jtaillon

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by jtaillon 3y ago
I think a lot of people would be into this. If you're willing to, you should totally do it! You might get some good contributions from the community, too.
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by jtaillon 3y ago
Do you have/do you plan to open source this anywhere? I'd be really interested in checking it out!
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by jtaillon 3y ago
What a strange take. It reads as "nothing is worth improving on if it cannot 100% completely replace the thing that we're trying to get rid of". If we can reduce our dependence (say 50%) on a power source that has huge negati
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by jtaillon 3y ago
This article (and the included video) has a bit more detail for those interested in the mechanics of how they accomplished the move (like me!): https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...
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by jtaillon 5y ago
Yes, in the same way a Cuisinart blender is a "monopoly" since I can only buy a Cuisinart blender from Cuisinart No one's preventing anyone from building a better solution and making it available to consumers. Not a monopoly
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by jtaillon 5y ago
Ok, then the government should be doing it and investing to meet current and future demand. A private company (in a non-regulated market) can't be forced to do so.
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by jtaillon 5y ago
Should they? Why should one private company be forced to build infrastructure for other companies that are intentionally dragging their heels? GM doesn't run gas stations It would be great if they could be altruistic to let anyone use
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by jtaillon 5y ago
Tesla has not "monopolized" charging stations in any reasonable understanding of the word. They spent somewhere south of $1B to built their own infrastructure. Any other company could have done that, but they chose to drag their h
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by jtaillon 6y ago
What do electron fumes smell like? :)
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by jtaillon 6y ago
The thing is, they're not "ludicrously expensive". Sure, Teslas and Porsches and Jaguars are, but you can also get a late-model used Nissan Leaf for under 10k, or a brand new Kia Niro for ~30k after tax credit. That's we
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by jtaillon 6y ago
Yes, see this plot from IEA: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l... This is as of 2018, and one would expect that the grid will continue to get cleaner as time goes on, which means the BEV
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by jtaillon 6y ago
In this case, "in and out of focus" is actually variations in the amplitude of the probability function for the electron density projected onto a single plane (to a first approximation). Sometimes the wave functions of all the ele
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by jtaillon 6y ago
Maybe, if you're unlucky. In all likelihood, you'll be asymptomatic and spreading it to a bunch of other people without realizing it (which is most of the reason we're in this mess). Then those people do the same, get sick, a
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by jtaillon 6y ago
That's pretty much correct. Single-atom imaging is possible using aberration-corrected scanning TEM, but the beam doses used will typically obliterate anything organic through radiolysis or ionization damage (although there are emergin
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by jtaillon 6y ago
Not OP, but I built this, and have been pretty happy with it for the cost: https://alphacolin.com/ikea-standing-desk-for-22-dollars/
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by jtaillon 6y ago
Same for me (same build and OS)
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by jtaillon 6y ago
How do you manage the audio for your games? Do you use the newer audio sharing setup, or have you rigged something up in OBS, etc?
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by jtaillon 6y ago
Surprisingly, this isn't really true (as far as noise is concerned). Noise pollution travels far, and if you're using sensitive equipment, you can easily pick up the noise of planes flying nearby at 30,000 ft.
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by jtaillon 7y ago
CH is passed on! CH is no more! CH has ceased to be! CH has expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Or it turns Jeff Bezos into the richest man in the world... Anecdata can go both ways!
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Is that true for homeowner's insurance? As far as I know, the 20% rule is for private mortgage insurance (PMI), which pays to the lender if you fail to make your payments. Basically an added payment because with a low down-payment, you
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Moissanite is also synthetic (typically grown via a chemical vapor deposition process). It's not carbon (like diamonds), but made of SiC, a material long used for abrasives and more recently for high-power electronics and LEDs. The 4H-
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Oh stop it. I encourage you to go for a test drive and try it out yourself. It works (in the conditions they claim it does), and it makes driving long distances or in stop-and-go traffic significantly easier. Dumb people will do dumb things
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by jtaillon 7y ago
I thought this was a pretty well known practice. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto... From my (admittedly limited) understanding, they would trespass on peoples farms and test
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by jtaillon 7y ago
I think the issue here is that the Georgia courts cite these annotations in their opinions, meaning that they effectively have the weight of law. If there is no de facto difference between an annotation and a law, why can one be copyright
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Yup, who make money the more you engage with or watch their advertisers. It turns out anger/rage seems to be the best way to do that. People (on the whole) don't consume political media to be challenged in their views... they get
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Totally agree. Off topic, but I never realized until a couple years back just how racist South of the Border is as an idea in general. SC isn't even close enough to Mexico for it to make sense... Also, I'm not sure how they stay i
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by jtaillon 7y ago
> Plenty of people make road trips. Growing up all we did was drive, often times 15 hours, for vacation. Same here. I also grew up taking long road trips with my family, and took plenty of long trips when I had an ICE vehicle, and now ta
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by jtaillon 7y ago
Disclosure: I'm a Tesla owner; I don't understand the point of this argument. Yes, in a ICE vehicle you can reach your destination marginally faster (we're talking about an hour on an 11-hour trip up the I-95 corridor, in my
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by jtaillon 7y ago
And is being the top 20 some sort of required metric for being a "valid" car manufacturer? I'm growing increasingly tired of these arguments that because they're so far behind the "established" players that the

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