilization hacks. In effect you are stating that you understand better than the hundreds of engineers involved
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by jackhack 7y ago
>Apple IIs were popular but largely limited to proprietary products. Could you please expand on this thought? I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean by proprietary. I cut my teeth on an Apple ][ with integer BASIC one would load
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by jackhack 7y ago
Ah, a high-efficiency version of the simple soda can version. Yes, it's of great interest to me. Thank you!
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by jackhack 7y ago
It's actually remarkable how much heat a simple "soda can solar panel" or "downspout solar panel" can inject into a room. Add a photovoltaic panel to run a 12v brushless 100CFM fan to stir the air and inject the hot
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by jackhack 7y ago
nothing like having a molecular coating on one's clothing storing large amounts of energy, and releasing it as heat. What could go wrong? However, this type of storage might have promise as a power source for an external combustion eng
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by jackhack 7y ago
Indeed. Considering that the "problems that one deals with at present" were generally calculations of ballistic trajectory for war materiel, this was an entirely accurate statement. As the cost and complexity increase rather rapid
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by jackhack 7y ago
Also sickening is the understanding that the massive horror of the famine (in large part a result of the policies of confiscation of goods) was seized upon as an opportunity to punish the suffering peasants and diminish the authority of the
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by jackhack 7y ago
It's being proposed that one could have this battery swapped out "at the supermarket." I barely trust them to not put the soup cans on top of the bread, or break the eggs. I don't think I'm ready for them to tinker
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by jackhack 7y ago
Some people stopped worrying about not understanding compilers. They're not working on drivers, realtime (esp where low lag & jitter are concerned such as motion control), or high performance software of all stripes, trying to sq
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by jackhack 7y ago
"vacaracted" = homophone for "Baker Act'ed"? referring to the Baker Act of 1971: Florida law for involuntary examination and potential commitment for treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl
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by jackhack 7y ago
arrested for "not cooperating". Perhaps that's against the law there and one can be compelled to cooperate in a general way. I'm more curious about how they paid rent for a decade, without contact with the outside world
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by jackhack 7y ago
This has been my experience with German cars (Mercedes, BMW) precisely : They are great to drive, but terrible to own.
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by jackhack 7y ago
sorry I was unclear. I meant "same column" in the colloquial sense, "the same group."
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by jackhack 7y ago
for the same reason that airline pilots build their own experimental aircraft, long-haul drivers jump on a Harley and cruise around town, and machinists who make neat things at their home workshop -- freedom, excitement, the joy of explorat
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by jackhack 7y ago
Curiously, but I suppose not surprisingly, another element in the same column -- chromium -- has been shown to yield similar positive effects against depression. In the US, this is available over the counter as chromium picolinate. https:&
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by jackhack 7y ago
It could be a result of autocomplete. Entered/pasted once, auto-complete forever. In this anonymous person's defense, he might not know how to turn it off or change it. (With most browsers, it's buried down in a menu.) Meanwh
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by jackhack 7y ago
tipping point, indeed... and not in a good way: let's take 100,000 vehicles with (I'm conservatively guessing) a 100 kWh battery each, that's a 100,000,000 kWh load each night! 100,000 Mega watt-hours is roughly the output of
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by jackhack 7y ago
I feel compelled to say thank you for this especially insightful comment. As one who escaped Appalachia and moved from blue collar work to a white collar career, everything you've said here rings true. You've captured the underlyi
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by jackhack 7y ago
More than just strange, it's a glaring omission -- MIT Prof. Rod Brooks paved these roads nearly 3 decades ago and arrived at these ideas through deduction and experimentation. He made the argument that embodiment is an essential compo
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by jackhack 7y ago
If you mean the jet airplane is the simpler of the two, I would agree. The famous Roche Biochemical Pathways chart of just those mecahnisms that are understood illustrates this perfectly: http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/
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by jackhack 7y ago
Well, you can do what you like but when it comes to complex medical issues my winning strategy is to wait for a Hollywood actor, famous musician, or a daytime TV host to tell me what to think.
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by jackhack 7y ago
How far we've drifted as a nation. People then seemed to realize the danger of fiat money, yet The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913, when most lawmakers had
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by jackhack 7y ago
This is appropriate: https://www.askamathematician.com/2012/04/q-can-you-poke-som...
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by jackhack 7y ago
Have we learned nothing from Wikileaks? Quite the contrary! People with power rely on private/secret communications. And, without power, what is there to communicate, for what you say likely has no value . I am reminded of Napoleon&
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by jackhack 7y ago
>>Most old people don't learn as many new things as younger ones Most old people don't need to learn as many new things. It's called "experience."
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by jackhack 7y ago
Which, ironically, is precisely what Cable TV first promised in the 1970s -- an "ad-free" experience! They could offer this unique experience because you were paying the cable company for the costs of carrying the content. Then th
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by jackhack 7y ago
Write "not deliverable" and drop it back into the "outbound mail" slot? Or get a stamp with the same for even-less-work version.
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by jackhack 7y ago
How curious that there's a reference to Jef Raskin on the facing page (p.205). Raskin, of course, was a visionary at Apple who would go on to advocate for a version of Macintosh quite different from what Steve Jobs envisioned (but whic
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by jackhack 7y ago
Correct. 200,000 years dying at an early age from easily-preventable infections, among them cholera and dysentery which are easily spread from --yep, you guessed it-- not washing after using the toilet. And people wonder why I refuse to tak
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by jackhack 7y ago
I usually put it this way: "Name one company that was better after a merger." I've yet to find any affirmative answer. It's good to have hope, but it's not good to be unrealistic.

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