nimos

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by nimos 10mo ago
Even if it is verified it's not groundbreaking. X-Ray litho has been done in labs since at least the 90s.
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by nimos 11mo ago
The opposite is also true - you can use options to increase risk. I don't think insurance is a particularly good analogy in general.
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by nimos 11mo ago
Your original post says 70% loss, i.e. 30% efficiency. In the context of an e-bike, to me, 70% efficiency is fine. It's a large bike and the majority of the power for the majority of users is likely going to be coming from the battery
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by nimos 11mo ago
Electric generator->battery->electric motor drive train should be fairly efficient. I'd be surprised if it was lower than 80%. Traditional dynamos are fairly small parasitic loads and not really comparable.
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by nimos 1y ago
Mine goes somewhat unused because of this (although definitely less than 10 swipes per try). If I was to buy another ereader I'd want at a minimum physical buttons for forward/back.
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by nimos 1y ago
Claude max is $200 a month. Consider a fully loaded cost of 200k for an engineer or $16,666 per month. They only have to be >1.012x engineer for the "AI" to be worth it. Of course that $200 dollars per month is probably VC subs
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by nimos 1y ago
That is a tenancy in common 2 bedroom apartment not a house. Shared ownership of a 100+ year old building with "leased" parking 2 blocks away. Not exactly the home ownership dream.
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by nimos 1y ago
There's a bajillion of them around if you search "neck cooler" or similar. Very simple product sticking a few commodity items together. Some do only have fans though. When I looked a while ago there wasn't really a clear
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by nimos 1y ago
Depends on the manufacturer how many unique bittings would be made. I believe ~1000 was common. So pretty low chance but high enough a few people have stories here or there.
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by nimos 1y ago
This isn't really surprising. Fiber isn't better because of signal propagation speed, it's all about signal integrity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor
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by nimos 1y ago
I assume it is drawers.
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by nimos 1y ago
What caused people to stop using the free service that is MySpace? What caused people stop using the free service that is Digg? Being free isn't particularly novel. Facebook isn't providing this service out of some sense of altrui
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by nimos 1y ago
Countries can and have under the name of "digital services tax". Generally the rates are low and often only cover a subset of things. The US and tech giants have historically pushed back hard on them. This is a reasonably up to da
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by nimos 1y ago
Almost all the trade deficit numbers being thrown around by the US administration don't include trade in services which the US generally has a large surplus. A lot of that is very high margin tech SASS/advertising. If this continu
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by nimos 1y ago
FWIW you can get thermostatic mixing valves that limits the maximum temperature of the water by mixing in cold water. Lets you run the tank hotter but have the same outlet temp. Fairly cheap I believe.
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by nimos 1y ago
If your concern is storage you want as hot as possible, less boiling. Thermostatic mixing valves can bring the temp down to a safe temperature for use. Losses are higher but you store more energy per L, which is often the limiting factor.
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by nimos 2y ago
Well there are another 7.6 billion people on this planet many of whom are already feeling the consequences of the "trolling actions of a few politicians". I'm not American or a "leftist" for reference. I have no ill
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by nimos 2y ago
Instead lets have them made in a place that has threatened to take over ~4 sovereign nations in the past three weeks? Yeah I'll take the 1/2 price cars thanks.
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by nimos 2y ago
I love this. I fly a decent amount in Canada/USA on economy and almost every single time there is a massive line of gate humpers who haven't been called to board and are trying to get their oversized luggage into the overhead bins
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by nimos 2y ago
If the Amish could read this they would be dabbing so hard right now.
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by nimos 3y ago
I'm not suggesting adding anything. Homes have lots of stuff in them. Everything in your house becomes a thermal battery - tables, chairs, beds, walls, counters, clothes and so on. Just allow a range of temperatures and when energy is
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by nimos 3y ago
Air conditioners have a COP of about 3 though. So really its more like 3.5kwh of storage. If you want to go lower temperature to store more then your COP drops.
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by nimos 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community There was an experimental community in Alberta, Canada doing this. Seems to be relatively successful as pilot project.
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by nimos 3y ago
Been curious if you can't do this with houses generally. Set a temperature range of say 21-25c. Drive the temperature up when there is excess wind/solar (was primarily thinking of EU) then let it fall off. Obviously works better t
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by nimos 3y ago
Long time since I looked at this but you might be interested in: https://mathr.co.uk/blog/2021-05-14_deep_zoom_theory_and_pra... IIRC it is calculating a few points at high precision and then estimating the rest.
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by nimos 3y ago
Wish they would make an electric vehicle with a generator. Pure electric drivetrain with 50-100 mile range battery then stick a ~50hp generator in the "frunk". Seems like being able to pin the generator at optimal revs should make
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by nimos 3y ago
I doubt they would cancel a contract already in place for that reason. Not renew the contract - sure. But canceling an already scheduled event because of low revenue per guest doesn't seem very likely to me? Or maybe it was some sort o
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by nimos 3y ago
Honestly I don't think most people need a "fixer" - just any local friend. Either they will know the expected bribe amount or they can figure it out. Also you might be able to get them to do stuff for you where all of the sud
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by nimos 3y ago
Did you not try to pay some coffee money? Do you have local Vietnamese connections? Seems like something you could have paid 500-1000k (20-40USD) and been done with.
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I Crossed the Deadliest Jungle: Darien Gap [video](youtube.com)
6 points by nimos 3y ago|2 comments

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