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by jws 2mo ago
I may have blown the math, but the last time I calculated I figured there were about 35 Starlink satellites above the horizon at my latitude. Looking into the suburban early night sky I see zero, one, or two satellites with about equal prob
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by jws 8mo ago
Just a note, if you want a special whimsical typeface, there are any number of talented folk on fiverr and similar that will make you one. Well worth it. For the cost of a lunch I got this turned into a font that I really like… "Imagi
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by jws 9mo ago
It sounds like this corresponds to an atmospheric contraction. They are lowering to avoid extending the lifetime of possible debris, but that also probably means the regular lifetime is not shortened. They are just staying in the designed
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by jws 1y ago
At 45°N latitude, I keep mine nearly vertical year round. I used to adjust them 4 times a year for more optimal production. There are issues beyond angle of incidence. Being nearly vertical keeps the snow off in the winter. In the summer i
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by jws 1y ago
I dried three red oak trees using a dehumidifier kiln. ( 4'x4'x16' 1" pink insulation foam box assembled with packing tape with a household dehumidifier and fan inside. Very low tech. Knock it down when not using it.) T
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by jws 1y ago
Bucket seats. I need a bench seat so I can take my wife and dog. Ah, there's the problem. You have violated Pauli's "spouse/dog size exclusion principle". You need to either have a dog that can sleep curled up on
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by jws 2y ago
Don't be boring. A quick triage with an AI and a spot check suggest that the guitar solo at the end of Hotel California has just about the right number of notes (depending on how many '7' you get). Sweet Child of Mine pro
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by jws 2y ago
Probably because you don't find a list from the EPA. The two categories are very similar, they are sort of aimed at the same result but have slightly different criteria. e.g. the EPA considers exposure levels, IARC requires at least s
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by jws 2y ago
For the EPA, "likely carcinogen" means: • There is evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. (Multiple, consistent studies) • The substance is shown to directly or indirectly cause chromosomal damage or mutations in a way that is re
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by jws 2y ago
Does one not suppose that a fair bit of this is the trial and starter doses that they give to doctors? Surely the drug company values them at list price for purposes of a business expense.
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by jws 2y ago
Another interesting variant of "annotations are the star" is "But What of Earth?" by Piers Anthony. It's an old school sort of sci fi story, but the publisher rewrote it in the publishing process. Eventually Anthony
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by jws 3y ago
I'm not sure "bad" is required. As a person responsible for maintaining a harbor in Lake Michigan, I am allowed to move 1 cubic yard of material a year, by hand, with a shovel (last time I checked, the rules change). Anything
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by jws 3y ago
I went to the Hertz used car site and couldn't find anything close to the $17k in the screenshots used for all those news articles. They are mostly around $30k.
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by jws 3y ago
I married into toaster moguls. When they sold out in '97, domestic toasters had been infeasible for years already. And this was for a company where all the knowledge, equipment, and facilities had beed paid for many decades before. (Th
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by jws 3y ago
"Funny" regulatory story on those. They are not legal in the US since the regulators decided they were fire extinguishers and then compared them to the rules for fire extinguishers. They noted the lack of a nozzle, gauge, and lo
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by jws 3y ago
Do people in the UK use cash? I was in London for a week before I finally needed to get some cash to pay for a contractor for illegal services (a forbidden historical tour), later I needed coins to do laundry and the convenience store didn&
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by jws 3y ago
Around here folk call it the "Three D" strategy. Delay, deny, die. If the insurance company can put off your procedure long enough you might die and then they don't have to pay for it. Family friend who has lost so much hear
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by jws 3y ago
For me it is still airflow noise. I can’t really hear my compressors. But this is one of those blind men and elephant things. If you live in detached housing with space between houses and at least some attention to noise mitigation it is
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by jws 3y ago
Best case, they get to test the new sound dampening, armored pad, armored pad cooling, igniting all the engines on the pad, booster launch, staging, booster fly back, booster descent, booster landing (though not on anything solid). If that
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by jws 3y ago
It looks like the patent the court found infringed is EP2575366 https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2575366B1/en "Signaling of coding unit prediction and prediction unit partition mode for video coding"
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by jws 3y ago
The DOJ wants them to allow electronic submission of applications to PERM jobs and to publish these jobs anywhere they publish other jobs. Apple agreed to this and to train their relevant employees about the issue for three years. The artic
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by jws 3y ago
The early DEC terminals did not reflow on switching.
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by jws 3y ago
I've written ANSI terminal handling before. The original VT100 paper manual that came with the terminal is a nice start, because the complexity hadn't really happened yet and people used to write useful documentation. With that as
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by jws 3y ago
Unfortunately, reading the code would be a felony for me. I sort of feel that if Apple makes it a felony for me to do the obvious and fully sufficient thing, then maybe they need to pick up the slack they created.
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by jws 3y ago
Great! Let's have a year of no new developer features and everyone sits down and documents the existing code. And not just "Peter the intern no one wants" typing in "This sets the density." as a comment for a functi
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by jws 3y ago
Bring in people with expertise, buy outside expertise where you can, focus on the product you actually want instead of the product that will appeal to every possible use case for every possible customer that the chip marketing team can imag
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by jws 3y ago
I recommend https://www.grenadachocolate.com (though I haven't had one since hurricane Ivan) Some folks ideally named for making an organic chocolate company (Green, Brown, and Browne) decided that the cocoa farmers of Gren
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by jws 3y ago
Also, "broad reach" would like a word with lfnoise. (It's complicated.) https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/186515/why-is-a-...
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by jws 3y ago
Yes. AirTags which are separated from their owner beep unless they are in a designated “ok to be left here” location.
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by jws 3y ago
I had one pointed east at the horizon the show a lighthouse a mile away using an old spotting scope. Worked ok until the sun made its way around to rise in frame. Now everything is greenish. I think with sufficient magnification you can c

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